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Conference Time

11 September 2010By Normandie

I sit in my lovely room, looking out at Sleepy Creek and polishing One Sheets to take to the ACFW Conference in Indianapolis. This will

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TIME

24 August 2010By Normandie

Sunrise on the Sea of Cortez. Praise music piped to the cockpit, in Spanish, of course, but, oh, so very, very full of the magnificence

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The Beauty of this Place

1 August 2010By Normandie

I’ve been busy tweaking submissions for my agent, Terry Burns. And in between tweaks, we’ve traveled from one place to another and back again.  If

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The Problem with Peter

25 July 2010By Normandie

Are you tired of making promises to God that you can’t keep? Tired of feeling happy one day and discouraged the next? We just listened

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Discipline versus Discouragement

20 July 2010By Normandie

Do you ever feel discouraged by what is not happening…or by what is? Do you feel overwhelmed by moments whose sole purpose seems to be

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The Hardest Part

10 July 2010By Normandie

The hardest part of starting a new manuscript is starting. It’s that first paragraph and that first page. Oh, I can always go back and

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Sailing, Sailing

3 July 2010By Normandie

To see some of the places we’ve been lately, visit our sailing blog and website (it’s changed) www.seaventure.us. We’re back in Internet land at Puerto

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Another Down, Another to Go

18 June 2010By Normandie

I sent off the second Beaufort book to my agent last week. He applauded the hook and the continuing tension. But in writing book 2,

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Does the World Need You — and Me?

10 May 2010By Normandie

Over at http://www.yourwritersgroup.com/ editor Mick Silva suggests that, yes, the world needs us because it needs our words. What a novel thought.  I look over

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Rewriting and then rewriting again

3 May 2010By Normandie

Why is it that the phrase I thought so perfect — so apropos! — leaps suddenly off the page as miserably imperfect? I’ve either got

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