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.