A Girl in a Meadow – Caption Game Picture #5

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  “Love must be as beautiful as spring flowers and as bright as the morning sun.” ― Debasish Mridha Thanks to all of your who have been playing my Caption Game. You always make these games I have on my blog such fun. And you have been really exercising your imaginations. That’s a good thing. Sometimes we get too settled in …

Imagination is a Gift – Caption Game 1

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  Imagination is a gift given to us from God and each one of us uses it differently. ― Brian Jacques It’s time to have a book giveaway game on my blog. I’ve been promising that for a few weeks and finally here we are. No mystery picture game yet. I’ll save that one for when my new book, When the …

Some Mysteries Are Harder to Solve that Others

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Don’t insult readers by questioning the extent of their imaginations. Most need only to be nudged to solve a good mystery. -Peggy Kopman-Owens Far be it from me to question the extent of your imaginations. I’m seeing it at work with these mystery photos. And what fun imaginations you have. I love the way you give these mystery photos your …

Mystery Plus Imagination Equals Fun

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“Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.” – Neil Armstrong. I had fun reading all your guesses for Sunday’s mystery photo. Seems food ruled the day and actually food was a sort of right guess. But the photo wasn’t pancakes or waffles with blueberries and strawberries, but after reading your guesses, I was ready …

Exercise Your Brain with a New Mystery Photo

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“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells.” — Dr. Seuss And so I can hope my mystery photo game is waking up some brain cells.  We all do better with wide awake brains. Well, I guess we do although sometimes we can have pretty interesting dreams. I’ve had people ask me if I dream up story idea while …

A Rose is a Rose & Mystery 2

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Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses. ~Alphonse Karr Well, as old Abe Lincoln once said, you can fool some of the people some of the time, but not all the people all the time or something like that. Let’s just say my first mystery photo was not the most mysterious …

The Mystery Continues with a New Mystery Picture

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“Oh how I’ve missed you, Hidden Springs! That warm feeling when you see a friend that you haven’t seen in a while and just know that you’re going to enjoy your time together. That’s how I felt when I found this book in my mailbox. Once again we are transported to the small town of Hidden Springs and the cast …

What if We Have an Old House…?

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Often when I’m doing an interview, one of the most popular questions will be how or where do I get my ideas for stories. Sometimes the interviewer is more specific and asks where I got the idea for a particular story. That can be a hard question to answer clearly. That’s because ideas bombard an author from every direction. The …