“There’s so much more that I could be. So many places that I’ll never see. So many lives that I’ll never meet. I’ll just dream…
Category: Writing
Background Crumbs from The Forgotten King
With the release of The Fragmented Kingdom, I thought it would be fun to share with my readers some tidbits about The Forgotten King that…
Out of the Groove
Blogging has been hard for me lately. I have so many thoughts and opinions, so many ideas and snippets of stories, but none of them…
Do I Have It in Me?
I’m reading a book by a twenty-something author who started her manuscript as a teen, worked on it for a few years, spent a couple…
The End of the Trilogy
I drafted the final scene of the final book of the Forgotten King trilogy today. It feels strange. Do you know that listless, bittersweet feeling…
I Control Time (a poem)
I control time. The hands of the clock surrender to my fingers. Forward and backward, inside-out and outside-in. The past is the future and the…
The Self-published Stigma
For a long time, I resisted the idea of self-publishing my books. In my mind, a self-published book was a book that wasn’t good enough—a…
The Story behind My Latest Project
A few months ago, I came across an article from 1973 by a man named Bruce B. Clark, titled “Creative Writing in the Church: A…
An Unusual Appetite Loss
I haven’t written in two months. I haven’t had the appetite for it. The thought of sitting at the computer and typing out words and…
The Research Rabbit Hole
I’ve always loved research—research and learning. I remember being assigned to write an essay about lions in the 1st grade. It was my first research…