Carrie | November 30, 2009
It is my pleasure to present the first of a two-day post featuring a message written by my husband, Neal. This text was originally presented to a local congregation. It seemed appropriate to me to share it with the larger congregation of my readers and visitors. Step Out of the Boat Trust and Trustworthiness (Faith) [...]
Carrie | November 28, 2009
Wow! What a week! In spite of having Neal home for two extra days and spending most of the day on Thursday eating turkey with good friends, I had a phenomenal writing week. Average daily word count for the week came in at 6,431, with average daily word count for every writing day this month [...]
Carrie | November 23, 2009
I wrote this post for my Horse Painter blog on November 16, 2009, and liked it so much I thought I’d post it again as today’s devotional. I hope you enjoy it! It’s been a couple days since I saw the kind of light illustrated in this photograph. The clouds rolled in on Saturday night, [...]
Carrie | November 21, 2009
Another excellent week! For the third week in a row, I was able to crank out 25,000 words or more, PRAISE THE LORD! There is so little in my writing history to indicate an effort like this was possible, that I know it has to be a God Thing. For the last two days of [...]
Carrie | November 19, 2009
It’s a bright, sunny day, today. Very mild, about sixty degrees, and beautiful. There aren’t any flowers outside, but I thought I’d include one here because I love the way the light plays across the petals in this image. The flower, a Gerbera Daisy, is wintering in the house, now, so it has no flowers [...]
Carrie | November 18, 2009
The loose ends I tied up today involved two separate projects not related to the National Novel Writing Month project. The first one was getting a current portrait project to the end of its current step in the seven-step process. (The reference photo I’m using is shown here.) Today, I completed the sixth step. The [...]
Carrie | November 16, 2009
Because of the LORD’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. I say to myself, “The LORD is my portion; therefore I will wait for him.” Lamentations 3:22-24 Participating in National Novel Writing Month is teaching me about a lot more than [...]
Carrie | November 14, 2009
Week 2 of National Novel Writing Month is now in the can, as they say in the radio biz. Another six days of writing. The daily stats look like this: November 8, 2009 – 0 words Sunday November 9, 2009 – 4,217 words All over the board today! November 10, 2009 – 4,897 words Worked [...]
Carrie | November 9, 2009
I have in my mind a painting of faith. I don’t know when it first appeared in that mental hopper that creates and develops ideas. I don’t know what prompted it, either. I do know the passage of scripture that best describes it, though. “Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light [...]
Carrie | November 7, 2009
National Novel Writing Month officially began for me on November 2. Only rarely do I write or paint on Sundays, finding the time away beneficial on several levels. But I did think about Saving Grace several times throughout the day November 1. In fact, it intruded on morning worship services and conversations with Neal more [...]
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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