One Year, Twenty-four Stories
This year I’m participating in Project52, an effort lead by Anton Peck in which participants commit to writing at least one article per week for one year. It presented me with the perfect opportunity to reboot my personal blog. 52 posts is a challenging prospect just in terms of schedule, let alone creativity and challenge. That’s why I have a plan.
Over the next year I will be telling twenty-four stories. Twelve will be from my own life, twelve will be from interviews inviting others to tell their story. These will be divided up into one post per week so at the end of every month two stories will have been told. I want to tell these stories in a way that helps me become a better person in every aspect of my life. I want to do it publicly in the hopes that it helps others but I make no pretense about my main audience being anybody but myself.
A plan is not enough; I know myself well enough that if I only have a plan it will never happen. So, I’ve enlisted the aid of my enchanting wife Laura to be my editor for the year and help shepherd the project to completion. We used to work together day in and day out and loved every moment of it. We’re both relishing a shared creative project again.
The themes and tones of the stories are inspired by conversations I’ve had over the years with Paul Burdick, Kevin Shinn, Mitchell Kimbrough, Kurt Deutscher, and most recently with Derek Allard and his lovely wife Jo over delicious coffee in Europe at EECI 2009.
The implementation of the idea is inspired by Philip Yancey’s Soul Survivor.
Link: http://salvator.me/site/pub/one_year_twenty_four_stories
Article date: Sun, January 03, 2010 - 7:45:37
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