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What NHS taught me about leadership and community I joined my high school's National Honor Society chapter in 2012 and served as the chapter's secretary for a year. I had a great time - I highly recommend

If there's one question that writers (or entertainers in general) have gotten tired of hearing, it's "Where do you get your ideas?" or "where you get your inspiration?" Many writers

A look at the most unusual Bond film ever made "Never Say Never Again" has an odd place in the Bond film series. It's the only Bond film to be a remake of a previous film. It's the only Bond

A while back, I wrote a post about an odd object I found in a library book. Here's something that actually tops that. I ordered a particular book through my college library for research, it came in this

In Victorian Britain, it was traditional to read a ghost story for Christmas - stories with a holiday theme like "The Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens or regular horror stories like "Lost

NaNoWriMo (or National Novel Writing Month) is an annual event where you take the month of November to write a story that’s 50,000 words long, the equivalent of a good-sized novel. This is a big task,

I love watching old silent movies. So, I enjoyed working to with Robotic Flyers Productions to make the short film Treasure Hunters. In this short film, two people meet a stranger who appears to be on

This week, I had the privilege of giving a talk about H.P Lovecraft and J.R.R. Tolkien at Taylor University. It turned out to be a success, and one person commented afterward that they really wanted to

What do you do when your plans fail? That’s a tough question, isn’t it? I had to deal with that question in 2017. I’d been in college for two years, enjoying my classes and building great friendships with

How do you follow up on a classic? That’s essentially the problem Neil Gaiman faced when Alan Moore suggested he replace him as the writer for “Miracleman” in 1990. By that point, “Miracleman” had won

What if Superman remade the world? That’s more or less the plot of Miracleman Book 3: Olympus. The last stories Moore wrote for the series, this volume shows him at his most poetic and his most obscene.

Volume 2 of the Miracleman stories, The Red King Syndrome opens by showing the couple we met in the first batch of Miracleman stories Things have gotten quieter, and yet more difficult for them. Michael

A while back, I mentioned a short story I wrote that got published as an audiobook by Tall Tale TV. Recently, I got another short story published as an audiobook. You can find it below: You can find some

Sometimes you pray because you need help. Sometimes you pray to encourage others as well. I wrote this prayer recently for myself and some friends going through a tough time: Heavenly Father, You know

Picture taken during my trip through Mongolia, mentioned in my book "Sunrise Over Beijing". These birds were part of a tourist attraction I passed by. I have no idea what kind of birds they are,

Comic book writer Alan Moore is known for a lot of things. His graphic novel “The Killing Joke” is often considered the best Batman story about the Joker ever written. “Watchmen,” released in 1986, proved

During the 2017 eclipse, I took several pictures of it with a red filter in front of the lense. Then I altered the pictures in various ways. Here's a collage of several altered version of the same picture.

Color image of Taylor University's grounds at night. You can see the previous version of this photo here: Image Copyright 2018 by Gabriel Connor Salter.

Another black and white image of Taylor University's grounds at night. Check out the previous image here: Image Copyright 2018 by Gabriel Connor Salter.

This is a poster I came up with for the short film "Project Icarus: Chapter 1," (also titled "New World Mars") a new film by Robotic Flyers Productions. You can find the short film