Category: Books
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GRINDING OUT THE NOVEL
I’ve spent a lot of time this week working on my upcoming novel. As I continue to grow and learn as a writer, I’ve discovered that it is not very often that stories just ‘pop’ into the mind completely finished. A lot of time and care must be taken to work out story, plot lines,…
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CHRISTIAN WRITING
Yesterday Matt Ventura came by the Pastor Greenbean office and recorded on video for my upcoming presentation about literary apologetics for the Christian Writing Conference. The webinar is free this year, but you have to sign up (click here to register). The conference is put on by my publisher Athanatos Christian Ministries. This is the…
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BEACH READING
Okay, it isn’t really beach reading because I was not at the beach. But during vacation I did read; and thought I would share some of my reading with you. Let’s start with the magazines. I read my July edition of “National Geographic.” The feature article was about Cleopatra. It wasn’t nearly as exciting as…
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PALMS TURNED UPWARD
REFLECTING ON OLD VOLUMES As a dedicated bibliophile one of my great joys is flipping through volumes in my library. A couple of weeks ago I picked up a collection of T.S. Eliot and thumbed through. I stopped and read through, over and over again, these amazing lines from The Rock. But it seems that…