Welcome to the first post of this series on writing Christian fiction. Brew a cup of tea, open the window to hear the birds outside, and we can get started on today’s subject: how to avoid forcing a character to go from nonbeliever to believer in an abrupt unnatural way. If you’re like me, you… Continue reading Writing for Christ: Avoiding the Instant Conversion
Introducing Writing for Christ
Okay, guys. I’ve got a blog series in store for you. I’ve outlined five posts on topics I think every Christian fiction writer will find useful. All the topics respond to issues I commonly find in Christian fiction—and hear other readers complaining about. I’d be delighted if you would join me for the next… Continue reading Introducing Writing for Christ
Lightwaste Excerpt
So, I promised you an excerpt. Here it is. it comes from Dronefall Two, Lightwaste, chapter Four: A Maze of Questions. She has been back at her old school campus, the place where she was raised, seeking answers to the mystery of her inaccessible legal identity files. Her success has not been great, and she… Continue reading Lightwaste Excerpt
Lightwaste. Is. LIVE!
Dronefall Two, Lightwaste is finally available to the reading public!!! I don’t usually use that many exclamation points, by the way, but I’m thrilled to be launching this bold dangerous little book into the world. It’s been overdue for a long time. Not only in the sense that I expected to publish it last summer,… Continue reading Lightwaste. Is. LIVE!
I Have No Idea What I’m Doing: a mini memoir
If you want to be a doctor, you go to medical school and they tell you what to do for about seven years. You get your degree and you train, and you don’t really have to go figuring out how to remove tonsils just by going in there and snipping random stuff. If you want… Continue reading I Have No Idea What I’m Doing: a mini memoir
15 Ways to Add Color and Depth to Character Relationships
Gotta love a big list post, right? I’ve had this list stashed away in my writing journal notebook for a while, just as a reminder to myself and a brainstorming prompt. Characters and their interactions are essential to driving a story and keeping it dynamic and interesting. Too often I notice authors slacking off on… Continue reading 15 Ways to Add Color and Depth to Character Relationships
The Power of Reverse-Outlining for Revisions
This might be the most useful technique I’ve ever discovered when it comes to editing and revision. I did it for the first time while I was working on Dronefall Two, Lightwaste. I’m at the dreaded revision stage for my current WIP, Rainchill, Dronefall Three, but I’m not dreading it like I used to, because… Continue reading The Power of Reverse-Outlining for Revisions
Songs from the Small Hours is LIVE!
I remember the Hale-Bopp comet. I don’t really know why. I wasn’t even three yet in Spring of ‘97. But I remember Mom picking me up and pointing it out through the bathroom window facing west. It was surreal, even to my very young mind—like a shooting star that had been stopped. We haven’t had… Continue reading Songs from the Small Hours is LIVE!
Happy New Year! Goals, giveaways, etc.
Well, here it is. I can’t believe we’re now in the last year before the 20’s roar back around. It’s going to get weird, you know. We have such strong images of what the 20’s 30’s 40’s etc. represent that I don’t think anybody alive is really ready to adjust to the new millennium and… Continue reading Happy New Year! Goals, giveaways, etc.
Everything I Can Tell You About Lightwaste
Allow me to encourage you with the rather hollow words that the publication of Lightwaste is just around the corner. But it really is. All I’ve got left to tackle is a formatting issue that I can’t seem to solve. Once I get over that last of about a million speed-bumps, you will have Dronefall… Continue reading Everything I Can Tell You About Lightwaste