Sit quiet with your hands folded on your desk. Don't ask any questions. Just write your stories and praise your publisher, your editor, and your agent. Be a good little writer and wait until we don't want you anymore. Hey, I'm sure it's not like that. That was just a snarky opener.…

    Not "there" in the picture but there here. Lovely view of a pretty place, huh? A question waits for you over there.   Lord, thank you for all that you do, so much of which I cannot see with my human eyes. I love you, Lord. In the Name of Jesus, Amen.

                          This week's posts have an edge to them. One might think I have something against Christian publishers. I don't. Without understanding their need to shield themselves within their so far successful industry, it is working for them overall even though they've excluded many readers and, for that reason, many writers. This has never…

          I'm not a boater. Not fond of deep water. Of any kind. So I could say wherever there's a boat on water, it won't be me rocking it. But metaphorically speaking, yeah, I'm rocking the boat. I'm trying to tip it over and empty its contents, sending them all into the nether-regions…

                  dissonance: 1.A harsh or disagreeable combination of sounds; discord 2.Want of agreement or consistency; disparity; variance dissonant: 1.Harsh or inharmonious in sound; discordant 2.Disagreeing or at variance (Both definitions exclude the musical components of defining the words.) I confess to being the dissonant voice in the audience of Christian fiction. I have been…

  Woe to you, O destroyer, you who have not been destroyed! Woe to you, O traitor, you who have not been betrayed! When you stop destroying, you will be destroyed; when you stop betraying, you will be betrayed.   Isaiah 32:1 (NIV)

                                  We've all read those stories. The protagonist or another prominent character does a 180 and we react with a "Huh?" For no good reason(s) prior to the actions, we read along to find the character acting . . . well, out of character. It might be convenient or the deux ex machina device,…

                                      Fewer writers use paper and pen to construct their novels, but regardless of how each individual approaches the process, writing that novel happens in multiple ways. Some of us ponder a character for a certain length of time before we jot a single word. Others of us are inspired by a scenario and…

      Some things cannot be concealed in our writing. One of those things is when it's not who we are, it won't ring true. I'm not saying that a story written to please or satisfy an editor or publisher won't sell. I'm not saying it won't have appeal or that it won't observe…

      Those who know me understand my makeup. Passionate: right or wrong. I don't "feel" things lightly. I don't take things lightly. I don't do things lightly. I invest in what impresses my heart and soul and compels my attention. So what? you ask. So this isn't always an easy way to live, but…