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Making Changes
Sydney Avey Dynamic Women — Changing Times Home About Books Publications Blog Events Contact Making changes requires adjustments. Ten years ago, I radically altered my life to write a novel. By...
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Creative Joys: Anatomy of a Hymn
Sydney Avey Dynamic Women — Changing Times Home About Books Publications Blog Events Contact One of the creative joys of being a writer is repurposing a work. In a Hymnology class at Christ Church in...
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Social Media, Choosing How to Engage
Sydney Avey Dynamic Women — Changing Times Home About Books Publications Blog Events Contact At its best, social media is a platform for people to engage with each other. The engagement may be...
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Spreading the Wealth, a DIY Project
Sydney Avey Dynamic Women — Changing Times Home About Books Publications Blog Events Contact Wealth redistribution is a political hot button but, framed differently, making an effort to spread the...
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Reader’s Taste: Why consider literary fiction?
Sydney Avey Dynamic Women — Changing Times Home About Books Publications Blog Events Contact I’m always up for a discussion about reader’s taste. On August 4, 2018 literary critic Adam Kirsch wrote a...
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Disaster: The day I drowned my MacBook Air
Sydney Avey Dynamic Women — Changing Times Home About Books Publications Blog Events Contact Disaster upends daily routine and resets expectations to a default, anything-could-happen mode. Disaster is...
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Author Readings: Need courage? Don a costume!
Sydney Avey Dynamic Women — Changing Times Home About Books Publications Blog Events Contact I get nervous before author readings. From the invitation, through the preparation and practice, right up...
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Why a Writers Conference Might Work for You
Sydney Avey Dynamic Women — Changing Times Home About Books Publications Blog Events Contact In 2013 I went to the Mecca of writers conferences If you have a story to tell, you might want to consider...
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Use Your Imagination, Part 3
Sydney Avey Dynamic Women — Changing Times Home About Books Publications Blog Events Contact Fairy tales invite you to use your imagination. This third in the series listing books that invite us to...
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Use Your Imagination, Part 2
Sydney Avey Dynamic Women — Changing Times Home About Books Publications Blog Events Contact Use your imagination In Use your imagination Part 1 I introduced bookseller Byron Borger, who shared his...
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Use Your Imagination, Part 1
Sydney Avey Dynamic Women — Changing Times Home About Books Publications Blog Events Contact When you use your imagination, you entertain thoughts free from the confines of reality. Use your...
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Fish Fossil Swirl: Living in the disruptive moments
Sydney Avey Dynamic Women — Changing Times Home About Books Publications Blog Events Contact Fish Fossil Swirl by Jo Thomas Last month, while enjoying a breakfast crepe at a Jewish deli in Silver...
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Fact or Fiction: Writing the family story
Sydney Avey Dynamic Women — Changing Times Home About Books Publications Blog Events Contact I never met my great grandmother but I inherited her short stories, Leaves from a Reporter’s Notebook. Her...
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Nellie Belle Makes Her Literary Debut
Sydney Avey Dynamic Women — Changing Times Home About Books Publications Blog Events Contact Nellie Belle is about to make her debut on the literary stage! The Trials of Nellie Belle is now available...
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Word Play: Random Examples of Well-Considered Words
Sydney Avey Dynamic Women — Changing Times Home About Books Publications Blog Events Contact Writers who take time to playfully consider their words twinkle like stars in a black night. Through their...
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Backstory: Conversations Around the Book Table
Sydney Avey Dynamic Women — Changing Times Home About Books Publications Blog Events Contact At Birt’s Bistro and Books in Surprise, AZ people gather to eat, browse for books, listen to music, and...
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Women Writing the West: Conference Tidbits
Sydney Avey Dynamic Women — Changing Times Home About Books Publications Blog Events Contact I spotted this stunning Saguaro on the path at Loews Ventana Canyon Resort that led to the waterfall. Women...
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Wildfire and Other Distractions
The Detwiler wildfire has driven people in our neighboring communities from their homes, and it may come for us. Or not. First, let’s acknowledge that losing your home and livelihood (these are ranch...
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The value of your passion project
What is the value of your passion project? Endeavors you pour heart and soul into; tasks that eat up your time; a vocation that drains your physical and mental energy and robs your pocketbook; why do...
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The Story God Tells: A Lenten Observation
Jesus and the Samaritan Woman at the Well, ca. 1420, gold leaf, painting, etching on glass My brain started buzzing when T.M. McNally used the Trinity as an illustration for story structure in a...
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