Carrie | December 31, 2009
On this final day of 2009, I want to take a moment to thank everyone who has encouraged me in my work as a writer. 2009 marked the start of a new adventure for me. I decided to pursue writing as more than just a hobby. Part of that was a decision to locate and [...]
Carrie | December 26, 2009
Christmas Day brought two things to me this year. A day of quiet and rest after the drive from Newton, Kansas to Clare, Michigan; of eating leftovers from the annual Christmas Eve Dinner and of lounging around the house with Mom and family members I haven’t seen since October and, of course, snow! But it [...]
Carrie | December 25, 2009
And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed. (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, [...]
Carrie | December 24, 2009
My thanks to my husband, Neal, for today’s post. This was his contribution to First Christian Church’s 2009 Advent Devotional and I asked as soon as I saw it if I could share it with you. Neal graciously agreed, so here is his Letter to God. Dear God, I am so serious. Do I really [...]
Carrie | December 21, 2009
Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. Matthew 6:33-34 Christ issued this exhortation to his disciples and others gathered on a hillside to hear the Sermon on the Mount. It followed instruction on the model prayer, [...]
Carrie | December 18, 2009
I found myself in an interesting – and surprising – position today. Since deciding to give Saving Grace two weeks off (December 11 – 25), I’ve been developing a potential NaNo 2010 idea. Snowflake, character development, story background, time line…. You name it. So far, it’s all amounted to over 20,000 words. It has been [...]
Carrie | December 15, 2009
I got my writing done for the day, but it was definitely NOT a pretty sight. At least most of it wasn’t. I got the fiction out of the way early, writing over 900 words in less than half an hour right after Neal went to work. That part was easy and it was fairly [...]
Carrie | December 14, 2009
Here’s the thought for the day. Just because God doesn’t always answer our prayers exactly as we would hope doesn’t mean we should stop asking. For instance, when Neal and I spent eighteen months unemployed and faced bankruptcy, I prayed for deliverance from financial hardships every day. What I usually asked for was the money [...]
Carrie | December 11, 2009
Yesterday, I set aside my NaNoWriMo story, Saving Grace, for two weeks so I could begin the editing process with a fresh eye. I also sorted through current ideas for NaNoWriMo 2010 with the hope one of them would strike my fancy enough to occupy my attention all or most of those two weeks. There [...]
Carrie | December 11, 2009
I decided today to officially set aside Saving Grace at least until Tuesday, December 15. That’s when the first read-through is supposed to happen. The motivation for that decision has been a couple of days of mental wheel spinning and a plethora of alternate plot ideas that threatened to stall the entire project. In the [...]
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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