Atheist Writers
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Poets
Anyone dabble in poetry? Although I began writing a bit of verse last spring, I have rarely worked up the nerve to show the results to anyone. I guess I am wondering if anyone would be interested in a creative exchange of constructive criticism. Post your pieces if so! I'm too chicken to post the…
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Do Writers Write? Not As Much As Most People Think.
Most people who don't write themselves or who don't know any full-time writers imagine that when writers spend five or six (or eight or ten) hours in their attics or garages or studies every day they spend that time writing. Here's news. They don't. They spend most of that time thinking. …
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Writer's Block
What is it?What are your opinions on it?How do you 'crack' it? (if you ever get it.)Personally? I'm dying over here. No real trigger that I can think of. It's not a major project for me. No fame or fortune involved. But it's something I love, and I'm hung up on a single scene.AAAHHHGGGGG!
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Looking for writers to help me out
First things first: unfortunately, at this time I can't pay you. Although my site has a few google ads, it has, to date, generated around one penny--and that is not hyperbole.If you're still around after those sentences, let me tell you what I'm looking for: I'm interested in finding writers to…
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Hidden Life
I wrote this back in February. It is a piece about those of us who work in the shadows, behind the scenes, and how we have a tendency to be marginalized by those who seek out the spotlight. I'm currently working on a couple books, and will post more details when I can Do not fear the shadows of…
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The Shade Riders and Nocturnal Ned
This is a Middle Grade fantasy novel with horror and science in it.
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Th' Night 'Fore Last: My "Christmas" Poem
I wrote this last year, but just remembered it today. Thought I'd share. Th' night b'fore last there were narry a sound.No critter was peepin', not even a hound.I don’t reckon much 'bout the daylight before...Was drinkin' cheap whiskey an' courtin' cheap whores. I'd left the saloon-- well, the…
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Impressions - Reynosa
When I was thirteen, my parents took me on a 'mission trip' to an orphanage in Reynosa, Mexico. Reynosa is a border town in Mexico, directly across from McAllen, Texas, if I remember correctly. Thirteen is a pretty impressionable age, and I carried this picture around with me for years before…
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Attn: Authors
I know you're out there. It doesn't matter what you write be it short fiction, poetry, sci-fi novellas or introductory text books, who are you and what are you writing? To start off, I just started writing a book. It started out as an exegetical analysisof Matthew's account focusing mostly on his…
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"The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ," by Philip Pullman
Here's a new novel to take special note of. From a recent piece over on Slate:Like many atheists, the novelist Philip Pullman has emphatic and complicated religious beliefs. Pullman used His Dark Materials, his masterpiece trilogy,to deliver a savage beating to the Catholic Church (the thinly…
