Living Between the Lines

There’s something special about growing up in a small town.  The one I grew up in was little more than a four-way stop on an old secondary highway in rural NC.  Mama taught at the high school and Daddy pastored one of the four churches settled within our town limits. By far, my favorite part [...]

Today, I’m posting my book review on the YA novel, “It’s NOT About ME,” by Michelle Sutton.  This book was released by Sheaf House and it’s sequel, “It’s NOT About HIM,” will be released in September 2009. Since I first heard of Michelle Sutton, I’ve consistently heard her writing described as “edgy.”  I had never [...]

Sometimes, you just need to shake things up.  Like today…  When I got home from work, I walked into the kitchen, looked around and said, “Sarah, you need to shake things up a little!”  I went into my tiny, portable home office area–the living room couch and a tv tray– packed up the whole shebang, and [...]

Before you write the first word of a screenplay, you should know 3 things: 1.  Who is your main character? 2.  What is going to happen to your main character? 3.  How does the story end? Beginning a screenplay without knowing the ending is kinda like riding a bike in the dark.  You can’t see [...]

Today I had the happy privilege of speaking to a group of 6th graders at my mother’s middle school about screenwriting.  As a way of reinforcing the skills they’re learning in our seminar series, I will be dedicating Fridays for the forseeable future to putting up a “bloginar” (blog seminar) on screenwriting.  Everybody feel free [...]

Every spring and every fall, the Pentecostal Holiness Church in Falcon (the little town I work in) has a barbecue chicken plate fundraiser.  They have artfully perfected the preparation of the yardbird.  On each plate, they put a half of a chicken, barbecued of course, some nice green beans, potatoes, a roll, and dessert.  A [...]

“Women love adventure of all sorts…  We were made to be part of a great adventure.  An adventure that is shared.  We do not want the adventure merely for adventure’s sake but for what it requires of us for others. ” — from Captivating by John & Stasi Eldredge When I was 18 years old, my [...]

For weeks, I’ve been mulling what my first blog should be about.  Realistically, it’s not going to have a huge audience.  To this point, I haven’t much publicized it.  But even if I only have three faithful readers (Hi Mom, David, and Joell!), I still want it to be worthwhile for them.  What I decided [...]