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How best-selling author Stephen Lawhead gave me more work to do and other sundry things…
“What’s your theme?” I scrunched up my face, pursing my lips. “Um…” I paused, trying to find words. Wat-R-Werdz? I’m tongue-tied, not exactly sure how to answer. How does one put years’ worth of thought and consideration, writing, rewriting, and labor into a simple phrase? He probably thought I would answer “stuff and things”- my catch phrase for describing the thin1gs I don’t feel like writing. Like how to get characters from one room to the next in a chapter. The boring stuff. The tedious details that make up 75% of any book because characters can’t live in the exciting scenes in every moment. Sometimes they simply have to do…