Writing advice is sometimes less helpful than it sounds. Across my years as an active writer of fiction, particularly long-form fiction (novels- one published so far), I’ve dabbled in all sorts of writing advice, and I’ve come up with my own.
Contra how many Reformed folks act…. Reformed thought has a grave weakness- not universal but widespread nonetheless. Reformed thought is a beautiful, austere structure of crystalline logic, flaming with fire, lighting in its holders a high and heroic devotion to
My first cuisine blog Today’s a short one and quite divorced from my usual content. No matter. Today, I go into a little bit of odd knowledge I have, including the two foods that stick the longest on the taste
You become what you do. We become what we practice. My life is, from the eternal perspective, a cavalcade of actions, thoughts, and desires in sequence, the past forming the present forming the future, all in call-and-response to the world
Will AI replace your doctor? We tried with lawyers, which didn’t go well (judges don’t appreciate the hallucinated citations). We’re dead-set on trying with artists, and the result is the mass sloppification of the internet. Why not try with doctors?
We can take the Bible’s course instead. For the curious, an immensely updated and re-worked version of this is available here. Men like Ben Shapiro occasionally come out with genius statements about the evils of retirement. What everybody hears (and
“In all the long wars with the Dark Tower, treason has ever been our greatest foe.” In the modern world, we have plenty of dark forces to point to. Child murderers to the left of me; warmongers to the right;
Or R.L. Dabney on Northern Conservatism There is a sort of conservatism which has been popular ever since people recognized the difference between what we used to do and what we could do. Let us, in reference to that excellent
By breaking the family If you want to find the root of the West’s instability, it lies in the constant failure of the righteous as a whole to defend the family. Chesterton said of the family that it “may fairly
On the reaction to Rep. Massie’s second marriage I’m a writer. I’m also a reader. More, I read history, contemporary and otherwise. The sum of this is: give me facts about a person, and I can come up with some ugly explanations.