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Exclusive background to ONESIMUS —the city of Colossae in Roman Province
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I still miss my father 10 years later…
My father passed away 10 years ago today, and I still miss him terribly. This is my tribute to him after a decade of loss.
Tragedy, Natural Disasters, and Writing
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Listen: Writing and Bleeding
Hemingway said writing is a lonely business. Markus McDowell discusses the truth of this statement, as well as the dichotomy that a fiction writer must know know a lot about people in order to write genuinely about the human condition. McDowell describes his approach of balancing the loneliness of writing with the need to be around people and learn about them.
Dogs on the beach: writing requires rest
Markus McDowell explores the experience of a beach walk first thing in the morning, and its effect on his writing.