Category: Writing
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A Faith‑Rooted Reminder: Your Words Don’t Need to Be Perfect
TLDR This is your faith-rooted reminder that showing up to write, even imperfectly, is an act of faithfulness. God doesn’t ask for flawless words. He asks for a willing heart. Your presence matters more than perfection. Why Writers Don’t Need Perfect Words to Begin Sometimes the bravest thing a writer can do is simply show… Read more
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February Lessons: Joy, Hope, and the God Who Meets Us in the Middle of Our Stories
This post highlights the key themes from my most‑read articles of February — joy, hope, creativity, healing, peace, and the surprising ways God meets us in the middle of our stories. February has always felt like a hinge month to me — a quiet turning from winter’s stillness toward the first hints of spring. It’s… Read more
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When Writers of Grace Are in Need of Grace Themselves
I’ve been following the news about Philip Yancey’s confession of his eight‑year‑long affair. Mostly to see how the Christian community reacts as the man who wrote multiple books about God’s grace—books that shaped so many of us and helped us understand the wideness of God’s mercy—now stands in need of grace himself, in a very… Read more
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Are Writers Really Scatterbrained? How Creativity and Forgetfulness Connect
Writers have long carried the reputation of being absent-minded, distracted, or downright scatterbrained. From the eccentric professor stereotype to the dreamy novelist who forgets to eat while chasing a plot twist, culture loves to imagine authors as brilliant but disorganized. But is that really the truth? And more importantly—what does it mean for those of… Read more
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When God Stepped into My Plot: Unexpected Character Twists
Writing a novel often feels like charting a course on unfamiliar seas. Halfway through drafting Fireman’s Lesson in Love, God gently steered me into uncharted waters. A character twist I never saw coming. I thought I knew who the arsonist was. Sure enough, it was Character A. But in a quiet moment of prayer and… Read more