by LoriBenton | Oct 17, 2011 | Uncategorized
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...
by LoriBenton | Oct 10, 2011 | Uncategorized
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...
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...
