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Daniel Athas Holly
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Join date: Nov 20, 2021
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A native Wisconsinite and science-fictioneer, Daniel Athas Holly grew up in the country in rural Milton, reading copious amounts of science fiction (especially Jules Verne). A traditional fellow, Daniel has a love of timepieces, maps, hats, messenger bags, and classical literature. He went to college for writing and holds an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Hamline University. He taught writing, logic, and moral argument for the University of Wisconsin for seven years and now works as the Family Pastor at Living Word Fellowship, their home church in Whitewater, writes young adult science fiction, and operates Axis Apologetics, when he's not building furniture or 3D printing various things in his minimal free time.
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Jan 28, 2026 ∙ 2 min
Changing the Trajectory of Prose
The two-fold moment I changed trajectory as both a writer and (I didn’t know then) ministry worker. I had been, from many various sources, pushed and even demanded to simultaneously make all my work far darker, far more emotional, less intellectual, and dumbed-down in its language in order to accommodate a “modern readership.” The first moment was finishing writing fifty pages in one sitting, discovering my save corrupted, and all the work was lost … and being relived. I had come to hate my...
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Jan 5, 2026 ∙ 2 min
The Hero's Gender
Put a girl in a man’s fundamental story arc and something’s off. Likewise if we put a man in a woman’s fundamental arc. It reads fake, because it is.
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Aug 8, 2022 ∙ 12 min
An Empty Horizon
An introduction to a text for young men, to remind them of the life that is worth fighting for.
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