Word for the Year 2015: Thrive

by | Jan 1, 2015 | Word of the Year

Like many people, I’m not big on New Year’s resolutions. I’m all about looking ahead and making positive changes in my life, but I’ve never found (personally) that making resolutions for the new year works well. Last year and the year before, I...

A Most Difficult Journey

by | Dec 10, 2014 | Faith and Grace

“In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. This was the first registration when Quirinius was governor of Syria. And all went to be registered, each to his own town. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from...

{Fiction Helps} Three-Act Story Structure

by | Jul 23, 2014 | Fiction Helps

A while back, I took an online course on fiction writing. When the classes started, I found myself a bit disappointed—it seemed that we’d be learning a lot of what I already knew, and I wasn’t so sure that every good story had to follow three-act story...