The Pacific Northwest, and particularly Whidbey Island, is extremely suited to be a location in a novel.

The degree of our spiritual strength will be in direct proportion to the time we spend in God's Word.

The past can't be changed, can it? It can just be forgiven.

Lots of people want to have written; they don't want to write. In other words, they want to see their name on the front cover of a book and their grinning picture on the back. But this is what comes at the end of a job, not at the beginning.

Creating the characters is the most creative part of the novel except for the language itself. There I am, sitting in front of my computer in right-brain mode, typing the things that come to mind - which become the seeds of plot. It's scary, though, because I always wonder: Is it going to be there this time?

Work on what is real rather than worry about what is unreal.

It's hard to criticize someone if you are praying for them.