Happy Thanksgiving!
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 together for good...
I have an idea….
It's that time in the cycle of my writing life when I'm nearing the completion of one novel and casting about for potential new story fodder for the next. Maybe "casting" isn't the best way to describe it. I don't go looking for story ideas. They find me easily enough...
Two Beautiful Rugs
My birthday falls in autumn, and this year I decided to treat myself to a gift that means a great deal to me, and, I hope, to at least one other person I've never met. I chose to buy a hand-woven rug from an elderly Navajo weaver via the Adopt a Native Elder Program....
Chemo brain: 12 years later
In the mail this week was a letter reminding me it's time for a yearly check up that most women began having after they turn 40, but one I've had to have yearly since I was 30. The mammogram. I'm considered high risk for breast cancer, because of the radiation...
A Trumpet with a certain sound
And even things without life which give sound, whether flute or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is played? For if the trumpet gives an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself for the battle? 1 Corinthians 14:7-8 Today...
An Interview with Liz Curtis Higgs
Be sure to stop in at Carrie Pagels's blog, Overcoming Through Time, today for an interview with one of my favorite authors, Liz Curtis Higgs. Among other novels and non-fiction books (Bad Girls of the Bible, Embrace Grace) Liz writes Scottish historicals based Old...
A Reading Snapshot
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 will...
How writing a first draft is like holding your breath under water
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 transformation...
Not in St. Louis, but wish you were?
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 will be...
Home stretch
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 than the end....
