dare to look beyond the veil
I am in the midst of a radical experiment. I’ve never been an outliner when it comes to my fiction but there is a first for everything. So I’ve backed up, set aside the 25,000 or so words I’ve written on this project, and started over from scratch. As a first step, I wrote theRead more
THAT ENIGMNATIC equation was the ruin of me. It’s illusive answer the recreation of me. The first time I saw those six maddening characters was at the home of Jonathan Samuels. After months of negotiations and good old fashioned begging I had finally been granted a brief interview. He was, after all, one of theRead more
Saturday at the Crossroad of Faith and Fiction By way of confession I am at a bit of a crossroad as a writer. Or perhaps by way of a better analogy I’m on one of those crazy switchbacks common to mountainside roads. You know the kind where you look over and see where you wereRead more
THE LAST TIME I managed to leave a few thoughts here I parted with a question. Maybe I did that because open ended questions are the best way to encourage interaction. More likely it was because I really wanted to know others besides me struggled with delays and detours in their pursuits of life. LastRead more
“Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you” – Alex Haley Alex Haley’s Rootsbecame a defining moment in American culture when it won the Pulitzer Prize and aired as an Emmy Award winning TV miniseries in 1977. Though it dealt withRead more
If you run in the same Facebook circles I do, you’ve probably seen an image like this over the last few days. More than one writer, it seems, identifies with Lord Byron when he said, “If I don’t write to empty my mind I go mad.” I understand the sentiment to a certain extent butRead more
Are you a Bluejay or a Mockingbird? Let me confess something right up front. I am an admitted eclectically challenged scatter brain at times. My childhood was filled with taking things apart and never putting them back together, at least not in the way I found them. There are times I can still be aRead more
While he was creeping me out … A common complaint about faith based fiction is it is often too preachy, and in many ways, I couldn’t agree more. Christian fiction has been equated far too long with generic moralisms embraced by all but the evil protagonist. Christian writers seem to have an aversion to paintingRead more
