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I've decided that any updates I find regarding art, writing, contests, etc., I'll keep up with on my Intersection blog so as not to crowd things around here (you wouldn't believe how cranky the owner here gets about crowding--she starts charging these extra squatting fees).

You can find that blog here. 

Glimmer Train has a great article by Frederick Reiken, Separating Author, Narrator and Character, which is especially helpful for writing unreliable narrators, something I'm working on now.

Oh, and the author has a book called  The Lost Legends of New Jersey. You can bet I'll be checking that one out!

Because I know and love so many of you. This blog post at Guardian is in your world. Or worlds. Or space station.

God v. Satan in Deep Space

In light of fiction reading, writing, and 'rythmatic (okay, so not so much the 'rythmatic)... 

For those of us addicted to writing in the first person, I found the blog post challenging:

The Dangers of First-Person Narrative.

Good stuff to keep in mind.

The middle son in my WIP uses a Magic Eight Ball to make decisions. In light of that, I found this article at McSweeney's highly entertaining:

The Magic 8 Ball Amended by My Mother for My Middle School Years 

Two articles that just happen to resonate with what's knocking around in my brain these days:

Forgot to tell you guys last week that The High Calling published an article of mine, "Working with Kryptonite." 

It talks about my struggle to make my work about serving others rather than serving myself. 

Hope you find it encouraging! 

Where you can find samples of my work:

Fiction

"Matt and Marnie Sittin' in the Tree Or Something Like That" in Infuze Magazine

"Mumbai Baby" in Mused Literary Review

"The Audition" in Relief Journal

"Dies Irae" in Generate Magazine

Short Films/Plays

"The Office Pharisee" for Christ Church Plano

"Mumbai Baby" for DVX Film Fest 2009: Loss

"The Adventures of Don and Cho" for DVX Film Fest 2009: Quest

Nonfiction

"Art in the Time of Holocaust" in The Curator Magazine

"A Literary Analysis on the Book of Ruth" at bible.org

"Israel: Understanding the Setting of the Bible" at bible.org

"The Cause of the Orphan" in Kindred Spirit online

"My Scarlet Letter" in Three One Six: A Journal of Christian Thinking

"Spiritual Disciplines: Practicing Daily Scales" in Just Between Us

"'Tis the Season" in Fwd Magazine

In The High Calling: 

"God's Secret to Contentment at Work"

"Tuning Your Ear to God's Perfect Pitch"

"Working with Kryptonite"

"On Earth as It Is in Heaven"

"Of Loaves and Fish"

In The Small Group Exchange by BluefishTV

"Getting Beyond Curriculum--Using Art and Pop Culture in Your Small Group" 

"It Was the Best of Times; It Was the Worst of Times: The Art of Storytelling" 

I also regularly write book reviews and summaries at Solomon Summaries, have a column at The Tapestry Blog, and am a Fiction and Poetry Channel editor at Blog Nosh.

Awards

Finalist, Spring 2007 Glimmer Train New Writer's Award

Winner, Genesis 2008 (Women's Fiction) sponsored by ACFW