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...
by LoriBenton | Nov 15, 2011 | Uncategorized
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...
by LoriBenton | Oct 25, 2011 | Uncategorized
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...
by LoriBenton | Oct 21, 2011 | Uncategorized
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...
