Miss Elaini

Impossible circumstances; impossible passions; a God Who deals in the impossible. It’s certainly what happened with me. An impossible background; an impossible dream to change literature; a crazy burden for the job to be done right; insurmountable limitations. An yet, Rebirth Publishing exists. I do have a speaking career. And I have a third novel [...]

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The wonder of Eden

I was recently requested to review a book—my unique blend of a love of fantasy AND of purity causes people to either stay away from talking about literature with me or to investigate my opinion. The particular author of this fantasy book attempted to create a unique world by contrasting the human-realm of morals and [...]

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Writers’ Guild Week 3 and Orson Scott Card

“Every story choice you make arises out of who you are, at the deepest level of your soul… (It) reveals more about you, in fact, than you know about yourself… The moment you use a technique that doesn’t belong in your story, solely for the sake of appealing to some imagined reader… your story dies a [...]

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Half of me

My mother often tells me that she would “rather have half of me than all of anyone else”. It’s a nice complement and important as I’m halved by sickness so often. I think I get what she means after today. It has been weeks since I have been able to truly work on writing. I wrote [...]

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Almost done

Who needs sleep? That is how my body acted last night. Needless to say I am exhausted tonight, but I put the insomniac in me to good use. I edited Xsardis until four o’clock this morning and continued throughout the day. Much good work has been done and I am so close to finishing. I have [...]

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Tempurpedic

People told me I should have gone with a Sleep Number instead of a Tempurpedic. I am glad I did not listen. As a junior in high school my parents grew weary of finding me downstairs watching TV and unable to sleep at four in the morning. So they decided to try a different mattress. I [...]

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The Sword of Speech

I did little work-related today, as expected. But there were unexpected pleasures. My three siblings and I got to go out just the four of us for the first time in over five years. When we were younger, Thursdays were ‘homeschooler hot-lunch days’. We would go to Tacobell-Kentucky Fried Chicken with out mom. So today we went [...]

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Pushing back the tide

Today was one of those days where you do a bunch of different projects and begin to push back the tide of forgotten work. It feels so good to be on the other side of so many small but important things! I awoke by editing Xsardis, then began construction of a new article about Christian [...]

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Worn out of ideas

I spent today in Portland with my mother. It was a lovely day, full of talking more than shopping. We had Friendlys for lunch and walked through the mall, before sitting down on a bench and just talking. Dinner was coffee and desert at Olive Garden. It was wonderful. We discussed EVERYTHING. The last seven+ [...]

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Covering a week 7/18

As is typical for me, I have an excuse for not blogging: I was sick. From hives, to throwing up, to a cold, to chosto chondritus, to asthma, and more my entire system seemed to crash Saturday and Sunday–not opportune timing since my friends from Virginia and I spent Friday night at a friend’s house and [...]

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