Carrie | September 30, 2009
Every story ever published fits into at least major category in the writing world. Most could be wedged into two, some are very broad based and don’t appear to have a specific category. These categories are referred to as ‘genre’. The genre describes the type of story and what readers can expect from any book [...]
Carrie | September 28, 2009
Ezekiel 37:1-14 (New International Version) The Valley of Dry Bones 1 The hand of the LORD was upon me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the LORD and set me in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. 2 He led me back and forth among them, and I [...]
Carrie | September 25, 2009
Neal has been wanting to learn two or three different software programs and needs a Mac to run some of them, so I volunteered my G4 for as long as his studies last. Since I use two computers – the G4 for most things art and a PC for most things writing – it became [...]
Carrie | September 23, 2009
Summer gave way to autumn yesterday. At least that’s what the calendar said. I heard it mentioned on the news a time or two, as well. Temperatures drop quite a bit when the sun gets close to the horizon and oranges and reds begin to punctuate the greens in the trees, but it still doesn’t [...]
Carrie | September 21, 2009
Recent changes in my life have me looking at birds in a different light. I have loved to draw for as long as I can remember. I’ve been painting since my teenage years and have been painting portraits of horses for paying customers since I was seventeen. From the time I sold that first portrait [...]
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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