Hello, I'm John Eldridge, and welcome to the Ransomed Heart audio podcast.

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Today we thought we would jump into

a conversation on writing.

A writing is obviously really core to my life

and to the life here at Ransomed Heart to what we do.

But I think there's some things about the writing life,

how we write, why we write,

literally how we approach writing that I think would actually be really

interesting and helpful to a much broader audience. I think there's a lot of

closet writers out there or aspiring writers.

Couple months back, we were talking about doing a workshop on writing.

I was surprised how many people came out of the woodwork, you know, saying, oh, I'd love to do that.

I'd love to take a class on writing or a workshop or what really surprised me

was were the number of people who said, I already am either blogging or journaling you know

or just writing sort of their reflections and there's something about sort of just a creative life that is really built into all of us.

So on writing, Craig, you just stepped into this.

Uh-huh.

And I'm wondering, what's it like for me to say, let's talk about your writing?

About my writing?

Well, we're not going to talk about Shakespeare's.

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