Comments on: Write or Die http://christaparrish.com/write-or-die.html Breaking the Sea... Wed, 03 Mar 2010 02:04:00 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Christa Parrish http://christaparrish.com/write-or-die.html/comment-page-1#comment-5138 Christa Parrish Mon, 01 Feb 2010 03:37:38 +0000 http://christaparrish.com/write-or-die.html#comment-5138 Barbara, thanks so much. It's always uplifting for an author to know readers are enjoying her books! I appreciate you taking the time to write. Christa Barbara, thanks so much. It’s always uplifting for an author to know readers are enjoying her books! I appreciate you taking the time to write. Christa

]]> By: Barbara http://christaparrish.com/write-or-die.html/comment-page-1#comment-5135 Barbara Mon, 25 Jan 2010 02:29:56 +0000 http://christaparrish.com/write-or-die.html#comment-5135 Christa, I just finished your first novel. It was awesome! I kept checking at the end-surely there were more pages! Hope you can come up with a sequel some day. I'm going to recommend Home Another Way to the ladies' book club at my church and I've already told others about it and will definitely share my copy with friends. Years ago, after seeing The Passion of the Christ, I determined to give up romance novels. The caliber of writing by Christian authors is growing by leaps and bounds since I first began reading them. You will certainly be added to my growing list of favorite authors. God bless you and your writing. I'm so looking forward to reading your other two novels! Christa,
I just finished your first novel. It was awesome! I kept checking at the end-surely there were more pages! Hope you can come up with a sequel some day. I’m going to recommend Home Another Way to the ladies’ book club at my church and I’ve already told others about it and will definitely share my copy with friends.
Years ago, after seeing The Passion of the Christ, I determined to give up romance novels. The caliber of writing by Christian authors is growing by leaps and bounds since I first began reading them. You will certainly be added to my growing list of favorite authors.
God bless you and your writing. I’m so looking forward to reading your other two novels!

]]> By: Christa Parrish http://christaparrish.com/write-or-die.html/comment-page-1#comment-5134 Christa Parrish Sat, 23 Jan 2010 17:20:11 +0000 http://christaparrish.com/write-or-die.html#comment-5134 Kristina, thank you so much. Your encouragement means so much to me. I had a very wonderful, extremely patient profoundly deaf friend who was willing to be open about her life and answer all my questions, even the really stupid ones :) I'm really glad you enjoyed the book, and hope to hear from you when you finish HOME ANOTHER WAY, too! Kristina, thank you so much. Your encouragement means so much to me. I had a very wonderful, extremely patient profoundly deaf friend who was willing to be open about her life and answer all my questions, even the really stupid ones :) I’m really glad you enjoyed the book, and hope to hear from you when you finish HOME ANOTHER WAY, too!

]]> By: Kristina http://christaparrish.com/write-or-die.html/comment-page-1#comment-5133 Kristina Sat, 23 Jan 2010 01:25:27 +0000 http://christaparrish.com/write-or-die.html#comment-5133 Hi Christa! I was given Watch Over Me at Christmas and it blew me away! I love all the intertwining stories. I also wanted to praise your portrayal of being deaf in a hearing world. I am a sign language interpreter and work for a non-profit organization in Syracuse, NY. Our tag-line is "life without limits for deaf and hard of hearing kids". I appreciated the authenticity of all of your characters, but especially all the little quirks that go along with being Deaf. I just put Home Another Way on my next Amazon order and I can't wait for book number three! Hi Christa! I was given Watch Over Me at Christmas and it blew me away! I love all the intertwining stories. I also wanted to praise your portrayal of being deaf in a hearing world. I am a sign language interpreter and work for a non-profit organization in Syracuse, NY. Our tag-line is “life without limits for deaf and hard of hearing kids”. I appreciated the authenticity of all of your characters, but especially all the little quirks that go along with being Deaf.
I just put Home Another Way on my next Amazon order and I can’t wait for book number three!

]]> By: Christa Parrish http://christaparrish.com/write-or-die.html/comment-page-1#comment-5126 Christa Parrish Sun, 03 Jan 2010 02:07:52 +0000 http://christaparrish.com/write-or-die.html#comment-5126 Thank you, Linda. I really appreciate your comments. I hope you get a chance to pick up WATCH OVER ME at some point (I suppose books are like children and authors are not supposed to play favorites, but I like it better than HOME ANOTHER WAY... just a little, I promise!) Have you read anything by Lisa Samson or Mary DeMuth? I really like them, as well as Susan Meissner :) Thank you, Linda. I really appreciate your comments. I hope you get a chance to pick up WATCH OVER ME at some point (I suppose books are like children and authors are not supposed to play favorites, but I like it better than HOME ANOTHER WAY… just a little, I promise!) Have you read anything by Lisa Samson or Mary DeMuth? I really like them, as well as Susan Meissner :)

