by LoriBenton | Jan 6, 2012 | Uncategorized
While sorting through my prodigious accumulation of research books in an effort to thin the herd, I was leafing through a book on 18th century gardens (which I decided I could not part with), and ran across a bookmark. It was a halfsheet of paper on which I’d...
by LoriBenton | Jan 2, 2012 | Uncategorized
Happy New Year! I’m kicking off 2012 on the blog by posting the books I read, fiction and nonfiction, over the past year. This is the second year I’ve kept a record of my reading, and while I didn’t read as many books in 2011 as I did in 2010, still...
by LoriBenton | Dec 31, 2011 | Uncategorized
In ages past the Celtic tribes of Britain spoke of a Time Between Times, those blurred twilight borders between day and night, between seasons, between one year and the next. It’s a time when the eyes of the earth are closing for slumber, when the sun retreats...
by LoriBenton | Dec 7, 2011 | Uncategorized
At the end of the trail….. Ah…. That’s my sigh of satisfaction, having just written the real final line of the novel in progress. I wrote the last chapter weeks ago of course, only to decide it needed an epilogue to tie up some loose threads and give...
by LoriBenton | Dec 1, 2011 | Uncategorized
This week one of my favorite authors, Susanna Kearsley talked about Letting Go (The Heroine Addicts blog), saying good-bye to one’s characters. Writing that last scene in which they appear. And the wrench of sadness and loss this can bring a writer. Even if the...
