For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them. Matthew 18:20 Let’s face it writing can be a lonely venture. I mean you’re stuck all alone with your ideas, your characters, these worlds that live within you, and you’re desperately …
Look at the birds of the air, that they do not sow, nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they? Matthew 6:26 I am fairly new to fiction writing. For years I wrote poetry and studied with …
It was a sunny afternoon in Pittsburgh. I was sitting in my parked car just outside the music building. I was laid back in the driver’s seat, my foot hanging out the window, and looking up at the Cathedral of Learning across the street. I remember the diffused orange glint …
Either do not attempt at all, or go through with it. – Ovid In our on-going series on How To Write Every Day we come to a key step – Commitment! We have already spoken about Inspiration and about Production previously. In a recent post I discussed the idea that …
Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star. – Henry David Thoreau Everything is story. Everything. After I had graduated college, I lived on for a summer in Pittsburgh. At the time I was renting a …
Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about. – W.H. Auden In our previous post on How To Write Every Day we discussed the origins of all writing and the necessity for Inspiration. You can revisit that post here. …
Writing is a powerful experience. It speaks to the heart, mind, and soul of us all. Writing is timeless and spans across cultures, ages, even civilizations. As humans, the words we write and the words we read have the power to literally change the world. And frankly words have been …
