Wholly Writ: Eulogy For The Double Space

Wholly Writ is a recurring series in Stories From The Road, celebrating creative writing from the perspective of writer and reader.  Sojourn believes that humans are creative because God is our creator.  Our creative expression is a manifestation of the doctrine of imago dei – that we are created “In the image of God.” If [...]

Wholly Writ: Last Year in Books

Wholly Writ is a recurring series in Stories From The Road, celebrating creative writing from the perspective of writer and reader.  Sojourn believes that humans are creative because God is our creator.  Our creative expression is a manifestation of the doctrine of imago dei – that we are created “In the image of God.” If [...]

Wholly Writ: Corn Hole –or– What’s in a Name?

I don’t think that a certain former professor will mind if I pass on a bit of his advice to my fellow writers for free.  The advice is as follows:
Until you’re completely finished writing a story, call your protagonist “Corn Hole”.
You heard it here first, folks.  My professor’s point was that writers naturally try to [...]

Wholly Writ: Party Like It’s 999

The venerable Bede spoke it.  Chaucer wrote it.  Lewis taught it.  Tolkien shamelessly stole from it.  Isn’t it time you visited your linguistic roots with a volume of Medieval English?  Of course it is.  And here are some recommendations beyond the obvious (Beowulf, Chaucer) to get you started:
“The Dream of the Rood.” Thanks to fires, [...]

Wholly Writ: The Commonplace Book

It’s the new year: the time for breaking old habits and taking up new, healthier, more productive and probably more expensive ones.  But just in case you missed the date and forgot to resolve to do anything this year (or if you’ve accomplished all your goals already or want to add one more to the [...]

Wholly Writ: Wanda

We all like to collect the tools of our trade.  Baristi have their home-roasters and coffee siphons, sommeliers their heirloom, crystal decanters.  Seminary students have their leather-bound, gilt-edged complete works of  Owen.  And I have Wanda: my sleek, chic, blue and chrome, vintage… paperweight.
Wanda was not always a paperweight; she was once a typewriter, a [...]

Wholly Writ: WPM

We talk about it like it’s disgraceful, half apologetically: the way we might mention that we don’t recycle, have never heard of T.S. Eliot, or contracted some sort of rash.  Usually, we regret it the moment it’s out and hurry to change the topic to something else, anything to divert attention away from those five [...]

Wholly Writ: All You Need Is Lore, Lore. Lore Is All You Need

So, I quit my job to follow my dreams.  I didn’t follow them too far: just about a mile northwest to the University of Louisville and their English grad program.  I now spend my days submerged (read: drowning) in the written word.  Reading it, writing it, debating it more heatedly than I think necessary, teaching [...]

Wholly Writ: Confessions Of A Slow Reader

This morning was like a no-bake cookie.  Assemble ingredients (phone, netbook, planner).  Jumble together haphazardly (update, network, broadcast all motility to cosmos, tweet-tweet!).  Douse brain in two cups of coffee.  Let coagulate.  No waiting necessary.  Delicious.
It’s difficult to imagine more instantaneous gratification than what our technology now affords us.  I can read what Suzy Q. [...]

LIT: The “Myers-Briggs” of Poetry, by Kristen Miller

What’s your poetic personality?  Are you an ENFP (classic Tolkein, Tennyson), an ISTJ (e. e. cummings) or someone else entirely?  Pick the description that best matches you and your writing style from each of the four categories below and temet nosce.
Note: Please don’t take offense, poets (especially you ENTPs -ahem, Poe); my tongue is (mostly) [...]

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