When I think back on the year that I wrote The Green Ember, I can confidently say that it was one of the most difficult years of my life. I go into a little more detail here. But, despite the struggles and thin margins, the Lord brought something good and beautiful. Characters, real and fictional,... The post Does Struggle Disqualify Me? appeared first on S. D. Smith.| S. D. Smith
Everyone is upset about misinformation, and I get that. It’s bad to tell lies and to believe lies. We need a robust life of the mind and to encourage excellence in the intellect, what C. S. Lewis called the “organ of truth.” But we need to keep in mind that human beings don’t make decisions...| S. D. Smith
It’s hard to find modern books where ordinary boys are heroes whose strengths are gifts to be used for good. In so much modern literature, boyhood is a disease to be cured and masculinity is a villain poised to destroy. In my books, young men learn that their energy and strength are gifts they are...| S. D. Smith
Stories are Potent This is one of my all-time go-to quotations. “For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.” C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity Stories are meaning-making machines. We can’t really understand bare truth without stories—without our imaginations engaged. Does that mean every kind of story is... The post The Power (and Danger) of Stories appeared first on S. D. Smith.| S. D. Smith