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...
by LoriBenton | Nov 24, 2011 | Uncategorized
Giving thanks today to the Giver of all good things. “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.” James 1:17 “And we know that all things work...
