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From the Beginning

I haven’t mentioned it for awhile, but in real life, I help run the youth group at my church. (But I don’t know this particular youth.) Every year, I write a new Christmas script in the hopes of helping the youth understand the Christmas story in new ways. This year…

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Derailed Trains now on Youtube

As usual, I’m way behind on linking to Derailed Trains of Thought, the monthly podcast about storytelling I co-host with Timothy Deal. So, instead of trying to catch up, I’ll just leave a few updates here and encourage you to subscribe to the podcast through one of the myriad of…

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Derailed Trains Podcast Over the Hill

Of the many Internet promotional activities I perform with less-than-stellar ability, at among the top contenders has to be the timely promotion of my podcast, Derailed Trains of Thought, on this website. If you don’t know,  for the last few years my friend Timothy Deal and I have been producing a…

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If You Ever Wanted To See My Ugly Mug….

…you’re in luck! Recently, I was interviewed about my new novel The Unremarkable Squire by my friend and fellow writer Nathan Marchand on his vlog, But I Digress…. We talked inspiration for the novel, examined why it took me so long to finish it, read an excerpt, and discussed various other…

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Boy Chase Girl

This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series The Taylor Trilogy

All right, after much delay, here’s the final installment in the Taylor Trilogy. This time I tackle “Senior Panic,” which is that sensation seniors at Taylor University get when they realize they haven’t found a spouse yet. I learned a lot making the first two movies, especially in editing, directing,…

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The Love-Life of Wallace P. Fitzgerald

So, after I graduated from college, my good friend Timothy Deal wanted to enter a movie in Taylor Upland’s film festival and asked me to write the script. I think I originally promised him a script in the style of Fawlty Towers, which I failed to deliver, but I came…

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DTR: The Movie

This entry is part 2 of 3 in the series The Taylor Trilogy

Ah…here it is. The second movie in the Taylor Trilogy. (See part one of this series for some background.) The year after The Agony & the Ecstasy, I decided to write a sequel from the girl’s point of view. I enlisted the help of Maura Oprisko, who has a wonderful…

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The Agony & the Ecstasy

This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series The Taylor Trilogy

Once upon a time, a long time ago (sophomore year of college), I decided to enter a film in the Taylor University Fort Wayne Falcon Film Festival. Now, I hadn’t much experience in film making (except for those stop action films I made as a child), and I had no…

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