My favorite musicians (Adam Young, a.k.a. Owl City, Aaron Ivey, Family Force 5, to name a few) care about their craft. They experiment; they challenge themselves with new forms and styles. Because of that, I pay attention whenever they produce a new album.
Writing Life
How to Be a Better Writer: Don’t Be a One-Trick Pony
If you want to be a better, you can’t be a one-trick pony. You have to explore other forms of writing. Test yourself. Develop new characters. Enrich existing ones. Make them deeper, rounder, more lifelike.
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How to Be a Better Writer: Be an Ant
Go to the ant, O sluggard,
Observe her ways and be wise,
Which, having no chief,
Officer or ruler,
Prepares her food in the summer
And gathers her provision in the harvest.
— Proverbs 6:6-8, NASB
How to Stay Focused during a Writing Project
Some of my writing projects are intense—i.e., upwards of fifteen, if not more, hours spent researching, writing, and revising. When I face those kinds of projects, I have to focus. It’s almost like developing tunnel vision. I focus on one task, and one task alone.
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Write out of a Healthy Soul
“We minister best out of healthy souls.” – Tony Merida
To write from a healthy soul is a question of aim. Am I aiming to be a better writer, entrepreneur, et cetera, or am I aiming to be a pleasing aroma to God? It’s an important question to ask for I will never be the person God designed me to be if my soul is chaotic, untethered from him, unhealthy.
5 Reasons You Should Join a Book Club
I’ve become involved in a variety of new activities in the past year. Most have been focused on spiritual development; I believe that being ready for whatever comes next requires, as Tony Merida would say, a healthy soul. I operate best when my soul is in order, when its delight and happiness is in the Lord.