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October 2016

October 11, 2016

Was Jesus a Self-Promoter?

I've been working to reconcile myself to a reality I've been denying for years. What's...

September 2016

September 27, 2016

Getting Published is Easy, Getting Read Is the Tough Thing

Karl Marx, among the absurd things he said (some things were pretty sound, but I'm...

September 22, 2016

Focus! (Some changes coming to this blog.)

Art makes its demands. Anyone who believes it is merely a matter of self-expression hasn't...

April 2016

April 27, 2016

Writing Good Character

I've had a small measure of success writing fiction for young adults. What I mean...

April 07, 2016

Telling Stories: Why Preachers Should Learn to Write Good Fiction

J. R. R. Tolkien in his famous essay, On Fairy Stories noted that a story...

January 2016

January 29, 2016

The Purloined Boy: Plato Pottering Around

Guest review by David Deavel--the Associate Editor of Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and...