My household is a reading household. The hubs and I devote many evenings – and, occasionally, entire days – to…
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Easter Triduum Part 1: Maundy Thursday
Today is Maundy Thursday. Holy Week is here, friends. Lent has brought us from a Tolkienian Ash Wednesday meditation through…
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Sonnet-ing Through the “Heavy”
My heart is heavy this week, friends. I give you fair warning: this post contains much talk of scripture and…
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Return of the King: An Ash Wednesday Reflection
We just finished our annual (sometimes semi-annual) pilgrimage through Middle Earth via the epic film trilogy The Lord of the…
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New Musical Interludes – Part 1
Who here remembers my post from May 2018, On Giant’s Shoulders: The Power of Music in Writing? (There’s no prize…
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Hail to the King, Part 2: The Battle of Theme
This week, I bring you the next episode in “R. A. Nelson vs. Stephen King: A Showdown for the Ages!”…
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Hail to the King: Stephen King on Writing “Right”
I’ve been spending some quality time with this book lately: Oddly enough, this is the first Stephen King book I…
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The New Book; or, It Begins
Well, I finished a VERY rough draft of the first chapter of my new book this week. It’s more exciting…
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New Year “Adventures” and a Strange Gift
I don’t know how things are at your house, but in the Nelson homestead, 2019 has begun with a whimper…
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An Interview with the Author
Well, hi there, readers! It certainly has been a while. My apologies for the fortnight of silence; ’twas unintentional, and…
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