Wednesday, August 12, 2026

Accepting a Short Story Challenge


Like most if not all writers, I follow several writers who post and talk about the craft of writing. Like other writers, it’s helpful, encouraging, and instructive to see what others, Christian and non-Christian alike, are struggling with, learning, sharing, and figuring out. 

I published my last book in late 2024.  What followed was period of exhaustion. Writing that book had been an intense experience; the research had begun in 2016 and continued through the writing of two other novels and deepened in the final two years. The published book includes nine pages of bibliography. I’d never written historical fiction before, and it was one of the most intense writing experiences of my life. Through the process, my respect for writers of historical fiction grew exponentially. 


To continue reading, please see my post today at the ACFW blog.

 

Top photograph by Toa Heftiba via Unsplash. Used with permission.


Some Wednesday Readings

 

Morning Desire – Brian Miller at Notes from an East Tennessee Farmer.

 

Are You Looking for Magic? – Terry Whalin at The Writing Life.

 

Dorothy Sayers Is the Answer to John Dewey – Jesse Sumpter at The Imaginative Conservative. 

 

A Record of Writer’s Rush – Andrew Roycroft at New Grub Street.



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