Into the Fire

Passionate thoughts about the world of writing and the Power of God

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  • During my series posts regarding the promotion of other authors’ novels, you got a glimpse of my particular tastes and styles of writing and genre preferences. The authors I covered in that series were personal favorites. Inspirational for me. Reading is an essential part of writing in my world. I’ve chosen not to review every…

  • Dubbed the first psychedelic band of Seattle, The Magic Fern’s short stint lasted through 1966 and 1967. This song is “Solar Plexis.”

  • For a novelist, there’s no telling what inspires each one. Speaking for myself, reading good novels can be both inspirational or frustrating in that if the writing is superb, it can deflate me. When you know your voice, how you like to express that voice, create characters, and use the language, it’s rare to think…

  • If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God. Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or…

  • Two more chapters of my WIP and that’ll be it: Chapter 3 I’d left her at the cottage to examine it, telling her I’d be back to check on her, hoping to secure her affirmative decision. I felt that positively about her from what I’d read in her resume and from what Darla, my resentful…

  • Since Part 10 concluded with my last finished novel, I thought I’d give you a snippet from my WIP (work in progress). However, although I have the title decided upon, I’m not sharing it yet. Chapter 1 (Verbose) She showed up with a bewildered look on her face, having braved the tree-shrouded gravel drive to…

  • Indeed. Where would you be?

  • To conclude the “promotion” of my novels, I will end with the one that was inspired by a house at the end of our road. When heading into town one of two ways, I pass it. A black Jeep sits in front of it all the time, but it’s not easy to see. If you’d…

  • Then Jesus asked them, “Which is lawful on the Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill? But they remained silent. He looked around at them in anger and, deeply distressed at their stubborn hearts, said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his…

  • . . . in a love song was inspired by the Marshall Tucker Band tune “Heard It in a Love Song.” It also happened to be one of the two novels I started while writing Race – yes, frozen up on writing Race, I began two other novels, something I’d never done before or since.…