Bookishness and Tookishness
I often run across articles and interviews in which published writers are asked the one piece of advice they would give to young and aspiring writers. The most common advice […]
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I often run across articles and interviews in which published writers are asked the one piece of advice they would give to young and aspiring writers. The most common advice […]
We often think of Flannery O’Connor as a lone genius. But her genius was shaped by a (now) less well-known writer named Caroline Gordon. Christine Flanagan, English professor at the University of […]
In preparation for Writing with Hobbits, I’ve been reading Tolkien’s “On Fairy Stories,” in which he makes a case for his kind of fantasy. It gets pretty technical, but there are […]
In this week’s episode of The Habit Podcast, I talk with singer/songwriter Sandra McCracken. Wee talk about the formative power of hymns, the ancient balance established by the psalms between lament and a […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
I often run across articles and interviews in which published writers are asked the one piece of advice they would give to young and aspiring writers. The most common advice […]
We often think of Flannery O’Connor as a lone genius. But her genius was shaped by a (now) less well-known writer named Caroline Gordon. Christine Flanagan, English professor at the University of […]
In preparation for Writing with Hobbits, I’ve been reading Tolkien’s “On Fairy Stories,” in which he makes a case for his kind of fantasy. It gets pretty technical, but there are […]
In this week’s episode of The Habit Podcast, I talk with singer/songwriter Sandra McCracken. Wee talk about the formative power of hymns, the ancient balance established by the psalms between lament and a […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]