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 …
Category Archives: Writers Life
Connection In The Flow
By Wendy Parker 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 …
Writers Life | Tarvydas or Temptation?
By Louise Crossley 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 …
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
By Meredith Resce 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 …
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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 …
Introducing Milla Holt
My name is Milla Holt, and I craft sweet, uplifting love stories deeply rooted in solid Bible truths.
It’s time to announce the 2024 CALEB Finalists!
It’s time to announce the finalists in the 2024 CALEB Award from Omega Writers.
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 …
Writers Life | Stepford Stories
By Louise Crossley “A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer; it sings because it has a song.” – Maya Angelou The Future of Storytelling Until last week, my niggling concerns for the future of storytelling were contained. Sure, I have anxiously anticipated the loss of the long sentences of Virginia Woolf, the simplified …