A few days ago, I came across a Facebook announcement from a Baptist church near where I live. The church was announcing the return of something called Bible 101 at a local public middle school. The post emphasized that the class was optional. That word caught my attention. Optional. It is a reassuring word. Nobody… Continue reading What Does “Optional” Actually Settle?
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What Revision Asks Us to Let Go
I’ve spent a good bit of time lately going back through writing I did months ago, particularly early work on the Billy and Molly series and I Dare You, Teacher. It’s an interesting experience, reading something you remember writing but no longer seeing it quite the way you did when you wrote it. Some of… Continue reading What Revision Asks Us to Let Go
The Person Behind the Label
This week I’ve been moving back and forth among three writing projects: the Billy and Molly series, I Dare You, Teacher, and The Boaz Superstition. They’re very different projects, but I’ve noticed something happening in all three. I’m having a harder time putting people into neat little boxes. That’s probably a good thing. Take Billy… Continue reading The Person Behind the Label
What Story Can Do That Argument Cannot
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
The Pencil-Driven Life 