History, Real Life, and Faith
Starting a novel often sparks joy to the writer! Still on my euphoric high from last week’s post about finishing my novel, I wondered this morning how to mark the auspicious day. Should I have a ritual for starting to write a project? I couldn’t think of one and since I’m a writer by trade, it was just another day…
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I’ve just completed writing a novel I wrote out of order. I’m not alone in realizing you don’t have to write a story in a linear fashion. Writer J. K. Rowling famously wrote her entire Harry Potter series toward one conclusion: a chapter she wrote at the beginning of her career and kept locked in a safe deposit box. Five…
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The adrenaline high from finishing a novel!
A change of scene often can change a scene
Because I grew up in Los Angeles and attended UCLA, I’ve occasionally met a celebrity. One of my relatives is even a close friend to a famous movie star. When I was younger, I held them in awe–wow, a famous person–but that changed the day I parked next to a Navy pediatrician at the commissary. (Pediatricians are god-like celebrities when…
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How do you love your neighbor as yourself? What does it mean if your neighbor doesn’t want love? My neighbors and I ran into this conundrum long ago while living in military housing. We lived on the corner of a two-car wide asphalt street without sidewalks, gutters or anything else demarking where your yard ended and the street began. Particularly…
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