Carrie | August 9, 2011
The hardest thing to do is say good-bye. At least that’s what I’ve always heard. In some cases, saying ‘good-bye’ can be downright liberating! Such was recently the case for me. For the last two months, I’ve reported my efforts to bring an old manuscript up to snuff. Again. I also reported the discovery of [...]
Carrie | August 2, 2011
Sometimes the best thing a writer can do is go back to the beginning of the story building process and a fresh look at the things that made the story appealing in the first place. All the way back. A long Fourth of July weekend and unexpected personal matters threw writing into a bit of [...]
Carrie | July 1, 2011
June was a month of ups and downs with The Main Story. Stops and starts, too. Things Accomplished Rounded out Chapter Outline for Part 1 and filled in some of the gaps lingering from May. Finished writing most of the chapters in Part 1 and wrote something on all of them. Assessed each of the [...]
Carrie | June 1, 2011
When I began journaling this story, I equated the process to going on a long road trip because the process for traveling and noveling is so similar. Get the idea. Plan for the trip. Prepare for the trip. Begin the trip. When I drew that analogy, I left out a couple things. Roadblocks and detours. [...]
Carrie | April 30, 2011
April with this project was a lot like making a fancy dish. Add a dash of this and a pinch of that. Salt to taste. Stir until ingredients are well-mixed. Heat over low heart for thirty days. You get the idea. You’ll remember the analogy I used of planting seeds – idea seeds – in [...]
Carrie | April 1, 2011
March is past. Hard to believe not only another month is gone, but the first quarter of the year is gone, as well. Most of March was spent designing the story identified in February and, sometimes, agonizing over it. As I mentioned in the initial post, The Journey Begins, deciding to write a story is [...]
Carrie | December 1, 2010
The short answer is, “yes”. I’ve done it! It’s really not all that difficult for a seat of the pants writer. Decide on your characters. Decide where they are and what they’re doing. Decide what happens to them. Write about it. Do the same thing for Chapter 2, then Chapter 3. If you keep that [...]
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 [...]
Carrie | September 25, 2010
This week was a mixed bag for writing. A good week for the most part, but with enough other stuff thrown in to keep it from being one of those absolutely excellent weeks. Dealing with the previous week’s dish washing injury was the primary damper. Finding new ways to do routine things can be a [...]
Carrie | September 11, 2010
This past week has been an excellent week for writing, with several days well over the daily writing goal and one day in which I wrote over ten thousand words in a single day. The only way it could have been better would have been to have all of those words be on the current [...]
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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