Walker Buckalew
Rebecca and the National Intelligence Agencies: an update
In a previous post, I noted that, as the Rebecca Series developed over the years, my central character gradually came to be regarded as...
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Walker Buckalew
May 31, 20233 min read
Writing “Crisis Thinking”: the current Rebecca Series novel
Whenever I begin writing an action scene – and there are a lot of them in my novels – I tend to get so caught up in what is happening...
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Walker Buckalew
May 1, 20233 min read
Your Bench Players: A Fearful Thing
In team sports, “bench players” can have immense importance in helping a team get through its season successfully. These are players who...
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Walker Buckalew
Apr 5, 20232 min read
Your In-Family Readers: Part Three
As I wrote in Part Two of this three-part post, I have completed a major rewrite of the in-process manuscript of Rebecca Series Book Six...
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Walker Buckalew
Mar 5, 20232 min read
Your In-Family Readers: Part Two
In my most recent post, I wrote this: I’m passing 90 double spaced pages (out of what usually turns out to be about 400) on the sixth...
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Walker Buckalew
Jan 31, 20233 min read
Your In-Process Manuscript Readers
I’m passing 90 double spaced pages (out of what usually turns out to be about 400) on the sixth novel – as yet untitled – in my Rebecca...
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Walker Buckalew
Jan 10, 20233 min read
C. S. Lewis, On Writing Well: A Fearful Thing
In a personal letter dated June 26, 1956, and published in The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis, Mr. Lewis responded to a Ms. Joan...
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Walker Buckalew
Dec 20, 20222 min read
Christian Adversaries: A Fearful Thing
There is a passage in C. S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity in which he writes the following: I have often thought to myself how it would have...
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Walker Buckalew
Dec 19, 20224 min read
How Long is a Novel?
In the introduction to his novel tilted Winter Prey, John Sandford observes that this story was one of his first in which the novel’s...
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Walker Buckalew
Dec 19, 20223 min read
Creating “Evil” Characters: A Fearful Thing
Authors, readers, and book reviewers often agree that in many novels, the “evil” character is the one who is the most carefully developed...
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Walker Buckalew
Dec 1, 20223 min read
What Exactly is a “Christian Novel”? The Face of the Enemy and Others
During book readings, book signings, and other kinds of presentations related to my novels, I have often been asked that kind of...
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Walker Buckalew
Oct 31, 20222 min read
The Talent Array of a Novel’s “Good Guys”
Television dramas like NCIS often feature ensemble casts. That is, a half dozen or so individuals “star” in the series, rather than just...
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Walker Buckalew
Oct 11, 20222 min read
Decisions, Decisions: Rebecca Series Number Six
I’d say that I am about one fourth of the way through the sixth novel – as yet untitled – in my Rebecca Series. How do I know? Two ways....
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Walker Buckalew
Sep 15, 20222 min read
Who Done It? When Do We Find Out? A Fearful Thing
Books, movies, television… the creators of suspenseful stories take widely differing approaches to letting us, the readers and viewers,...
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Walker Buckalew
Aug 18, 20223 min read
School or War: Which is Worse?
That question sounds ridiculous. But hear me out. Becoming C. S. Lewis, by Dr. Harry Lee Poe, is different from other biographies of C....
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Walker Buckalew
Jul 26, 20222 min read
Juggling Time
In the five novels in my Rebecca Series , time gets “juggled” with regularity. The action usually takes place on more than one continent,...
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Walker Buckalew
Jul 8, 20222 min read
Wounds: A Fearful Thing
In the five-book series of novels called the Rebecca Series, almost every major character, good or bad, sooner or later, gets wounded or,...
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Walker Buckalew
Jun 15, 20223 min read
Rebecca Series Update: Current In-Process Novel
As of now, I have in circulation five Rebecca Series action/mystery novels for adults (print and electronic), and, in addition, two for...
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Walker Buckalew
May 25, 20223 min read
Dialects and Intelligibility
“Th’ bg! Th’ bg! Dt’r Stf’d’s bg! H’r sh’s w’r unt’d! Th’ w’r unt’d!” What? What dialect is that? What language is that? Well… it’s...
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Walker Buckalew
May 14, 20222 min read
Dogs and Cats and Novels
The latest novel in the Rebecca Series, A Fearful Thing, is the first in the Rebecca Series and in the Visioners Series – a total of five...
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