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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For last year’s words belong to last year’s language And next year’s words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning. (Little Gidding) T.E. Eliot New Year is a time when we reflect on the previous year and make resolutions or plans for the next. As a writer, I …
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Early November 2021 I had a real moment of doubt. I am currently attempting my Diploma of Ministry and I received barely a pass on one of my assignments and I felt utterly devastated. Studying has been a real struggle for me on many different levels but I’d put so much effort into my assignment …
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Narelle here. Today for Fiction Friday I’m sharing my book recommendation for Tari Faris’ new Christmas novella, Upon a Midnight Snow, from her Restoring Heritage series set in Michigan, USA. The Restoring Heritage series is one the best contemporary Christian romance series I’ve read this year. I enjoyed reading Upon A Midnight Snow, that chronologically follows on …
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In order to realize the worth of the anchor we need to feel the stress of the storm. Corrie Ten Boom Sometimes we writers want all our ducks lined up in a row–all the papers laid out in neat piles on our desk, all our family members occupied doing something else, the sun shining, and …
By Nola Lorraine There’s nothing like a good twist. Chubby Checker’s on the stereo and everyone’s writhing to ‘Let’s Twist Again’. No, wait! Not that kind of twist. I’m talking about those dazzling twists in novels that leave you gasping in amazement at the author’s brilliance. What about that twist in Agatha Christie’s And Then …
We are in the middle of National Novel Writing Month (aka NaNoWriMo), which means many of our members are in the middle of their last-ditch attempt to win Nanowrimo 2021: by writing an original manuscript of 50,000 words or longer in the calendar month of November. To help, I’m reposting my thirteen foolproof tips to …
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By Wendy Parker Why are we so afraid to show people our wounds? Probably because we don’t want to feel the shame of what they will say if we opened up and revealed our chipped jars and cracks in our pots. So, we chose to keep our broken hearts under wraps because we know that …
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By Nola Lorraine I love reading novels where beautiful descriptive passages transport me into the story. However, description can also be a snore-fest that beckons me to skim to the exciting part. There’s no magic percentage that tells you how much description you should have in your novel, though genre can give a clue. If …
By Wendy Parker Apart from seeing my family and a long overdue trip to the hairdressers, I am looking forward to going into a library again. You may smile, but as a writer, seeing hundreds of books that are filled with unread words and unseen adventures is a happy place for me. There is something …
