Carrie | June 29, 2009
My husband, Neal, and I enjoy road trips. We enjoy road trips on roads that sometimes aren’t really roads. Do you know about the low-water bridge over the Whitewater River along Tawakoni Road, for example? Or how to get from Matfield Green to Emporia the back way? We travel those trips with a Kansas Gazeteer. [...]
Carrie | June 26, 2009
The events recorded in Acts 26:1-23 describe Paul’s conversion and illustrate the difference between what the world, even the religious world, thinks of as ‘light’ and what actually is light. Paul thought he was walking in the light. By his own accounts, Paul was at the top of his class when it came to his [...]
Carrie | June 19, 2009
Earlier this week, I had my right wrist injured by an angry cat. Let’s just let it go at that. I pressed my luck with said cat. I paid the price. (If you really want to know all the gory details, check out The Best Laid Plans of Mice & Men on Classical Paintings.) The [...]
Carrie | June 17, 2009
Subtitle: Flying by the Seat of Your Pants That’s what I feel like I’m doing these days. It’s a little bit scary, a little bit intimidating and a lot of fun! Typically, when I develop an idea for a story, I make a few journal notes to record the initial idea and some possible ways [...]
Carrie | June 12, 2009
One of the active stories I’m working on is an old one. The main character can be traced all the way back to high school days, when my best friend came up and a cool character and a neat setting. That story was never finished, but it did provide the basis not only for several [...]
Carrie | June 10, 2009
Have you ever had a character that you can’t seem to find the right place for? One of those characters you instinctively like but can’t seem to find a use for? I’ve been writing stories for a long time. In fact, the first story I ever wrote was written when I was in the eighth [...]
Carrie | June 8, 2009
On June 2, I decided to up the ante a little for my daily writing exercise and to change the way I record word count numbers on the Daily Writing Exercise page. On that day, the minimum daily requirement for fiction words written went from 700 to 1,000. I am hoping to work my way [...]
Carrie | June 5, 2009
It’s good to be back. I didn’t miss much writing during the two weeks I was going through this thing called a spring/summer cold. I missed two entire weeks in the studio because of it, but only one regular day of writing. It was all I could do to keep up the Daily Writing Exercise [...]
Carrie | June 3, 2009
Well. I did it. I signed up to participate in National Novel Writing Month, 2009. Should I be worried? According to the “about page” on the National Novel Writing Month web site, National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a [...]
Carrie | June 1, 2009
Toward the end of each year, I spend time setting goals for the following year. Personal goals. Writing goals. Painting goals. One of my writing goals for 2009 was to “identify and join a good writing group”. A group that would support both my writing and my faith. Since the beginning of the year, I [...]
I've been an avid looker-at of books since I was old enough to sit on her lap and listen to the stories she read.
The oldest complete manuscript I have was written when I was in the eighth grade.
Throughout grade school and high school, I read every horse story I could get my hands on. Walter Farley was a huge favorite and I still enjoy reading the adventures of the Black Stallion and Flame and all the rest. But Marguerite Henry, C. W. Anderson, Thomas Hinkle and anyone else who wrote a story about a horse was on my to-read list. I couldn't get enough of them.
Then I found Agatha Christie and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and discovered another world; the world of mysteries!
More recently Dick Francis has combined my love of horse stories with my love of mysteries with his series of books.
In the early part of this century, I was introduced to the world of Christian fiction and in July of 2008, I took my first ever writing workshop. The workshop covered several aspects of writing from a Christian worldview and an entirely new vista opened before me.
I am, as yet, unpublished. I write every day, maintain painting and writing blogs, painting journals, writing journals and a number of other writing endeavors. Along with other members of my church family, I've written devotions for Advent and Lenten devotional booklets. For a time, I wrote a monthly column for the Newton Kansan newspaper.
I still enjoy a good horse story but I also enjoy a good mystery or cozy mystery, suspense and a little bit of action here and there, as well as literary works. I hope, Lord willing, to try my hand at each of those genres.
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