Carrie | January 14, 2012
My husband and I are wearing pedometers these days. It’s part of his new health insurance plan through work. I confess to digging in my heels at the thought of performing according to company dictates for any reason… especially since I don’t work there. Neal wanted to do it, though, and since we’re both covered, [...]
Carrie | December 31, 2011
Every year, I set goals and challenges for myself as a writer. It’s part of year end ‘festivities’. This year, one of my personal writing challenges is to ‘part the curtain’ a little bit so you, the reader, can take a peek into what happens behind the scenes. Starting in January, I’ll post a bit [...]
Carrie | December 24, 2011
In 2010, a photography company decided to do something special for it’s online customers and Facebook fans. It created a virtual Christmas card. The company’s customer’s shared the Christmas greeting with friends and family and the video soon had over 20 million views. The video is still popular and is approaching 35 million views. It [...]
Carrie | December 3, 2011
Time to celebrate! November is over and so is my Non NaNo challenge. Time for a huge sigh of relief and a moment of thankfulness. My goals for November were: Finish the second draft of Saving Grace Finish the first draft of SG 2 Word Count Goal for the Month (Fiction Only): 75,000 words The [...]
Carrie | November 28, 2011
This past week was the last full week of November. Only three writing days left of the month. The sun is sinking low in the west on this writing venture. The good news is that in spite of the holiday and one full day off to celebrate it, I still made good progress on SG2. [...]
Carrie | November 21, 2011
I went on a writing frenzy this past week and it was wonderful! No, it didn’t have anything to do with all the candy corn, peanuts, and miniature candy bars I ate at a weekend church retreat. Well, maybe some of it was sugar induced. The week began with a 10G day. That’s 10,388 words [...]
Carrie | November 19, 2011
Why should you worry about long-term goals when you have short-term goals that are more urgent? For the same reason riders on the Olympic Cross Country or show jumping courses look one or two jumps ahead instead of at the jump right in front of them. And for the same reason water skiers look where [...]
Carrie | November 14, 2011
Writers often have difficulty keeping the real world and the imaginary world separate. Countless are the stories about the hapless writer who, while sitting around the dinner table, wonders out loud what So-and-So should do in a given situation only to be greeted by blank stares because So-and-So is a character in her story and [...]
Carrie | November 5, 2011
Computers. Can’t live with ‘em. Can’t live without ‘em. (Actually you can live without ‘em, but that’s another post.) Tuesday was the first day of my November challenge and it started out as a pretty good working day. I worked on Saving Grace – Second Draft and SG 2 and thought I made pretty good [...]
Carrie | November 2, 2011
How appropriate is this image to writing a novel? When you first start, you see only the Big Picture. The finished novel. It’s full of light and glory and beautiful words. The view is lofty (just like this view from Coronado Heights near Lindsborg, Kansas). Then you get started writing and before you know it, [...]
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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