Music Archives - R. A. Nelson

On August 14th, I finished the first draft of a new book. The working title is The Nameless Land, though…

Let’s Talk MORE About Writing

Let’s talk MORE about writing, friends. I recently read a chapter entitled “Faith and Fiction” from Frederick Buechner’s Secrets in…

Let’s talk about writing. Specifically, let’s talk about writing books. In Leigh Bardugo’s Grishaverse novels, Grisha become stronger and healthier…

Tolkien: the Thunderclap to end all thunderclaps. I saved Tolkien for the last “Thunderclap” post (in this round; I may…

“There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.” Must have been a day sort of like today. I…

Someone mentioned to me recently that my last few posts have seemed rather . . . down. Fret not, friends!…

Who here remembers my post from May 2018, On Giant’s Shoulders: The Power of Music in Writing? (There’s no prize…

Well, I finished a VERY rough draft of the first chapter of my new book this week. It’s more exciting…