by LoriBenton | Jul 9, 2012 | Uncategorized
Thoughts from my devotional reading this week, which, as a writer who wrote for twenty years before God opened a certain door, I found encouraging… For the vision is yet for an appointed time…. though it linger, wait for it; it will surely come and will...
by LoriBenton | Jun 30, 2012 | Uncategorized
I knew if I kept at it, didn’t get this habit under control, that it was only a matter of time before it happened. How could it be otherwise? But I couldn’t stop. I just couldn’t. And so last night the inevitable occurred. I reached the last page of...
by LoriBenton | Jun 20, 2012 | Uncategorized
The current novel in progress (which has at last got a working title, Arrows of Mercy. Or perhaps it should be Mercy’s Arrows… Arrows in the Hand…? Oh dear) ranks as the most research-intensive work I’ve ever tackled, barring only my first 18th...
by LoriBenton | Jun 15, 2012 | Uncategorized
I hovered over that SEND button for a few extra minutes this morning, my mind spinning through familiar pages, scenes, and chapters. Was there one more thing I should’ve (would’ve could’ve) changed? Should I hold off clicking that button-of-no-return...
by LoriBenton | May 27, 2012 | Uncategorized
So what’s been happening since I signed my first book contract back in March? My deadline is June 15th, and I’m reading the manuscript over one more time, out loud, before I send it in. A week ago I received and answered a 12 page Author and Book...
by LoriBenton | May 22, 2012 | Uncategorized
I cry out to God Most High, to God, who fulfills his purpose for me. Psalm 57:2 One beautiful old translation of this verse says, “He will perform the cause I hold in my hand.” That makes it very real to me today. The very thing “I hold in my...
