My Inner Editor
When I sat down at the start of November last year and decided that this year, finally, I was going to well and truly finish a novel (I have several novels in various states of unfinished heaped on my hard…
Two Mini Book Reviews
I was pondering what book to review this week and realized that I haven't been reading much that has just screamed, "Hey, review me!" They've been good, but what I've managed to type up has been similar to a 3rd…
Writing from the Heart
So, you remember how I was going to try and re-write my novel, starting further along in the story? Funny thing...I played with it for several days. I tweaked here. I tweaked there. I added and subtracted and all other…
Writing and the Private Soul
In the year 2000 (that sounds like one of those ominous sci-fi prologues, doesn't it?), when my husband and I realized that adding kids to our family was going to have to take a different route than is traditional, we…
The Issue of Issues
I've been chatting with some folks in the past week about Christian fiction and some of the limitations we're seeing in what CBA (that's Christian Booksellers Association, if you're not aware) publishers will and won't allow within manuscripts they'll consider…
Encouraging(?) Thoughts
Things they tell you at writer's conferences to encourage you (or at least make you realize that you have to be half crazy and incredibly persistent to actually want to be a writer): Most novels sell fewer than 1,000 copies…
Re-Visioning
I'm reasonably certain that I don't need to visit any amusement parks this summer - this writer's conference has been enough of a roller coaster to last me quite a while. I suspected that it might be, but, to steal…
Book Review: When the Smoke Clears by Lynette Eason
When the Smoke Clears (by Lynette Eason) is a book that grabs you with the first page and keeps you interested through to the last. It's a romantic suspense novel that follows Alexia back to her hometown for a high…
Love Geometry: The Exception to the Rule
There's always an exception to a rule, isn't there? It's something we learn from the very beginning. (Just ask my four year old. He knows that we don't have dessert for breakfast. Unless it's Saturday and daddy bought doughnuts.) So…
The Geometry of Love
I've been noticing a trend lately, and it's one that has me by turns mystified and annoyed: the love triangle. For me, personally, love should never be a polygon of any sort. Love is a line connecting two points, er,…