by LoriBenton | Oct 7, 2011 | Uncategorized
I finished the first draft of my WIP The Pursuit of Tamsen Littlejohn minutes before the ACFW awards dinner began live streaming on Saturday, Sept 24, which I watched while I unwound. I’ve set the story aside for two weeks with the hope that time away from it...
by LoriBenton | Sep 29, 2011 | Uncategorized
Interested in how the writing process works for at least two of us writers? Read this blog post my writer friend, Beth Shope, wrote after a conversation we had about what it’s like for both of us writing our first drafts. And the mysterious, wonderful...
by LoriBenton | Sep 24, 2011 | Uncategorized
Today I’m not in St. Louis attending the American Christian Fiction Writers 2011 Conference, like so many of my writer friends and colleagues. I’m not attending the awards banquet this evening, when the winners of the Carol Award and the Genesis Contest...
by LoriBenton | Sep 12, 2011 | Uncategorized
I’m on the home stretch with the first draft of The Pursuit of Tamsen Littlejohn (hence my preoccupied silence on the blog so far this month). This isn’t my first novel by an means, but oddly enough, it is the first that was easier to write in the middle...
by LoriBenton | Aug 29, 2011 | Uncategorized
I’ve made a happy reading discovery. His name is William O. Steele (1917-1979). He was the award-winning author of historical fiction for children written in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. Particularly fiction set on the 18th century frontier of Tennessee....
