History, Real Life and Faith
I’ve just completed writing a novel I wrote out of order. I’m not alone in realizing you don’t have to write a story in a linear fashion. Writer J. K. Rowling famously wrote her entire Harry Potter series toward one conclusion: a chapter she wrote at the beginning of her career and kept locked in a safe deposit box. Five…
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I just finished writing my novel and I’m still on an adrenaline high. I’ve finished writing long novels before (though not this long at nearly 106,000 words), but I’ve never felt quite like this before. Jazzed. Thrilled. Excited. Heart pounding emotional. Weepy. Thankful. Blessed. I started writing it nearly 15 months ago and it has been an intense period in…
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Since exercise is so beneficial for everything else, why not in writing a novel’s scene? As I drove home from the gym yesterday, I was mulling a tricky scene I needed to write. I couldn’t figure out how to pull it off and the more I thought about it, the more discouraged I became. As things stood, I’d need to…
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Since exercise is so beneficial for everything else, why not in writing a novel’s scene? As I drove home from the gym yesterday, I was mulling a tricky scene I needed to write. I couldn’t figure out how to pull it off and the more I thought about it, the more discouraged I became. As things stood, I’d need to…
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Because I grew up in Los Angeles and attended UCLA, I’ve occasionally met a celebrity. One of my relatives is even a close friend to a famous movie star. When I was younger, I held them in awe–wow, a famous person–but that changed the day I parked next to a Navy pediatrician at the commissary. (Pediatricians are god-like celebrities when…
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Because I grew up in Los Angeles and attended UCLA, I’ve occasionally met a celebrity. One of my relatives is even a close friend to a famous movie star. When I was younger, I held them in awe–wow, a famous person–but that changed the day I parked next to a Navy pediatrician at the commissary. (Pediatricians are god-like celebrities when…
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