Weekly Drawing ~ Sandra Ardoin

It's Fun Friday at The Borrowed Book! This week's prize is available to residents inside the continental US only. To enter: Leave the time it took you to complete the puzzles in the comments section as well as your email address for notifying you if you've won. Winners will be drawn from ALL of the times, so the person with the fastest time may not be the actual winner,...

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A Writer’s Work is Never Done by Sandra Ardoin

We can write “The End,” but is it really? Writing fiction had lingered in the back of my mind since third grade, but outside of school projects, I never attempted it. I didn’t want to die and have people find what I’d written. J (I still have that fear. Weird.) Still single in my latter twenties, I needed a little extra cash and thought I’d get it through freelance...

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The Case of the Deadly Slow Writing by Author Sandra Ardoin

National Novel Writing Month  is right around the bend. In my mind, I picture writers everywhere sitting at desks with pencils sharpened and held upright in hand, a couple of spares nearby. They stare at the clock. At the stroke of midnight on November 1, they bend over their desks and don’t look up until 11:59 p.m. on November 30.  **Shiver** It reminds me...

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Winners!!

Good morning, BB fans! Thanks to everyone who participated in our "puzzling" Friday giveaway! Keep all those facebook and Twitter notifications, coming! This week's winner is:  Melanie Backus (mauback55 at gmail dot com)  - The Promise by Beth Wiseman.   Congratulations! Thank you all so much for stopping by The Borrowed Book....

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Sunday Devotional: Psalm 94 ~ Where is God?

This week I read a story—just one of many similar incidents—about a Muslim girl who was stoned to death by a crowd of men, led of all people by her father. Her crime? Uncleanness, in the form of falling victim to rape. The story detailed the girl’s pleas for forgiveness, and her father’s utter implacability. The man relating the story went on to discuss how God, our true Father, is tender and compassionate by contrast, always forgiving when...

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Weekly Drawing ~ Beth Wiseman

It's Fun Friday at The Borrowed Book! This week's prize is available to residents inside the continental US only. To enter: Leave the time it took you to complete the puzzles in the comments section as well as your email address for notifying you if you've won. Winners will be drawn from ALL of the times, so the person with the fastest time may not be the actual winner,...

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Author Beth Wiseman Talks About 3-D Characters

We’ve all read books with one or two-dimensional characters, those books that tell a great story but lack the motivations to support the actions, thus making it difficult to stay vested and care about the characters. Three-dimensional characters are layered, but the trick is not stuffing it all down the reader’s throat at one time. Motivations will be easier to digest...

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Deleted Scenes—The Pitfalls, The Upside by Author Beth WIseman

Is there anything more painful for an author than to hit the ‘Delete’ button?  We’ve given life to our characters, created scenes that we know are perfect, and bled onto the pages.  How in the world can an editor see what we can’t and insist that some pages—maybe even entire scenes—need to go? The horror. But if you’re in the game long enough, it will eventually...

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Winners!!

Good morning, BB fans! Thanks to everyone who participated in our "puzzling" Friday giveaway! Keep all those facebook and Twitter notifications, coming! This week's winner is:  Emily Kopf (Zerina147@gmail.com )  - Veiled at Midnight by Christine Lindsay.   Congratulations! Thank you all so much for stopping by The Borrowed Book....

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Sunday Devotional: Psalm 90 ~ Infused with the eternal

Did you know that Moses wrote a Psalm? Psalm 90 (NKJV) ~ A Prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, You have been our dwelling place in all generations. 2 Before the mountains were brought forth, Or ever You had formed the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God. Moses was, to our knowledge, the first one to ask God His name. And God answered, I Am That I Am. Wording varies depending upon your translation...

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Weekly Drawing ~ Christine Lindsay

It's Fun Friday at The Borrowed Book! This week's prize is available to residents inside the continental US only. To enter: Leave the time it took you to complete the puzzles in the comments section as well as your email address for notifying you if you've won. Winners will be drawn from ALL of the times, so the person with the fastest time may not be the actual winner,...

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Ah…The Easy Life of a Christian Writer—by Christine Lindsay

A writer, especially a Christian writer, makes loads of money and can afford to be chauffered around and someone else clean her house and make the meals. A published writer also makes so much money he or she does not need another job to pay the bills. Laughing out loud. Here’s another one for you: A Christian writer only writes happy stories because their lives...

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