by Dr. MaryAnn Diorio | Jul 6, 2020 | Christianity, Coaching, Discipleship, Health & Healing, Podcasts-Winning with the Word, Relationships, Success
WINNING WITH THE WORD “Winning with the Word” is a weekly blog that will help you to be a winner in life by applying God’s principles for living the abundant life as found in the Bible, God’s manual for life. AN INVITATION TO YOU: To follow this...
by Dr. MaryAnn Diorio | Jun 1, 2015 | Uncategorized
“Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life.” ~ Proverbs 4:23________________________________________ Once upon a time there was an alcoholic who had two sons. One son looked at his father and thought, When I grow up, I’m going to...
by Dr. MaryAnn Diorio | Feb 14, 2014 | Fiction Writing: Craft
Setting is to story what a foundation is to a house. I love what author Nina Munteanu wrote about setting: “Setting grounds your writing in the reality of place and depicts the theme of your story through powerful metaphor.” Just as the foundation grounds...
by Dr. MaryAnn Diorio | Feb 7, 2014 | Fiction Writing: Craft
The word “metaphor” comes from two Greek words – meta (over, across) and pherein (to carry or bear) — and literally means “to carry over” or “to transfer”. Dr. Daniel McInerny describes metaphor as the desire to...
by Dr. MaryAnn Diorio | Jan 17, 2014 | Fiction Writing: Craft
I’ve been reading a fascinating book called Wired for Story by Lisa Cron. The book discusses the way the brain responds to story. While Ms. Cron approaches her work from an evolutionary standpoint, her research can easily be approached from a Biblical worldview....
