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5 Things I Want Aspiring Young Authors to Know

Posted in Creativity and the Arts, Encouragement, Inspiration, Literature, Publishing, Writing on February 17, 2015 | 7 Comments »

This post is for the young writers of the world! And I admit it – technically I’m still a “young writer” myself.  I’m not even a quarter of a century old yet!  😛  But I’m thinking specifically of the teen and preteen writers among us. Guys, I’ve been where you are now.  It was one […]

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Simmer Starters – January 30, 2015 (Special Feature: Flash Fiction!)

Posted in Christian Living, Creativity and the Arts, Flash Fiction, Simmer Starters, Writing on January 29, 2015 | 1 Comment »

Favorite links from the past week!  Enjoy. Two Things to Tell Yourself in Temptation (ScribblePreach) – “Temptation is tricky.  Just when you think you’ve got hold of it, it rears its ugly head….again, and again, and again.” How Each Myers-Briggs Type Responds to Finding a Spider in the Shower (BlondeRJ) – Some good, clean fun for the […]

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What God and Geeks Have in Common

Posted in Christian Living, Creativity and the Arts, Encouragement, Fandoms and Geekery, Inspiration, Literature, Musings, My Books, My Life, Preaching to Myself, Writing, tagged , , , , , , , , , on January 26, 2015 | 11 Comments »

As a writer, I sometimes fall into “geek-out mode” about my own book.  As in, “it rivals the geekery I had about Lord of the Rings during my teenage years.”  That kind of geek mode. I think about it all day.  My characters are constantly on my mind.  I am going squeeee! over random details that nobody […]

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Simmer Starters – Jan. 23, 2015

Posted in Creativity and the Arts, Inspiration, Simmer Starters, Writing on January 23, 2015 | 4 Comments »

Welcome to a new feature on the Simmering Mind!  (Well, really more of a resurrected feature.) Every Friday I will post a collection of links that got me thinking or woke up my imagination that week.  They might be related to writing, faith, science, sci-fi and fantasy, or fiction in general, and occasionally parenting or […]

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Think About These Things

Posted in All Truth is God's Truth, Controversies, Creativity and the Arts, Philosophy and Worldviews on May 16, 2014 | 19 Comments »

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. – Philippians 4:8 (ESV) When it comes to fiction, Christians are very fond of this verse.  It is often quoted […]

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