There's a First For Everything, So They Say

Would you believe that I've never been in a car accident? . . . Up until this past year that is. Around last Thanksgiving time we went to my cousin's house, and on the way home we hit a deer. But still, that was only a loud thump and a sudden jerk to a stop, and besides the fact that we had to drive home with our car light scanning the treetops above us instead of the road, no one was hurt and we were all good. Shaken but good. Until today. . . . My mom and I were driving into a Meijer's parking lot when another driver rammed straight into the side of our car, sending us spinning out. The side of our car is crumpled inward, and the front tire on the other side got blown out. But God really had His hand on us this time, and neither my mom or I were seriously harmed. Both of us are finding aches and pains in different places all over us, and I bumped my head against the dashboard, but that is it.

But when you think about it, please pray for the other driver. Even though she wasn't harmed, and our car got by far the worst of the beating, she didn't seem so secure mentally or spiritually. She was about my age or possibly younger, and this was her first accident ever. She had never even gotten a ticket before. So please pray for her.

Thanks.

Assr vísa ykkarr or∂.

~ElizabethMarieKauffman~

God is Good All the Time!!!

And today is a day to remember it. . . .

Happy Assr er Go∂r (God is Good) day everyone!!! :D What is one way that God has shown His goodness to you over this past year??

Assr vísa ykkarr or∂.

~ElizabethMarieKauffman~

The Birth of the King

Several years back I wrote a series of posts in the days before Christmas called "The Birth of the King". I wanted to do something special this year for Christmas again, but I don't have time, especially seeing as how Christmas is almost upon us. . . . So I decided to link you to those previous posts so that you can go back and read those in order to help get you in the mindset of the true meaning of Christmas. I still like to look back and read them just before Christmas. At the time that I wrote these, I was going through a very hard time, my whole family was, so Jesus was pretty much the only thing that I could lean on without fear of Him falling and pulling me down with Him. Although many times I feared that He would also fail, I learned to trust Him in ways that I never had before. :) I hope that these posts can encourage you as much as they did me as I wrote them.

1. http://visitingwithdragons.blogspot.com/2008/12/birth-of-king-mary-joseph-and-new-baby.html
2. http://visitingwithdragons.blogspot.com/2008/12/birth-of-king-shepherds-emmanuel.html
3. http://visitingwithdragons.blogspot.com/2008/12/birth-of-king-through-eyes-of-angels.html
4. http://visitingwithdragons.blogspot.com/2008/12/birth-of-king-hope-of-god.html

Assr vísa ykkarr or∂, and MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!! :D

~ElizabethMarieKauffman~

Christmas, CHRISTMAS, CHrIsTmas, Christmas

Well, NaNoWriMo is over. . . . I'm still working on typing up The Wolves of Langoor so that I can give you a final word count, so be looking for that to come very soon!

I just finished a pretty busy weekend, filled with acting the part of Mary in a Christmas pageant tableau (meaning that you act a segment of the scene while the narrators are talking, and then freeze in a position and hold it for a VERY long time), which performed two nights, with shows twice each night. I had the privilege of playing this same part last year, and last year as well as this I found it a very good way to get into the spirit of Christmas, and the mind set of what Christmas is truly about. Especially this year, when the added a segment at the end of the tableau; while me, Joseph, baby Jesus, and the shepherds and wise men and angels were all posed in the typical manger scene, a man who was supposed to be Jesus when he was older came across the lawn (it was outside), all beaten and bruised, with blood all over him, and more than half of his face made up to be all purple and blue. He was carrying a cross, and slowly made his way to the pavilion where we were, dragging his feet as he came. When he got there, he stopped and just stared at the baby Jesus for a while, before turning and going around and back to where he had come from. In the moments that he neared, and he just stood there, swaying slightly and breathing hard, as he stared at the baby in the manger, were really powerful! And what with me into the part of Marry so much that I began to feel what Marry might have felt, I was almost in tears with the thought that to her this was her baby. . . her son.

So that was a really amazing experience! And then as soon as that was done (as in the next day, and we were rehearsing while it was still happening), I played the part of the Narrator in a Christmas pageant for the children at our church. So I went from acting out the Christmas story, to telling it. :) But it was very fun.

But anyways. . . maybe I should get back to typing out that book instead of chatting away on a post. :)

Assr vísa ykkarr or∂.

~ElizabethMarieKauffman~

Kind of scary, yet kind of AMAZING!

Check out today's astronomy photo of the day. . . . . . .

(Is that a ship to the bottom right of the cloud??)

Now tell me. . . . Do you think something like that could possibly be created without the extraordinary brains an all powerful God?

Assr vísa ykkarr or∂.

~ElizabethMarieKauffman~

The Sword of Teneraz: The TRAILER!

I'm am very excited to announce that the The Sword of Teneraz book trailer is now complete!!! :D However. . . I am not going to show it to you, yet. You may thank my dad for the wonderful advice of waiting until closer to the books publication date to place it out in public. And I think that I'll keep the reasoning to myself and he: it may ruin it's affects on you otherwise. ;)

So keep your eyes open for the trailer to be released soon, with a great amount of hullabaloo and confetti.

And with that announcement, I think I should let you know how progress on my books are coming.

The Sword of Teneraz– is still in the editorial process. My mom is on her second run through, at the completion of which my dad will go over her notes and see if he has anything to add or such. My cousin has had–as he put it–an evil {crook eyebrows evilly} semester in college these past months, but his plan is to get TSOT edited over his Christmas break.

