Posts by Gina Conroy
Writing Conferences: Worth the Effort
(c)Heather Ivester As you look at your calendar, do you wonder if this will be the year you spend some time growing as a writer? If so, the best thing you can do to fuel your writing passion is to make plans to attend a writing conference. It’s worth the effort. A conference will…
Read MoreUpdated Goals
I started this list back on December 28, and I think I made some real progrwss. Set up my website www.ginaconroy.com in progress! I’m still struggling with finding the right host for my domain. I started out with Hosting Matters, then switched to A Small Orange, then to Go Daddy and now I’m looking at DotEasy.…
Read MoreI’m an unfinished creation, a masterpiece only in the mind of my Creator. Charcoal on parchment. Slowly, being transformed by the gentle strokes of the Master’s hand. In time, colors and deeper hues will be added, making me more vibrant and more like Him. Until then, I am learning to be content in my Creator’s…
Read MoreQuick Fiction Fixes – Use your nose
But don’t just give your readers the visual descriptions—give them the experience of walking into the setting by stimulating their olfactory senses. In other words, smell. Our scent memory is incredibly powerful. We don’t necessarily remember the exact smell so much as we feel certain emotions triggered by a smell, or even the mention of…
Read MoreSnow Storm Take Three
Okay, enough is enough! This is our third snow storm of the season, second of the new year. And it’s not like where we live to get this much snow. Sometime in January the kids play outside without their coats! Now when the snow from the ice storm two weeks ago was almost gone except for…
Read MoreDon’t You Hate it When
you forget to post about something you really meant to post about! Back over the Thanksgiving weekend we drove 5 hours to a dinosaur park. Thirty minutes into the trip I told my hubby I would NOT be making the 12 hour drive to his family for Christmas! Traveling with four kids, bickering in the…
Read MoreMid-Week Motivation
Starting Your Day Out Right! Scripture, Short Devotion “I the LORD do not change.” ~ Malachi 3:6a In the last year, my family has gone through a lot of change. We even just recently relocated to Maryland temporarily. It hasn’t been an easy transition. Many people tend to resist change. I’ll admit that I don’t…
Read MoreProdigal Love
The suddenly there dawns upon us the vast, entire endowment of God’s free love and forgiveness…It is this which bowls us over…frees us…transforms us. Paul Tournier Saved by Grace. Christians throw that phrase around to express their faith, but do they really know what Grace is? I’ve come to a deeper appreciation and revelation about…
Read MoreStrange Dreams
Hubby and I have been watching the 3rd season of 24 on DVD. We usually watch 4-6 shows in a row, staying up way too late. If anyone has ever seen 24, you know how suspenseful they can be. A writing friend suggested I watch it to learn how to write suspense, and she was…
Read MoreSimple Science and Snow Ice Cream
Snow ice cream–one of the most fun of winter treats to make and enjoy as a family. My mom used to make it for us, sending me out to collect a big bowl of fresh white snow. And it couldn’t be the first snow of the year…subsequent snows were cleaner. It helped that we lived…
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