Resources by Topic: Writing

Randy Alcorn answers the question, "How does the presence of fewer Christian bookstores impact publishing?" Filmed at the 2010 International Christian Retailers Show.

Randy Alcorn answers the question, "With a growing number of ways for people to access books and content online, are Christian bookstores still relevant?" Filmed at the 2010 International Christian Retailers Show.

Randy Alcorn answers the question, "Are there ways that Christian bookstores can be helpful to churches?" at the 2010 International Christian Retailers show.

Randy Alcorn shares what it was like writing his first book, Christians in the Wake of the Sexual Revolution. Interviewer: Kathy Norquist, EPM staff, ministry development

Randy Alcorn speaking at the 2010 International Christian Retailers' Show.

Randy Alcorn answers the question, "How is music a part of your writing process?"

In this one-minute clip, Randy Alcorn talks about how God has promised that His word will not return to Him empty.

In 2010, Randy Alcorn spoke at the Desiring God conference on evil and suffering and God's sovereignty. In this clip, he talks about how fiction books can reach many non believers sometimes more than nonfiction books can. 

In 2010, Randy Alcorn spoke at the Desiring God conference on evil and suffering and God's sovereignty. In this clip, he shares about writing. 

Does Randy Alcorn work on more than one book project at a time? What is his writing process like?

Question from a reader: I really enjoyed reading your Deadline/Dominion/Deception series. Have you ever considered writing another book from the perspective of Manny?

I heard one author say, “Writing is like giving birth to barbed wire.” Others say writing is 5 percent inspiration and 95 percent perspiration.

In my last blog, I wrote about one of my three pilgrimages to Oxford. Each visit I’ve pondered what Lewis wrote: “You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen…I gave in and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all of England.”

Those who have read my books know that all of them have been touched in one way or another by C.S. Lewis, because ultimately the books we write are the overflow of the books we’ve read.