By Louise Crossley I recently ran a workshop on Guiding Questions for my teacher peers. While the aim was to teach fellow educators how to support English as Second Language (EAL) students across disciplines, I thought later that this tip may also be handy for writers. So, I dedicate this blog to teaching it to …
Author Archives: Jenny Blake
Devotional | Who am I Promoting?
Who am I Promoting by Jenny Glazebrook I had a book launch on Wednesday 14th August. It was for the final book in a series and the culmination of a dream I’d had for almost 30 years. It was also my 15th published book. I posted my celebration on Facebook, feeling the joy, the contentment …
New Release | A Wind in the Hebrides Coming Soon—30 years in the Making
By Donna Fletcher Crow I knew in 1995, as soon as I heard about the Lewis Awakening—a mighty movement of the Holy Spirit in the outermost corner of the Hebrides Islands after World War II—I needed to tell that story. In 2001 I set about my on-site research—taking one of the first planes to leave …
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Writers Life | Training Day
By Jeanette O’Hagan Brisbane Training Day for Writers. The Brisbane Training Day for Writers is fast approaching on Saturday 12 October. The Omega Writers biennial Conference in Sydney just a few short weeks ago reminded me what a joy it is to meet together as writers – inspiring, encouraging and learning from each other. What …
Connection In The Flow
By Wendy Parker Numbing the connection to our feelings of self-worth and status with our busyness can be a way of avoiding the pain and discomfort that endlessly circles our thoughts. We’re so afraid that if we stop moving if we pause for just a moment, the issues that we’ve tried to keep hidden will …
Writers Life | Tarvydas or Temptation?
By Louise Crossley When writers think characterisation, they seldom think clothes designers. Whereas my peculiar imagination immediately connected them. Context It all began last Monday, while I fondly folded my 20-year-old Ruth Tarvydas designer dress into an envelope, wrapped it in fancy tissue paper and sealed it closed. Scene-by-scene of my life with this dress …
Author Interview | Meet Lorrie Grosfield
By Donna Fletcher Crow Welcome, Lorrie. It has been such a pleasure to get to meet you in our online writers’ group and to watch the progress of The Nutshell Legacy The Nutshell Legacy I am anxious to share your story with our Australasian Christian Fiction Writers followers. I’m sure many of them will find …
Writers Life | Stepford Stories
By Louise Crossley “A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer; it sings because it has a song.” – Maya Angelou The Future of Storytelling Until last week, my niggling concerns for the future of storytelling were contained. Sure, I have anxiously anticipated the loss of the long sentences of Virginia Woolf, the simplified …
The Writing Life | Starting a Book Club
By Donna Fletcher Crow Starting a bookclub I was introduced to the book club experience back in the mid-1990s when our local cathedral bookstore hired me to lead a book club for them. Since then, I have led and participated in 4 book clubs of very different themes and goals—and enjoyed them all. In spite …
Fizzle, Fade, Or Flourish?
By Wendy Parker Have you started something this year that has stretched your faith? However, despite you’re brave moves and best efforts you’re discovering it’s fading fast rather than flourishing. I get it. I see what once ignited your enthusiasm has now suddenly fizzled out leaving you with no confidence. Now you’re wondering if you’ve …