For nearly 25 years, I put off writing the story that eventually became my first novel. I’d had this rudimentary idea that I kept trying to make work as a contemporary adventure story set in the “real” world, but there was this one image that persisted in my mind, which simply…
For nearly 25 years, I put off writing the story that eventually became my first novel. I’d had this rudimentary idea that I kept trying to make work as a contemporary adventure story set in the “real” world, but there was this one image that persisted in my mind, which simply…
We had drunk to the sunset and the world we'd been given. The lives we'd found, circling round each other for too long, then coming together too brief. The tide was coming and each had other harms to heal. I kissed her deep, and then we waded into the surf.
The lives of naiads…
We had drunk to the sunset and the world we'd been given. The lives we'd found, circling round each other for too long, then coming together too brief. The tide was coming and each had other harms to heal. I kissed her deep, and then we waded into the surf.
The lives of naiads… https://t.co/MqpPbWQ3Ix
Insightful thread here. I'm a Fantasy guy, so I'm over here "looking back," as they say, but if you've read my book, you know even there I confront the God figure trope head on.
However, the flailing of sci-fi in this regard is, to me, a good development. I think it opens up…
Insightful thread here. I'm a Fantasy guy, so I'm over here "looking back," as they say, but if you've read my book, you know even there I confront the God figure trope head on.
However, the flailing of sci-fi in this regard is, to me, a good development. I think it opens up…
I would like to come clean about who has funded every bit of writing I've done.
It's me... by way of 60 hour work weeks for the past 30 years. And my patient, loving wife.
Some day, I hope to get to a place where it's mostly readers keeping the lamps of my little literary…
I would like to come clean about who has funded every bit of writing I've done.
It's me... by way of 60 hour work weeks for the past 30 years. And my patient, loving wife.
Some day, I hope to get to a place where it's mostly readers keeping the lamps of my little literary…
My deepest thanks to @JasonB1689 and to all of you who’ve shared similar thoughts, whether for “Travel By Star” or for any of the other tales I’ve cast upon the waters.
Your encouragement means so much to me.
Have a blessed weekend, friends.
My deepest thanks to @JasonB1689 and to all of you who’ve shared similar thoughts, whether for “Travel By Star” or for any of the other tales I’ve cast upon the waters.
Your encouragement means so much to me.
Have a blessed weekend, friends.
I think I’m a 3, but I can convince myself I’m a 5 or a 1 with ease.
Self doubt and self awareness are in a cage match. Throwing imaginary apples at each other.
I think I’m a 3, but I can convince myself I’m a 5 or a 1 with ease.
Self doubt and self awareness are in a cage match. Throwing imaginary apples at each other.
I do not to label my work as “Christian Fiction,” neither do I use it as a proxy for preaching. Stories are stories, and the characters always come first within that world.
Nevertheless G.K. gets me.
I do not to label my work as “Christian Fiction,” neither do I use it as a proxy for preaching. Stories are stories, and the characters always come first within that world.
Nevertheless G.K. gets me.
The machine minded only move on something once they can pin a metric to it, despite it being something every commoner in the road already knows and has been saying for years. The trading of spreadsheets for the blue sky is a symptom of disenchantment. It’s an evidence of broken…
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