Posted in Writing on Oct 2nd, 2009
Last Tuesday, I found out I’d not won a writing grant I applied for in March. On Thursday I found out I’d not won a writing contest I entered in June. I wasn’t surprised, really, but I was still disappointed. That evening, during our “Highlight/Lowlight” conversation over dinner, I told my kids, “My lowlight was [...]
Emotions are a fickle thing, are they not? On the Friday before Labor Day, I danced a little jig of happiness: two paying jobs! A partial request! The Tuesday after, quite serendipitously, I met the other agent who has a partial of my novel. We had a lovely conversation as I drove her to her [...]
Posted in Writing on Sep 25th, 2009
Last month, I laid out a fleece. (If you don’t know about fleeces, go read Judges 6:36-40 and then come back.) As anyone who’s been reading this blog for awhile knows, this summer was not kind to me on the writing front. In fact, this whole year has been pretty much a wash: I’ve made [...]
I am a reader (I feel about books the way some people feel about chocolate: yum), a writer (I've written a book, even: The Circle of Seasons: Meeting God in the Church Year), and a mother (of four). So that's what I blog about: reading, writing, and raising my kids.