by Josiah DeGraaf | Apr 6, 2016 | News
We’re back with another critique! Thank you all so much for having the courage to send them in! We know it’s never easy to have your writing critiqued, let alone shared for the benefit of others. That takes guts! But we also know that receiving critiques from others...
by Josiah DeGraaf | Apr 2, 2016 | Video
In our second-to-last video in this video series, we discuss how Latin words can help us understand the potential pitfalls of a climax, look at why the climax of a novel can be difficult to execute well, and examine the importance of reader expectations to the...
by Josiah DeGraaf | Mar 28, 2016 | Video
Some of you may have been following Kingdom Pen for several months, some of you may have been following us for several years, and the majority of you probably fall somewhere in the middle, but either way, you may be wondering who this quasi-elusive KP team is (unless...
by Josiah DeGraaf | Mar 25, 2016 | Book Recommendations, Fiction
You don’t need to read that much into the book to learn what its plot is: it’s a story about a Russian axe-murderer who kills an old lady who runs a pawnshop seemingly for money and afterwards tries to hide what he did from the authorities. It’s a shocking premise,...
by Josiah DeGraaf | Mar 21, 2016 | Articles, Mission & Calling
A couple months ago, I came across an article from a semi-popular Christian blogger whom I generally respect in which she was explaining why she no longer read fiction. While she enjoyed some fiction, as she explained it, nonfiction was simply more applicable to...
