Karyl's Glimpses of Eternity--  Lupus and Life

Hello dear friends!
I am doing a very belated Thankful Thursday entry.  I am grateful for many things.

1.  After allowing myself to fall behind last year (poor self-discipline), I completed a two-and-a-half year year Christian writing course before my deadline of March 1!

2.  The necessary discipline to finish that course on time was hard to come by.  I had to give up some pleasures, including blogging, and spend time in prayer and work very hard to finish, writing as much as 25 hours or more a week.  But the Lord enabled me to finish on time and my mentor says I finished well.

3.  Because the last three months of writing lessons were on fiction, I had to develop characters, dialogue, scenes, plots and story lines.  With all of the work I put in on those, I have enough to write a mystery novel.  I began working on it two weeks ago and I am excited and very pleased about that.

4.  I'm grateful for my mentor in the writing course, who encouraged and taught me, all the time while urging me to deliver more to stretch and build my writing skills.  She really inspires me to be a better writer.

5.  My DH and I had our 40th anniversary February 26!  I am grateful for my sweetie.  And he gave me a beautiful ring.

In other news, I am preparing for a repair surgery sometime this spring.  I will post when I have a date.  I believe it will be in May or June.

Our kittens, Xena Kitten Warrier and Tuxedo the Cautious will be celebrating their first birthday next week.  They continue to be fun and work for us lol.

The intensive writing to finish the Christian Writers Guild Apprentice Course has prepared me for spending time each day working on my first-ever novel.  I am setting deadlines for completing the first three chapters and for completing the book itself.  And I am hopeful of continuing on with the CWG's next course, Journeyman.

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• #11 Comment from lurkynat 
  7/27/08 1:59 AM | Permalink

  miss you Karyl
  love,nat
• #10 Comment from lrttklly 
  3/31/08 1:35 PM | Permalink

  I am delighted with your work, Karyl.
  You are an inspiration!
  Love,
  Loretta
• #9 Comment from princesssaurora 
  3/26/08 9:30 PM | Permalink

  Missing you... hoping your Easter was joyous!
  
  be well,
  Dawn
  http://journals.aol.com/princesssaurora/CarpeDiem/
  
• #8 Comment from ksgal3133 
  3/23/08 7:59 AM | Permalink

  Its good to hear from you and happy belated anniversary wishes!
  That is exciting that you are writing a novel.
  
  Hugs,
  Gretchen
• #7 Comment from lifesabench6 
  3/15/08 9:05 PM | Permalink

  Hi Karyl!  It's so good to see you! I'm glad you got everything done that you wanted to- and how cool for you to write a novel!  I hope al goes well with your surgery, and Happy Anniversary!  God Bless!! Carolyn