to the dance of life
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.
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:
WWJD – A Fruit For the Church? (By Which They Will Know Us?) on Barbara Nicolosi’s blog – on the parallel universe we Christians have created. This is something I’ve been thinking about for years, but I’m again considering about pursuing publication with CBA or ABA. It relates to a discussion going on at Intersection right now: Bubble or Patron?
I think there are merits to both sides. The question for me is, what does God want for my writing? Of course, ultimately, He wants good writing that’ll glorify Him no matter if I’m published or not. Still, I stand at this fork in the road.
The Rest of the Story: Texture in a Novel–Lee Martin’s thoughts on writing and texture and layers. For those of you who don’t get the Glimmer Train email, I recommend it. They have a lot of thoughts by good authors (Lee Martin was a finalist for the Pulitzer). Hat tip to Michelle who pointed this article out to me this morning in a conversation we were having. I hadn’t gotten around to reading the stuff from my Glimmer Train email.
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!
Download audio versions of four of my short stories for free from NoiseTrade:
Learn more about the stories I chose or how NoiseTrade works.
Where you can find samples of my work:
Fiction
"Ash Wednesday" in Ruminate Magazine
"The Audition" in Relief Journal
"Dies Irae" in Generate Magazine
"Matt and Marnie Sittin’ in the Tree Or Something Like That" in Infuze Magazine
"Mumbai Baby" in Mused Literary Review
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 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 blog regularly at The Master’s Artist.
Awards
Finalist, Spring 2007 Glimmer Train New Writer’s Award
Winner, Genesis 2008 (Women’s Fiction) sponsored by ACFW
Three new articles coming out, for those of you interested:
Tomorrow, I’ll give you a sneak peek into some of those fun Christmas origins.
I tell tales--tall ones, short ones, fat ones, skinny ones. Some call it compulsive lying. I call it writing.
