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Adorning the Dark: Week 4

This week we’re reading chapters 8-9 (I just realized this morning that I forgot to include that in Friday’s post!), and there is almost too much good stuff in here to cram into one sitting. So thankfully we have forums! This excerpt is from chapter 8, “The Black Box.” I’m going to put some of […]

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Adorning the Dark: Prompt 3

This week we read and talked a lot about non-writerly kinds of creativity, so I want to challenge us to think in creative ways about how we can be creative.

Adorning the Dark: Week 3

This week in chapters 6-7 we read about longing. Longing to belong. Longing for purpose. Longing for adventure. Longing for another world, or maybe a redeemed understanding of this world. What does this have to do with writing? What does it have to do with creative work? Are those two things the same thing? (Spoilers: […]

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Adorning the Dark: Prompt 2

How is everyone doing at the end of our second week with this book? I really appreciate the good conversations happening in the forum. If you’d like to interact with and encourage other readers, there’s a lot there to interact with and encourage.

Adorning the Dark: Week 2

Welcome to week two of discussions on Andrew’s nonfiction book about creativity and community! If you’re just now joining us, you can find all the details here. The idea struck and I couldn’t ignore it: What if there was a Christmas concert that was only about Jesus? What if it told a story? And what […]

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Adorning the Dark: Prompt 1

In this week’s chapters of Adorning the Dark, we’ve been reading and talking about what keeps us from writing. Andrew’s shared experiences of feeling tentative, like he has nothing to offer, like his efforts to create are gibberish. In the forum we’ve talked about feeling the same way, and about being nervous to share our […]

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Adorning the Dark: Week 1

Welcome, fellow travelers, to our eight-week discussion on Andrew’s new nonfiction book, Adorning the Dark. This week we’re reading the Prologue and Chapters 1-3. Click here for the full book club reading schedule and details. I think of the last twenty-five or so years of writing and figure I should have something to say. Something, […]

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Adorning the Dark; Hollows Guild quiz

Andrew’s new book on creativity and community released last Tuesday, and I know many of you preordered and have already begun reading! I couldn’t wait to read it, either.

An excerpt from Adorning the Dark

[The following is reposted from the Rabbit Room, where you can read a much longer excerpt.] You mumble a phrase. It’s gibberish, but it suggests a melody. You’ve gotten melodies in your head before, but this one feels different, like it’s made of something stronger and older. You notice this because you’re able to repeat […]

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New illustrations revealed!

Dear readers, you may recall a recent post of Andrew’s wherein he announced an upcoming brand-new hardcover edition of the Wingfeather Saga. The first two books release in March, and today Joe Sutphin released a first look at a few new illustrations! The first editions of the books were illustrated by an assortment of artists—Andrew […]

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