Thirteen Theses on Writing

Over at the Faith and Theology blog, there is a nice post on Thirteen Theses on Writing. This one is the funniest:

6. Writing and jealousy. Like cleaning your ears or picking your nose, writing is something best done in private. All writing is solitary. Even collaborative efforts are stitched together from smaller, lonelier units. All sorts of things – in fact, most of the things that really matter – must be excluded in order to write. Like a drawn bowstring, the writer draws back from the world in order to pierce it more forcefully. The selfishness of the writer is jealousy for truth.

I encourage you to read all thirteen. These will be helpful for students, pastors and anyone else who has writing as a component of their life.

HT: Justin Taylor