Ask Us Anything '23

In Episode 72, we are doing another round of Ask Us Anything. We crowd sourced you, our Exhale members, for questions because we wanted to know what you want to know. We have thought through your dilemmas and hang-ups and we took a few of them to our Coffee + Crumbs team for additional advice. We hope this episode will offer you some solidarity and encouragement no matter where you are at creatively in this season.

Links:

Interview with an Editor: Megan Stielstra 

We love how Shannan unapologetically circles the same topics of community and neighborhood. https://shannanmartin.substack.com/

Episode 47, where Adrienne talks more about the MFA question

Episode 51, where Julie shares how to create Social Media with Soul

Sonya’s recommended books from writers writing about faith:

• Lit by Mary Karr

• Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art by Madeleine L’Engle

• How to Stay Married by Harrison Scott Key

• Girl Meets God by Lauren Winner

• Good Apple: Tales of a Southern Evangelical in New York by Elizabeth Passarella

Quotes:

Forgiveness. The ability to forgive oneself.  Stop here for a few breaths and think about this because it is the key to making art, and very possibly the key to find any semblance of happiness in life.

I grieve for my own lack of talent and intelligence. Every. Single. Time.  Were I smarter, more gifted, I could pin down a close facsimile of the wonders I see. I believe, more than anything, that this grief of constantly having to face down our own inadequacies is what keeps people from being writers.  Forgiveness, there, is key.  I can’t write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing.  Again, and again throughout this course of my life I will forgive myself.

—from "The Getaway Car” in Ann Patchett's essay collection “This is the Story of a Happy Marriage”:

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