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Finishing a Novel: Take a Break
I’m 43,000 words into my 50,000 word planned novel and it’s time to take a break while relatives visit. I’d hoped to have the rough draft done yesterday, two months before the deadline, but life...
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The children paused at the front door when they returned from school if they heard loud classical music. They’d scan my face and ask, “is someone coming over?” If the music was something particularly...
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We’ll Catch Up in Eternity
“Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It’s splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.” ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables I recently wrote a letter to an...
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Astonishing Research–Madeleine L’Engle
As I mentioned last time, I recently traveled to Wheaton College‘s Special Collections to do research on Oswald Chambers for a book I’m working on. I made my arrangements in advance and arrived ten...
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Four Tips to Start Rewriting a Novel
I’ve begun rewriting a novel. It’s an intimidating process to pick up a manuscript you’ve slaved over for, in my case, fifteen months and realize it needs to be redone. How do you even start? This is...
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Unforgetable Books
I was challenged on Facebook recently to list ten unforgetable books–books that have stayed with me over the years for one reason or another. The idea was not to think too hard, just write down the...
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My Own Wrinkle in Time
“Why, you had your own wrinkle in time,” my friend exclaimed. I’d recounted a story in which he had given me a surprising gift We’re both fans of Madeleine L’Engle‘s Newberry award winning novel A...
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8 Favorite Memoirs
It’s summer and I’m enjoying my eight favorite memoirs. It’s important to remember memoirs and biographies are different. While biographies tell an entire life’s story, a memoir generally limits itself...
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WHY Study the Bible? 5 Reasons
The last three Bibles I’ve used for study. “I don’t understand about Bible study. I read it once, isn’t that enough?” My acquaintance’s earnest question made me laughed out loud. Um, no. I’ve studied...
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An Educated Person and Bible Knowledge
Does an educated person need to be familiar with the Bible? Why? Why not? Back in the Dark Ages when I attended college–and earned a degree in English Literature from the University of California at...
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