Lots of people say they “can’t even draw stick figures,” but drawing isn’t *just* a God-given talent. It takes practice to get good.
Book Review: Deadfall by Robert Liparulo
When Hutch becomes the protector of a nine-year-old boy, he realizes it’s up to him to save an entire town from sudden death.
The Dyslexic Superpower: Why Our Uncanny Abilities Aren’t Weaknesses
Every hero needs a weakness. Reading and writing just happen to be ours. See dyslexia as a superpower instead of a disability in this article.
Book Review: Peace Like A River by Leif Enger
Reuben Land’s life changes forever when his brother is tried for murder and escapes the law to become a fugitive.
How to Meet Your Characters Without Doing Tons of Character Worksheets
Want to get to know your book characters? Tired of filling out useless character worksheets to achieve that? Here are three new ways to meet your protagonists!
How to Make a Professional Cover Photo Without a DSLR Camera
Don’t have a fancy DSLR? No problem. You can still make professional-looking banners and photos with a few tweaks in Photoshop. Here’s how!
Behind the Scenes of “Faint Not”
Several people have asked me how I put together my Scripture For Life chapel challenge video (If you haven’t seen it, you can watch it here!) So I thought I might take the night alone in my room to write a basic tutorial explaining how I made the animations using just Photoshop and Final Cut Pro X. I started out with the idea. My roommate suggested doing an animation versus a live-action video because I wouldn’t have to feel bad about collecting the prize scholarship when so many actors would have helped with the project. With a cartoon made completely from my computer, I would have done the entire video myself. The first thing to do was come up with a verse I’d like to center my video around. That was easy, since my college verses are Isaiah 41:10,13. I liked the visual image I got when I read the verses, since it specifically talks about the God of the universe holding our right hand and leading us along through our life’s trials.
Late New Year’s Resolutions
Twenty-sixteen has been a year of intense emotional turmoil, starting from even just the first week of January. Several unexpected changes in friends’ families, drama in my community, the most deaths and permanent accidents on college campus in recent history, a cruelly busy semester of my own design, the build-up to elections that left me in such a panic that I could barely keep from crying as I walked to classes because just thinking about the potential future of our country made me physically sick…. Although I’m not a superstitious person, I was really looking forward to 2017.
Five Steps to Character Interviews and How to Use Them to Write
Learn to create compelling characters that are as life-like as true individuals through the use of Character Interviews.