ANOTHER FAMOUS FIRST LINE
"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Thus begins Leo Tolstoy's novel, Anna Karenina (transl....
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Connie Inglis
Jan 15, 20211 min read
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..."
A novel's opening line. I've never been happy with mine. And so I've been reworking the opening scene to make it better. How do I improve...
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Connie Inglis
Jan 3, 20213 min read
A Droste Hope--God's phrase for me for 2021.
The Droste Effect. Are you familiar with it? According to wise-geek.com, the Droste Effect is, "a special type of visual effect which is...
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Connie Inglis
Dec 31, 20203 min read
LOOKING BACK --TRUST AND OBEY
Today, I read a devotional I'd written in January 2020. Looking back at 2019. Wondering what 2020 would bring. What stood out to me were...
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Connie Inglis
Dec 8, 20201 min read
A Novel is Born
That fall, in a fiction-writing course, I wrote the first five chapters of a novel.
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Connie Inglis
Jun 8, 20201 min read
Outsider to Insider
Six years ago our adult son became someone else. Not always. Just when he went manic. It took two years before he was properly diagnosed:...
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Connie Inglis
May 21, 20201 min read
Life as a TCA
Ramos Island, The Philippines, 1992-1994: The first house Doug and I owned.
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Connie Inglis
May 12, 20201 min read
Thoughts from God
Spirit-inspired thoughts when I listen in the silence and live in the present risenness of Jesus. Silence Silence seems to be a foreign...
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Connie Inglis
May 12, 20202 min read
Newbie Novelling
Snippets of life as a novelist working toward publishing my first novel. I have been working on a novel titled Rewriting Adam for the...
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