by Brock Meier | Jan 21, 2023 | history, Nabataea, Writing
Allure of the Short Story I haven’t written a short story in quite some time. My last efforts toward such resulted in the collection I am tentatively calling “She Knew She Could Fly” (perhaps to be published down the road). I intended to intertwine a dozen (or more as...
by Brock Meier | Jan 3, 2023 | Nabataea
The Nabataean Kingdom was an enigmatic island of first-century luxury, surrounded by a sea of arid dunes. After generations of scraping a life out of the trackless desert, they finally found their stride among the world’s trading nations and amassed untold...
by Brock Meier | Nov 29, 2022 | history, Writing
“I was with book, as a woman is with child.”—C. S. Lewis, in “Till We Have Faces” A Story In the late 1970s, I first read the ancient account of a man tormented by demons and then delivered from their influence on the shores of Lake Kinneret. The story...
by Brock Meier | Nov 20, 2022 | Arts, Writing
Adventure A remarkable, and entirely unexpected adventure has occupied the last few years of my life. I have written elsewhere (A Peculiar Darkness: Afterword) concerning the details of this journey through the composition of my first novel. I not only did not...
by Brock Meier | Nov 19, 2022 | Books, Writing
“Yes, my children died that day…” The Gift A few years ago, sister writer Sheri Summers Hunt presented me with a Christmas gift—a copy of her published collection of poems, Journeys In and Out. Shortly after the holidays, I made time to begin...
by Brock Meier | Nov 16, 2022 | Arts, Books, Writing
Questions When people discover that I am an author, they sometimes ask, “So, do you write Christian books?” Earlier in my writing career, I was often perplexed by the question, but I’m now more prepared with an answer. I usually bounce the question back to them. “So,...
by Brock Meier | Nov 16, 2022 | Arts, Creativity
Left/Right? There is a popular neurological myth that says left = analysis and right = creativity, and that people primarily access one side of their brain or the other. And of course we all “know” that analytical thinking is far different than creative thinking. How...
by Brock Meier | Sep 7, 2022 | Writing
Welcome to my life as an artist/poet/author, where there is never a dull moment. Having completed a collection of short stories and two novels, I was on the verge of writing a sequel to my second novel. In fact, I thought this could become a series of at least three,...
