![]() ![]() ![]() I couldn’t start writing, therefore, until I understood that it was Crystal’s story. Initially, it was going to be about the horrific murder of a priest however, as compelling as any situation might be-and I found the murder pretty compelling-I can never find my way into a story until I have a character. The seed for this story actually began with another, more dramatic situation. Did you have this situation in mind before you even started writing? When you write, do you find yourself driven more often by a situation or by a character? ![]() The tension is set up from the beginning: children born out of wedlock, of course, are not really the Catholic Church’s thing. In “ Ordinary Sins,” your story in this week’s issue of the magazine, a young unmarried pregnant woman named Crystal works in the parish office of a Catholic church. ![]()
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