by LoriBenton | Jul 19, 2012 | Uncategorized
Recently author Diana Gabaldon gave her readers a blog tour of her research library. While I wish I had the capacious shelves she does (and the avid readers!), my research library-in-the-making is admittedly quite a bit smaller. At present, it’s scattered about...
by LoriBenton | Jul 13, 2012 | Uncategorized
This week I came across two 18th century research/writing resources that I’ve been eager to share with my blog readers. I’ve been reveling in them all week. Now you can too. Firstly: Contemporary Makers is a blog devoted to highlighting contemporary...
by LoriBenton | Jul 9, 2012 | Uncategorized
Thoughts from my devotional reading this week, which, as a writer who wrote for twenty years before God opened a certain door, I found encouraging… For the vision is yet for an appointed time…. though it linger, wait for it; it will surely come and will...
by LoriBenton | Jun 30, 2012 | Uncategorized
I knew if I kept at it, didn’t get this habit under control, that it was only a matter of time before it happened. How could it be otherwise? But I couldn’t stop. I just couldn’t. And so last night the inevitable occurred. I reached the last page of...
by LoriBenton | Jun 20, 2012 | Uncategorized
The current novel in progress (which has at last got a working title, Arrows of Mercy. Or perhaps it should be Mercy’s Arrows… Arrows in the Hand…? Oh dear) ranks as the most research-intensive work I’ve ever tackled, barring only my first 18th...