If you’d like to help Kingdom Pen move to a more robust web server platform we welcome your…[Read more]

They give you an advance, yes, but you have to give that back if you don’t sell enough copies. Plus, you make SUCH a smaller percentage of every book that is sold.

On top of that, Traditional publishers just don’t promote books like they…[Read more]

It’s considered one of the greatest love stories of all time but it’s not a love story, and it’s not great.

It’s really just a story about the two most unbelievably selfish and stupid teenagers of all time. It’s also just cheesy.

But I guess one could say it does a decent job of being a cautionary tale of what can happen to…[Read more]

Awesome!

We’ll start recording our pilot season as soon as possible then!

A few of the show ideas we have right now are:
– How to monetize your creative brand
– The formula for making a living from your creations
– Just Hit Publish (Why creators need to create and publish more)
– How to manage your time as a creative so you get…[Read more]

Maybe we’ll do a pilot season and release some episodes and see what you guys think of it. 🙂

I know we have a lot of multi-talented creatives on here (people who create more than one kind of art).

I’ve been toying with the idea of creating a “show” talking about how to grow a following and income from your art.

I was wondering if this would be something people would be interested in, or if would be too broad since it would be…[Read more]

This also just shows the need for you, and Kingdom Pen, and Christians to get back involved in shaping the culture and our institutions.

Do you have any recordings of your singing anywhere online?

I sing by necessity but I don’t really consider myself a singer since I don’t particularly like my voice and don’t think that I’m very good. Here’s an example. 

Hence why I’m always trying to find new vocalists.

Ha! Well if my arguing was of some use than I am glad. I also find it is easier to figure out your own thoughts on things if you write them down.

No, I am not on Story Embers.

I really think that we are saying basically the same things, but…[Read more]

When I say prose I am referring to anything classed as poetry without rhyme. Haiku’s, for example. I am sure I am probably giving things a broader coverage than they deserve but that’s how I…[Read more]

I can certainly see why you…[Read more]

Ah, because the literary snob in me says that prose is cheating in the same way that Dr. Seuse was equally cheating and a genius by making up words to rhyme with. In my mind, if it is labeled poetry it should rhyme and you should have had to suffer a bit to create it. 😜 Just kidding…[Read more]

I see what you are saying. I am afraid I have never read any of Tolkien’s works but I think I get the idea.

Its an interesting concept. I have a bit of a prejudice against prose (ok, ok a big prejudice, blame the snob in me) but it would be interesting to see both mixed together. Perhaps sometime…[Read more]

Is anyone here doing camp NaNoWriMo this year? Or has anyone ever done it before? I haven’t decided whether to attempt it or not this year, I am still trying to get back into my writing stride. I thought if peeps were going to do it then we could put together a writing group like they have on the NaNoWriMo website. Just like keep each…[Read more]

Have you read our free guide yet on how to become an unstoppable writer?

kingdompen.org/unstoppable

For those who have, what are your thoughts on it? Was it helpful? Do you feel unstoppable? Or do you still have questions?

@Leon-fleming Thanks! And that’s cool you’ve written some songs too! And I can totally understand the struggle of finding the time. It’s definitely been hard for me to keep up with both music and writing.

And that’s great you’ve got a couple of my songs! Glad you like them!

And by micro-genre I mean you want to get really niched down as far as what genre your music falls into.

If you try to target fans of piano music for example, you’re a very small fish in a very big pond, and even if you are discovered, your music isn’t as likely to resonate.

Instead you want to dig…[Read more]

Andromeda Coast · Robot City – Demo

Piano-pop/piano-rap…kinda like Twenty One Pilots then? Haha! That’s cool!

Ah, so more of a getting started with marketing advice?

I’m personally about going the Indie route and not signing to a label these days.

I actually have a guide that gives an overview of how…[Read more]

Feel free to share what you do with music below, along with any of your songs! Let’s help and support one another!

My four younger siblings all do Taekwondo! And my youngest brother is a black belt as well! Cool!

What video games do you like to play?

Glad to have you here!

– Reagan

Congrats on already having a novella finished! And Fantasy and Sci-fi are right up my alley! My first novel, and the one I’m currently rewriting, is actually called “Frozen Fire”, which sounds pretty similar to “Fire and Ice”. haha!

And hey, another music composer! I do as well! Do you have any recorded…[Read more]

I write all of the music for my songs. I just use virtual instruments for the most part, and yeah, other software to arrange and mix. Here’s a short clip of what it looks like. 

And nothing to be nervous about! Everyone starts somewhere! 🙂

Are you…[Read more]

1. I love TwentyOne Pilots! My sister actually went to school with Tyler Joseph, and I started a band with a guy who used to play with him.

2. Rak Chazak!

3. That’s so cool you’re a songwriter! So am I! I actually have a Synth-pop band called Andromeda Coast. Do you write any music as well?

Glad to have you back!

@daughteroftheking love the name of your blog! It sounds so dramatic. And you story installments sound interesting too. I dont necessarily know how to do climaxes but I have heard it said that to build tension you use short, quick sentences.

Thanks!…[Read more]

Yeah, that’s why I chose Anne of Green Gables the nobly problems there are of her own making. Besides it sounds so pretty!

Doing pretty good over here just busy busy. Great idea tagging peeps, why didn’t the rest of us think of that?

Ahhh. I hope when you cuddle up on that pile of blankets they are straight out of the dryer. So cozy!

A great affliction, indeed. May I ask, how do you sleep?

Well we all have our faults. Yours is better than burning down houses or raiding defenseless villages but your legs must get awfully tired.

Well we all have our faults. Yours is better than burning down houses or raiding defenseless villages but your legs must get awfully tired.

I have a couple in progress but the one I have been working on the longest and most is a historical fiction set during wagon train era and follows a girl and her family moving from Maine to Washington Territory. I am also working on an autobiography of…[Read more]