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Jan 21, 2008
Freeform Eyes
In college, I had a falling out with a female instructor over some things I wrote in my journal for her writing class. I considered her my first real mentor. Unfortunately, she criticized the content of my writing rather than the style. In my journal, I wrote about my every day concerns that included male-female friendships as well as thoughts about living an intellectually aware, though questioning, life.... read more Jan 21, 2008
Writer’s Doubts – Angst of the Creative Mind
Do you ever feel that someone’s going to find out that you’re just a fake and everyone will know you can’t write after all? One of my writer friends wrote lately that she battles such fears all the time. I believe that writer’s doubt is something we all go through because this society values money rather than creativity…if creative pursuits make money then they’re valuable.... read more Jan 21, 2008
On The Edge: What Does “Standing on the Edge of Creativity” Mean?
This column is devoted to stirring the creative senses, overcoming writing fears, and learning ways to produce creative writing even when you think you can’t do it. “Standing on the Edge of Creativity” is dedicated to writers of all abilities and genres. The main goal will be fiction; however, many of the exercises will be applicable to writing in general since the focus is creativity.... read more Jan 20, 2008
Help From Above: The Christian Mystery
I swallowed my fear and walked right up to Ralph McInerny, author of the Father Brown mysteries. He was shorter than I had imagined. I picture all successful authors to be skyscrapers. He was delivering a speech on writing the Catholic mystery at the first conference for Catholic writers at Franciscan University at Steubenville. Being stuck manning the a table for the conference, I would not be able to... read more Jan 20, 2008
“Heaven Help the Christian Writer”
by Kathryn Lively During the formative stages of judging for the 2003 EPPIE Awards, members were called to construct succinct definitions of fiction and non-fiction categories. Most categories, of course, are quite self-explanatory – how much more does one need to say about science fiction or historical fiction in order for an author to choose his/her respective category for entry? If only it had... read more
