Evolution of The Pencil’s Edge Blog

For the past year, I’ve shared daily chapters from my novels, allowing you to experience my storytelling journey. Today marks a significant change as I transition my blog, now called The Pencil’s Edge, to focus on helping others write their stories.

As a newly certified Fictionary StoryCoach Editor, I’m excited to transform this space into a resource for beginning novelists. Instead of sharing my past works, I’ll be offering:

  • Real-time insights from my current novel writing
  • Professional story coaching guidance
  • Beginning writer encouragement
  • Writing craft development
  • Monthly explorations of story through current events

For those following “The Boaz Scholar,” you can read the first ten chapters here. The complete novel, along with my other works, remain available here, and at Amazon.

This change aligns with my commitment to helping others write their first novel. After completing eleven novels and beginning my twelfth, I’m ready to share not just my stories, but the craft and courage needed to write them.

Thank you for your understanding during this transition. I’m excited to help you write your own stories.

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Author: Richard L. Fricks

Writer, observer, and student of presence. After decades as a CPA, attorney, and believer in inherited purpose, I now live a quieter life built around clarity, simplicity, and the freedom to begin again. I write both nonfiction and fiction: The Pencil-Driven Life, a memoir and daily practice of awareness, and the Boaz, Alabama novels—character-driven stories rooted in the complexities of ordinary life. I live on seventy acres we call Oak Hollow, where my wife and I care for seven rescued dogs and build small, intentional spaces that reflect the same philosophy I write about. Oak Hollow Cabins is in the development stage (opening March 1, 2026), and is—now and always—a lived expression of presence: cabins, trails, and quiet places shaped by the land itself. My background as a Fictionary Certified StoryCoach Editor still informs how I understand story, though I no longer offer coaching. Instead, I share reflections through The Pencil’s Edge and @thepencildrivenlife, exploring what it means to live lightly, honestly, and without a script. Whether I’m writing, building, or walking the land, my work is rooted in one simple truth: Life becomes clearer when we stop trying to control the story and start paying attention to the moment we’re in.

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