Just Try It

by | Sep 23, 2010 | Reading

I finished the second of two books I didn’t think I’d like yesterday. And I liked them both. “North River” by Pete Hamill is about a doctor in Depression-era New York who comes home one day to find his daughter has abandoned her child on his...

Welcome Fall

by | Sep 22, 2010 | Waiting

On August 21 I wrote about waiting for fall to arrive. Well today it’s here! Of course, we’re having a streak of warm weather, highs in the mid 80s and we did turn the air conditioner back on last night so we could sleep, but nonetheless . . . Something I...

Editorial Help

by | Sep 20, 2010 | Uncategorized

I just sent the first chapter of my novel to an editor in Tennessee. She has great credentials and has been very nice via e-mail. It’ll probably by October before she reads my work and provides feedback. In the meantime I need to not think about what she might...

A Little Help

by | Sep 19, 2010 | Waiting

So I’ve been shopping for editors–someone to read my first chapter or so and give me feedback. I’m looking for enough input to give me some ideas for how to improve the novel as a whole. I don’t want anyone to rewrite it or to give so much...

Christmas in September

by | Sep 18, 2010 | Uncategorized

This weekend I’m preparing the children’s Christmas program for church. I don’t help much with VBS or other children’s activities during the year, but I make up for it by coordinating the Christmas program. In past years I’ve written a...