Monthly Archives: September 2015

Elves and Fairies and Yokai, Oh My!

Posted on September 18, 2015 by Brenton Dickieson

For today’s Friday Feature, I wanted to share this fun little blog on Elves and Faeries by writer and friend of A Pilgrim in Narnia, L.A. Smith. I’ve blogged before about C.S. Lewis’ faerie lecture in The Discarded Image, and guest … Continue reading →

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A Playful Prologue from my @3DayNovel “Pants Are Evil, and Other Lessons from Outer Space”

Posted on September 16, 2015 by Brenton Dickieson

Since a number of 3 Day Novel Contestants are posting their first chapters–for example, you can check out the Ekphrasis artist collective here–I thought I would post mine for Work-in-Progress Wednesday. You can read about my older 3 Day Novel Contest … Continue reading →

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A 3 Day Novel Contest Post-mortem: Thoughts After my 7th 3DNC

Posted on September 14, 2015 by Brenton Dickieson

For the 7th consecutive year I have been a contestant in the International 3-Day Novel Writing Contest. This is literally the exercise of writing a full novel in 72 hours. No extensions, no extra time, no time outs. This is … Continue reading →

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A 3 Day Novel Contest Post-mortem: Thoughts After my 7th 3DNC

Posted on September 14, 2015 by Brenton Dickieson

For the 7th consecutive year I have been a contestant in the International 3-Day Novel Writing Contest. This is literally the exercise of writing a full novel in 72 hours. No extensions, no extra time, no time outs. This is … Continue reading →

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9/11 Memorial: Charles Williams on War

Posted on September 11, 2015 by Brenton Dickieson

For today’s Feature Friday I thought I would post something on 9/11. For those of us born after wars and coming of age after the Cold War, this is our JFK, our Moon Landing, our Berlin Wall: not the celebration of … Continue reading →

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