My sister enjoys watching the “deleted scenes” on DVDs. I often join her; it’s fun to see extra bits of the story that didn’t make the final cut and hear the sometimes-included director’s commentary on why that particular scene received the axe. While I can often understand the rationale—a scene didn’t really move the story […]
Stephanie Grace Whitson has become one of my favorite historical fiction authors in the past year, and her latest book, A Most Unsuitable Match, did not disappoint. By the end of the first two chapters, the main characters Fannie and Sam had drawn me in and made me care…and as we writers know, that is […]
Anne Shirley…Jo March…Laura Ingalls…Heidi. The favorite books of my childhood remain inevitably linked to distinct characters, those storybook girls who made the stories live and breathe on the page and in my imagination, whose names even yet stir fond memories of the Alps, the prairies, or a little town called Avonlea. With movies and plays, […]
“Tell me a story…” “Once upon a time…” “There once was a man…” We humans are wired to hear stories. Perhaps this is because God created us in His image, and He is the ultimate writer of story—in history, in each of our lives, even in fiction through the parables of Jesus. I think all […]
