There is a great post at Study Hacks about how professional writers schedule their writing. I find all the suggestions quite useful. I would differ on the precise time of starting, because I have found that doing my morning devotional reading first always helps, and that takes a bit longer. I also have to dedicated…
I have added Mike Shepherd’s Kris Longknife Series to the Energion.com Book Store. That means books are now tagged to series and author.
Tlisli waited tensely for the animal sounds around her to die down. It was some time before the jungle noises settled back to normal. She was pretty sure that someone else was disturbing the jungle-perhaps many someones. If there was one thing she could do well, however, it was being quiet. Soon her silent waiting…
[The following is a work of fiction. I made up the community and the church. But many, many churches are facing similar decisions, though often not as clear as this one. I wonder how the elders will vote?] Celia looked around the table as she finished her presentation. She’d done more work than she…
OK, this is playing around. The first is a translation with some freedom, but with an effort to convey just a little bit of the rhythm of the Hebrew. It needs some more work. The second is just me having some fun with rhyme and meter, a practice I can always use. I look up…
[This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance of any person or event to anything in the real world is purely coincidental!] Children, obey your parents, for this is right. — Ephesians 6:1 He was only 11, and he was walking home from school. It should have been simple. He was under strict instructions to…
Ken links to another story on hell in the comments. It’s eerily like mine, though somewhat different in style. Check it out.
[This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to any real person is purely unintentional.] After 10 days, or perhaps it was a hundred, the angel returned. This time he looked like a pillar of darkness, as dark now as he had been bright before. How did I know it was the same angel? I…
One of the things that makes me do some thinking when I write on this blog is that I am not entirely certain of why I like the things I like. This is especially interesting when I encounter a story that I do not enjoy, and yet that I think is well written. Something in…
I did it again. I read Brazen Virtue, the sequel to Sacred Sins. Still enjoyed it, though romance will not become a favorite.
