Schnazzy new button over there…

Did you see the schnazzy new button over there? You know the one in the left of the right columns?
Okay… this one!
Did you read what it says… iPhone4 Giveaway… Coming soon. No flippen kidding!
The #Ethiopia2010 team is scraping their change together and buying a gift card for an iPhone4 ($399) and giving it away to [...]

Bloom Where You’re Planted…

Take a moment and look around you. No, like really. What do you see?

Me? I see two seven year old boys attempting to create a level on Little Big Planet. I see the left over mess (on the table and their faces) of a birthday cake the same two little boys just made for the birthday party tonight. I see a house half cleaned (to be totaly clean by the party tonight). I see a garden that is still deciding if it wants to grow. I see endless potential in my children’s educational futures. I see my life. The life as I know it, that is exactly where I am rooted right now.

Now I am looking at the roots… they aren’t very deep, in fact they could be uprooted very easily. Humm…

Sometimes I look at these roots in this soil and wonder… Is it fertile enough? Am I getting enough water? Enough sun? Enough stimulation? Maybe I should move over there… cuzz the sun seems to hit on that patch a little brighter over there.

Still looking at the roots, wondering what do to about all the “What if…” “Should I…” “Maybe if…”

Have you thought this way before? Maybe you are feeling this way now? Maybe you are about to uproot yourself to find the brighter sun… Maybe you are ready to seek the shelter of shade because you have had too much sun… Maybe… Maybe…

Can I challenge your thinking for a moment. What if you embraced the soil you have been “planted” in at the moment and tried extra hard to bloom where you are planted? Look around you and find those nutrients to help you thrive in the soil you are in right now. This time in your life… there is a reason for it. It might be that we need to learn how to “survive” the storm and hail… Maybe it’s that we need to endure the scorching heat… and maybe it’s just a lesson on how to bloom and show others the beauty that you were created with.

Bloom! You can bloom despite your circumstances.

But Eisley, “You don’t know what kind of week I am going through! I am just ready to give up.” My challenge to that person is take that manure that you are experiencing and turn it into fertilizer. Know what I mean?

Bloom. It’s your challenge today, this week, this month. Just bloom.

Computers do not like coffee…

I almost fried my computer on Friday. I offered it, quite forcefully, a cup of coffee. After I forced a shutdown, took off the back and dried it off, I panicked. I then left it to dry for 24 hours during which I prayed like a mad woman.

Dear God, I didn’t back up my last couple chapters of Deglan Rising… please help.

Tech series on the horizon…

No, I am not going to write one! Goodness that would be more then I can chew
I am actually referring to a few blog posts on the technicalities of writing, editing, formatting, submitting, etc. Many of the tweets/blogs I see about submitting proposals, queries and partials tend to be full of panic because [...]

Seasons…

We all go through different seasons of our lives. Good, bad, ugly, beautiful… Our children growing, death, new jobs, promotions, new circumstances, etc. Seasons are important to our lives almost as much as they are to our writing. Because as a writer we go through different seasons as we write/edit/submit our novels. We all know this. [...]

DD’s Assignment…

DD10 is in the fifth grade and happily going to sixth next year. If you didn’t know, we homeschool and have a lot of fun doing it. Things like this make me remember why we homeschool.
She was asked to write a short story about an animal who may or may not have been chosen to [...]

And yet, I smile…

Tonight, a fellow twitter friend @Kristiecookauth inquired to how I was doing.
Well, I would love to say that everything is peachy all the time… but then I would be lying to you and to myself. Because everything isn’t always peachy all the time…
However, in the midst of the chaos and pain of situations I sometimes [...]

Spam spam spam…

And we aren’t talking the canned meat here… though, if you like it, I have a great recipe called African soup. My FIL lived in Africa for some of his growing up years and it was a great soup they made there… in place of spam, they used monkey brains… truestory. If you want the [...]

Goals…

Alright people… let’s talk goals. Significant ones, small ones, realistic, unrealistic… what type keeps you plugging?
I made my 2500 daily goal, which I blew out of the water on Saturday. Over 8,000 words read/edited/written. (Yay me! *pat pat pat*) Upon posting that awesome goal breaker on twitter a couple people said, “Your goal must be [...]

Chapter 8… and moving along.

So my rewrite is going awesome. I’m on Chapter 8 and things are just flowing so well with the switch to first person. However, my MS is getting heavier… like 3,000 words heavier at the moment! Oops!
I guess that just means I can cut out that one scene… you know the one… the one that [...]