This week I found myself moving back and forth between two very different writing projects. One was the Billy and Molly series. The other was I Dare You, Teacher. One is fiction. The other is nonfiction. Yet each revision kept teaching me the same lesson. Whenever I stopped trying to explain an idea and started… Continue reading What Story Can Do That Argument Cannot
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Standing Beside the Witness
What writing has been teaching me lately. This week, while working on both the Billy and Molly series and I Dare You, Teacher, I realized how much my own writing has changed. Months ago, I often approached difficult ideas the way a courtroom lawyer approaches a witness. My instinct was to expose contradictions, challenge assumptions,… Continue reading Standing Beside the Witness
The Pencil-Driven Life 