By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Tweet this: Usable or Useless The first of every year finds me cleaning, tossing, and organizing that which is no longer usable in my life. In short, I get rid of the junk. Sometimes it’s easy to choose what isn’t worth keeping, especially when I evaluate physical items cluttering my space. 1. Why did I keep …
Revisiting Your Bucket List
DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Tweet this: Revisiting Your Bucket List Last week’s blog about making a bucket list for 2016 received an overwhelming response from e-mails to blog comments to twitter posts. I loved reading your thoughts and comments. Many of you decided to create your own and were looking forward to “filling” it. Thank you! When one of you wrote …
The New Year’s Bucket List
By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Tweet This: The New Years Bucket List This blog is for those who hate the idea of making resolutions. I have a better idea. Why not make a Bucket List for 2016? That certainly sounds more fun than trying to lose weight, exercise more, and resolving bad habits while establishing new ones. Boring! A bucket list …
Christmas Through the Eyes of a Wee Child
By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Tweet this: Christmas Through the Eyes of a Wee Child Christmas makes children out of all of us. Actually, writers are kids who failed to get the memo that it was time to color between the lines. We play and worship during this season with the same enthusiasm as a child. I remember the Christmas I …
My Gift To You – The Sugarplum Shoppe
By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Tweet This: The SugarPlum Shoppe This week’s blog is a short story I wrote – My Christmas gift to you. Thank you for following my weekly blog and sharing your comments. Scan code below from your mobile device to download and enjoy my fiction short story during this season of joy, or click on link below …
Christmas Chaos
By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Tweetable: Christmas Chaos Thousands of people stormed the shopping malls for Black Friday savings, while my husband and I decorated our home for Christmas. With a full pot of coffee, Christmas music, and tons of excitement, we opened the many plastic bins containing our treasures for a memorable Christmas. My husband trimmed …
Christmas Gifts for the Writerly Soul
By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Tweet this: Christmas Gifts for the Writerly Soul It’s that time of year, and most of us are in a quandary of what to give our writer friends. We want them to know they are loved and appreciated with the perfect item that suits their personality, but what? Search no more! The following will help you wrap …
Writers Love to Read
By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Tweet this: Writers Love to Read Reading is a delicious treat that enriches our lives with tasty, rich words. No matter if our pleasure is fiction or nonfiction, taking time to fill our hearts and minds with a delightful adventure completes us as individuals seeking knowledge and inspiration. During this busy holiday season, I encourage you …
Holiday Recipes That Promise a Tasty Treat
By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Tweetable: Holiday Recipes That Promise a Tasty Treat Before I tell you about my holiday dilemma to find something new to serve my guests, I wanted to give you the winners and their prizes from Tyndale Publishing’s Crazy 4 Fiction giveaway with a focus on Deadlock. Congratulations to: Kathy who received an FBI T-shirt, FBI ball …
Why Write Fiction?
Tweet this: Why Write Fiction? By DiAnn Mills I’m often posed the questions: “Why fiction when you could be writing nonfiction?” “If you feel writing is a ministry, then why are you putting your time and effort into a story?” “A real Christian would be writing something with real sustenance, not fiction.” I used to swallow my anger with those …