By Wendy Parker As I watched the sunrise surfers at my local beach the other morning, I thought about big wave surfing and how the surfer has to be towed by a jet ski because the waves are too big and too strong to paddle into. If a surfer is to gain enough momentum to ride …
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We Don’t Create In Isolation
By Wendy Parker There is something mysterious about the art of creating. The project you embark on goes from a wisp of a thought that’s been sitting in the deep caverns of your mind, to a tangible idea which takes shape and forms into something so other people can touch, taste, see, hear, read and …
What Do I Know?
I used to be a teacher and if a student asked a question, I’d do everything I could to give them an answer. Answers help us make sense of the world. Answers are important. When I was growing up in church, pastors seemed to have answers for everything. It appeared there was a Bible verse …
Remember Why You Started…
By Wendy Parker Remember why you started to write? It’s been a few years now since you gave yourself permission to actually say to people, “I’m a writer” without wincing or having to explain or justify why you were gifted with this incredible ability. You started to write because you knew that is what you …
Coded for the Receiver
By Wendy Parker As Christian writers, we are always looking for inspiration. Our mind radar scans everything we encounter each day to see if there is a story in it somewhere. Something we can use to drive a point home when using the backdrop of scripture. We extract the words and fragments of thoughts we are …
Guest Post | Mindy Graham on Writing in a Pandemic
Heroes, Heroines and Writing Happily Ever Afters in a Pandemic. My hero and heroine are battling a pandemic. No, I’m not plotting a love-in-lockdown romance, but I am trying to walk my protagonists towards their HEA amidst a world in turmoil. Covid-19 has stormed 2020 and reorganised our lives. For some, this may have their …
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Calling all young authors and quaranTEEN writers!
Entries are open for the 2020 Australian Christian Teen Writer Award and Young Australian Christian Writer Award. Do you know any budding young writers who will be encouraged by participating in this year’s SparkLit awards? Ask God to bring them to mind and share this opportunity with them. Both awards discover and empower young unpublished authors and promote writing …
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The World Needs Your Story
By Wendy Parker Feel like you want to give up on your writing? Don’t think you’re good enough? Well, I hope by the end of this blog post you’ll be encouraged and inspired to keep going! Crystal Paine once said,“You are enough exactly as you are. The world needs your gift and the world …
All that wasted time
By Wendy Parker Do you ever sit and think about all that wasted time? All those hours and hours of putting one word in front of the other, only to fill notebook after notebook with forgotten thoughts and promises. Words that nobody else will hear read or see. Words that felt so hopeful and important …
Introducing the 2020 Omega Writers Conference
Plans are well underway for the 2020 Omega Writers Conference, to be held from 23 to 25 October. The conference will be held at Peppers Kingscliff, New South Wales (about twenty minutes from Gold Coast Airport and the Queensland border). Our main organising committee is Raewyn Elsegood, Narelle Atkins, and Andrea Grigg, but there is …
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