Write Lightning is a blog from writer Deb Thompson.
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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
