By Nola Lorraine If you’re reading a blog on this site, chances are that you love books. You enjoy reading or stringing beautiful words together. You have a to-read pile that seems to multiply of its own accord, you can’t pass a bookshop without going in, and you think of the characters in your favourite …
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Devotional | Holding up your hands
By Jodie McCarthy So Joshua fought the Amalekites as Moses had ordered, and Moses, Aaron and Hur went to the top of the hill. As long as Moses held up his hands, the Israelites were winning, but whenever he lowered his hands, the Amalekites were winning. When Moses’ hands grew tired, they took a stone and put it …
A Significant Influence
By Wendy Parker You have significant influence, and you can create an atmosphere for God to work in. Believe it or not, God is not looking for people with star quality and the biggest following on Instagram. He seeks out the willing heart who just wants to shine His light in whatever circumstance they find …
Review of ‘
By Nola Lorraine Background to the Book ‘Elite’ is Book 2 in Kristen Young’s ‘Collective Underground’ series. Although there is enough backstory to enable you to follow the plot without reading Book 1, it will mean a lot more to you if you read the books in sequence. In Apprentice, the first book, Flick Kerr …
Not At This Address
By Wendy Parker As I read the phone text from my literary agent that another publishing house had decided not to go with my book proposal, my mind instantly went to a quote by Barbara Kingsolver that I had written down a few months before. “This manuscript of yours that has just come back from …
The Decision Tree of Plotting
By Nola Lorraine Have you ever read a book and been unhappy with one or more of the choices the author made? How could Bailey Flanigan marry that guy instead of the other one I was cheering for? How could Lucy Maud Montgomery kill off that character at the end of Anne of Green Gables? …
Devotional | On Trust, Rest and Uncertainty
This devotion was originally written for my newsletter subscribers. But I felt God called me to share it on this blog, in our current times, with a good part of the country in lockdown.I hope it speaks to you whatever your circumstances,Jodie McCarthy The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still. …
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The Interim Of Greatness.
By Wendy Parker Greatness is one of those elusive things in life that can leave as quickly as it came. It only rests on a person for an allotted time and then it is gone again. The interim of greatness reminds us that it’s only provisional and the length of time you can walk in …
Portraying True Characters in Historical Fiction
By Nola Lorraine Have you ever noticed that movies based on real events have different taglines? If it says ‘based on a true story’, it will stick fairly closely to the facts. The producer and director still take some poetic licence, or it would be a documentary rather than a movie, but the main elements …
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Devotional | You can’t rush balance
By Jodie McCarthy I extend my arms and move slowly through my exercise routine. As I come up on to my toes my instructor says, “You can’t rush balance.” I exhale and lower arms and legs slowly for the next rotation, holding the words tight in my mind for they speak not just to my …