The Pacific Northwest, and particularly Whidbey Island, is extremely suited to be a location in a novel.
Don't give away to others what you have not first given away at home.
God has plans for you and His plans are for good because God Himself is good. He can neither think nor do evil.
Essentially and most simply put, plot is what the characters do to deal with the situation they are in. It is a logical sequence of events that grow from an initial incident that alters the status quo of the characters.
Creating the characters is the most creative part of the novel except for the language itself. There I am, sitting in front of my computer in right-brain mode, typing the things that come to mind - which become the seeds of plot. It's scary, though, because I always wonder: Is it going to be there this time?
It is the job of the novelist to touch the reader.
I myself have suffered periodically from hearing voices at night when I'm trying to sleep.
A powerful truth is that if we love the Lord, love His Word, love His people, and love one another, we won't want to gossip.
Oh, yes, I taught 13 and a half years. I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at El Toro High School in Lake Forest, Calif.
Everything in our lives," she said quietly, "leads to everything else in our lives. So a moment in the present has a reference point, both in the past and in the future. I want you to know that you--as you are right now and as you ever will be--are fully enough for this moment . . .
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