Francisco's Journal an author discusses the art of writing

When I first started to be published, I loved it when some reviewer said “Stork writes with authority” even though I was never totally sure what that meant. The phrase first began to intrigue me when I read in the New Testament that the people who listened to Jesus preach felt he “spoke with authority.” When I was a lawyer practicing in private practice, I sought to act with authority. It was a pretending of sorts, putting on a “game face” every morning which was like donning a mask of confidence and bravado – a mask that perfectly hid weakness and doubt. Writing with authority can be such an act of pretending as well. Or it can be a connection with an inner truth out of which our writing flows. This connection with a greater truth is, I believe, the source of the authority that people perceived in Jesus and in many, many men and women who have influenced the path of our world. For a writer, writing with authority comes from a connection with an intuitive apprehension of a personal truth. A truth that we have made our own and which has given our lives a direction, a path to follow that is greater than the satisfaction of our needs and wants. When you write with authority, you are in some ways creating and in other ways simply getting out of the way so that the truth of creation can shine.