Friday, July 29, 2005

Walking on Water . . .

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I would have loved to find a picture for "walking on air," but since I couldn't, "walking on water" will have to do....
Thursday, July 28, 2005

Interesting process . . .

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My agent called me yesterday and asked if she was interrupting my writing. (She knows I'm on a tight deadline.) I laughed and said that ...
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Great Chesterton Quote

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This man makes me laugh out loud. Here's a quote for writers: "It is a good exercise to try for once in a way to express any opinio...
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Wednesday, July 27, 2005

Glasses, Headaches, Growing Older

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Man! These days I've taken to wearing glasses while I work, especially in the first draft stage because I need to look at my notes and I...
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Tuesday, July 26, 2005

The Space Shuttle . . .

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is scheduled to launch this morning. I have a personal tie to the space program, mainly because I grew up in Brevard County (aka 'the Sp...
Monday, July 25, 2005

What Does "Evangelical" Fiction Require?

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Been hot enough for you lately? This morning I pulled out an old copy of World magazine--July 3-10, 2004, to be precise. And I read this pa...
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Saturday, July 23, 2005

Great Magazine for Book Lovers

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I've just discovered Bookmarks Magazine--wow! A friend gave me some old copies, and I have loved looking through the book reviews and ot...
Friday, July 22, 2005

Sometimes You Take the Story and Sometimes the Story Takes You . . .

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No rants today, I promise. I have to run out this morning and order some Nangie tee shirts (if you know, fine, if you don't know--it...
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Thursday, July 21, 2005

Welcome to the Twenty-first Century

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Warning: I am on a soapbox, just like my little friend here . . . Hear ye, hear ye, LET BE KNOWN—We writers of contemporary Christian fictio...
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Wednesday, July 20, 2005

Reviewers?

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Sherry wrote: "Aren't book reviewers supposed to review? Can't we speak the truth in love? Wouldn't you want reviewers to w...
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Tuesday, July 19, 2005

What Makes a Novel Christian?

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I’m taking a minute to set aside my daily word count goal and ruminate a little. I don’t know how much of your recent world has been filled ...
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Sunday, July 17, 2005

Sometimes I get irked . . .

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when I hear people bashing Christian fiction, faith fiction, whatever you want to call it. In most of these cases, people either haven't...
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Friday, July 15, 2005

Work Habits--by Request

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So you want to write? To borrow a phrase from a popular shoe company, just do it. I prayed so long and worked so long to have kids that I ...
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Thursday, July 14, 2005

Back from CBA . . . IRCS . . . or whatever they call it today

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Wow. Talk about a need to decompress. I spent yesterday in the air, mostly, after saying farewell to several friends and lugging armfuls of ...
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Monday, July 04, 2005

Endorsements are reassurances . . .

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Endorsements are beginning to come in for THE NOVELIST--the book I had to rewrite in a MAJOR way. So these endorsements are highly appreciat...
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Friday, July 01, 2005

Gainfully employed

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I am once again gainfully employed . . . under contract. I'm excited about this project, but it's going to be a bit intense. The com...
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Thursday, June 30, 2005

A life in pages . . .

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You know, I think I've been destined to live my life in pages. As a kid, I loved to read--not to write, but to read books that carried m...
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Saturday, June 25, 2005

On the home stretch . . .

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Only two more sessions to go in the Maass intensive seminar--that translates into another day and a half. I came to this thinking I'd ta...
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Tuesday, June 21, 2005

With my learner's cap on

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I'm in Salt Lake City, attending an intensive novel writing seminar taught by Donald Maass of Writing the Breakout Novel fame. I think...
Saturday, June 18, 2005

More Flannery

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From Mystery and Manners: "But there's a certain grain of stupidity that the writer of fiction can hardly do without, and this is t...