Ask the Author: K.G. Powderly Jr.
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K.G. Powderly Jr.
The non-fiction 2nd Edition of "One Faith--Many Transitions: Worldviews in Church History" is self explanatory. The Windows of Heaven novels use the Frank Herbert principle, except they are set in a real time--just one so long ago that we know very little about it. It's effectively mytho-historic sci-fi, with the last book being psychological horror. The last novel, "Gate of the Gods," ends during the origins of Sumer, Akkad, Egypt, the Indus Valley Civilization, the Canaanite tribes, the Scythians, Cimmerians, Chinese, and the earliest Ionic peoples that much later became Thrace, Macedon, and Greece. It's a generational story.
K.G. Powderly Jr.
I had a great high school creative writing teacher, and a mind that spun yarns.
K.G. Powderly Jr.
While I'd like to get back to writing novels, currently I am working on a commentary on the Book of Job and its place in the Wisdom Literature of the Old Testament.
K.G. Powderly Jr.
View what you write as a form of service. Storytellers and history teachers (if they are good at it) give people a sense of the past--even if they are science fiction writers writing about the future. History is weirder (and often more marvelous) than fiction. Frank Herbert pulled his Dune novels from history--it was the struggles of the Arabian desert tribesmen against the Ottoman Empire writ large in space, with giant sand worms thrown in for fun.
K.G. Powderly Jr.
It isn't the money. It's engaging people on a level of thought that is quit impossible to do any other way. It's about depth of engagement more than surface stuff.
K.G. Powderly Jr.
I use the "blocked" time wisely. I often find that having writer's block is not the same as having "editor's block." What I call "light editing" involves reading older copy and making it more readable or punchy or giving it something else it needs more of. Heavy editing is a bit more extensive, but I find that writer's block usually affects only the writing of fresh new copy. At least it affects editing less.
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