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Echoes, Day 31

Broke 14,000 words today. It helped that the two chapters I focused on today had been in the original draft, so today, it was mostly tweaking those words. But it brings me much closer to where I’m trying to get. I have four more chapters from 1995 to write, then I’m off to 2006. Once […]

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Echoes, Day 24

I know I haven’t posted in a couple of days, but I have been still working on the novel. I took a step back and decided to try and fill in the beat sheet for all my characters: I have continued editing what I have so far, and have made two major name changes. Word-wise, […]

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#tbt – Picking fruit – Love

(originally written 7/16/06) “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance, against such there is no law.” (Gal. 5:22-23 KJV) I think it’s interesting that love is the first fruit mentioned. There are several verses throughout the Bible that state that without love there is nothing. “Though […]

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JOOTB! Now Caffeine-Free!

As my title states, I am indeed caffeine-free. My addiction to caffeine was one thing I intended to address eventually, as an out-of-the-box experience, but I’ve hesitated doing this because if I go longer than a day without caffeine, I get awful headaches. Sometimes, though, these decisions are made for us. On Sunday, January 29th, […]

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Truth

I posted a few days ago about the virtues of truth, justice and the American way. I only scratched the surface with that blog, so I decided to devote some time to each one separately. So, in order of appearance, and importance, we’ll start with truth. What is truth? That’s something that people have always […]