By Wendy Parker To become good writers, we need absolute transparency if we are to reach people with our words. Otherwise, we have no business poking our noses into other people’s affairs. Because of you, people can either be drawn to Jesus or away from Him. It’s a big responsibly, one I hope we don’t …
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Omega Writers | Introducing the Treasurer
Amanda Deed discusses her role as the treasurer of Omega Writers, an organisation for Australian and New Zealand Christian Writers. Welcome, Amanda! How I became the Treasurer… During the Omega Writers conference in 2015 I learnt that there was a need for a new Treasurer for the Omega Writers organisation. Being a person who loves …
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Cleaning out the moldy titles? Are you a fan?
By Meredith Resce Who would have thunk? We are all aware that bread, milk and cheese have a use by date. Are there any readers, like me, who ignore use by dates? Does anyone else do a sniff test to see if the product really is no good for consumption? I’ve been known to cut …
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A New Decade
What I’m learning is that you have to stop doing a whole lot of things to learn what it is that you really love, who it is you really are. What does matter is, does it feel congruent with how God made me and called me? Shauna Niequist Take yourself back ten years in time. …
The Ripple Effect: Shaping the River into Words.
By Wendy Parker “My heart bursts its banks, spilling beauty and goodness. I pour it out in a poem to the king, shaping the river into words.” Psalm 45:1 (MSG) Words, words, words they are everywhere and as writers’ words shape what we want to communicate to other people, like a river bending and flowing …
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Stories of Life: Celebrating Excellence in Wordsmith Worship
We’re delighted that Stories of Life, as a writing competition and publishing platform, is gaining traction. This year we’ve seen an increase in entries overall, most noticeably in the youth category. We also received more international entries and our title story, Papa’s Shoes, is from Valmai Redhead, who lives in New Zealand. In some way, …
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Fiction Friday | Synapse by Steven James
Synapse is a difficult novel to review. Parts were excellent. Parts were not excellent. And parts were downright weird. Let’s start with what I thought was excellent. Synapse is set in the future—2037. Humanoid robots are commonplace, as are the Purists, terrorists who seek to destroy the Artificials before Artificials destroy humanity (a valid concern …
You Had The Power All Along
By Wendy Parker I remember sitting glued to the television set when I was a kid watching The Wizard of Oz. The moment when Dorothy is told by Glenda, the good witch, that she’s had the power all along to go back home and all Dorothy needed to do was to click together the heels …
6 Tips for Improving Your Writing Craft Without Attending a Conference
It’s almost conference time! Today I’m resharing a post I originally wrote last year, for those of you who can’t join us at the 2019 Omega Writer’s Conference in Sydney from 11 to 13 October. Can’t make it to conference? Does this mean you miss out on the opportunity to learn, to upskill yourself? Not …
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Give it, Give it all, Give it now.
By Wendy Parker Cautious, compliant writing is not only boring to read it’s boring to write. Our job as writers is to stimulate and engage our readers to not only believe what we’ve written, but to persuade them to think differently. In Annie Dillard’s book, The writing life, she’s says this, “One of the …