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Happy Thanksgiving Week
I've been taking a little time off from writing and revising. In part, I'm waiting to get feedback from Jamie and in part I just needed a break. There's work, the Christmas program at church, our annual Christmas party to plan, traveling for Thanksgiving and so on. I...
Cutting Losses
Jim and I are big Lyle Lovett fans and we've been to several of his concerts. So we were excited when we found out he would be performing in Greenville, SC. After a lovely dinner out we found our seats and settled in to listen to our favorite musical storyteller. But...
Changing the story
I recently read "Off Season" by Anne Rivers Siddons whom I typically enjoy a great deal. As usual, this book kept me turning pages (although the start was a little slow). But I didn't much like the ending. Not because of how things turned out for the characters, but...
Old Beginning . . . New Beginning
So the revised proposal and first chapter is wending it's way to my editor. Here's a taste of what she'll be looking at. OLD OPENING Walking up the hill from the henhouse with her basket full of eggs, Ella glanced down toward the calm surface of the pond and supposed...
The Proposal
Well I've been shaping and polishing my novel the past several weeks. The Lotus Leaf Effect is now The Memory of Drowning and I think it's getting much better. It's tighter, less nostalgic and there's more conflict. I'm typically not a fan of conflict, but since it's...
Subjectivity
I just tried to read a novel by a very successful Christian author and failed. This is a well-respected writer who has published dozens of novels and has an MA in English. She's well-respected and apparently beloved of her readers. I could NOT make myself read her...
One Thing
Over the weekend we watched "City Slickers," a movie from 1991 starring Billy Crystal as a city dweller named Mitch who goes with some friends on a cattle drive. I think it's really just an average movie, but it's kind of fun and it was COLD out, so we watched it for...
Speaking of Bears . . .
Mama and three cubs chilling across the creek. This would be prior to the star-crossed lovers meeting. It's the last push to fatten up before winter for our local bears, so we've been seeing them more often--emptying the bird feeders, eating acorns and fishing...
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