I wear a hijab every weekday and I’m a Catholic. Working in an Islamic school has taught me about the Quran. As a teacher who has spent the last 12 years working for organisations founded on Catholic, Orthodox, Buddhist and now Islamic beliefs, I have learnt that faith is faith. We all believe in love, …
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An article on the frame novel is especially appropriate for Australasian writers and readers because it was the English-Australasian writer Nevil Shute that introduced me to the style. Although the technique is considered “out of fashion” today, I still find it can help add interest to a read and serve as a useful device for …
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When I was nineteen, I read the The Footsteps of Anne Frank by Ernst Schnabel. This follow-up to the famous diary gives more of the background about the people who helped to hide Anne and her family, what happened on the night the Gestapo found their hiding place, and the events leading up to Anne’s …
It Takes a Village to Publish a Novel One of the many myths about writing and writers is that we work alone. We sit in our attic room, scratching away for weeks and months and years, and eventually produce a work of staggering genius that has the publishers beating a path to our door, each one …
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So, you’ve answered the call to adventure, you stepped out in faith, and you’ve told fear to go take a hike. But the steep and winding path toward your dream that was lit up in the first few steps so you could read each signpost now seems to have suddenly gone dark and you feel …
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Two weeks ago, I talked about the new ‘Woke’ phenomenon, and asked you about addressing non-conservative, controversial issues within Christian Fiction. Your response was immediate and it seems that this subject is stirring in many hearts. This time, I wanted to talk specifically about one issue that has always been controversial to me. When I …
[1] “When I wake up, well I know I’m gonna be…”[2] These are the opening lyrics to a famous, catchy song by the Proclaimers. Gonna be? For me, the question is, gonna be what when I wake up? Well, I did wake up, and the world I’m living in is looking less and less familiar. …
And so, this is what happened… Sounds like the start of a movie. But Matthew chapter 26 begins with these words that lead to Jesus prophesying His crucifixion. Now that He had taught and equipped His disciples with everything they needed to know, He knows He must now surrender to the final act that is …
It’s a new year, the time when a lot of people (including writers) set resolutions or think about how they want this year to be better than or different from last year. For many of us, last year wasn’t great. Nor was 2020. So we’re a little apprehensive about what 2022 might hold (and we …
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Welcome to the blog, Laurie! Here’s four quick questions to get to know you: Kiwis or koalas? Koalas! Who doesn’t love koala bears? Your fires that burned through their natural habitat a while ago were terrible and in North America, we saw plenty of coverage of them being rescued with burned paws and burns to …
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