I worked on blogs and such yesterday and today gave my work in progress, the final book of The Florida Springs Trilogy, Clear Spring some attention. I don’t know why it takes years to get into good routines, but that’s one of the reasons I’m much in favor of routines, they help me streamline my life. It looks as if it will work to spend a two hour block one day doing marketing, answering emails, writing blogs, etc. and the next day concentrate on the novel. That would be a very loose plan for me. If a blog was insisting on being written right that minute, of course I would write it then.
How about you? Do you favor routine or are you a free spirit?
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Letters
I have re-read the letters Bill wrote me while he was stationed aboard ship in the Navy in 1958. They are 
pretty much the same as the ones Dad sent Mother in 1945 during World War II. I suppose a service person’s life can be full of monotony even in wartime.
Receiving messages from home or from loved ones far away is by far the most wonderful, the most exciting, and the most fulfilling thing that can happen for most people in a day or a week. Nowadays it is easier and takes less time than it ever has. I love paper letters, but even more, I love modern technology that makes communicating so quick and easy. Besides being where you can hold hands, what’s your favorite style of communication these days?
I love My New Message Bible
It’s before breakfast on a Tuesday morning. I’m going to have scrambled eggs and tea in a minute, so this will be quick, but I wanted to tell you something. I love The Message Bible. Bill has a large print copy, I have a large print copy, and I have it on Kindle and I have the Message Promise Book on Kindle and the Message Proverbs too. The desire of my heart was to have it on my IPod so I could listen to it when I take a walk, wait in waiting rooms, or drive my car. I’ve been waiting a long time for this item, to get it just right, so I could relax and soak in God’s word in mobile situations. I tried some other audio Bibles, but
had to return them because I didn’t care for the readers—they were too noisy, too busy. I like my Bible to just speak calmly and tell me what’s what. At last yesterday it all came together and I bought 76+ hours of Bible, called, The Daily Message from Navpress for a very reasonable amount of money.
The reader is a man, Kelly Ryan Dolan.I feel abundantly favored. Eugene Peterson, the translator of that version says that all through history people have been translating so that ordinary people could read and understand the Bible. Tyndale, one of the first translators said he wanted to make it so plain a plough-boy could read and understand it. (Of course. there are things we might not fully understand, but the Bible is for everybody, not just the literati. I listen to good novels and non-fiction in mobile situations too, so don’t think I’m going all pious on you. I’m like most people today, an input junkie. But it will be nice not to have to scramble for something uplifting to listen to. I’ve thought for a long time that my understanding of Psalm 37:4 is being expanded to: Trust the Lord and He will give you ideas of what he wants you to desire so he can fulfill those desires for you. Thank you, Lord.
Do you have a favorite translation? I would so enjoy “chatting” about our favorites.
DiVoran Lites Interviews
Do you have any kind of conflict when you talk about yourself? We love to do it, but we don’t like to get caught at it, because we’ve been taught that it isn’t modest. Modest or not, I know how I feel about the authors I love. I want to know things. I went to the town in Scotland where my favorite writer, D. E. Stevenson, once lived and I stood looking at the gray two-story house that was hers. In a shop, I bought a pair of argyle socks as a remembrance, and besides, my feet were cold. I asked if the shop girl had ever heard of my idol. She had not. Dorothy Emily died years before the lass was born.
I still have the socks, but alas, there’s a tiny hole in the heel of one, and the toe is about ready to pop through the other. I still wear them, though, with shoes that won’t let the holes show. So here, for better or for worse are my interviews, which I must say I did enjoy mulling over. As I revisited the places in my past, both tangible and intangible I relived again some of the things which have made me reading and writing so enjoyable. I hope you like them, and I hope you love my books half as much as I love Mrs. Stevenson’s. (Yes, Robert Louis Stevenson was her kinsman.)
Old Things R New February 11, 2013
The Story of Sacred Spring could have been written without the faith element. Why did you choose to include faith?
Could it have been written without the faith element? Maybe, but I couldn’t have been the one to do it. Leaving God out is like leaving out the sun, the moon, and the stars. Way before there was ever such a thing as a “Christian Book Market,” there were writers who included their faith in their work. A great story is paramount, but to my way of thinking any book that turns out to be worthwhile is made up of what is called “moral fiction.” Moral is good, but why not take it just that logical next step and let God join the party. He wants a part in everything we do.
Read more of this interview as well as DiVoran’s blogs at Old Things R New
Indie Authors You Want to Read April 28,2013
Which is your most favourite book ever?
I’d have to say my favorite book is the best one I most recently read, which in this case is Sufficient Grace, by Darnell Arnoult.
What kind of music do you like?
As for music, I like many different kinds of music, but if I had to choose one type it would have to be classical-not too heavy, though, and with a great deal of variety.
Be sure to read the rest of this interview plus many others at Indie Authors You Want to Read