by LoriBenton | May 28, 2011 | Uncategorized
I thought about posting this question on Facebook, but realized it’s a little more involved than that format allows. Here’s the thing; today I’m finishing up a novel (reading) in which the main character dies in the end. I didn’t know this was...
by LoriBenton | May 25, 2011 | Uncategorized
Flightless, because they are no more. Today I just wanted to give a shout out to a bird that used to grace our eastern forests, the Carolina Parakeet. These bright, beautiful birds were driven to extinction by the early 1900s, but in 1787 they would still have...
by LoriBenton | May 20, 2011 | Uncategorized
Lately I’ve been blessed with good fiction, novels I’ve either hunted down or had recommended or merely stumbled across in the comment thread of one of the many blogs I visit during the week. Good fiction is subjective, of course, but I know it when I read...
by LoriBenton | May 16, 2011 | Uncategorized
Love Amid The Ashes Mesu Andrews Baker/Revell 2011 An epic story of love and forgiveness, suffering and restoration When her beloved grandfather Isaac dies, Dinah must follow his final command: travel to Job’s household to marry his son. After Job’s world comes...
by LoriBenton | May 11, 2011 | Uncategorized
This week I’m taking a break from writing Jesse (working title of my novel-in-progress) to do some brainstorming, scene-scaping, and plotting out in more detail of the last two-thirds of the story. I’ve never taken a novel that was only one-third written...
