Interesting selection of authors.
Writer’s Journey
There’s strength in numbers, why can’t we come together?
Co-existence matters because the reality is this planet isn’t going to survive if we don’t work together for the common goal.
When will we stop tearing one another down
There’s strength in numbers weakness in division
Certain groups didn’t really feel the recession
Why can’t we empower one another
Why can’t we love our brothers
Why wont we help our sisters
Different minority groups hating within
Think about it.. who really wins?
-Dionne MT-
Breathe Think Write Release
#beingthemoment 2 – attention to details
How often do you actually think about intent when you do something. I am guilty of mindlessly doing because it has to be done.
Are you a newbie writer? Try to avoid these three commonly made mistakes
Mistakes are part of our growing process, overcoming them to reach our potential is the key to success.
Mistake. Not very popular word in our vocabulary and it is something you usually don’t want to hear about. But guess what, we are all just humans. And it means we all do make mistakes. It’s a natural part of learning curve and there is nothing to be ashamed of. I’ve been in research and writing for about twenty years and after 50+ published papers, numerous research projects, two dissertations, 3 books and year and a half of blogging, I still do make mistakes. And I don’t mean like grammar and typos. Sometimes I don’t manage to express myself as clearly as I wanted or at times I’m not assertive enough to share my work… but that all doesn’t matter.
I’m not talking about these kind of mistakes. I’m referring to behavioral attitudes that many young or new writers somehow acquire that can slow down or even hinder their success…
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Log #4: Stories are like buildings… — My Digital Alchemical Log
Love the analogy !
Crying does revitalize our soul.
Women’s History Month
This month is women’s history month! Who are some of your favorite female authors?
Mine are in no particular order just as they popped into my head:
Eleanor Roosevelt, Virgina Woolf, Kate Chopin, Maya Angelou, Natalie Goldberg, Anne Lindberg,
Jane Austin, Mary Shelley. Louisa Alcott, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Pema Chodron,
Rachel Corson, Wilma Mankiller, Toni Morrison, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot,
Alice Walker, Emily Bronte, Emily Dickinson, Ursula K Le Guin, Margaret Mitchell, Edith
Wharton, Willa Cather, Judy Blume, Mary Wollstonecraft, Anne Frank, Malala
Yousafzaifzai, Susan Sontag, Margaret Sanger, and Shirley Jackson.
Please take a moment to recognize women authors.
Inspiration Sunday
Poetry is:
- Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes. ― Joseph Roux
- Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. ― Leonard Cohen
- Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful. – Rita Dove
- Poetry is an act of peace. – Pablo Neruda
- Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. – T.S. Eliot
- To be a poet is a condition, not a profession. – Robert Frost
- Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. – Leonardo da Vinci
- A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. ― W.H. Auden
- The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness. ― Christopher Morley
#MyFirstPostRevisited
Creating a system for my Poetry practice
Writing the Life Poetic by Sage Cohen.
isbn 978-I-58297-557 Publication date 2009
Poetry is a passion of mine, I love reading and writing poetry. I discovered this book and have devoured the suggestions to broaden my horizons, my skills, and my reading enjoyment.
One of the suggestions, Ms. Cohen recommends works for me. Create yourself a place to come to when you work. I found it very helpful and decided to pass on the suggestions with you. The categories are flexible, it’s up to you but I found these really met my needs. My ability to focus and accomplishing daily goals surprised me with her suggestions.
Great Quotes that motivate me about writing and life
Poems and Authors I Love offer inspiration and reassurance that my words matter.
Poems I am working on, my ideas, my acorns, whether in rough or editor process.
Finished work, it is hard to let people read your intimate thoughts.
Contests and deadlines, so I don’t miss opportunities.
Submission log, someday this will have lots of places.
Published Poems, I dare to dream!
My friends work matter a lot to me. We support each other with reviews and commentary.
- Cut and paste your old post into a new post or reblog your own bad self. (Either way is fine but NO editing.)
- Put the hashtag #MyFirstPostRevisited in your title.
- Notify your tags in the comment section of their blog (don’t just hope they notice a pingback somewhere in their spam).
- Feel free to cut and paste the badge to use in your post.
- Include “the rules” in your post.
Editors and the 3 second rule
So many editors out there don’t or won’t invest more than 3 seconds maybe if we’re lucky 5 seconds to read our work. It’s true! Sad, but true. Publishers and editors have so many books crossing their desk or inbox they don’t have the time to invest more than that.
So how do you get them to read our work?
You have to write the best opening line possible? Write it and rewrite it again until everyone that you’ve shared your work says wow. Don’t be afraid to seek lots of opinions before you submit because getting the truth from family and friends is a lot easier to take than that rejection letter or worse the silent treatment.
Here are some great opening lines, you’re probably familiar with already.
“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
― George Orwell, 1984
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
“It was a pleasure to burn.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
So how do we create lines like this I suggest you check out this Hooked by Les Edgerton. He provides a concise informative read to help us create great openers too!
“The road to rejection is paved with bad beginnings. Agents and editors agree: Improper story beginnings are the single biggest barrier to publication. Why? If a novel or short story has a bad beginning, then no one will keep reading. It’s just that simple.”~ Amazon
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