Greetings from the East Coast, dear reader friends! I apologize for not posting last week…things have been a bit crazy, but good. And right now my sister and I have the privilege of visiting my dear friend and critique partner, Sandra. We’ve been having a wonderful time enjoying her family’s hospitality and exploring historical sites […]
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Stories from the Heart: Finding Neverland and Winnie-the-Pooh
I recently watched the movie Finding Neverland for the first time. I was touched and moved by this story, based on a true one, about the sensitive Scottish author of Peter Pan and the little family of four boys and a widowed mother who captured his heart and helped inspire the timeless tale of the […]
When He Makes Us Lie Down In Green Pastures
Well, last week I blogged about To-Do List Craziness. And apparently what happens when I let my to-do list get too crazy is: I get sick. Sometimes I think the Lord lets me get sick just so I’ll slow down a bit. Does that ever happen to you? Thankfully—one of the […]
Music that Tells a Story—and Helps Us Better Tell Ours
The other evening, my parents watched The Legend of Bagger Vance for their “date night” in our living room. “It was a good movie,” my mom told me afterward. “Sounded like it,” I said, “by the music.” It’s funny. I had picked up very little of the storyline from the bits and […]
He is Here: Immanuel in the New Year
On Sunday I sat and watched as a script I’d written came to life. A project that’s been growing for four and a half years now, this little drama explores the journey of Mary, Joseph, and the other human participants in Jesus’ coming to earth, built into a musical around Michael Card’s beautiful […]
Stories in Community: Bespoke, Star Song, and the Christmas Chronicles
Note: If you’d like to follow my special Christmas series Journey Toward Bethlehem posted throughout the week, feel free to subscribe on the right side of the home page or here to get notification of new blog posts. Your email won’t be used for anything but that. 🙂 There’s an old idea that writers […]
“Getting to Know You”: Creating Characters
I’ve been getting to know some new folks the last few months. In many ways, it’s like forming any new relationship. I have my first impression, and think these might be some pretty cool friends. I get to know them a little better, and see some of my initial opinions might have been off. […]
The Story of a Critique Group: Meet Three of My Best Friends
We gathered, stiff and quiet and rather nervous, in that small room at the 2011 Mount Hermon Christian Writers Conference. For most of us, it was the first time we’d ever been to a writers’ conference. We were four new novelists, each working on our first major manuscript. And we were about to have our […]
A Peek into the Past: Living History at Fort Tejon
So sorry for the lateness of this posting, friends–I’ve been a bit swamped getting back in the swing of things after this year’s ACFW conference in St. Louis, Missouri. But…I thought you might like to take a peek into the setting of my next novel! Fort Tejon, California, was an occupied military outpost during the […]
“Apart from Me You Can Do Nothing”–and Why I Often Need to Be Reminded
It’s been quite a week! This past Saturday, I took a wee trip into the past—and the setting of my next novel—at Fort Tejon, California, with their monthly Frontier Army Days Living History event. I used the magic words “I’m a writer” and watched as the floodgates of the interpretive staff’s knowledge and even […]