I have been burned out for a while and therefore been lazy in screaming in blogs journals and poetry. Today there will be no ranting, no raving, today it’s all about you sweet followers and bloggers I truly appreciate the gifting, insights, humor, and even pain that you each and everyone have shared. I appreciate what YOU bring to this very crazy world. I caught myself up a bit on everyone’s symphony of words and feel satisfied. I compare what we all do on this site as preparing a meal some of you give me an appetizer, some a snack, some a full meal, and others dessert. I appreciate all of the followers of my blog and each blogger. I am so flattered and honored that you read my blogs and I can only hope that some helped you along the way. Rock on with your words someone is listening.
Category: creativity
It is just life and I embrace it fully!
This past April 14th I celebrated 28 years of marriage so I have had a lot to be thankful for. Because we got together so young I hope we will be the couple who celebrates 70 years. I did actually see that in our paper and it thrilled me. My niece who is 16 recently texted me and asked me a rather unusual question for a teenager in this culture, she asked me if we could write letters to each other WOW I was amazed by this request and quickly said yes. It is a lost art and I have to say it has been fun. Her life has been busy and with Covid, we have not had much quality time so even though we are in the same county we are writing letters to one another. Just finished another one to mail. I love the surprises of life. None of us should ever give up because you never know what little sweet thing is traveling your way in this crazy world. My privacy is growing in all around me with thick super green lush trees I LOVE IT! Today another surprise this one was not as welcomed we actually got snow YIKES! They call it blackberry winter hope it fades quick. But I embrace all of life and go with it not saying I am not kicking and screaming sometimes lol. I am chillin with City and Colour the song is the sorrowing man good tune. I started a new book non-fiction this time. started is all I did, a very small start but a start nonetheless. I was reminded today of an enemy we all have and maybe have never considered an enemy which is “Distraction”. I have a blog called “Distractions hinder the limitless thinker” if you want to read it. But It truly is something I have to be aware of and stand against. I have not submitted any of my books to agents in so long, I finished my sequel to “Dead Traffic” and have not published it yet. I need to kick distractions ass and passivity because they are relatives lol. Can I get a witness? I need to be writing again and creating this is when I feel the most alive. The store has been a distraction. I love our store and enjoy decorating using my creativity there but nothing fulfills me like writing a book. My aunt got me a butterfly bush so I am excited to get it planted so the butterflies will gravitate to me. They are what I refer to as God’s happy creatures. The fireflies, frogs, birds, ladybugs, and even crickets (as long as they are outside) are all in my opinion happy creatures who each bring me joy. My niece will be 17 on July 17th shes working and just informed via her letter that she got the credits to go to the college she wanted to so YAY! I am so proud of her she is the daughter I never could have. I finally got to talk to my 18-year nephew who will be 19 June 22nd and we discussed the new resident evil game “The village” which I am psyched about I buy them and he hangs with me and we play all day. We also play board games I taught him last year how to play Chinese checkers. I love games inherited that from my dear sweet Granny. We use to always play games with Granny even me and my husband would spend nights and stay up to 1 in the morning playing Farkle, Uno, and sorry. We all use to do marathons of canasta games. Good memories that I am trying to keep alive. I saw something wild recently if there are any Mudvayne fans even though they split a long time ago. Someone mixed Mudvayne’s “Dig music with Journeys “Don’t stop believing” It actually sounded good, crazy but good. I like the good kind of crazy. If you check it out let me know what you thought. A special thank you to new followers of my blog you all are sweetasses and I appreciate all of you!!!!!
THE CREATIVE HIGH
It is after midnight and I am rockin’ out with “love you to death by Type O Negative” high from singing my words all day. Whenever I get the creative vibe it is so hard to come down. My mind cannot seem to shut down and my company will be my playlist and more words. Musicians are story tellers and I love the stories they share within their music. “Dangerous” By Shamans Harvest is playing not a good tune to calm me down he rocks so hard in this and I cant set still when I listen to it. I have chased the wave all day and my mind does not want to chill out. I love music and at present Shamans Harvest is chilling me out with their cover of Princes When Doves Cry, awesome tune. I use to make CDs for us to listen to when we were out and about before sat radio and bluetooth ect. anyway I always put when doves cry on each and every cd (princes version). My husband would crank up these cds while working and it would scream Tool, Mudvayne and other rockers and suddenly you have this girly song I got amusement from it and the crew did to as he would explain thats my wifes playlist lol. Killswitch Engage is playing “end of heartache” I guess with this I will try to shut down for the day. “Ghost” by Badflower is rockin me right now and I really need to shut down so goodnight sweet readers.
The symphony of words have come again
Today is a absolutely beautiful day, bright blue sky and lots of sunshine of which I am only enjoying from my window. I woke up with a creative wave crashing into me. The only sounds in my home have been the keys of my computer serenading me. I am finishing my sequel to Dead Traffic. I read through it to ketch myself up and I am in love. Going into a sequel I instinctively know that it has to be as good as, or better than the first and I can honestly say it is very good. This is what I am meant to do. I received a check from Amazon on the sales last weekend and it gave me a hunger. I have craved to be writing again. I am always amazed where a story will take you. You start off with a basic story-line and it morphes, changes and evolves into something fantastic. I am also amazed at how connected I get to the fictional characters that almost seem real to me. After all we spend months and months with these fictional characters and in the case of this particular story over a year. I have never taken this long to write a book but life has taken me on a journey of distractions that have hindered the completion. I am almost finished and I am so happy with it. I long to connect with the readers through my stories. I want to evoke emotions and leave them wanting more. You do not have to wait long in any of my stories to get the goods I come out of the gate with it. My goal in every book I have written is to keep the page turning after all those are the best reads.
I want my readers to be sad that it is over and turn it back to the first page and read again. I have a lady who shared with me that she has read Dead Traffic seven times and is very anxious to get the sequel. She said it was the best horror book she has ever read. This pleases me and was very flattering considering that she told me she loves horror and has a library of horror and Harry Potter books. Authors cannot be satisfied without our craft being enjoyed. Nothing satisfies me more than to hear the conviction of someone who has read my book telling me how much that they enjoyed it. She read Hells Hallways three times. I have books that I have read over and over again and this is the greatest compliment. I compare it to a meal that you invite someone to have and they do not stop with one plate but they want seconds. I want my readers to glutton themselves on my imagination and creativity. I have several books still unpublished and each one means a lot to me and I am connected in a very special way to all of them. Before this sequel it would normally take me four months to complete a book so imagine how excited I am to finally see this nearly finished after a year. I hope that all who read me will invest in my books and enjoy them, they are written for you. I gave no indication or teaser that there would be a sequel to Dead traffic at the end of that story and I hope it will be a nice and welcomed surprise.
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