The long and short of it is most of us have to wait for a lot of things in life. And we get impatient. At least I do. If you're waiting to be published, you must conclude what kind of wait and what kind of publishing you want. Publishing has a lot…

      You know me. Passionate: right or wrong. But there's more. I need purpose. I need to know there's something I can do. And it isn't just anything. It's not routine. It has to be that certain something where I know it's me who has to do it. It took me 8 and…

     If you intend to write comedic fiction, then you better make it funny. If you intend to write women's fiction, then you better make it dramatically poignant to most women. If you intend to write an espionage thriller, you had better be equipped with valid inside sources. The point here being if you're intending to…

  "No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying…

              God, who cannot see you? Men are without excuse. Thank you for beauty amidst all the evil. In the Name of Jesus, Amen.                    

             This picture doesn't say or depict what I want to say, but I couldn't find one that did. My friend Rick . . . We met in my first year at the University of Washington. My two friends and I used to hang out between classes in the Hub pretending or attempting to…

       How important are those first sentences to you? As a reader? As a writer? Those first paragraphs? Those first chapters?   For me, the genre has a lot to do with the impact of a first sentence, paragraph, and chapter. I've said before, and I mean it, I'm a patient reader. I'm willing…

     If I could write any story, it would be about ________________. If I could meet anyone in this world today, it would be _______________. If I could change anything about Christian literature, it would be _______________. If I could go anywhere in the world, I'd go to _______________. If I could buy anything,…

      Sometimes the words don't come, the thoughts run ranpant, the rants exceed their daily quota, and the wisdom won't prevail. Sometimes I'd just as soon touch the untouchable, activate the politically incorrect, graphically describe the absurdity and depravity of  how certain instances in our country are escalating, and I want to identify the…

  So will it be on the earth  and among the nations, as when an olive tree is beaten,  or as when gleanings are left after the grape harvest.   Isaiah 24:13 (NIV)