by Mgmt | Jul 2, 2019 | Speculative Fiction, Storytelling, Vampires, Writing
Fantasy is perhaps the greatest genre ever conceived, and today’s indie authors are doing it the justice it rightfully deserves. Replete with magic, mythical creatures, knights and nobles, kingdoms and empires, and even angels, demons, werewolves, and vampires,...
by Mgmt | 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 Mgmt | Mar 11, 2019 | Editing, Speculative Fiction, Storytelling, Strategery, Writing
The goal of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is to write 50,000 words in one month. I wrote double that in roughly the same amount of time. Over the course of 34 days, I wrote 105k words and wrote an epic fantasy novel from start to finish. 30k of those words...
by Mgmt | 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 Mgmt | May 5, 2017 | Movies, Storytelling, Strategery
I love shooting people. Specifically, I love shooting my friends with Nerf guns. Not the least of all, this includes my wife. The other day, she’d texted me and said she’d had a rough day at work, so I decided to do something special for her when she got...
