On Monday of this week, I began writing the fourth book in The British Are Coming series. After a great brainstorming session with a writer friend which helped me work through some fuzzy details, I’m excited to write this book. With the new story in mind, I prepared to write this week’s blog post. And all of a sudden I wondered about my writing over the last year. Since I track my writing in a … [Read more...]
A Different First Draft
I’ve written many, many first drafts of novels, most of them “by the seat of my pants.” This means I have a story idea but don’t know exactly how it plays out until I write it. However, I have written a few (very few) first drafts from a synopsis. These drafts tend to have a little more structure when the story first goes down on paper (or screen). I’m now beginning different kind of first … [Read more...]
Looking Back, Looking Forward
As an old year comes to an end, I always like to reflect on it on my personal blog, and I decided that post was worth sharing with my Inspired by Life and Fiction family on this first post of mine in the new year. So here is my slightly modified version of that post: I don’t know about you, but I find it shocking that we just hit the one-quarter mark in the 21st century. And think of this: my … [Read more...]
Something Delicious
On Monday, I finished writing my 94th book. To Capture a Mountain Man is the third book in The British Are Coming series, and it will release in February 2025. (To confuse things, my 93rd book doesn’t release until summer 2025.) To celebrate typing “The End,” I went to see “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever” on Tuesday. I laughed. I happy-cried. It is a delight from start to finish and should … [Read more...]
Our Gracious God
Earlier this year, I read about Dani Pettrey’s Writers at the Well retreat in Texas, and my spirit stirred. My prayer for 2024 has been to establish myself in the writing community again. To renew old relationships and make new ones. I had already signed up for the ACFW Conference, but this was a more intimate setting, something usually better for me as an introvert. However, committing … [Read more...]
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