#ThrowbackThursday | Why is genre important?

Welcome to Throwback Thursday! We’ve dug into our blog archives for hidden treasures and words of wisdom. Here’s a list of blog posts you may find helpful. https://australasianchristianwriters.com/know-your-genre-and-audience/ https://australasianchristianwriters.com/all-authors-are-world-builders/ https://australasianchristianwriters.com/exploring-genre/ https://australasianchristianwriters.com/exploring-genre-roundup/ https://australasianchristianwriters.com/the-benefits-of-reading-outside-your-genre/ https://australasianchristianwriters.com/tuesday-book-chat-15/ https://australasianchristianwriters.com/tuesday-book-chat-do-you-have-a-favourite-genre-or-book-category/ https://australasianchristianwriters.com/tuesday-book-chat-do-you-finish-reading-a-book-that-doesnt-fit-your-genre-expectations/ https://australasianchristianwriters.com/tuesday-book-chat-does-it-confuse-you-when-authors-use-the-same-name-to-write-in-different-genres/ Please leave a comment if you have any thoughts or questions. We’d love to hear from you!

Writer’s Life | Peeling Back the Layers.

During a recent walk along my dirt track in the Australian bush, I came across a eucalypt tree shedding its blackish bark. The beauty of it stopped me short, and my son and I spent some time at the tree, detailing the bark-shedding process. The dry bark split and peeled off the trunk in jagged …

Connection In The Flow

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 be exposed for …

Writers Life | Tarvydas or Temptation?

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 unfolded as I …

Writer’s Life | You Inspire Me.

As I studied each extensive review on the Book Fun Readers Only web page, I fell into a state of humility. All these people had committed their time to read my work, to recap my stories and share their personal views with the world. I thought about the hours that went into that process, and …

Writers Life | Hinting, asking, pleading, begging – for reviews

What a funny old place the publishing world has become. I remember reading a classic novel Miss Buncle’s Book. In this story a middle-aged spinster, Miss Buncle, found that her annuity from her investment wasn’t making ends meet. She decided to write a book to make money. She didn’t have much of an imagination, so …

Depression and Mustard Seed Faith

As I studied each extensive review on the Book Fun Readers Only web page, I fell into a state of humility. A time that felt almost overwhelming. How different would your struggle have been if you had taken your focus off the day-to-day struggle, and considered your situation with a more analytical mind? What would …

Writers Life | Travel and Writing

I get a lot of inspiration from travelling and don’t see myself stopping until health or other circumstances prevent me. When I recently returned from a five-week trip to Norway, Iceland and the UK, quite a few people asked if I wrote while I was away. Umm …. no. When I travel to write, I …