Crimes Against Fiction Blog
Crimes Against Fiction Blog
The Crimes Against Fiction Archives 2024 is out and available now at your favorite book retailer. This anthology of blog posts includes: My Thoughts on George R.R. Martin, My Thoughts on How AI Will Affect the Fiction Market, Where Judaism and I Part Ways, Discipline Isn't a Thing, and many more.
This is the quickest way to convince people that your view is wrong.
The sooner we all understand this and learn it, the better we’ll be able to live with each other, accept each other, and actually come to value each other because of our differences instead of hating each other for them.
You cannot tell someone who doesn’t believe in God that they have to have faith in order to believe in God. This is a circular argument.
This is the quickest way to convince people that your view is wrong.
That is how you build a happy, productive, good life that you and your children can look back on with pride.
Lost somewhere in the mists of fantasyland dwells the elusive unicorn who can eat as much as they want of whatever they want whenever they want. This mythical creature doesn’t have to worry about their health, their weight, or their appearance. The rest of us have issues with food.
We get issued at birth with the greatest supercomputer ever designed. The problem is that we don’t get issued with any instructions on how to work the supercomputer.
Let’s unpack what these stories mean and figure out whether we as women need a prince to save us or not.
I had been on welfare for nearly eight years when I became a professional freelance writer at the age of 40. Now I have a job most people can only dream about. How did I do it?
Lasting happiness, acceptance, belonging, and a sense of purpose can only be found through embracing our individuality. This is in fact the essence of maturity. It is in fact the secret that makes life worth living.
Gone are the days when any religion or group can tell its members to just accept an ideology without question and threaten its members with negative consequences if they do question.
This is the story of humanity at its worst and the circumstances that bring out the best in us.
I’m sure everyone reading this post right now has heard of evolution and I’m quite sure all of you know what that means. The reality is that evolution isn't as simple as it seems.
It will come as a surprise to no one that I’m not a Christian, but I do think Christianity is right and true in many respects. There is a way to follow Christian doctrine that is coherent with the spiritual reality of the world we live in.
The seeker’s path is one of the holiest vocations anywhere in human experience. It’s the genuine desire for truth, the divine, and to be one with God. There is nothing holier than that. Never let anyone tell you otherwise.
Language is one of the most important weapons people use to control each other. To control language is to control thought. How we frame and construct language is how we frame and construct reality.
Something will change. Something will always change. If you don’t change, if you don’t hear and receive these warnings, things will change for the worse. Things can always get worse until we die. Many people have sabotaged themselves to death and continue to do so every day.
Do we want to change by improving in an upward trajectory of getting better and better? Or do we want to do nothing to improve, which will lead us into a spiral of deterioration, degeneration, and decay?
If you remember this, you’ll be able to direct your resources where they really belong.
Stupidity is the one power that human beings possess in unlimited quantities. Stupidity is limitless. We can always count on ourselves and others to do something stupid and we will always look back on our past actions as stupid simply because we possess information and insight now that we didn’t possess when we made the decision.
There is no domain of life where it’s better to go in completely unprepared or even partially prepared. And yet that’s exactly what most people think they’re going to do when they sit down in front of a blank page and start flowing. It never works out that way.
This is the worst fate a person can suffer in this life.....
This is the greatest lie of the self-improvement and personal development industry.
FICTION DONE RIGHT: DESTINATION WEDDING
Romantic comedies aren’t really my thing, but this film was so well done that it became one of my favorite films of all time just from one viewing alone.
Let’s take a closer look at what these organizations are teaching and how they compare with what we know about the original Satan archetype.