HeyJaredOne Soul at a Time
Jennifer Fitz's non-toxic spot for: Catholic evangelization and discipleship discussion; personal stuff, especially chronic illness talk but any random chit-chat is fair game; and notes from my efforts to write fiction.
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Time for the Big Cut (opens the original)
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Oh look, we’re on round three of fixing the pacing problems in the back half of the work-in-progress? But this time it’ll be different, we’ve definitely solved it now! She says.=> I should note that December’s beta readers didn’t think the pacing was that bad. But still. We all knew.This weekend at the CWG writer’s retreat (last year’s report here, for reference), I got my chapters marked up with keep-or-delete and how to amp up the emotional arc of the story, so now it’s just a matter finishing
Open Combox - Prayer Requests (opens the original)
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Please pray for the repose of the soul of a longtime supporter of One Soul at a Time; out of respect for the family’s privacy I’m going to refrain from naming names until I get a request otherwise. God knows the one.Been a while since we’ve had an open combox for prayer requests, so we can do that now:Leave a commentFYI - If you are a financial supporter and you die, if I know about it I will pop into the backroom and extend the
Don’t Strong-Arm Volunteers (opens the original)
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A longtime reader wrote* to share what happened when he moved to a new parish. I’ve changed or removed identifying details to avoid any risk of embarrassing the ministry leaders involved, but here’s the gist of the story: This person had recently relocated after a major life event, and reached out to one of the ministries that caught his interest — primarily with the goal of making new friends in the new city.Alas, he caught the eye of someone from a radically different ministry, not at all in h
Mini-Dosing the Things That Are Too Hard (opens the original)
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Metaphor time, our favorite.Over on Twitter (no need to look, per the whole reason this newsletter exists), Dr. Keith Siau tossed out a med-ed discussion question: Name some conditions that cause people to be partly non-ambulatory, i.e. you do need that wheelchair, but you don’t need it 100%, and you might even at times be astonishingly agile.Let’s pause and review just how much I disdain the “crutch” metaphor, when used in the self-improvement space to mean “something you don’t need, but you us
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