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“Find joy in the simplest of pleasures and you’ll never feel deprived.” –– Unknown I had a booksigning last Saturday for my book, The Pursuit of Elena Bradford, that will officially release next Tuesday, May 6th. Always an exciting time when one’s book flies out into the world to find readers. Sometimes a little nerve-wracking too as you worry about what those …
T Writing a book set in the past can open up some doors to interesting research. A writer can suddenly find themselves needing more information about things she never even considered needing to know when that first idea for story came to mind. But then you start digging a little deeper into the story’s history. You think more about what …
It’s back to beans and taters here on One Writer’s Journal. A preacher at our little country church used to say that after we had a guest speaker or some kind of special program and then he was back in the pulpit bringing us a message. So, if you went on the Scavenger Hunt last weekend, then that was the …
Christian Fiction Scavenger Hunt Stop #9 Welcome to the Christian Fiction Scavenger Hunt! If you’ve just discovered the hunt, be sure to start at Stop #1, and collect the clues through all the stops, in order, so you can enter to win one of our top 5 grand prizes! The hunt BEGINS on 4/10 at noon Mountain with Stop …
This picture of a little fawn has nothing at all to do with my post, but I needed to pull up a picture to give me a smile. This week has been, as I said in my blog title, one to forget. I came up on this baby several years ago. I actually had Frankie on leash, but he never …
“A smile is happiness you’ll find right under your nose.” — Tom Wilson Have you ever seen a dog smile? You might say Frankie is smiling here, or it could just be a goofy look. You can decide. We did have a dog named Tate once that did smile. Whenever we would get home after being to church, town, school, …
“No story lives unless someone wants to listen.” ~J.K. Rowling Someone once called me a storyteller and I have ever since thought it was one of the nicest compliments I have ever received about my writing. I want to tell stories or at least write them down. But as the J.K. Rowling quote says, if nobody listens/reads then a story …
“An opening line should invite the reader to begin the story. It should say: Listen. Come in here. You want to know about this.” ~Stephen King One of the most important lines in a story is that very first one that you write. But as important as that is to grab the attention of a reader, a first line can …
From the first spark of inspiration for a story to that story being a book a reader can pick up takes a while and goes through a number of steps. I first did some brainstorming for ideas for new stories that my publishers might be interested in seeing me write several years ago. As many of you know since you …