The Wolves of Langoor– is about 1/3rd written if my estimations are correct–which they seem to be known to not be, so we shall see just how far I truly am. The fantasy of completing NaNoWriMo's required 50,000 words in one month hasn't turned out to be a reality this year. :( All though I HAVE been able to make a great dent in the mass of writing to be done in order for this book to be called complete. So that has been exciting in itself. And I feel, that if I can keep up even just the amount of consistency that I've gotten in writing this month, I MAY (just possibly) be able to get the first draft done in a few months. (Don't hold me to that though, what with Christmas coming up and all. . . . It can be a great time to get lots of writing done, because of getting a break from other things; such as school. But on the other side of things, it's very possible to not get any writing done over the Christmas holiday, because you're so busy spending time with family.)

I hope that you feel U.T.D on all the latest happenings with my books now. Oh! And that reminds me. . . once NaNoWriMo is finished, I WILL be typing all that I have so far of TWOL into the computer so that I can put some numbers into the word count for it on my side bar; which, to my chagrin, still very clearly says "COMING SOON".

Thanks for following! And happy (late) Thanksgiving!!!! :)

Assr vísa ykkarr or∂.

~ElizabethMarieKauffman~

It's That Time of Year Again. . . .

NaNoWriMo is here. . . . Well, technically it came several days ago (I was a little late in starting). But anyways, my goal is to write 50,000 words in The Wolves of Langoor before midnight November 30th. Wheeew! That is a lot! But I've calculated that if I write approximately 5-8 pages a day, I should have it. . . . Yesterday I got a little over 5 written, and today I'm hoping to beat that, so I'd say I'm off to a decent start. . . .

I'll keep you posted with updates as the month progresses. But first, I want to hear back from the rest of you NaNoWriMo participants out there. How are you faring? What are you working on??

Before I go. . . I have 1 more announcement/question. So I've come up with 2 simi-title names for the series that includes The Sword of Teneraz, and The Wolves of Langoor. What do you think of:

1. The Chronicles of the Sword of the Kings

or
2. The Sword of the Kings Chronicles. . . .

I threw out the idea of calling it a trilogy, as I have a feeling that it might become 4 books instead of the originally planned 3.

Please let me know your thoughts. :)

Assr vísa ykkar or∂.

~ElizabethMarieKauffman~

Brought To You By: A-99!

Wow! It sure has been a LONG time since I last even got onto blogger. . . not counting that one time that I just opened up my blog page to listen to the music on it while putting dishes in the dishwasher. :)

A lot has transpired since my last post. . . . "Anne of Green Gables; the Musical" is done (I never did tell you what part I got in it. . . I ended up being Tillie Boulter–which meant that the summer before I almost drowned in the lake, AND I got to dress up as an igloo. ;) It was a super fun role.), I'm also in "Meet Me In St. Louis" now, as a ball room dancer (which means I get to learn to waltz. Which is super fun! :D ).

On the writing side of things, everything is going pretty well. :) I really need to get back into some kind of schedule here. . . really, just any kind of schedule would work. But you'll be glad to hear that that hasn't kept me from writing! I'm somewhere around chapter 7 or 8, I think, on "The Wolves of Langoor", and my mom is nearing completion of her editorial run through of "The Sword of Teneraz", my cousin is working on his copy right now, and my dad is going to start as soon as my mom is finished. Over all, things are moving closer and closer to getting that first copy. {fans face, and reaches for a paper bag to breathe into}

And now. . . (drumroll please). . . I have what I believe to be a very (and when I say "very", I mean extremely) important introduction to make. So now. . . before further ado, I would like you to meet Amorette 99; also known as Amorette, also known as 99, also known as A-99:. . .

in other words; my little chihuahua puppy. :) My friend breeds chihuahuas, and her dog had puppies, so after discussing with my parents, I decided to get one of her puppies and start breeding her myself to make some college money (since I kinda dug into it to buy her in the first place. :} ). But I am very proud of my little baby. . .

I just need to work on her not chewing on erasers when she writes. . . . tsk tsk. ;) Of course she's a little too big now to sprawl across my desk like that, though she still likes to dig at my writing papers when she wants to get on my lap and it's in her way. lol.

But I guess I'll say so long for now! Hopefully I'll be able to post more often now, but we'll have to see.

God bless.

Assr vísa ykkar or∂.

~ElizabethMarieKauffman~

Ryann Watters and the Kings Sword the movie!

Just yesterday I found out that a Christian fantasy book by Eric Reinhold called "Ryann Watters and the Kings Sword" is being made into a motion picture right now, and is currently in the filming process! If you know me at all, you know that my passion is film and reaching the film industry for Christ, and that I am an absolute fan of Christian fantasy! So of course I am extremely excited about all this!! :)

For more info on it you can go to their official website: http://www.kingssword.com/. You can also watch the teaser for the movie on youtube by following this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97mxHXeLkA0.

Assr vísa ykkarr or∂.

~ElizabethMarieKauffman~

Oh What Happiness! Oh What Thrill!

Just maybe 10-20 minutes ago I finished the 4th draft of "The Sword of Teneraz"!!! :D I am very excited. . . . . Now it is time to relax and celebrate as others edit it (and of course do a bunch more writing in "The Wolves of Langoor") until I get it back from them and take the final editorial step of putting them all together into my last draft. *deep sigh* :)

Assr vísa ykkarr or∂.

~ElizabethMarieKauffman~