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...
by LoriBenton | May 3, 2011 | Uncategorized
Having plotted stories on trails from the east coast to the west coast, over a span of twenty years, I’ve learned to never underestimate the power of a good walk in the woods to get the plot ideas flowing. It probably helps that most of the stories I write have...
by LoriBenton | Apr 29, 2011 | Uncategorized
In lieu of blog silence in the latter half of the week, thanks to one too many migraines, I’m going to share some photos of settler cabins I took several years ago during a trip to Cades Cove, TN, never knowing how near that area I’d one day set a novel....
by LoriBenton | Apr 26, 2011 | Uncategorized
Boy howdy, have I struggled with it this week. It sort of hit out of nowhere, when my novel in progress was going quite well, I thought. But when the self-doubt hit, it hit hard. Is there really some purpose God has for me in writing? Will it be of any eternal benefit...
