Ephemera on writing, politics, or what-have-you
It’s been an interesting year. Last May I left a high-tech job because the particular area I was an expert in, a niche of video conferencing, was going the way of the cassette tape. I had become a dinosaur. In taking some months off to write, attempt a freelance career, I gave myself the chance … Continue reading In Print This New Dog Learns Old Tricks
Backstories, we've all got them. When writing a novel I give a backstory to all my characters, even the secondary ones, even if the information never makes it to the page. I want them to feel like real people, and real people interact with others, based in part, on their past experiences. If those experiences … Continue reading The Pain of Having a Real Life Backstory
Humans are social critters. Plenty of us enjoy our alone time (raises hand), but none of us enjoys being lonely. There’s a vast difference in those two realities. It’s entirely possible to be lonely in a crowd of other people. Disconnected humans are often those that act out in self-destructive and violent ways. We long … Continue reading Who Are You? Labels Aren’t for People
I realize in writing this that it will be a drop in the crashing wave of other first of the year blogs and may not make it's point as well for the deluge, but I'm doing it anyway. I rarely make New Year's resolutions, but I do establish goals and I think over the ones … Continue reading Forgiving 2017
Out Now: At the Crossroad, Sweet River Redemption Book 2. Thanks for stopping by. I'm the author of the Sweet River Redemption series and other works of fiction. I also blog here (scroll down for recent posts) and elsewhere. If you're looking for information on SC MacDonald, the copy & editing services partnership, you can … Continue reading Welcome!
"Fear Not" appears in the Bible more than 100 times. In fact, the Bible talks a lot about fear. We are commanded to fear God and not His angels, not the world, not death, the list goes on. Why does God want us to fear Him? Because He wants our focus on what's important, not … Continue reading Be Not Afraid: Updated for 2017
Homemade Mythology’s review for At the Crossroad.
I loved this book. I was having trouble figuring out what I’d say in this review because normally I do a small summary, the stuff I liked, the stuff I didn’t like and then my concluding thoughts. But I can’t think of anything that wasn’t done well. It was that good.
At the Crossroads has a widowed mother with two kids who is making do and getting by, and lives in a manner that she is always expecting the other shoe to drop. And unfortunately? You don’t blame her, she has had a rough go of it. The last thing she needed was a crush on the pastor who may or may not be staying because his heart really is in the mission field overseas.
Christa MacDonald expertly portrays both small towns and private Christian schools, in that she shows the good, and the bad that come with those environments…
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