Writers’ Coaching Corner (December 2021): Tension

Writers’ Coaching Corner
Written By Benjamin Vrbicek
“Good writing needs tension.”

This month is the eighth installment of a new feature on the Gospel-Centered Discipleship website to coach writers. Each month I take one paragraph from a GCD article to highlight some aspect of what makes for good writing. I’ll point out what made the writing work so well and how we can incorporate more of that writerly goodness into our craft.

This month I use Lara d’Entremont’s article “Where Doctrine Meets the Desolate” to talk about the principle that good writing needs tension.

I also mention Timothy Keller’s article “Growing My Faith in the Face of Death” and my article, “Bending the Covid Bow of Bronze.”

You can watch all the Writers’ Coaching Corner videos here.

Benjamin Vrbicek

Benjamin Vrbicek is the lead pastor at Community Evangelical Free Church in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and the managing editor for Gospel-Centered Discipleship. He and his wife, Brooke, have six children. He earned an M.Div. from Covenant Theological Seminary. Benjamin is the author of Don’t Just Send a Resume and Struggle Against Porn, and coauthor of Blogging for God’s Glory in a Clickbait World. He blogs regularly at Fan and Flame, and you can follow him on Twitter.

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