]]> By: Linda Dupree http://christaparrish.com/write-or-die.html/comment-page-1#comment-5125 Linda Dupree Fri, 01 Jan 2010 15:16:43 +0000 http://christaparrish.com/write-or-die.html#comment-5125 I'm an avid reader but realized that I was filling my mind and time with a lot of garbage. I decided to read only Christians fiction. YUCK! How many sappy stories can one person survive. A few were good; many were disappointing. I was given "Home Another Way" for Christmas. I devoured it. I wanted to slap Sarah and tell her to behave herself. Then you began to peel the onion and I could see the why. Christa, I loved the book. I know the characters! I've met them. I go to church with them. Hallelujah for imperfect people!! I’m an avid reader but realized that I was filling my mind and time with a lot of garbage. I decided to read only Christians fiction. YUCK! How many sappy stories can one person survive. A few were good; many were disappointing. I was given “Home Another Way” for Christmas. I devoured it. I wanted to slap Sarah and tell her to behave herself. Then you began to peel the onion and I could see the why. Christa, I loved the book. I know the characters! I’ve met them. I go to church with them. Hallelujah for imperfect people!!

]]> By: John http://christaparrish.com/write-or-die.html/comment-page-1#comment-5124 John Thu, 31 Dec 2009 21:05:46 +0000 http://christaparrish.com/write-or-die.html#comment-5124 Turn around, Sarah! Sarah! Go back!!! Oh, sorry. I must have been daydreaming. I hate that "11th hour" stuff! I do a little writing myself...Yeah...A couple of lines a year. But seriously, when I get ideas, I write them down right away, and then immediately try to fill in around them. As much immediate quantity as possible. Write now, freeze later. Then I revise and add (or, ouch,delete) as time passes, either taking small moments to work on it, or waiting for more ideas to arrive. But using quantity, and then back-revising. It's amazing how many times I can read something before realizing "Hey! That's garbage!". (Someday, someone will find these pages and say "Hey, reasonable! So why couldn't he write another 150 pages?") I can handle deadlines, but I have no desire to be near one. OK, that's enough entertainment. But I do think that you should be given as much time as you need. Because you have demonstrated a conspicuous and incessant aptitude for surpassing the excellent and seizing the perfect. Turn around, Sarah! Sarah! Go back!!!
Oh, sorry. I must have been daydreaming.
I hate that “11th hour” stuff! I do a little writing myself…Yeah…A couple of lines a year.
But seriously, when I get ideas, I write them down right away, and then immediately try to fill in around them. As much immediate quantity as possible. Write now, freeze later. Then I revise and add (or, ouch,delete) as time passes, either taking small moments to work on it, or waiting for more ideas to arrive. But using quantity, and then back-revising.
It’s amazing how many times I can read something before realizing “Hey! That’s garbage!”.
(Someday, someone will find these pages and say “Hey, reasonable! So why couldn’t he write another 150 pages?”)
I can handle deadlines, but I have no desire to be near one.
OK, that’s enough entertainment. But I do think that you should be given as much time as you need. Because you have demonstrated a conspicuous and incessant aptitude for surpassing the excellent and seizing the perfect.

]]> By: Susan Reinhardt http://christaparrish.com/write-or-die.html/comment-page-1#comment-5117 Susan Reinhardt Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:17:34 +0000 http://christaparrish.com/write-or-die.html#comment-5117 I think I'd prefere positive reinforcement, thank you very much. Writing under duress would remove all the joy from the process. I do well with deadlines and tracking my progress on an EXCEL spreadsheet. Home Another Way has great potential for a sequel. I hope you do write one that tells us what happens to Sarah. Blessings, Susan :) I think I’d prefere positive reinforcement, thank you very much. Writing under duress would remove all the joy from the process. I do well with deadlines and tracking my progress on an EXCEL spreadsheet.

Home Another Way has great potential for a sequel. I hope you do write one that tells us what happens to Sarah.

Blessings,
Susan :)

]]> By: Christa Parrish http://christaparrish.com/write-or-die.html/comment-page-1#comment-5113 Christa Parrish Thu, 10 Dec 2009 05:04:08 +0000 http://christaparrish.com/write-or-die.html#comment-5113 Hi, Peggy. Thanks for stopping by. I'm not sure yet about a sequel for <em>Home Another Way</em>. It would have to be the right story; I don't want to diminish the first book with a second that isn't up to par :) Hi, Peggy. Thanks for stopping by. I’m not sure yet about a sequel for Home Another Way. It would have to be the right story; I don’t want to diminish the first book with a second that isn’t up to par :)

]]> By: Peggy Belonger http://christaparrish.com/write-or-die.html/comment-page-1#comment-5109 Peggy Belonger Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:03:21 +0000 http://christaparrish.com/write-or-die.html#comment-5109 I just finished your first novel and LOVED it! I am wondering if you plan to write a sequel. I HOPE SO because the story feels so unfinished! I just finished your first novel and LOVED it! I am wondering if you plan to write a sequel. I HOPE SO because the story feels so unfinished!

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