Calling the American church out of the shallows and into the deeper waters of the faith
I promised I’d be more faithful at blogging this year, so here’s an update on my post from last week. I haven’t written anything. But wait, that doesn’t mean it’s been a useless week. Quite the contrary, I’d say it has been a very good week. While I didn’t start a new chapter (and thus, … Read More “Structure, Sweet Structure” »
First of all, my apologies to the handful of folks who still faithfully check my blog. I was pretty negligent about updating it during ’09, and while I didn’t exactly make a New Year’s resolution to be better at it in 2010, I will try to be. Secondly, I wanted to update my writing status. … Read More “New Book – Take 2” »
Speaking of C.S. Lewis (see previous post), for the next two and a half weeks, fans of BOTB will have a chance to vote for All My Holy Mountain to win the Clive Staples Award, which is a new award that some folks are trying to launch to support Christian Speculative Fiction. If you’re interesting … Read More “Clive Staples Award & Update” »
OK, so yesterday my family and I arrived in Charlotte, NC, to visit my good friend Matt and his family. As we were driving down their street, looking for their house, we passed a small cul-de-sac with the name, “Great Bear Ct.” I was pretty stoked to see that the “Great Bear” lived somewhere other … Read More “‘Great Bear Ct’” »
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” »
For all those fans of The Binding of the Blade who were sad when it ended with All My Holy Mountain, this might come as a bit of good news. I’ve begun discussion with P&R about writing a few stories/vignettes from the world and history of Kirthanin, with the thought that we’d make them available … Read More “Bonus BOTB” »
With less to say about my own writing than I’d like, I’m going to be doing more blogging about books I’ve read or am reading. I’m starting today with a post about a quote from Gilead by Marilynne Robinson. (I’m reading Gilead because Jonathan Rogers recommended it highly to me while we were on the … Read More “Of Scribes & Prophets” »
