<![CDATA[The Watchfire: The Cozy Workshop]]>https://watchfire.silenceandstarsong.com/s/the-cozy-workshophttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Btxf!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffe893f5e-7e33-41bb-b854-a6e359fa4660_1080x1080.pngThe Watchfire: The Cozy Workshophttps://watchfire.silenceandstarsong.com/s/the-cozy-workshopSubstackTue, 15 Sep 2026 17:25:55 GMT<![CDATA[The Curse of Fafnir's Hoard]]>https://watchfire.silenceandstarsong.com/p/the-curse-of-fafnirs-hoardhttps://watchfire.silenceandstarsong.com/p/the-curse-of-fafnirs-hoardThu, 04 Jun 2026 16:01:38 GMTHere is another story that will hopefully be coming to Silence & Starsong Radio later this year. It’s laid out as a script, so please forgive any formatting weirdness that exporting the file might have caused.

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]]><![CDATA[Unreal City]]>https://watchfire.silenceandstarsong.com/p/unreal-cityhttps://watchfire.silenceandstarsong.com/p/unreal-cityTue, 02 Jun 2026 16:03:33 GMTThis one is currently in production for Silence & Starsong Radio. Here is a preview for our paid subscribers (available for free for a limited time).

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]]><![CDATA[Are video games the next frontier for Christian storytellers?]]>https://watchfire.silenceandstarsong.com/p/are-video-games-the-next-frontierhttps://watchfire.silenceandstarsong.com/p/are-video-games-the-next-frontierFri, 27 Mar 2026 16:02:46 GMTOn March 28, 2025, almost exactly a year ago, two notable things happened to me as a writer: an anthology published my work for the first time and I posted a beta demo for my first text-based video game.

The short story was polished. It was ready. I wrote five drafts before submitting it and the anthology itself had an entire team involved with editing, marketing, making the book beautiful, et cetera. Then when it came out, eighteen authors all did their darndest to get their hard-earned audiences to buy the thing.

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We were happy to sell 49 copies in a week (largely just to us authors).

Meanwhile the video game was super rough. Typo-ridden. Included a game breaking bug. It was a single chapter rough draft that I blitzed through to get to the end then posted to a forum as a prototype to show people what I was envisioning.

Within a week, Chapter 1 of The Iron King’s Heir had ten thousand views and …

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