by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Apr 15, 2011 | Uncategorized
I’m currently reading Water for Elephants and I have mixed feelings about it. I think it’s a well-crafted story, but the sex scenes and violence bother me. They’re probably true to the time and the setting, I just don’t like ’em. I also...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Apr 2, 2011 | Uncategorized
I went to an amazing Christian speaker/writer/leader conference in Charlotte, NC, last year and plan to go again this summer. Having been to a more “literary” writer’s retreat previously I found She Speaks to be refreshing and inspiring. There was NO...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Mar 28, 2011 | Uncategorized
A recent Gallup poll gave a wellbeing index score to each of the states–Hawaii topped the list with a 70.1 and West Virginia (my home state) fell to the bottom with a 61.7. As a sidebar to this poll, The New York Times decided to find the happiest person in...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Mar 14, 2011 | Uncategorized
It was a discouraging weekend in the news. The earthquake in Japan. A bus crash in New York killed 14. Libya continues a descent into chaos. When the world seems to be going to pieces, it can sometimes leave me wondering why I bother to write at all. When the world is...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Mar 9, 2011 | Uncategorized
A friend recently wrote about author Jonathan Franzen and recommended his two latest books, The Corrections and Freedom. I haven’t tried either yet, but I’m looking forward to reading them soon. They’re literary fiction, which I read less of now than...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Mar 7, 2011 | Uncategorized
I’d often heard authors talk about how real their characters become to them. Mine are pretty real, but it wasn’t like I spent much time wondering what they were doing when I wasn’t writing about them. I mean, really. And then I had lunch with a...
