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Christian Authors and the “Good Enough” Fallacy
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 a...
I wrote 100,000 words in a month. Here are 6 things I did to make it happen.
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.
4 Hard Truths about Christian Speculative Fiction
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 mentioned...
Basement Blast
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 home. Most...
5 Thoughts on Profanity in Christian Fiction
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 is, folks),...
6 Publishing Red Flags
Authors nationwide (and beyond) rejoiced when Tate Publishing (which hilariously only has ten likes on its Facebook Page) announced it was closing. Yet the devastation Tate left in its path is no laughing matter. But Tate wasn't the only publisher that authors need to...