Writers’ Coaching Corner (January 2022): Surprise

Writers’ Coaching Corner
Written By Benjamin Vrbicek
“Good writing messes with the bull and gives a knuckle sandwich.”

This month is the ninth 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 Chrys Jones’s article “Christmas Is for Misfits” to talk about the principle that good writing messes with the bull and gives a knuckle sandwich.

I also mention Maya Angelou’s book I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and writings of Flannery O’Connor, specifically her short story “Good Country People” in the collection A Good Man Is Hard to Find.

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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