The Week Before …
I keep thinking about Jesus and the last days before He was crucified. Jesus walked past Golgotha. He’d seen the crosses. He knew what happened there. We don’t always know the future. Did He? He definitely had seen people die on those crosses. He knew. He’d studied...
Walk and Not Be Weary?
There are stories of authors and artists who walk as part of their creativity. In my research just now, I googled that and got lost in reading about George Washington Carver and his faith. Even ordered a book about him. He believed walking in nature was essential for...
Run As Fast As You Can! Take That Leap!
There is a quote that I love—attributed to Ray Bradbury, “Then the long march from the rim of the cave to the edge of the cliff where we flung ourselves off and built our wings on the way down.” Many people claim it as theirs. I’m giving Ray credit in many books and...
Lists, lists, lists
Hello! I'm an over 40 (duh!). Actually over 70. I'm an Indie Author, YouTube Creator, Speaker, Wife, Mom, G-ma, follower of Jesus, and I ain't dead yet! I will be making videos about the life of being an author, my faith, testimonies of how God has led me to be an...
What on Earth is a Pantser? A Plotter?
As an author, to simplify the many ways to write a story, there is the pantser/discovery way, or the plotter. The phrase pantser originated from early aviation, where pilots relied on their senses to navigate without advanced instruments. Flying by the seat of their...
My first short story and a 1930 Model A?
In a past column, I wrote about my journals. All 80 or more of them! As I write a certain day’s entry, I’ll maybe realize that this might be a story. Or in listening to a conversation … what if? (My two favorite words!). Well, it was a bright and beautiful...
Does Seeing a Blink Mean You’re Crazy?
Before my author career, I journaled. A lot. I now have over eighty journals—filled. And I don’t write in the little ones. I use either 8x10 or 9x12 sketch books. You can see a sample here. I call them my puke-it-out journals, because that is precisely what I do. I...
A New Take on Star Wars
A couple of summers ago Osceola Library Director, asked if I would help with the summer reading program. I entered the library, chatted with the director, and wandered around the building, waiting for the kids to show up. (Keep on reading. You’ve gotta read the story...
Thoughts about today, tomorrow, the new year …
I want you to know that none of us are in the place where we want to be. None of us know what the next step is for sure.
And I want to encourage you to seek God.
AI or Not?
I don’t know why I’m writing this. Well. I do know why. What is this AI or Artificial Intelligence? Why does it creep me out? Can we know the truth about it? Is it something useful, like the internet has been? People didn’t like the internet back then, either!...
Scrivener
