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Remember this scene from the movie, GLADIATOR?
"I have no fellow gladiators."
You do if you get out of your own way.
There are many You's within your mind.
What has the Voice of Doubt ever
done for you?
has taught you a lesson.
You are stronger now,
wiser now.
Use that wisdom, that strength
to unite your mind
and write better than ever before.
For the first time in DECADES,
the rare BLUE HUNTER'S MOON
will rise on this Halloween.
Full moons only rise
on Halloween every 18 years!
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LZJXBD6/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
A horrowing tale detailing the earliest adventure of my popular Wolf Howl "Last Shaman"
in his teenage years starts this short story collection,
THE MUMMY inspired me to write DEATH IN THE HOUSE OF LIFE,
set in 1895 Egypt peopled by Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, Nikola Tesla, Lady Lovelace, and Winston Churchill among other historical figures
With adversaries such as star-stranded aliens, time-lost artifacts, and back-stabbing British politicians.
I am still writing my Amazon Vella, BLACK MAGIC.
I feel like Emily Dickenson ... unread but unbowed.
When fate threw two New Englanders,
Emily Dickinson and Mr. Thomas Higginson, together on April 15, 1862,
she didn’t ask if her verse was “publishable” or “good.”
She knew all along, didn’t she?
She understood poetry had to transport, had to be visceral,
and had to find its way into our bodies.
So it is with our prose.
Chapter 38 just written is alive and visceral though none may ever read it.
In it, Gaia is reunited with her estranged son,
Adam Black.
A private detective caught between worlds trying to stay alive by his wits while ignoring the "sage" advice of his Trickster father, Coyote.
Anguished, Gaia realizes no season may be undone.
But Adam tells her that the lessons so learned
may be used to take wiser steps
And perhaps so lead to better places.
For whom do you write and why?
Have you ever gone on without encouragement?
(BTW, the 1st 3 chapters are free)
- Marcus Aurelius
Sometimes when I do blood runs late at night, I look up into the sea of stars and know I am not alone.
FB must have found a loophole in my birth certificate or I've been unfriended by everyone!
Midnight and I know there are worse fates.
We were homeless for seven months.
So HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
to Denise Covey and Alyssa McKendry
and everyone else whose birthday is today.
And to all who feel forgotten today ...
The Miracle of Life remembers your name.
DO NOT FALL IN LOVE WITH THE SOUND OF YOUR PROSE
Writing is communicating to the reader in a fast paced world.
Get to the point and it best be one worth the time of your reader.
DITCH THE SELF-DOUBT
Confidence is appealing, not just in romantic partners, but in the prose of writers.
Certainty in how you express your story is winning.
A joke told haltingly dies before it is finished ... so will your story.
Be bold. Be sure. Your story captured you ... it will capture your reader ... if only you believe in it.
LET TRUTH BE YOUR GUIDE
Your reader will "buy" your outlandish premise if only your characters ring true.
THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE hit hard because you "believed" in each family member. You could see they were flesh and blood.
Facebook alerted me it was the birthday
for two of my friends.
I went to FB to wish them well.
Uh, FB was gone.
If this should end tomorrow
All our best laid plans
And all our typical fears?
Am I running out of lifetimes?
This is not the first time
Something ends in just tears.
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Are we our digital footprint?
What are all those Instagram models going to do for income
with their Instagram sites fenced off?
We reach out to one another via the internet.
How much do you FB to reach out
and touch your friends?
Remember those things called "Letters"?
When was the last time you wrote one?
My mother kept all her friends' letters.
not just the ones written to her by Mr. Chandler.
When they died, she re-read them smiling and crying
while she did do.
Want to get into the heads of Mark Twain,
Ernest Hemingway,
Oscar Wilde, Groucho Marx, Abigail Adams?
Read volumes of their letters.
https://www.amazon.com/Letters-Note-Collection-Correspondence-Deserving/dp/1452134251/
Oh, on a completely different note:
Do any of you know how to format a cover for
a Kindle Hardback?
I am tech-challenged.
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