Carrie | February 27, 2010
I took an unscheduled day off serious writing today. It was a gorgeous day with bright sunshine, blue skies and temperatures in the forties for the second day in a row. After the cold and gray of the past week, it was glorious! I spent a couple hours browsing dozens of electronic images of horses [...]
Carrie | February 24, 2010
Last Saturday, I mentioned my hopes that story design for Saving Grace would be finished by the end of that day. That didn’t happen, but the process is drawing to a close. At least I hope it is. A couple of days ago, I finished the scene descriptions front to back for the second time. [...]
Carrie | February 22, 2010
The practice of giving up something in observance of Lent is one of those Old Church Traditions many believers have always done. For me, the struggle has not been deciding what to give up for Lent. It has been giving up my life to the glory of God. You see, I’m one of those people [...]
Carrie | February 20, 2010
It was snowing when I got out of bed this morning. Nothing major, just a nice, easy snow drifting on a gentle northerly wind. It was cold enough for snow to stick to the trees, grass, fences and cars, but warm enough that it melted off pavement and sidewalks. We are under a winter storm [...]
Carrie | February 18, 2010
Today presented one of those exciting, exhausting, frustrating and stimulating things: A first. I was challenged a few months ago to consider teaching a class in colored pencil (see Blizzard Babe, left). Silly me, I said, “Yeah, sure. Why not?” Colored pencil is one of my two favorite painting mediums, but since I’ve been focusing [...]
Carrie | February 17, 2010
Another milestone reached! I finished Step Nine of the snowflake method of story design last night. When I began the day, I didn’t expect to get that far. There was still quite a lot to do and I wasn’t certain how some of it was going to play out. But when I closed work for [...]
Carrie | February 15, 2010
“What is Lent?” “Why should I give up anything?’ Those are good questions and deserving of a good answer, but they pale in comparison to a related question that comes from a different point of view. What did Jesus give up for Lent? Stop and think about it. The first verses in the Gospel of [...]
Carrie | February 13, 2010
Yesterday, I surprised myself by finishing Step Eight of the snowflake. When I finished for the day, the scene worksheet was complete, beginning to end, all three acts. What’s more, I placed all the scenes into the scene description document, which is Step Nine of the snowflake. All I had to do was write the [...]
Carrie | February 10, 2010
The last time I mentioned this story, I’d just finished Act One at Steps Eight and Nine of the snowflake design method and was pondering whether to begin Step Ten (writing) or proceed to Act Two at Steps Eight and Nine. As you may recall, the odds were even in each direction, tipped slightly, perhaps, [...]
Carrie | February 8, 2010
I awakened this morning to something we rarely see in Kansas. Snow? No! We see plenty of that. What we don’t see very much of in Kansas are trees, fences and even power lines cloaked in thick snow. Wind is such a part of daily life in Kansas that we think a still and quiet [...]
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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