7-40 Challenge | Round 5 Day 3 I sat down to work on the novel tonight and didn't write a single sentence of it. I spent the whole session working out how the major threads connect — how one specific character has to move through the story to get where she needs to end up. … Continue reading The Route
Author: David Willis
Who Gets a Vote
7-40 Challenge | Round 5 Day 2 Someone reached out about my Bible picture project today to tell me I was using scripture to enrich myself, that I was blaspheming God, and that I'd better change my ways before I lost my soul. I'll be honest about the first thing I felt: amusement, then a … Continue reading Who Gets a Vote
The Room I Can’t Read
7-40 Challenge | Round 5 Day 1 I recorded four minutes of thoughts on my walk this morning and never stumbled once. Then I sat down to film a thirty-second video saying the same thing, and my brain locked up. That gap has bothered me for a while, because on paper it makes no sense. … Continue reading The Room I Can’t Read
The Subplot
7-40 Challenge | Planning Week I've been thinking about my life as a story, and about who's actually holding the pen. Here's where I've landed. God's design is the plot. It's going somewhere, and it reaches its ending whether or not I cooperate. I don't get to write that. What I get is a subplot … Continue reading The Subplot
The Third of July
7-40 Challenge | Planning Week My son and I don't get out alone much. Tonight we did. Our town shoots fireworks on the third and the fourth, so my wife kissed us both goodnight and sent us off — just the two of us, no plan beyond finding a spot and watching the sky come … Continue reading The Third of July
