Plain Runner
@plainrunner2
Husband | Father | Writer | Recovering Lover of Self (2 Tim. 3:2) | http://plainrunner.substack.com
Five years in the making… I am excited to announce my first novel, "Travel By Star" is available today in paperback (details in the replies). Inspired by the works of C.S. Lewis and Louis L'Amour, it is a story of fallen days and homeward hopes. Of sons adrift, and prodigal…
I’m almost 6 months into my 51st year of life. I am grateful, I am happy, I am looking for and finding the wonder. I believe there is still immense good ahead, even if it doesn’t take the shape I imagined as a younger man. But if I’m honest, it’s also been pretty rough. I…
And better (though we may not see it so readily). Wheat and chaff.
The world is getting worse by the year.
I got my first royalty statement today, which I still haven’t looked at. I have not checked my KDP dashboard since launching “Travel By Star.” This is no credit to me. I spend plenty of time checking my metrics (hateful word) here, but for whatever reason, I’ve resisted watching…
That curse of conscience Stuck and strickened Toiling ‘mid ten thousand rights Unseen If only to right one wrong Unforgotten As the bough drips red In the bitter Autumn
That curse of conscience Stuck and strickened Toiling ‘mid ten thousand rights Unseen If only to right one wrong Unforgotten As the bough drips red In the bitter Autumn
This is why I insist on posts you must click into and read to the bottom. Why short stories are stacked in a certain place, ranging from 7 to 30 minutes of required attention. Why I wrote a 630 page novel. I resist the dulled ear, the glassed eye, the numbed heart. I write for…
Just watched a really depressing media-industry analysis from Tim Pool in which he said that long-form content is dying, partly from being de-prioritized by Youtube, Insta, and Tiktok, & in the next 10 years the most popular content will be 30-second shorts that people swipe…
“I can’t do it.” “We’ve been walking past this store for thirty minutes,” Tim said. “I finished my Big Gulp ten minutes ago. In another five, I’m going to rupture something. Be a man. Go in there. Say ‘Hi.’” Jason glanced through the window for the twentieth time. Amelie was…
Tomorrow’s theme is about yarn! To play, just write a tweet-long, brand-new, original piece of poetry or prose inspired by the prompt and tag it #MondayFic! Please keep the content rated PG-13 or under. I want this space to be available for everyone.
One by one, people began wandering away from the platform. There were the head shakes and the squints down the track, the eager listenings for a rumble or a horn or the clanging of the crossing signal. None of these came. Spouses and friends were called. Cabs began to pull up and…
My thanks to @TheMiddleborne for this review of “Travel By Star.” I so appreciate his work as a wooden sword maker and his all around joviality as a poster here, but I am touched by his thoughtfulness to write this even as he fights through a painful infection. I wrote this book…
I didn’t know what to expect when I started reading @plainrunner2 book. I knew that it was going to be a quasi-western in a fantastical setting, but I wasn’t prepared for the world I found myself swept up in. I suspect that I will be thinking about this for a long time, but here…
Farewell, Colorado skies. I will miss your afternoon storms.
Eternal life is a present possession. Certainly, we have a hope for renewal - when the last enemy is defeated - but in Christ, we already live in the heavenly places. We just tend to forget.
Beware "Provisional life," a concept rooted in Carl Jung's psychology, describes a way of living where one's current life feels like a temporary placeholder, a prelude to a "real" life that is perpetually anticipated in the future. It's characterized by a lack of full engagement,…
I am like a French fry. I’m really good close to home, but I don’t travel well.
You all keep shuffling me in with these great books. Thank you, Patrick. Hope you enjoy the read.
Stack poast, 20 July. Because @jacqueboatman reminded me, and because @Avonleebythesea and @hike_r10 and @plainrunner2 aren't alone in their small-c catholic reading tastes.
From our youth, the message has only been, “Do better.”
Apparently the pencil design team hasn’t figured out yet that those erasers at the end of pencils simply aren’t big enough:
Prayers for this guy, here. Regardless of his reading choice. 🙏
Back at the advanced ambulatory care center to get my leg fixed(hopefully). Grateful for a good book to read during all this @plainrunner2
There was a man who came to town once, peddling fairy tales. Full of pain, they were, with sweat of blood, and lament of loss. Many believed the first parts, the dark forests and thorny hollows, and they wished to stay there, thinking themselves very grown up. Yet those few who…
Travel By Star by Paul Scott Grill @plainrunner2 has come highly recommended by everyone who I’ve seen that has read it! I recently read a fantastic fantasy western, Cold Silver For Souls by @ToriTalks2 so why not another!
I took the day off to celebrate my bride’s birthday. She wanted to read on the deck, therefore so do I. I’m 3/4 through Travel by Star by @plainrunner2 and still loving it. Buy this book!
Please? 🥺
I just realized I am at 299 followers! (I delete bots, it's all real accounts as far as I can tell) Who wants to be lucky number #300??? I will send you a photo of a pretty thing. Promise. 😁
Well, well… thanks to a timely order from @Karl_K_Thomas for “Travel By Star,” I have now placed my order for “After Moses: Prodigal,” by @MichaelFKane. Thank you again to both gentlemen for the support. Also, as a bonus, I grabbed a copy of “Atlas,” by @EJFreeAuthor. The TBR…
To be clear, @MichaelFKane and I have a gentleman’s wager here… To the death!