How Do You Know If You Are Called to Write a Book?—Five Questions Every Artist Should Ask

There are few questions that follow writers around more faithfully than this one: How do I know if I’m truly called to write? Not in the abstract, not as an idea we carry around like a someday-dream, but in the real, lived-out sense—here in the middle of family, work, fear, longing, and limitations. Of course, that question doesn’t apply to writers only—artists and creators of every stripe want to know what they are called to do, to be, to make. Andy Patton sat down with Will Parker Anderson...