Hi friends and happy Wednesday!  I have been an avid pantser. Meaning, that I don’t plot, don’t plan my story out, don’t do character worksheets or interviews, or anything of the sort. I just have a “what if” scenario or question in my mind and I’d sit at the computer to write—just letting the story unravel and the characters come to life.  However, I should change “don’t’” to … [Read more...]

A few months ago, our own Karen Witemeyer wrote a great post called Word Nerd about the enjoyment she takes in learning the history behind some of the words she comes across while researching and writing her novels. I too, consider myself a word nerd, and the one tab I almost always have open when I’m writing and editing is the Online Etymology Dictionary, so I can check to see if words I want to … [Read more...]

We’ve been home from our European adventure for more than a week now and while I can truly say, there is no place like home, it’s been such fun going back through our photos and deciding what bits to share with you of the firehose we drank from during two weeks of traveling through France, England, Wales, Ireland, and Scotland with all of Ken's siblings and their spouses.  I thought I … [Read more...]

Because I've been writing my heart out this week, I drew a blank when I sat down to write this blog post. So I visited the archives--this post is from 2012. Be sure to read the postscript so you can see how it all turned out. :-) "Be angry, and sin not." Ephesians 4:26. I don't know if you ever watched "Hard Core Pawn" when it used to be on TV--it was a reality show about a pawn shop in … [Read more...]