the new novel
I’d been playing with an idea for a year now, and it never caught fire. I’d take it down one path, back up another, down a third… It didn’t feel like something I wanted to write. It started with an…
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Monthly Archive: January 2009
Thank-you note sillies
We got done writing all our Thank You notes from Christmas last Saturday, unless I’ve forgotten someone. This year, I had the Kiddos do some of their own. Kiddo#3 insisted I should draw a picture of his stuffed owl on…
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In the image of God
Back in college, as I tried to get to sleep, I thought about how we’re in the image of God and how in large part we try to reverse engineer what God must be like based on what we’re like….
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Divine in-loveness
Please go read Divine Thirst. Then come back here. I’ve mentioned before how I had to be dragged kicking and screaming from the idea that God wanted some nebulous good for the Kingdom (and I could be spent like loose…
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Love, pursuit, hatred, evil
A long time ago, someone wrote or said to me, “Animosity with God is still contact with God.” I’ve taken comfort from that at times when I’m mad at God, and at other times I realize how true it is:…
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headline post: Please vote for me?
This is a “sticky” post — daily posts will appear beneath. Seven Archangels: Annihilation is up for voting at the Preditors&Editors Readers Choice Awards for favorite SFF novel of 2008. Please, please, please vote for it? My short stories have placed…
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He’s four years old.
Remember the telemarketers who keep asking for my four year old by first name? They’re asking for the last person who had this phone number, and who apparently had either a timeshare or a lot of unpaid debts or both….
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Unwriting
Sometimes you get a sense of how long a piece should be. I’ve had short stories turn into novellas, or in the case of The Guardian, I delayed writing a short story so long that it turned into a novel. …
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