In case you’re interested in what is riding the edge of current Christian fiction, check out today’s post at Pat Loomis’ blog: The Cutting Edge: Celebration of New Christian Fiction. I gave you a heads’ up a few days ago that this carnival celebration was coming! She has links to nine different blogs of folks…
I left work early on Friday to hop the bus for my sister’s house for the weekend, and got back at 11:30 last night. We ate and slept the family memory album we are building for two and a half days, and I’m really really tired. I learned quite a lot about my mother’s history,…
The biggest challenge I’m facing thus far in the new fantasy story I’m developing is the religion. I’ve been struggling over this for more than a month now, trying to piece together a fake true religion. No wonder I’m confused! I’m basing my main character’s homeland very loosely on Israel in the Old Testament. It…
Ever heard of a blog carnival? If you have, you’re ahead of me. Well, that is to say, I HAVE heard of it, but just in the past couple of days. Pat Loomis will be hosting one on Tuesday, Feb 15. In it, she will be pointing folks to various blogs, including mine; we’ll be…
When you think of me writing away, this is where I am. Months go by with no critiques at all, and suddenly I have a week with two of them. Today’s synopsis crit took most of the morning. I have to do all I can do to help my friends to break into print! I…
Wow, changing gears was SO the right thing to do. I accomplished a lovely 1605 words on *Quest to be Queen* (nano’04) this morning. I’d read through the previous 54K over the past few days, and decided to ditch what I had for an outline for this section. (*Quest* requires seven tasks, and this is…