It may come as a shock, but I’m easily distractible. It’s not something I’m proud of. Especially knowing how much my work depends on writers showing up and keeping up despite the battering hurricane of demands and requests that fly in through every open window. It can grow dark quickly underneath the pile of debris atop the little flame of
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This is an experiment for a class I’m teaching Feb 1: The inaugural 30-Day YWG Story Course at Facebook. Since I’m teaching it, I figured I’d try a taste of my own medicine… Just 5 minutes together, uninterrupted, in succession. It seems like a luxury. A luxury I shouldn’t crave and yearn for like homemade lemonade in the desert. I
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So critique groups. Good or bad? It's like asking if publishing is good or if a book is good. Of course the answer's yes and no. Like everything else. It always depends on the people in them. And just like everything else, what you get out of them is largely dependent on what you bring to them. Know someone who
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Welcome back, everyone. Hope you had a fabulous Easter. Being a book editor is such a strange job. It has enormous up sides: not requiring me to, say, buy a lot of expensive equipment or be out in extreme elements. I don't have to dig through anything too revolting. At least not physically. But still, it has its challenges. Chief
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I had this thought yesterday: Everyone who lives with barriers to belief who has made a conscious negative response about faith has fully misjudged God. The realization of that stopped me. Somehow I knew it was a glimpse of God’s perspective and his true love for those he misses. And so I stopped and considered it. And no more than
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