Category: Journal Entries

  • Three Pages

    I accomplished a rough three pages of my project yesterday. I need to keep up/ increase the praying about my piece, because it’s definitely helping. (Not to say that these words are directly from God, but surely He’s doing something when unexpected answers show up while I write.) I had written down a rough two…

  • Interview 1

    Interview with a former financial VP for a local hospital What is the title for housekeepers/ cleaners in a hospital? Would they be assigned wings/ wards or be everywhere as needed? Title: Environmental Services Assigned a floor/ wing/ section; some quick cleaners are hired to speed up the turnover between patients in at-capacity hospitals such…

  • Genre Mapping

    I’m not sure what genre I’m trying to write. My first explanation led professors to call it a “novel in stories.” Upon further discussion, I think I have managed to totally confuse us all. Thus, I drew a map. Maybe this is just a normal novel with many narrators. Maybe it is more novel-in-stories than…

  • Prayer and Setting

    My professor and Madeleine L’Engle talk a lot about praying for one’s work, that then one can serve the work and the work becomes bigger than the writer. I didn’t really understand what this meant. I had prayed for my stories in the past and that seemed like a natural idea to me, especially since…

  • Thoughts on Madeleine L’Engle

    I read ahead in Walking on Water. In general, I really love this book. It’s written rather similarly to Gilead, which was probably the best fiction book I have read in college. Both Gilead and Walking on Water use rich vocabulary, intellectual lines of thinking, and repetitious references to grace. Because of these two books, grace might be my…

  • What Everyone Runs From

    For the week of 1/10/17 A list of possible characters and what they are running from: Dawson: his past (the loss of his parents; instead of building walls, he tries desperately to protect) Cadence: her past (her father’s overbearing control, her mother’s unhappiness) Needs more development Nurse Ann: heartbreak (avoids relationships so she can’t get hurt)…

  • First Ideas

    For the week of 1/10/17 A synthesis of the ideas I worked on this past week: The overall idea for the book follows a couple who run away from home, elope, and start working in a hospital. The male protagonist named Dawson could work as a security guard, while the female protagonist named Cadence could…