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Believe
Believe that God can do all things, and He will.Believe that you are never alone for He is always there. Believe what you need will always be supplied for it will be. Believe you are rich for you are. After all, you are His child, and He owns the universe. Believe what you ask shall…
Writing Historicals: Get the Details Right
Do you have a love of history and a burning desire to write? Then you may be a candidate to write historical fiction. Three of my first four contracted books involve a step back in time to the days of World War Two. I may have been born in the 70s, but I’ve always held…
Writing Historicals: Get the Details Right
Do you have a love of history and a burning desire to write? Then you may be a candidate to write historical fiction. Three of my first four contracted books involve a step back in time to the days of World War Two. I may have been born in the 70s, but I’ve always held…
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…
Updated 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.…
I’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…
Quick 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…
Snow 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…
Don’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…
Mid-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…