The Heart of the Matter: Figuring out Your Character's True Desire

As wonderful as craft books are, a lot of times, our best teacher is life and our keen observance of it.

Lately, I've been reading this book called Live a Praying Life by Jennifer Kennedy Dean. I'm not reading it to improve my writing. I'm reading it to better understand God's design for prayer. But as writers, we usually have that third eye (or ear) open and observant and aware. Ready to soak up some juicy insight. Some truth, some reflection of the human condition that we can apply to our...