By Wendy Parker Did you know that a matador uses a red blanket called a muleta to distract a bull in the final stages of the fight? This distraction of a red blanket hanging from a stick is only used as a diversion to cover up and obscure the bullfighter’s sword. Like the bull, we …
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Writers Life | An Often-Overlooked Key To Successful Writing – Know Your Readers
By Jeanette Grant-Thomson We writers are lucky these days. We’re swamped with books, articles and teaching on how to write well. Many of them focus on plot and structure, writing style or characters. There are others, of course─setting, mood, point of view and all the relevant how-to aspects. No doubt I’ve forgotten many others. I …
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Writers Life | Don’t Let Anyone Disqualify You from Your Art
By Nola Lorraine ‘Every child is an artist until he’s told he’s not an artist.’ When I saw this quote by John Lennon on a Facebook meme, it touched something deep inside me. Like most kids, I loved to get out the crayons and draw, trace or colour in. But by the time I was …
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Writers Life | The Right Way
By Louise Crossley Do you ever wonder why our functionality as writers is so fragile? One person or emotion or season or frown or word, can transform Writer’s peek to Writer’s block. An unassuming experience made me believe that it’s our passivity and not our fragility that gets in the way of our writing flow. …
Devotional | Those Small Decisions (Have Eternal Consequences)
Devotional by Karen Rees Blessed are they who keep his statutes and seek him with all their heart. Psalm 119:2 Hello, skunk. One Sunday afternoon while we were on summer holiday from primary school, my brothers and I went for a walk on our farm. We met a skunk. When this small animal feels threatened, …
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Writers Life | Where Do Ideas Come From?
By Donna Fletcher Crow “Where do you get your ideas?” That’s surely the most-asked question posed to any novelist. And the answer is probably one of the hardest. Maybe right up there with “How do you breathe?” Because, surely, for writers, ideas are a bit like breathing—sometimes even hyperventilating. If only I had the time …
Follow The Last Instruction
By Wendy Parker It happened just as I was waking up. An audible voice inside my head clearly said, “Follow the last instruction”. I wasn’t quite fully awake, and I wondered if I was still dreaming, still dozing as I listened to the still, small voice. Follow the last instruction? What did that mean? It …
Book Review | Running Scared by Susan J Bruce
By Jeanette O’Hagan Today I will be sharing my thoughts about Running Scared by Susan J Bruce. Details Running Scared by Susan J BruceYoung Adult Contemporary ThrillerSet in Brisbane, Queensland Blurb What if the boy you love is hiding a dark secret? My name is Melinda and this has been the worstyear ever … We …
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Writers Life | Three Simple Tips When Starting Out
By Sally Hewitt It’s taken a tragedy in my life to finally encourage me to share my writing publicly. I have always loved words but my musings on paper have always remained within the covers of my journals. Then my life was turned completely upside down and my words on paper took on deeper significance. …
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Writers Life | My Research Trip to Churchill, Manitoba, Canada
By Laurie Wood The second week of July, 2019, I had the pleasure of flying north to Churchill, Manitoba, where I set my debut novel Northern Deception. Churchill is a small town on the west shore of Hudson Bay, roughly 68 miles from the Manitoba-Nunavut border. It sits on the edge of the boreal forest …
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