culture – Nancy Tart: Writing for Life

Did Noah Have Daughters?

Random thoughts in my crazy writer's brain. [...]

Armor of God

WOW! Just wow, personal study and crazy writer's brain thoughts on a recent Sunday School lesson! [...]

May 26, 2020 Life is Risk Life is risky. How many people get out alive? (I’ve heard that from two sources this week, and it got me thinking…) Our goal since the beginning of time has been to build this net of safety around our family to allow our offspring [...]

Fatherhood

June 17, 2019 Fatherhood So, you know this huge thing called “Fatherhood?” What comes to mind? A parenting book I read when I was twelve (yes, oldest sibling perks!) said something like “the child’s view of God as a Father is directly impacted by their experience with their Earthly Father.” [...]

Pondering in My Heart

My pregnancy brain thoughts about Mary in her culture and her time - and how it relates to us in our time. [...]

The Big Wave

What can football have to do with a discussion about Roman-era cultures? [...]

Any Book is Curriculum

April 14, 2018 Any Book is Curriculum In our homeschool curriculum, we have base books that everyone has to go through. These are standards like Arithmetic and Language Arts. I add vocabulary workbooks to teach etymology. Once etymology is learned, the student usually finds spelling and vocabulary far easier so [...]

Creating Characters: Web of Deception

February 11, 2018 Creating Characters: Web of Deception The first of my epic fantasy novels to be published, Web of Deception, has some of my favorite characters. It took over seven years of development and several revisions to complete this work. I’m a bit of a perfectionist, so I never [...]

Finding Perspective

For whom am I writing? An author's first question to be answered before beginning a story. [...]

Creating Darren

July 6, 2017 Creating Darren One of the neatest parts about writing (for me, anyway) is creating people. Maybe I take it too far, but I like to have elaborate backstories for everyone. (For example: a character with a small part in “Web of Deception” has fifteen pages of notes [...]