Writing a novel while juggling life isn’t always easy. Life doesn’t pause just because you have a story burning inside you—something epic that’s desperate to be told. It just keeps chugging along like a runaway locomotive, oblivious to your creative struggles. Sometimes, the only time I can write is late at night—midnight, one in the morning—when the house is finally still. The kids are asleep at last, the world outside is quiet, and it’s just…
Today is Twos-day! I don’t quite know exactly what it is about today, but I have felt like this day would be significant for a while (and not just because of the launch of this blog). It is interesting that it is written 2-22-2022, AND that it falls on a Tuesday.There are many interesting things about the number 2 when it comes to the Bible. There are two Testaments, Old & New. When God created…
Why should a Christ-following author write fictional or even fantasy stories? Writing in general is a great way for anyone to help make sense of what they see, hear, and think. Look at the words of the famous British Poet Cecil Day-Lewis; First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive…
It was back in the summer of 2014 that I originally got the download of the idea. We had recently gone through some hard times as a family and had to make a move to a house in Dallas that was graciously provided to us by a friend. We were barely making ends meet, but God was also showing up in some miraculous ways during that season and we never went hungry or were in…