Yesterday I gave a webinar using Facebook Live for the first time. I’ve used GoToWebinar more than 100 times, but it’s pretty expensive for me to buy it for my personal business. I’ve used Google Hangout (now YouTube Live) as well, but setting up all the email reminders and landing pages is a lot of…
Archives for April 2018
Ready Player One: On Writing Movies and Books
I read Ready Player One last year and loved it. I was very excited about the movie coming out. I saw the movie last night and–as many critics have pointed out–it is very different from the book. I won’t offer any critique or analysis here. What I find interesting, though, is that the author of…
Writing Fiction with a Christian Worldview
I just finished reading S. D. Smith’s The Green Ember. Smith’s hashtag for the series is rightfully #rabbitswithswords. It is a middle grade fantasy novel about two rabbits who are thrown into an epic medieval tale of a broken kingdom that has hope in the coming of a new king. I read the book because…
Why Canadian Rock Band Sloan Didn’t Quit
In 1999 my closest high school friends and I were obsessed with a Canadian band named Sloan. No one we knew had really heard of them, but we loved everything they did. As a group we went to many Sloan concerts together in high school and then during college. But in 1999 Sloan was wondering…
Imagining Too Little
Hyperbole isn’t the worst crime. men suffer more from imagining too little than too much. P. T. Barnum in The Greatest Showman Visionary leaders, artists, and entrepreneurs show us that the impossible is possible. By default, we imagine too little until someone shows us how to see the world differently. Have confidence. Confidence is the…
