Writing Again

My wife was gracious enough to give me a break in our re-nesting process so that I could have sufficient time for novel writing. I have completed the rework of the first novel in the series, "Colorado Crossfire" and half of the second, "Children's Crossfire".

I have had a revelation from the other authors and soon-to-be authors in the local branch of the American Christian Fiction Writers (ACFW) group. The local group is Idahopewriters.com and I was able to attend their first annual conference in January of this year. Learned a lot and hopefully have grown more proficient in my writing. For those of you who are in the writing world I am tweeking my novels (13 in the series so far) for POV and show-don't-tell.

The POV (point-of-view) aspect helps to clarify who is speaking and prevents any omnicient text (where I tell the reader of things that the character could not possibly know). The Show-Don't-Tell reduces the amount of descriptive text that isn't generated by a character in the novel.

I am working up a "Crossfire Series Cast of Characters" which will include my idea of what the main characters in each book look like and a bio of their history. This is a lot of fun and adds to the storyline. Eventually I am going to encourage enough readers to submit photos of themselves (if they think they are a good representation of a character) so that I can actually present a real cast of characters. More on that later.

Settled at last

I'm glad to announce that our move has been completed and we are in our new digs. Of course taking a four-bedroom, three-car garage home and downsizing it into a two-bedroom, one-car garage townhome is a challenge. At least I will be able to concentrate on writing the seriess rather than worrying about lawn care and upkeep. Not that I did much of that anyway, but it still worried me.

My article to the editor (Idaho Statesman) ran today and I'm going to be interested in any comments I get back from that. More on that later.

Having joined the American Christian Fiction Writer's association has been a great input to me on the novel series. I'm refining my point-of-view (POV) for each of the novels (Colorado Crossfire - first one in the series) is just about finished and it does improve the readibility of the book by more positively placing the character that is active in charge of all the thoughts until a scene change or a chapter change.

I have also joined the Idahope Writer's chapter of the ACFW and have met many interesting and positive writers locally.

Movin' On

All activity on my blog, website, and facebook have to go on hold for a few days. I am relocating to a new dwelling and am in the last days of packing, etc. I will get back on line by this time next week and the email addresses remain the same, as does the phone number.

Crossfire Action

One of the reasons this series of action/adventure novels differ from the normal secular and Christian novels is that it includes both the human realm and the Biblically-based supernatural realm as well. This does not mean that there are werewolves or vampires described. Those imaginary bad-boys don't hold a candle to the supernatural enemies of God's people.

In my novels, which are set in current times, a team of ordinary people find themselves being assembled as a force of cutting-edge warriors for God to oppose the increasing level of attacks by the enemies of freedom. They are especially comissioned to counter a new tactic by the enemy which has forces of darkness physically entering the human dimension to accomplish their evil goals.

This added dimension allows for more realistic action and counter-action. The readers of these novels have commented very positively on the bigger stage this provides in showing the two dimensions in conflict. I hope that it will interest all who read the books of this series. There is a link on my website (www.crossfirenovels.com) where you can post your comments which I look forward to reading.