by Ben Wolf | Jun 17, 2019 | Editing, Money, Speculative Fiction, Storytelling, Strategery, Writing
A sickness has infected the Christian creative community, and it’s especially prevalent in Christian writing and publishing circles. I call it the “Good Enough” Fallacy. And it’s a fatal sickness. The “Good Enough” Fallacy, defined simply, is the theory that as...
by Ben Wolf | Jun 14, 2018 | Editing, Money, Speculative Fiction, Storytelling, Strategery, Writing
Late last night I started a conversation with a friend of mine who also writes speculative fiction–specifically, he writes Christian spec fic. I used to classify myself and my writing using similar vernacular, but I have since changed my approach. My friend...
by Ben Wolf | Apr 18, 2017 | Storytelling, Writing
As a kid, I put down the book JAWS because I reached a point where one character was cussing out another character. Nowadays, I probably would’ve kept reading. Why? My thoughts on the issue of profanity have changed. In my opinion (and that’s all this post...
by Ben Wolf | Nov 17, 2015 | Writing
NaNoWriMo (Nano) is halfway done. I’m ahead of the stated Nano goal at the time of writing this, but I’m chasing my personal word count goal of 2,000 words per day. Right now I’m behind and need to write about 3,000 words today to catch up. If you...
by Ben Wolf | Sep 3, 2015 | Editing, Movies, Speculative Fiction, Storytelling
On September 1st, 2015, Mad Max: Fury Road came out on BluRay/DVD. The only reason I didn’t camp out at Target to get a copy when the doors opened was because I forgot until 9pm that night. And also because I don’t like getting up early. As I watched Fury...