My Own Thoughts

Went to a different church to visit this weekend and a young girl came on stage and spoke. She told the Dielli story from the Bible perspective, with “young” being 13 or so. That’s a lot younger than I had envisioned. It was so well done. Then the preacher got up and spoke on the [...]

I wrote Dielli I and it was 140,000 words. I rewrote it significantly and shortened it to 114,000 words. Today I am reading Mike Nappa’s 77 Reasons Why Your Book Was Rejected and in “Reason No. 11″ it says: Typical adult nonfiction book: 45,000-55,000 words Typical adult novel: 80,000-100,000 words Typical young adult novel: 40,000-60,000 [...]

Using Robert’s Rules of Writing: Start the book with Dielli crawling out of the bedroom to find her aunt and uncle, not with the dream. (Really?) “Figure out what the action is … and then start writing just a fraction before that action begins.” Maybe reorder, so that it starts with Dielli killing the spider? [...]

I got the two sets of Brit Lit essays back to them on Friday. We did what I said we were going to do in class and also about the assignment for Monday’s class, since there is a university-wide experience we are missing class for. Yay! We also voted in class to have the reflective [...]

I have been running behind for a while, feeling like I am not getting what I need to get done done, partially because I keep putting the house together and then taking it back apart for one reason or another. (Paint, wood floors) Today I took off after my 8 am meeting, went home and [...]

“Earth’s crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God; But only he who sees, takes off his shoes – The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries.” Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I wonder if he will agree with me. Liberal = pursuit of happiness, group over individuals Republican = life, individual choice

We ended up not just putting wood floors into the living room but in all the rooms that did have carpet. We ended up not putting in the wood floors that I had looked at (cheap) at Home Depot. Instead we went with the guy who redid our floors in KW. We got 3x as [...]

I had a chapter turned in this summer for a book which was turned down wholesale. I thought I had gotten it just right, but I missed the audience (1 of the 3), and so the time was potentially wasted. This caused me a bit of depression and frustration, since I did spend a lot [...]