For many years I wrote about fiction, story, belief, ordinary life, and the questions that shaped my work. More than two thousand essays remain here—not because every one represents my current thinking, but because together they tell the story of a writer learning over time.
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Commentary on D. James Kennedy’s book Why I Believe–Chapter 8-13
Here’s the link to this article. The remainder of this commentary will touch on a few issues in the remainder of the book. I had collected sufficient notes…
Your character is a substitute teacher for a grade four class and slowly comes to realize something unusual is going on. As impossible as it seems, some of…
Here’s the link to this article by Bart Ehrman. It covers something I’d never really thought about. Interesting. Makes sense that it’s non-sense to believe that a Bible…
Commentary on D. James Kennedy’s book Why I Believe–Chapter 7
Here’s the link to this article. (Contradiction) Note: At this point, my hard-working little laptop computer died for good. Fortunately, I had backups of my finished work (chapters…
Your protagonist and her friend are enjoying a hot air balloon ride when the burner malfunctions. Describe their harrowing journey to the ground. One Stop for Writers Here’s…
Richard L. Fricks 