Archived Posts from: May, 2006

*sniff*

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I hope it’s allergies. A number of folks at the Blue Ridge conference were sniffing around with colds, but I’m hoping it’s been long enough that if I were going to catch them, it would have happened before 4:30 this morning, when I woke up with a drum in my head and a desperate need [...]

Seeking Different Answers

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Ah, those words that come back to haunt you…
Many years ago, I learned a valuable lesson from friend Marilee. One night, when I was going through one of my darkest depressions and bewailing God’s silent response to my prayers, she asked me simply, “Are you sure you’re praying for the right thing?”
Hm. That had just [...]

A Fog in the Sun

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Yesterday was another bust of a writing day; the blog entry was the most expressive I’ve been in a while. I’m not blocked, not in the traditional sense of being unable to create ideas or put words on the screen. Nor am I distracted by “other things”–laundry, listening, or life.
Instead, I seem to be enclosed [...]

Return from the Blue Ridge

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Nothing makes a six-hour drive go faster than a good book. And, no, I wasn’t reading behind the wheel. This time, Edna Buchanan’s Cold Case Squad on CD picked me up, hooked me in, and the timing was perfect. I started it just after I hit I-40 and I reached Black Mountain, NC, almost halfway [...]

The Dragon Is Mewling

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I think I’ve written before about my friend’s description of the creative drive, that burning sense within us that makes us write, paint, landscape. She describes it as a dragon that sits on your shoulder, demanding to be fed. And when not given that “food” – the act of creation – it behaves just like [...]

Interlude

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That agent didn’t like Murder, but he did ask to see a proposal on another project. He thinks it’s the more distinctive. We’ll see.
In other areas of my life, the hamster wheel continues. HOWEVER, this weekend, I’m headed for the Blue Ridge Christian Writers Conference, just beyond Asheville in lovely North Carolina. I’ll be there [...]