TJ West

Book Review: “War for the Planet of the Apes: Revelations” (Greg Keyes)

Two years ago, I had the pleasure of reading Greg Keyes’ movie tie-in novel Dawn of the…
Novel Weekends (5): World Building and a New Prologue

Two major accomplishments to report today. First, I published a blog post (which you can see…
World Building (4): The Theology and Cosmology of the (Western) Church–Part One

Much has been written of the beliefs of the Church, which has exercised such complete and…
Novel Weekends (4): An Outline Emerges

While I wanted to work this weekend on producing new material, I decided that I needed…
Dissertation Days (40): This is Progress, Right?

Despite the title, today was actually a good day, in terms of progress. As I said…
Dissertation Days (39): Forward, March!

Today was another good day. I produced 1,000 words of Chapter 4, and I’m actually pretty…
The Great Golden Girls Marathon: “End of the Curse” (S2, Ep. 1)

As it’s been ages since I wrote anything about The Golden Girls, I thought I’d take a bit of a…
Dissertation Days (38): A New Beginning

Well, I finally had to break down and start a new draft of Chapter 4. The…
Novel Thoughts (2): On Genre

Some time ago, I thought I would write something “literary,” some great family saga of an…
Dissertation Days (37): Back to Work

After a very rough weekend, I got back into the swing of things today with some…