While making the myriad preparations for an upcoming trip, I realized I had not yet published my post on the last conference I attended. So here it is. Central Coast Writer’s Conference I attended the Central Coast Writer’s Conference held annually in San Luis Obispo, California in September. It was a new conference for me […]
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Recently, a friend commented on my website. She said “On your homepage, you talk about your faith and that there is a Christian element in your novels. But you don’t really talk about your faith in your blog posts.” I had been thinking of this in recent months before she even said anything, and I
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Today, I begin a new theme for my posts on Thursdays. Travel. And it is also a Throwback Thursday this week as I talk about trips before 2018. Trips that continue to inspire me. In 1998, I spent a month in Los Angeles taking part in a Shakespeare acting course with the London Academy of
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This first Saturday of 2018, I am returning to my series: Weapons in my Armoury. If you are new to this series, an explanation can be found in the last paragraph here. My weapon this week is that of believing in yourself. Throughout our lives, there will be nay-sayers. Those people who, for whatever reason,
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“A weary world rejoices” is a line from the Christmas carol, O Holy Night. There are times in my life that a line from a song really resonates with me, and it becomes a source of meditation. Lately, this is just such a line… A weary world rejoices. It is that time of year when Christmas
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I have decided to pause my Saturday series until the New Year. I will still post so stay tuned for more Seasonal offerings in the coming weeks. The Christmas decorations will be going up, time will be spent with family and friends, and I will be walking around enjoying all the wonderful light displays that
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During a recent memoir writing course, I realized how writing has been a theme throughout my life. At every stage and decade of my life writing has been a creative activity I have participated in. In elementary school, I co-wrote a couple plays. My friends and I worked together to stage these stories. We did
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Why does a writer choose to write in the genre they do? For me, my first love and passion is historical fiction, with a focus on the Middle Ages. This has been a period of history that I have always found fascinating, and the more I learn about this time in our human journey, the
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