Posts by Gina Conroy
Guest Blogger Mary DeMuth on Writing Resolutions
Will this be the year of your dreams come true? Or just another ho-hum year where you plug away (or not) and end up in the same place you were when you started? How do writers break in? Or better yet, break through? If you’d like to head toward that slippery nirvana called publication, read…
Read MoreSPAM, A LOT
No, not Spamalot, the musical rendition of Monty Python’s Holy Grail movie (which I’ll be seeing in July thanks to hubby’s gift of season tickets), but a lot of Spam applications for my Webring. I’m talking over 260 spam applications that need to be deleted one by one, which means I have to open each…
Read MoreMid-Week Motivation
Starting Your Day Out Right! Scripture, Short Devotion “Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.” ~ 1 Peter 2:2-3 As believers, our beginnings are often very much like our human beginnings. We are young,…
Read MoreGetting Organized
by Dena Dyer www.denadyer.com If you have a resolution to “get organized” with your writing, here are a few tips that have worked for me: 1. First, know your organizing personality. For example, don’t try to use notebooks if you’re not a notebook person. If you love doing everything paperless, go paperless. Don’t try and…
Read MoreHazardous Duty
Hazardous Duty by Christy Barritt BACK COVER COPY Buying a gun to kill your wife: $3000 Hiring a Trauma Care to clean afterward: $1500 Having that same cleaner uncover evidence that frames you: Priceless On her way to completing a degree in forensic science, Gabby St. Claire drops out of school and starts her own…
Read MoreWhat’s Jesus Doing in Your Life?
My church has started tht new year off by taking a closer look at Jesus. I’ll be starting a series to share my thoughts on what I’ve gleaned at church. I hope you’ll join me in taking a closer look at Jesus. Look for these posts on Sunday or Monday for the month of January!…
Read MoreFlash Fiction: Mick Silva
Busy today. A bit crazed, in fact. I’d like to say I’m good on days like these, but I’m not. In truth, they make me retreat into fantasy. Anything to escape… “Do you have the time,” the clock asks, no doubt amused by the irony in his statement, I’m sure. Cheeky clocks are forever messing…
Read MoreI’m Getting Back to the Heart of Blogging…
That worships song about “getting back to the heart of Worship” keeps playing through my mind on the first day of this new year! I know my focus on this blog has strayed over the months, mainly because of trying to make it something it’s not supposed to be and gain the appoval of man.…
Read MoreWho Has He Helped Through You Today?
(c) Staci Stallings, 2004 As I write this, it is December 5th. I mention that because with Christmas coming up, it is the season of giving. Along with the normal gifts, this is also the season when our thoughts turn to those less fortunate. The paper angel trees go up in the malls. The kettles…
Read MoreA Writer Going Home
Celebrating my savior’s birth notwithstanding, at this point I feel loaded down with the holiday season’s commercialism and busyness. Don’t misunderstand. Christmas was great, but how do I come down from it, so I can get back to writing? Sugar plum fairies still dance in my head uninvited. Really, you too? So then, what do…
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