Characters are People Too

There are some people in the world who may claim loving fictional characters like your own children is a bit odd. Ha ha! Silly people. How can I not help but giggle when Lisseria goes off on her rambling tangents? Or snort when old Mortimer does not actually remember his first name? Can I really help smiling as Ethryl calmly strolls across a deck of battling pirates? Is it wrong to want to hug Arthur when he’s having one of his melancholy moments? Or laugh when Nyria’s being. . .Nyria? I mean really. These are people that formed themselves into…

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In Which I Try Not to Be a Perfectionist

I believe I’ve mentioned before that I’m a perfectionist. I’m one of those people that would interrupt an important meeting just to straighten the crooked picture on the wall. When I see a wrinkle in my comforter on my bed I drop everything I’m doing to smooth it out. Just now I reached up to straighten my slightly askew lampshade. Yeah, I’m one of those people. So you can imagine what it’s like for me to try to write a book. Right now I’m well into a story that I’m thoroughly enjoying writing, but there’s still so many things just…

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The Child Within

I believe that we should never let go of the child within us. Children look at the world as something brand new and exciting. They seek out to explore and discover all of God’s creations. Even the simple things are delightful. Their imaginations are endless. Beautiful things are always seen through their eyes. They grin at strangers. Their love is given freely. They believe in the impossible. Children find joy in thing adults take for granted. They do not spend their days fretting; they play and explore and see each day as something wondrous and new, not something to dread.…

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Forever Free

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!!! Image via Little Birdie Blessings Today, thinking about the blessing of freedom, reminds me of that beautiful freedom we have in Christ. Jesus died on the cross to unlock the chains of sin around us. He set us FREE. If we have accepted Him as our Savior, never again do we have to be weighed down by the burden of sin. “Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.” Galatians 5:1 No matter where we are or where life leads us, we will…

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Blessed Hope

  “For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.” Titus 2:11-14 I was reading the book of Titus yesterday morning and this passage jumped out at me. Take a look at that passage again.…

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My Big Adventure in the World of Editing

I’m going to let you in on a little secret. I shudder at even the mention of rewriting. Ever since I knew what rewriting even was I ducked my head at the thought. Avoided it at all costs. Wallowed in anguish many an hour realizing I’ll never be a true writer because how could I ever rewrite? I spend so much time and work with first drafts, the idea of having to just scrap most of it and keep rewriting and rewriting and rewriting is enough to send me in depression. The fact that most people do not get published…

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Beautiful People – Arodathan

Lately I’ve been working a great deal on a story entitled The Avriot which is the first book in a steampunk, time travel trilogy called The Traveling Library. It’s farrrr different from anything I’ve ever written (high fantasy is my usual genre), but I’m having an absolute blast with it! I’ve kind of fallen in love with all my characters, but the problem is there are literally 8 main characters plus Moseley. The problem here is the fact that with so many people all together, it’s hard to focus on just a single one, so I’m sometimes having a difficult…

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Beautiful

You know what? Life is beautiful. Summer days are beautiful. Quiet moments are beautiful. Loud moments are beautiful. Are not even rainy days beautiful? We get so caught up in life, sometimes it slips our mind how beautiful it can be. We forget that every bloom, every ray of light, every drop of rain, was created by the Ultimate Creator. Even if the rainbows of life seem few and far between, don’t forget that there would be no rainbows without the rain. Don’t forget that even the worst of storms put us in the greatest of awe. Don’t forget that…

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Story Snippets

Due to a cold I’ve caught this week, I’m going to cheat a little bit and post some snippets from a few choice books of mine, because I don’t think anyone wants to have to read something I write while I have a cold…it’d be very incoherent, trust me. Then again, I don’t know if anyone wants to read anything I’ve written at any time… But I try to post once a week and I just hated to miss a week, cold or not, so snippets it is. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ More Blue than Sky (Colors of a Dragon Scale Series)    …

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This Post Involves Lots of Books

You know what makes me happy? BOOOOKS!!! Just a couple of days ago I finished reading By Darkness Hid, by Jill Williamson. Can I just say: Loooooove! I’ve been wanting to read this one for a good while now. It was so GOOD! I had already ordered the next one, To Darkness Fled, before I had even finished the first one, and now I greatly anticipate it arriving. But, fortunately, while I wait I have some other reads to pass the time. In addition to acquiring By Darkness Hid and ordering To Darkness Fled, I also recently visited a local…

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