This Quiet Tyranny

by Jessica E. Thomas|24 April 201424 April 2014|Journal

I write all my blog posts in my head, at three o'clock in the morning. It's a problem because they never get written down. They are quite good though, and since I haven't written them down, you'll just have to...

The Science in Martyred

by Jessica E. Thomas|23 December 201023 December 2010|Journal

This week in his blog post titled Can Christian Theology and Science Fiction Coexist? Mike Duran stated: There is a potential incongruity between Christian theology and speculative fiction. Christian theology articulates the known. Speculative fiction probes the unknown. My response...

Knowing When to Quit

by Jessica E. Thomas|06 May 201006 May 2010|Journal

One of my college creative writing professors said, "Sometimes you need to know when to quit. Acknowledge you've learned all you can from that poem, short story, narrative. It's as good as it's ever going to get. Time to move...

Show and Tell

by Jessica E. Thomas|05 April 200905 April 2009|Journal

I’ve been on the subject of showing versus telling for the last few weeks. Today, I’ve decided to play show and tell with my novel, The Exception. As I mentioned in a previous post, I struggled a bit with characterization...

Novels Are Not Movies

by Jessica E. Thomas|02 April 200902 April 2009|Journal

Last Monday I talked about showing versus telling and how the phrase “show, don’t tell” has led to an overuse of showing in modern fiction. Young writers, eager to hone their craft, grasp onto the advice like a knife and...

Faith Meets Nutritional Science

by Jessica E. Thomas|15 February 200915 February 2009|Journal

Where do Pop-Tarts come from? A Pop-Tart bush? A Pop-Tart tree? What about those marshmallows in Lucky Charms cereal? Do they grow like grapes on a vine? And God said let there be purple horseshoes, and there was. Hmm. I...