By Meredith Resce Now I’m no Marie Kondo. Make no mistake. I hold onto things for years, decades, life if they have sentimental value. I’m not a fan of change But clutter does get overwhelming sometimes, so in recent years, I’ve developed a policy: don’t buy junk, and when I move, if something has no …
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Fiction Friday | The Love Penalty
By Carolyn Miller I’ve written all kinds of romances over the years, with tropes ranging from friends-to-more (The Breakup Project), to best friends-to-more (Tangled up in Love), opposites attract (too many to name), arranged marriage (The Captivating Lady Charlotte, Midnight’s Budding Morrow), to various others. One thing I haven’t done too much of the ‘bad’ …
My Year in Review
By Carolyn Miller It’s fun to get to the end of the year and look back at what’s gone before. And even though there might be another 16 days of this month, I think it’s good to pause and remind ourselves what has been accomplished, especially when life can be pretty hectic. So here, in …
Writers Life | Learning Through Imagination
By Meredith Resce I read an interesting meme on Face Book this morning, originally posted by Jennifer Powell. Fiction is fake!? How often have you heard that, or something like it? “I only read true stories.” “Fiction stories are lies.” “I don’t read fiction, I only read the Bible.” I’ve heard all of these at …
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Short Story Fun
By Carolyn Miller Earlier this year I read a collection of short stories based on Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple. Now I’m not normally a short story gal, but reading these different stories by different authors all paying homage to a beloved fictional heroine, proved to be the perfect amount of reading before I dropped off …
Omega Writers | There We Were, Together!
The 2023 Omega Writers online retreat was a fantastic time of togetherness for Australia’s Christian Writers Network. The 2023 Annual General Meeting… The retreat started on Friday night with the 2023 Omega Writers AGM, where members gained updates on the business side of the network. President Penny Reeve announced she was stepping down midterm, which …
Love in Action
By Meredith Resce Romans 12:9-21 This passage in Romans (New International Version) is marked as ‘Love in action’. What an intriguing idea. I’d like to pull out a few of the pieces of advice to focus on them in context of how we serve the Kingdom of God in our writing. V9. Love must be …
Fiction Friday | What’s the deal with Celebrity books?
By Carolyn Miller Lights, camera, action! I recently heard my new release Muskoka Spotlight being described as a celebrity romance book. I suppose it is, as it’s about a famous Hollywood actor hiding out in Muskoka, Canada where he meets an aged care nurse, and sparks fly, etc. It’s just I hadn’t really thought about …
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A Non-anxious presence
By Meredith Resce A non-anxious presence. This little phrase stood out to me from amongst a load of inspiring information presented recently at an education conference. A non-anxious presence particularly in a world that seems to be plagued with anxiety, fear, shame, uncertainty, confusion. I pondered on this phrase, and other words that had rung …
Fiction Friday | What Makes a Strong Heroine?
By Carolyn Miller Today I am talking about What Makes a Strong Heroine? It takes a special kind of woman to cope with all the flak, so it was interesting to consider what kind of qualities a woman might need to deal with situations where she could face anything from misogynistic remarks to having hot …
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