I had to take a few days to recover from my trip to California. Between travel, the WCCW Conference, visiting relatives, and coming home only to jump back into other commitments, I’m ready to settle in and write. On the first day of the conference, I attended an intensive workshop on marketing with Marci Seither. …
I returned home from my first in-person writers conference (#RealmMakers2023) last night around 11:00 pm (with a 2 hour time difference my body said it was 1:00 am). I was so exhausted that when I slipped out of the truck my legs had the strangest sensation, like I had just gotten off of a boat …
At the beginning of the year I wrote about my word for the year, fresh, and my fears stemming from past experience. (Check it out here: Starting Fresh.) Despite my fears, I have taken the opportunities that God brings my way. One of those opportunities is coming up in a week and a half—the Realm …
I was reading last night, as I do every night, when I read a comment offered to Chloe, the heroine of the story, and it dawned on me that she was an HSP (Highly Sensitive Person) like me. Here is the comment: “It will be your lifelong battle to act despite all those fears. But …
Continue reading Finding My Reflection in Fictional Characters
Lately I’ve been reading novels that are reworked from popular fairytales. What has struck me is how the protagonists are oblivious to the obvious. Like the common girl who meets a mysterious man in an enchanted woods who is obviously the crown prince. As the reader, I had it figured out in the first part …
I have filled him with the Spirit of God, giving him great wisdom, ability, and expertise in all kinds of crafts.Exodus 31:3 (NLT) It’s been a year, since I left the gates of Aurora, and what a year it has been! Traveling through the outer villages plying my trade, I picked up my sidekick, Sheff, …
I watched her approach the Gnarled Woods from my perch. She was most likely a Ute, I’d guess fifteen. That’s when they get spit out into the real world. I could see something glowing from her hand. She held it out in front of herself, passing it left to right, then back to center again. …
I’m excited to try something different. As a way to bridge the gap between my blog and my fiction writing, I have decided to post a few short stories about my secondary characters from my new project, Maelee’s Journey. Starting with Meg, the best friend (who is named after one of my puppies.) So here …