In the past few days, I’ve had the opportunity Star Wars: The Last Jedi and The Man Who Invented Christmas. The latter was a fanciful look at how Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol. I saw it at Shreveport’s Robinson Film Center (where I also Read More …
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Season Out of Time Rewrites: School Days, School Days
This is a sample of the rewrites I’m doing for Season Out of Time. It tells how Jim, the main character, meets Jaime. I’m channeling my inner sixth grader here: It was the last day of sixth grade and Jim Koslow was determined it was Read More …
Sign of the Sword Threads: C.S. Lewis and Narnia (or Deep Magic)
Today is the 119th anniversary of the birth of C.S. “Jack” Lewis on November 29, 1898. Lewis was a firm believer in the ability of mythical stories to illuminate “true truths” like the ones he discovered when he returned to the Christian Bible after years Read More …
What Happened on this Day in 1963?
Trivia Question: Which of the following individuals died on November 22, 1963? A. John F. Kennedy, U.S. President B. Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World and other works C. C.S. Lewis, author of the Chronicles of Narnia and other works D. All of the Read More …
Apples, Oranges, and the Search for Truth
Bills calling for the teaching of creationism in schools have been submitted to the legislatures of over thirty states including Louisiana, Arkansas, Kansas, and (would you believe) California. (Yes, there are Christians in California. There are also liberals in Arkansas. Who knew?) The concerns of Read More …
A Tale of Two Museums
To explain why I wrote Genesis and the Thoughtful Christian, my only nonfiction book so far, let me tell you about two museums I’ve visited. About twenty years ago, I was walking around Nashville when I saw a sign advertising a Biblical Archaeology Museum. (That Read More …
Haunted Summer Inspirations: Between Sleep and Wakefulness
When I was a college student still living at home with my parents, I had an experience where it seemed that something invisible sat down on my bed one night and got up and left a few minutes later. There was enough light in the Read More …
Three Weeks of Halloween
Welcome to “Three Weeks of Halloween” here at Wisewirx Media. As some of you might have noticed, many of my fiction books have a horror element though I’ve tried to avoid the excesses of the horror genre overall. At the beginning of each of the Read More …
July Update
Dear Wisewirx Media Friends: This is Tim Wise. I haven’t posted any updates for a while, but that doesn’t mean nothing has been happening. I’ve been working on a degree in my spare time for about ten years. I tried to write and study at Read More …
A New Vision
Welcome, Guests! Some of you might still remember my old Emporia USA website with the image of the village. Because the company was called Professor Theophilus’ Emporium of Imagination, Inc., I named my fictitious town Emporia USA (No, I’ve never been to Emporia, Kansas.) and Read More …