Write Lightning is a blog from writer Deb Thompson.
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(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Everyone is welcome here.
(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Fri, May 29 2015
Faith versus works, writer versus words?
Did I choose writing or did writing choose me? I've asked this a lot, particularly on days when I seemed to be able to do everything except write. I finally settled into a place where I believe that writing isn't just something writers do. It's part of who we are. We don't go to school to become writers. We don't write to be writers. We write because we are writers. (That being said, it's imperative that we do some actual writing now and then.)
It's a bit like the faith versus works discussion that Christians sometimes have. There is the saved-by-faith principle that stands well on its own. But the faith-without-works-is-dead principle is also valid. Some Christians tend to isolate one or the other and become either arrogantly holier-than-thou or a fault-finding legalist. Both concepts are solid as individual principles, but it takes the marriage of both to fully develop the life of a Christ-follower.
posted at: 10:18 | category: /Writing Life | link to this entry
Did I choose writing or did writing choose me? I've asked this a lot, particularly on days when I seemed to be able to do everything except write. I finally settled into a place where I believe that writing isn't just something writers do. It's part of who we are. We don't go to school to become writers. We don't write to be writers. We write because we are writers. (That being said, it's imperative that we do some actual writing now and then.)
It's a bit like the faith versus works discussion that Christians sometimes have. There is the saved-by-faith principle that stands well on its own. But the faith-without-works-is-dead principle is also valid. Some Christians tend to isolate one or the other and become either arrogantly holier-than-thou or a fault-finding legalist. Both concepts are solid as individual principles, but it takes the marriage of both to fully develop the life of a Christ-follower.
posted at: 10:18 | category: /Writing Life | link to this entry
Tue, May 05 2015
How does it end?
I ran across an unfinished fiction manuscript I had kept for a few years and am feeling conflicted about keeping it. Should I count it as a nice little writing exercise and let it go or should I attempt to salvage the basic idea and infuse new life into the story? I think I'll read it through once more and see what value it presents. Was my original ending concept too vague and weak? Would a reader turn the page to see how it ends? Will I?
posted at: 08:42 | category: /Writing Life | link to this entry
I ran across an unfinished fiction manuscript I had kept for a few years and am feeling conflicted about keeping it. Should I count it as a nice little writing exercise and let it go or should I attempt to salvage the basic idea and infuse new life into the story? I think I'll read it through once more and see what value it presents. Was my original ending concept too vague and weak? Would a reader turn the page to see how it ends? Will I?
posted at: 08:42 | category: /Writing Life | link to this entry
