So You Want to Be a Published Author . . .
I met once with a friend of a friend who was writing a book and wanted to talk about getting it published. I make it a policy not to give […]
So You Want to Be a Published Author . . .
I met once with a friend of a friend who was writing a book and wanted to talk about getting it published. I make it a policy not to give […]
S2 Ep30: Cindy Bunch
This week, Jonathan Rogers talks with Cindy Bunch, author of Be Kind to Yourself and associate publisher and director of editorial at InterVarsity Press. They talk about how to maintain […]
Cyborgs. Spies. Overly Correct Grammar.
A few weeks ago I got an excellent question from a Habit Weekly reader named Todd Thurston. His question came in response to my discussion of subordinating conjunctions during a three-week series […]
Where Does Originality Come From?
Why do you want to be original? That may sound like a rhetorical question, but it might do you some good to answer it. We appreciate and admire originality when […]
S2 Ep29: Andrew Osenga
This week, Jonathan Rogers talks with music industry veteran and host of The Pivot podcast Andrew Osenga. They talk about what Andrew’s podcast has taught him about listening, the multilayered […]
Love and Assent
While reading Wendell Berry’s story collection, That Distant Land, I was struck by this description of a character named Martha Elizabeth Coulter: She was a woman always near to smiling, sometimes […]
S2 Ep28: Claire Holley
This week, Jonathan Rogers talks with singer-songwriter Claire Holley. They discuss the role of fear in writing, object writing prompts, how to discern what music is “saying,” and what Claire has […]
S2 Ep27: Emily Freeman
This week, Jonathan Rogers talks with Emily P. Freeman, author of The Next Right Thing, creator of the Next Right Thing Podcast, and co-founder of the online writing community Hope […]
Clarifying with Clauses
In last week’s letter, I wrote about all the ways one might communicate action in a sentence besides the subject-verb nexus. As I suggested last week, participial phrases, infinitive phrases, nominalizations, nominative […]