Calling the American church out of the shallows and into the deeper waters of the faith
It’s time for my Midweek Recommendation, in which I commend to your attention books or music or movies or anything I find worth recommending. As I mentioned in my Sunday Reflection on ‘belonging,’ I am setting out to keep a more regular blog schedule. My plan is to do the following: Sunday – Post a … Read More “Ender’s Game” »
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There’s been a fair bit of ice and snow in St. Louis so far this winter. Not as much as in some places, but a fair bit nonetheless. Looking out the window at the the snow frosted trees and white landscape often brings to mind both the beauty and danger of nature. The snow that … Read More “Dangerous Beauty” »
OK, so ‘electronification’ is a made-up word. Fair enough. My point, however, remains valid. The Binding of the Blade continues on its journey into the eBook world. Since Beyond the Summerland was made available for Kindle and other eBook readers, about 500 copies have been downloaded from Amazon and my publisher’s website, and now Book … Read More “The Ongoing Electronification of BOTB” »
All right, so this has been brewing a while. To explain myself well, I should supply some background. As my little progress-o-meter in the sidebar shows, I’ve crested the 60% complete point in the novel I’m working on. What this means, in general, is that several things are coming to a head in the story … Read More “Update & Mini-Rant on ‘All Action, All the Time’ Stories” »
“God likes matter. He invented it.” C.S. Lewis I think Jack was right. God does like matter. So should we. The beauty of creation is testimony to the loving care God took to shape & form it. However, I don’t think God likes how we obsess over it. How we grovel and fawn over it, … Read More “A Brief Reflection on Matter & Materialism” »
So, I finished John Gardner’s The Art of Fiction yesterday, making that three of the books on writing in my stack. It was a good read, but man was it a striking shift after reading Stephen King’s On Writing. King, I think it is fair to say, has the common touch. He’s sold a boatload … Read More “The Art of Fiction” »
So, I’ve not really kept up with my blogging, but I have been plodding away at my reading on the craft of writing. To date, I’ve read The Elements of Style by Strunk & White, On Writing by Stephen King, and I’m about halfway through The Art of Fiction by John Gardner. While Strunk & … Read More “Fiction: a fossil, a dream, or what?” »
As I said in my previous post, I have launched into self-assigned curriculum of reading books on writing, beginning with Strunk & White’s classic work, The Elements of Style. The venture is already paying dividends. I’m about 25 pages in, 25 pages packed with fairly compact instruction on usage, so far, with more coming on … Read More “‘the shape of what is to come’” »
So I’m starting out on a new venture tomorrow, seeking to address a serious deficiency of mine. I’ve gathered a stack of books about writing, which if I had any decency or discipline as a writer I’d have read long ago, but which I have sadly neglected. Still, better late than never, and it is … Read More “Reading About Writing” »
