Blog Thanks Award

Ok. So, this month is Thanksgiving and Christian Fiction Blog's feeling quite gracious. This month we are sending out Blog Thanks Awards to blogs that have inspired us this year and have given us far more than we could ever give back. 

 

My three picks are(and I have so many others to thank later:)

 

Dave Long's Faith*in*Fiction Blog.

I have formed such a great bond with Dave and the guys and dolls at the forum. Dave has his hands full aquiring titles for Bethany House. Yet, he takes the time to not only share his thoughts about what christian fiction can inspire to be, but also with a dry humor try to convince a southern football fanatic like me that baseball is better. :)Now more than ever I believe that writing with a christian worldview is my calling. Thanks guys for being so giving.

 

Darren Rouse's ProBlogger.net:

I ran across this blog when I decided I wanted to learn more about blogging and how to turn this site into a tool for christian fiction writers and readers. Darren gives so much advice about generating traffic, current trends, and news I need to pay him, but my blogging isn't earning millions like his. But it has earned me enough to have my own domain! We'll talk about those changes in December.

 

Mick "Milk" Silva's Your Writing Group:

Such a passionate soul about christianity and christian writing. Didn't get to chat much with him when Focus on Fiction was running. But I'm constantly checking out what he has to say. I'm constantly checking my own writing to see if my writing is devoted to God. Thanks Milk(my pet name only.)

 

We would love for you to take this image and give thanks to your favorite blogs and comment here about which blogs you chose, so that we could check them out. What a fun meme to show thanks to the blogosphere. 

 

At the end of the year, we will compile these blogs and do a top ten of the best inspiring blogs. Thanks for commenting.

 

Dee

 

 

 

 

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HaloTip #8: Using Horses to Drive Theme

An excerpt from Sugar Rum Halloween…

 

“Mary Margaret…” I screamed.

Her body flailed back and forth on the altar like a fresh trout in a beach bucket.

“Are you in there?”

The jerking stopped. Mary Margaret Hogan looked straight through me. Her eyes, glazed, jaded…green. I held my chest.

Five months ago the Valdosta Daily Times wrote an article about a little boy whose parents made him live in a coat closet, because he needed to be disciplined. By the time the police found him, his face was green, jaded, and dead.

Mary Margaret sat straight up. Jack-in-the-box. And growled. “She is not here, Anastasia Foster.”

I felt a drop of urine in my underpants.

People aren’t always what they seem to be. And yes… There are green monsters in my closet.

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In my short story Sugar Rum Halloween I used horses, a screenwriting term for collaging subjects, in order to build a solid theme. Each theme or horse grew stronger and stronger until the reader understood that this story was about secrets, mercy and identity.

 

Go to the message board to see how to you can create horses to drive your theme.  And tell me what kind of stories are bridging your theme.

 

Dee

 

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Girl Scouts Across America Adventure to Narnia

 

My girlscout troop, the Notorious 1942 Daisy Patch is excited. This year the Girl Scouts of America started a nationwide bookclub. And guess what our first book will be? The Lion, the Witch & The Wardrobe. We will start this month so we can prepare to see Narnia. Next month we will meet only once and the meeting will be to see the movie on the 10th. I'm psyched.

 

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