08.28.08 at 11:28 pm by Kara_S
We’ve had a semi-stressful month here at our house compliments of my husband’s ongoing workers compensation case. We hit a bump in the road with them that at the time seemed like another insurmountable mountain but is now just another day in the life of a workers compensation case. Ugh. Needless to say that bump in the road along with some other things caused some unwanted stress.
Thankfully we’ve been planning since early June to go away for this weekend. We’ll be heading to Snowshoe Mountain in eastern W.Va.
Crazy as it may seem but we’ve never been to this highly acclaimed ski resort in the winter! Maybe because we don’t ski? The idea of either of us skiing prompts images of broken bones, sore muscles and cold toes. I’ll stick to sledding, although Snowshoe does have a snow tubing hill. Hmmm…
Or maybe because the road up the mountain seems like it would be terrifying in the
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08.25.08 at 6:15 am by Kara_S
I was chatting with an old friend the other day and I was telling her about my story idea. She is nearing the completion of a manuscript and asked if I had thought of a title yet for my story. Um…not really. I remember having this really awesome title idea float through my mind at some point, but silly me didn’t write it down. Yep, you’re right, I don’t remember it.
So I admitted that I hadn’t thought of any titles. She’s trying to decide between three possibilities for her story. I would say that I’m jealous but she’s much more advanced with her story than I am so I guess she deserves to have three.
Then I sat down to write an update and share what I’ve learned so far, and I realized that it would be so cool to have a working title, something better than WIP (work in progress).
What pops into my
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08.24.08 at 5:49 pm by Kara_S
All of us are at a different place in our writing lives. Some are just starting out, others have no desire to be published but just want to learn out of self-satisfaction, and some are well on the way to seeing their work(s) in print. My goal with these weekly “useful posts” is to provide links to other sites that I’ve found to be beneficial in my own writing life and will hopefully be beneficial to you.
Point of view series – If you’ve dabbled in writing fiction or learning about writing fiction, you know that one of the potential “big” marks against a manuscript is a shifting point of view (POV). As I’ve taken time the past couple of months to seriously study writing, POV is frequently mentioned along with “head hopping.” The first time I came across “head hopping” in a blog post I had no clue what it meant. From the context I
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08.23.08 at 4:26 pm by Kara_S
Upon hearing that I was reading and reviewing The Faith of Barack Obama by Stephen Mansfield, one friend asked, “Faith? What faith?”
I admit that that question was exactly why I chose to participate in Michael Hyatt’s offer to review the book. I wanted to know what made the man and how he would respond to religious issues if he becomes the next president.
I haven’t listened to much of the political debate going on this summer, and sadly, I missed the Saddleback Forum with Rick Warren last weekend. So, essentially, I started reading with an unclouded perspective of Obama’s faith.
Overall I found Mansfield’s treatment of the subject to be objective, seemingly unbiased, and clearly written. The book is easy to read and surprisingly short with 144 pages of text accompanied by substantial notes and a bibliography of additional sources. Mansfield relies heavily on Obama’s own writings about his faith as
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08.20.08 at 7:02 am by Kara_S
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