Grandmother’s Letters

~It’s Coming Along…

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Grandmother’s Letters is coming along. I’m on a deadline now… so I’m working on it like a crazy person. Here’s an excerpt from somewhere around where I’ve been typing. (Oh… and Andy is Louise’s younger brother, incase anyone is wondering.)

Wandering with complete aimlessness around the house, Andy noticed Louise’s door open. Why her desk attracted his attention, he didn’t know, but he wandered in to look at it nonetheless. Her laptop was closed, looking rather lonely despite its surroundings. Papers lay to the left of it, scribbles and various notes on them about the treasure, the Hadding’s street address in Halcer, and the name of Harrison Wilman. The young man found little interest in that and looked at the rest of the desk. A Bible lay on the other side of the computer open to the book of James, more papers this time an essay on something or other, and another book. Andy picked it up, read the title, and set it down. Louise might enjoy reading A Tale of Two Cities, but he always had a hard time focusing on Mr. Dickens.

To the KING be all the glory!

~How Do I Know?

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Louise’s thoughts were broken by her father’s voice, “It is wrong to be angry at God, Louise. You should know that too.”
 
“Why is it wrong?” Louise pursued.
 
“Sometimes we just have to do the things we know are right and avoid those which are wrong.” Mr. Whitmore answered.
 
“But how do I know what is right and what is wrong?” Louise questioned, watching her father’s face a moment. He didn’t reply and the rest of the drive was silent… until the next phone call.

I’m working on Grandmother’s Letters right now. I don’t think I ever realized how much work this book would entail! I love it – I love the characters, the storyline, everything – but wow! LORD willing, this will be my longest book to date (which, really, isn’t all that long, compared to other people) and it’s definitely my most complicated. With much work and prayer, I hope to finish the rest of the draft by the first week of February or so… We’ll see.

 

To the KING be all the glory!

~Keep Going!

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I’ve been working on Grandmother’s Letters a lot this month. Not as much as I planned, but I have been writing.

In the past month I have written about a hundred pages of my book, not counting the countless sheets I wrote and then promptly tore up. The problem is, at the beginning of this month, I probably thought that I had about 100, maybe 125 pages left until completion. Grandmother’s Letters would be easy to finish once I got myself to focus. I was wrong.

Now that I’ve written all these pages, I’ve discovered that I have at least that many to go, in order to finish this off properly! That’s what I’m thinking at least. I was wrong last time, so we’ll see. I have so many threads that need to be tied up and I’m still in the heart of parts of the story. Needless to say, this book is not likely to be finished by the end of tomorrow. Soon I hope, but not that soon.

In other news, I really need to start coming up with a few chapter titles. The last few that I’ve written are blank.

Better get back to my book… Hopefully I’ll have a longer, more interesting post on Monday. Do you title your individual chapters? Do you find it easy or difficult?

To the KING be all the glory!

~ A Random Post of Paragraphs…

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I’ve been particularly uninspired in the posting department this morning. I can’t seem to think up a good and coherent post for the day.

I was busy this week, so I didn’t get a chance to write Wednesday’s book review. I’m planning one of For Keeps, the second in the Aggie series, next week. I already have the picture for the post, I just need to write the post. I even know what the next weeks review is supposed to be. LORD willing, I’ll have both of those written in time.

I really need to re-design my blog. Hearts were fine for February, but I’m ready to change it. This time though, I think I want to stick to it for a few months. Maybe I’ll try to come up with something that looks good for Spring, that could go into Summer if I want it too. That or something that looks very literary. I haven’t decided yet, but hopefully it will be done in the next week or two.

Grandmother’s Letters is coming along well, if a little slowly. My sisters seem to be enjoying the story though, and that’s a good thing. I have no idea how many words I have written, since I handwrite every thing, and I haven’t gotten around to typing it out yet, but I know that it’s at least 20 pages. Which means, it will probably be 10 when I type it out, because of the paper I’m using right now.

I just finished reading The Heavens Declare by Perry Elizabeth and I think I’m going to read Emma by Jane Austen next. I had started it last year, but I got interrupted part way through, and now I think I’ll just start it over. It’s been a long time since I read a complete Austen novel. I’m not sure what else I’m reading, besides my Bible right now… I probably ought to change that.

I’ve got a couple of other writing related projects in the works, but we’ll see how they go, before I really post about them. Hopefully one of them will be completed this month though. I also need to finish the editing of A Year with the Potters. A few more hours should suffice on that.

That’s all for now, I suppose!

 

To the KING be all the glory!