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I don't normally touch the Horror genre with a 10 foot pole, but I was challenged to write a story for Halloween, and I had an idea about how technology distances us, and wrote this out in one sitting. (It has a bit of a redemptive ending, one person sacrificing themselves for humanity.)...

Here's a sneak peak of my LinkedIn post for next Monday. What's the difference between 'coincidence' and 'deus ex machina?' Authors hate coincidence in fiction. It's widely considered an almost unforgivable sin, a sign that you haven’t been able to make your story work logically. But what if I...

My friend Cap Stewart posed a question of great interest to many of us here, and as the author of a Fantasy / Noir that includes a magical system, I'm going ALL the way down the rabbit hole. First, there are three related articles that discuss this topic: Is Fictional Magic Just Occultism in...

On LinkedIn today I pose this question—do you write for yourself or others?

...is reviewed here!

Hey, I'm getting deaconized* tomorrow! I've quietly served for many years as the secretary on the Leadership Team at our small non-denominational community church at Foundation Bible Church in Janesville, WI. I've thus far successfully avoided much in the way of official responsibility at...

Katie Weiland started on these forums when I did back in 2005 and was a fixture here for many years. We wrote the AuthorCulture writer's blog for 3 years together and then she went pro. Last year she asked me to step in as a guest host and wrote a long blog about writer's with ADHD. Today...

I admit I didn't get through all of this but I definitely want to come back to it when I get a chance. All I know is I was absolutely cheering within the first four minutes. "All right, to start with, let's just push aside any conversation about taste. This is not going to be a video about...

From our own @Jeff Potts with a new Audible release! (Not including the link but it's exciting to see writers in this community making it!)

We all have stories that only we can tell. I lost my ghostwriting gig with my guru client last month due to lingering illness (new COVID strain ftw) but a conversation we had very early on about ADHD changed his life. My friend wrote about how getting diagnosed changed his life and business...

We call her 'our own KM Weiland' for a reason. We came up together through ChristianWriters.com, I worked on the AuthorCulture writer's blog for a few years, and then we went on our separate ways. Earlier this year she was approached by an author looking for help with ADHD, and she reached out...

I had what I now believe was a chat with a chatbot yesterday and managed to get it to give up on me (and threaten to block me, heh). https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ojeazeZ-_csVgPYbqk25I7SmqeV789C85ep2NLvwAjk/edit?usp=sharing

From email today:

My friend Cap Stewart wrote a review of a Christian Sci-Fi film, SHIFT, and his words could as easily be ported over to include Christian fiction. I was particularly taken with his example from Ezekiel where God is careful not to spell the lesson out. I think this is fascinating. It appears...

fwiw, I sat in on a session “Unlocking AI for Writing” with Joanna Penn and Joseph Michael (the Scrivener coach guy). I took detailed notes here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fRDA_6oj1OZpmvpXEXfqiZZ_3uFZCRuzEzP4Z3qhyeo/edit?usp=sharing

Sometimes not writing a reply is doing the Lord's work. ;)

Evangelist Tom Short is a friend in our loose association of churches, a street preacher who regularly goes and witnesses on college campuses around the world. Today's post is really excellent and talks about telling your faith story, your testimony, your story about 'God's goodness in your...

My affection and appreciation for NaNoWriMo, the National Novel Writing Month, is well documented. Competing and winning NaNo in 2004 was a milestone in my writing life. When I crossed that first finish line, the heavens opened, the angels sang, and my brain was rewired. Before NaNo, I wanted...

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