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THE RHYME OF THE UNDYING SINGER
Morning Walk (Original Artwork by E.V. Medina) Music & Lyrics by John Wheeler (Johanan Rakkav)
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THE NEW AUTHORS FELLOWSHIP: RECENT GUEST BLOGS
“Alain Harper Action Figure” (sort of) 2014-08-04 @ 09:00 CDT When making a new beginning, sometimes it’s good to take a look back first. On the blog The New Authors Fellowship I’ve had several guest...
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THE CROSS AND THE COSMOS: TALES OF THE UNDYING SINGER 01
Portrait of the Author as a Young Man (1980 @ 19) 2014-08-04 @ 22:22 CDT Caveat Lector: Let the Reader Beware! When an author points his readers to his earlier works, he always takes a risk. The...
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Breaking through writer’s block
John Wheeler (Johanan Rakkav):Very good! Writing Tip #24 on the following page features in this blog post. For me, “writer’s block” is usually the logical systems thinking in my mind working out a...
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CITYSCAPES IN SCIENCE FICTION
The City of Broken Souls 2014-08-26 @ 12:25 CDT If one types in “science fiction cityscapes” on Google Search, one finds a wide variety of artwork illustrating different people’s visions of cities in...
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KNIGHTS OF THE RED BRANCH – JASON WARD
Charging Knights (c/o Google Images) 2014-09-03 @ 12:33 CDT Back in 2013 my co-author on Triond.com, Jason Ward, published with my help a series called KNIGHTS OF THE RED BRANCH. It is one of the...
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Where love rules…
John Wheeler (Johanan Rakkav):Something my fictional protagonist, Alain Harper, understands innately. To paraphrase how Tolkien would describe Alain in this light: his hands flow with power, and yet...
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“WHY EVANGELICALS CAN’T WRITE”: DONALD T. WILLIAMS, PH.D.
Mary Flannery O’Connor’s Writing Desk 2014-09-16 @ 12:52 CDT This is one of those posts which merely preserves information for my future perusal. I don’t have time to comment much on the implications...
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Introducing Real-life Sci-fi Worlds
John Wheeler (Johanan Rakkav):Right up my alley, this one… :) Originally posted on planetplanet: A desert world with two suns in the sky. The jungle-covered moon of a gas giant planet. A planet...
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What if with one touch you could see inside the soul?
John Wheeler (Johanan Rakkav):This interview is worth recording here for posterity… Originally posted on Venturing to Other Worlds: Help me welcome Morgan L. Busse, author of the Follower of the Word...
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Alphabet Blogging: F is for…
John Wheeler (Johanan Rakkav):Another blog worth recording here for posterity… :) Originally posted on The New Authors Fellowship: Fanfiction. I admit I had no idea what fanfiction even was until I was...
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MY FIRST VENTURE AS AN “INDIE” ARTIST
“Hey, Christopher Alain” (Cover Art) 2014-10-31 @ 09:30 CDT [N.B.: This is a reprint from a post I put on The Lyre Group on Facebook and copied elsewhere.] The following isn’t about lyre music, but...
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Turn it Beautiful by Gillian Bronte Adams
John Wheeler (Johanan Rakkav):> The speculative fiction genre is all about the grand “what ifs.” Using imagination and the ability to speculate to “create” in imitation of the Creator. But it’s hard...
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Real-life sci-fi world #6: Pandora (from the movie Avatar), the habitable...
John Wheeler (Johanan Rakkav):Something interesting to consider… :) Originally posted on planetplanet: Welcome to Real-life Sci-fi worlds. I use science to explore life-bearing worlds that are the...
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ANOTHER KIND OF “ROSETTA STONE”
John Wheeler (Johanan Rakkav):In an earlier iteration of Alain Harper’s life, his father. Dr. David Jonathan Harper, was a Deep Space Surveyor specializing in planetology. His study would include, as...
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INTRODUCING JACK SAXON
Jack Saxon – Concept (Inspired by Shutterstock) 2014-11-24 @ 09:35 CST My friend Yisraela Shulamith (this is her pen name) and I have considered how to put together a story – or a story line – using a...
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MORE ON JACK SAXON
Elizabeth and Jack (Concept Only) Jack Saxon – Concept (Inspired by Shutterstock) 2014-11-26 @ 11:00 CST Today, I’d like to document further some ideas about Jack Saxon and his background. First, I’ve...
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PORTRAIT OF JACK SAXON AS A YOUNG INFJ
Jack Saxon the INFJ (Photo c/o MenShortHairstyle.com) 2014-11-27 @ 09:30 CST For some days I’ve been stymied in finding photos of blonde young men who are sufficiently handsome and personally...
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THE SEARCH FOR ALAIN HARPER
Jack Saxon the INFJ (Photo c/o MenShortHairstyle.com) ENFP or INFP? Alex Pettyfer: An INFJ acting like an ENFP? ENFP or ENFJ? 2014-11-27 @ 13:00 CST I can’t find an illustration on Google Images which...
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A FIRST-DRAFT PROLOGUE TO JACK’S AND ELIZABETH’S STORY
Jack Saxon the INFJ (Photo c/o MenShortHairstyle.com) 2014-11-28 @ 11:00 CST The following is only a rough draft for the prologue – or perhaps the second chapter – of the story Yisraela and I are...
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