Exercise Your Imagination with a Caption Game

Ann H GabhartAnn's Posts, One Writer's Journal 34 Comments

“A picture is worth a thousand words.” Do you remember saying that or hearing that? I think it used to be true. Pictures back when didn’t lie. If somebody took a picture of you, you might not like how you looked but you had to admit it was how you had looked at that instant of the shutter clicking. Now, …

A Name for Everything

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  “A name can’t begin to encompass the sum of all her parts. But that’s the magic of names, isn’t it? That the complex, contradictory individuals we are can be called up complete and whole in another mind through the simple sorcery of a name.” ― Charles de Lint, Dreams Underfoot I’m working on a new book. That means I’m having …

Seeing the World of Nature through a Child’s Eyes

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“To see the magic of life look through the wondrous eyes of a child.” ~Debasish Mridha Thanks to all of you who said you might enjoy some hiker devotional thoughts, I plan to post a devotional on the first Sunday of each month for a while. So here’s the initial entry of 1st Sunday Hiker Devotionals. Let me know what …

A Promise to Publish

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“I purchased this book at the recommendation of my Mom & sister who heard Mr. Shepherd speak & give his testimony, then read the book. I didn’t realize that once I started reading I wouldn’t be able to put the book down. This story is the ultimate witness of how God pursues us and puts special people in our midst to …

Angels at the Crossroads

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For He shall give His angels charge over you, to keep you in all your ways. In their hands they shall bear you up, lest you dash your foot against a stone. Psalm 91:11-12 (NKJ) Fourteen years ago my first inspirational novel, Scent of Lilacs,  was published and readers were taking their first trips to my little town of Hollyhill that …

Three Book Winners!

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Thank all of you who joined in with the fun of my “Name your Caption” game here. You all came up with some great captions for the pictures I posted. I appreciate all the comments and especially appreciate those of you who come check out things here every week. I don’t have a new picture up for a caption, but …

Let’s Play a Caption Game

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Are you good at writing captions for pictures? Or maybe headlines for newspaper stories? Then could be you’re an ace at coming up with book titles. If so, we can maybe brainstorm on titles now and again. I’ve written posts about coming up with titles for my books several times. Here’s the link to one of them, “Let’s Talk Titles”, …