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Timothy Willard Poet and writer
s a student, Tim was told he’d never the lines of St. Augustine and Ian Downs. amount to anything. During one of Working on these things is where he his first writing gigs, an editor balled most keenly senses the Holy Spirit at work up his manuscript and bounced it off his inside him. face. “A lot of times, we look at God instead of “People think it’s romantic, but it is hard living in Him. Lewis talks about looking at the work. Everyone thinks, ‘You’re a writer, you sit being, and living in the being. There’s a glory in down and smoke a pipe.’ It’s so not that ... a sense that I have to pursue true. I have to get up on time in the and never let go of. I get so excited morning. I have to be disciplined. I that I want to tell somebody. I really Free e-book have to plan it out.” get caught up in it.” Visit After seven years on the road “I’m writing so I can afford a timothywillard.com as a musician, Tim moved to mortgage and bring up three little to read more and a basement in Atlanta, Georgirls. I’m always waiting for the to download his gia and began writing for next job. I rely on phone calls and free e-book free. Over time, he developed emails. It’s super hard to get motiSound of Silence enough traction to get work as vated to do a proposal. That is not a ghostwriter; he also got hired my idea.” to help write proposals for othThis is the work most editors er authors’ book deals. call intriguing, but unmarket“I’ve really learned, especially able. in the last two years, to live in a When he needs inspiration, constant state of thankfulness and Tim gets on his bike and rides contentment. The impetus for what I’m doing into the woods, or renews a conversation should be always worship — even the rigour of with a favourite book — he recommends the mundane.” On Writing Well, by William Zinser. “Get These days, Tim edits the curriculum it today,” he advises me. published by leadership conferences Cata“I think tension and life — they help you lyst and Q Ideas. He still assists well-known produce. There’s also a point where you just sit authors in writing their books, though he down and do the work. Writing poetry is fun, gets cover credit these days. He also writes but it’s hard work. poetry, fiction, and devotional essays along — Chelsea Batten
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