Do some colors catch your eye, fire your emotions and imagination? Are do all of them do so in different ways and various times? Yellow is the color that catches my eye in a scene. Yellow is sunshine and sunflowers. … Continue reading →
I had a great time at the ACFW conference. So many good things that I can’t even say which was best so in no particular order, here is what I enjoyed. 1. Meeting with editors of Steeple Hill–the publishers of … Continue reading →
Next week end I am off to American Christian Fiction Writers conference in Indianapolis. http://www.acfw.com/conference/ This is one of the greatest writing conferences as far as I’m concerned. It focuses on fiction, it has great workshops and workshop leaders. … Continue reading →
I confess I didn’t always feel museums were high on my list of things to do. I remember groaning when my father would interrupt our travels in order to visit one. But I have since learned to enjoy them in … Continue reading →
This week I read a book by one of my favorite authors– Madeleine L’Engle. I confess I don’t like her most famous book, A Wrinkle in Time. But I read Meet the Austins and enjoyed it. This is a story … Continue reading →
I grew up in the boonies. We didn’t even have a bookstore. As far as I knew one got books at the library or in the mail. But every year we went to a conference at the Prairie Bible Instituted … Continue reading →
My research trip took me to Yellowstone National Park. It’s a beautiful place but visitors be warned. The roads are narrow and clogged with traffic. Drivers stop suddenly in the middle of the road to look at buffalo or elk … Continue reading →
I recently returned from another research trip aka taking client on a holiday. We went into Montana to look around. I got lots of pictures and would have gotten more… except for this: a speed limit of 70mph on a … Continue reading →
You probably can’t get a group of writers together with the topic of critique groups and/or partners coming up. There are all sorts of articles on-line about critquing–what it is, how to do it, etc. http://www.writing-world.com/links/critique.shtml I’m guessing that it … Continue reading →
I’m presently doing research on Sitting Bull, the Battle of the Little Bighorn and the Indian Wars of the Great Plains. I have visited the site of the Battle of Little Bighorn and saw the graves scattered across the prairie. … Continue reading →