by LoriBenton | Jun 15, 2012 | Uncategorized
I hovered over that SEND button for a few extra minutes this morning, my mind spinning through familiar pages, scenes, and chapters. Was there one more thing I should’ve (would’ve could’ve) changed? Should I hold off clicking that button-of-no-return...
by LoriBenton | May 27, 2012 | Uncategorized
So what’s been happening since I signed my first book contract back in March? My deadline is June 15th, and I’m reading the manuscript over one more time, out loud, before I send it in. A week ago I received and answered a 12 page Author and Book...
by LoriBenton | May 22, 2012 | Uncategorized
I cry out to God Most High, to God, who fulfills his purpose for me. Psalm 57:2 One beautiful old translation of this verse says, “He will perform the cause I hold in my hand.” That makes it very real to me today. The very thing “I hold in my...
by LoriBenton | May 10, 2012 | Uncategorized
The story I’m working on now is partly set among the Oneida tribe of western New York. Their name, Oneida (Onyota’a:ká:) is translated as People of the Standing Stone. The Oneidas are one of the Six Nations that make up the Iroquois Confederacy, or League, now...
by LoriBenton | May 4, 2012 | Uncategorized
Sometimes I’m jarred out of my novel in progress enough to wonder where it all came from, this plot, these characters, this setting.It happened again this week. These are the sorts of questions that race through my head whenever it does: How (and why) did this...
