About Tiogam
The name "Tiogam" comes from that time I mentioned previously. Its title is "The Identities of God and Man" - TIOGAM. There’s nothing more important in all of Judeo-Christianity than who and what God is and who and what we are. I hope to rewrite the Identities book someday and greatly simplify it from a Tome to an interesting and informative read!
Tiogam is entirely about my writing - my books, stories, and articles. By signing up, you can get a new story, article, or chapter excerpt every month by email. This will enable you to learn about the publication dates of new books and such.
About DC Goodman
Writing is my second nature. Stories are part of it. I learned about stories from books, TV (rarely a unique story!) and movies. I ruined the “Sixth Sense” for my wife when I guessed that Bruce Willis’ character was dead as he sat on the bench at the beginning of the film, but that short story occurs later in my life story.
I wrote poetry and songs in high school and a teacher wanted me to enter a contest, but I didn’t care about contests or anything, really, at that age. Rather, I sought the ideal expressions of my thoughts. In my first semester in college, an ex-Army, English 101 teacher read my writing and metaphorically burned me alive when he told me my writing lacked clarity. But he was right. Clarity in writing is the most important thing; whether in a pithy comment, an article, a short story, a novel, or a tome. Clearly articulating a thought is the hardest act in writing, and stating an idea precisely to the nth degree is literary bliss. There’s no substitute for that feeling when I do. Some people call this an artistic approach, but my writing is not art. I don’t know what it is in the academic labeling world of literature.
When I read writers like Hemingway and J.D. Salinger, it’s very hard to get through their writing because they use too many words to make their points. I’m not claiming they are bad writers, just long-winded. I want to pack as much meaning as I can into every sentence with the depth of an idea or the rich experience of a character’s moment in time.
All my stories have a “God” angle because I rely on a free Judeo/Christian worldview based on the Bible instead of Christian denominations and groups. I found each group relied on a ‘piece’ of God’s Truth they wrapped in humanistic thinking. I sought true Truth alone, and those discoveries define the Christianity of my stories.
An odd truth about me is that I’ve never thought of myself as a writer, even though I’ve always written. I worked as a musician and a programmer and spent most of my decades writing on the side, searching for the best way to express things. After all this time, the part of me that envisions stories sprang to life and I began creating them. During prior decades I studied stories but felt unable to fully articulate my imaginings. I had concluded I would never be able to write stories until one day, sitting at a computer writing code, a complete story, from beginning to end, filled my mind. The first half of that story is my first novel, “The Palatine Prophet Advent - Volume One.”
