What does it mean to tell the truth in fiction?

One of my favorite workshops to teach is the importance of truth. How does that work in fiction? How can untruth be truth? The following are my notes from the class.**********Quotes to Consider:”Risk being unliked. Tell the truth as you understand it. If...

Pick Up Sticks

I’m going to play a wee game of pick up sticks in this post:Stick One: Relief Journal. It’s a new journal created for Christian artisty Jesusy types. For more information, read some interesting and compelling interviews here, here, and here.Stick Two: A...

Strange Amazon-Fellows

From time to time I check to see how Ordinary Mom, Extraordinary Mom is doing on Amazon in terms of sales ranking. Today I clicked on the statistics to see what that meant. Turns out the book is sandwiched between Quiltskills: Workshops from the Quilters’ Guild...

October 2006 RelevantProse Newsletter

Welcome to the October 2006 edition of the RelevantProse newsletter! Fall is in the air in Southern France. It’s raining buckets outside my door and the kids are now wearing jeans and jackets. I dried some apples in the oven and felt like Little House on the Prairie....