You're listening to Amy Hall and Greg Kokel on Stand to Reasons, hashtag STRSk podcast.

Here we are.

Here we are.

And in the last episode, Greg, we were talking about

advice for doing apologetics. So we're going to continue along on that and with a question from

Dan. Do you have any thoughts or advice on how best to improve informal writing, for example,

a blog post, podcast content, when one does not have

access to an Amy Hall or someone similar, or perhaps we could allow human cloning in this one case.

Notice who gets the credit here.

You know what, funny, Greg?

And credit due.

I didn't.

I wrestled with whether I wanted to take that part out because I didn't want

this to sound self-serving, but I wanted to give Dan his due because it was funny. That's right.

So I didn't want to cut him off. No, that's, that's, it's actually accurate too. I mean, it is,

and by the way, this is a very important point. When people tell me, for example, I'm writing a book, all right. And I know this is more for informal stuff, but we'll just throw a bunch of stuff in here together. I'm writing a book. I said, okay, what is it? I'm on apologetics. Okay. And I ask, well, who's your publisher? Oh, I don't have a publisher yet. I'm going to write it, see if I can sell it, kind of idea.

Now, there's two problems with that right away.

First one is he's writing a book on apologetics.

There are a thousand titles on apologetics right now.

It is very difficult to write anything that anyone's ever said that hasn't said

yet and have a market for it. And a lot of folks who are just writing their own books, they don't

have any footprint, so they're not going to be able to sell much. And it's going to be hard to attract a

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