Merry Christmas & Happy New Year
Carrie | December 25, 2011
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Counting Blessings: Summer Heat
Carrie | July 30, 2011
I’m writing this post on Friday, July 29. We finally had rain today. Not a lot of it, but enough to drop the temperature twenty degrees within minutes and enough to soak the ground. I’m thankful for every drop. The high temperature for the day was 102 or thereabouts. It was the 34th consecutive day [...]
Wanted! Omniscient POV Novels
Carrie | July 22, 2011
Novels written in the Omniscient point of view! I’m researching the omniscient point of view and part of my research is reading as many novels written in that point of view as possible. If you have read such a novel, please let me know! All genres welcome. If you have one published, I’d be delighted [...]
Finding the Right Balance
Carrie | April 23, 2011
Since October 2009, when I prayed about National Novel Writing Month and received an answer with Saving Grace, I’ve treated writing as a calling. Something God gave me the talent, interest, and time to do. Just like painting. I’m not sure when it happened, but I also began thinking of each individual story as something [...]
Focus and Push
Carrie | December 29, 2010
My husband has been running for over a year. His goal is to run a minimum of five days each week with no more than one day off. I admire his dedication to the discipline and the determination it takes to give up an hour of sleep to go out and run three miles. Or [...]
Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year
Carrie | December 25, 2010
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Short of Time, Short of Words
Carrie | November 14, 2010
Every now and again, a week comes along in which it seems there is no time to do the Regular Stuff. This week has been one of those weeks. Our congregation is putting together a pictorial directory this year. The first in four years. The photographer spent three days at church this week taking pictures, [...]
The Fruits of My Labors
Carrie | November 8, 2010
I’ve lived in Kansas for 8-1/2 years and have yet to figure out the growing season. By the time it feels right to plant outdoor plants, it’s already too late. We’re about two weeks ahead of my home state of Michigan, and making that two-week adjustment has been impossible so far. For the last two [...]
Planning Ends; Writing Begins
Carrie | October 2, 2010
And it’s about time because I didn’t get a whole lot of planning done this past week! In fact, I worked on Anderson Baxter only two days during the past week and both days were comprised of journal entries and nothing more. What planning I did was mostly mental and/or question asking. Is the story [...]
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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.