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Can You Catch Up or Just Get Ahead?

September 26, 2013 / / 0 Comments
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We all have dealt with the futility of trying to catch up.  Whether it is on TV shows, with sleep or on blog posts.  It always seems like there is something more that I can’t get done.  There are times when I say, “Ok I am just going to stop and start fresh right now.”  You all know this, I have said it enough on here.  But when is that just a cop out?  most of the time I guess.  I don’t think catch up will ever happen.

Right now, I have 13 more posts in queue that are all just snippets of ideas.  They all ave less than 25 words in them and are just ready to be fleshed out into wonderful and exciting posts.  some of them have been around a long time.  This one has a date of May 17, 2011, that would have been the date I wrote the title.

As you can tell, I am a little behind.  Or am I?  So again, I have to say, “This week is new.  My blog lives again.”   I am turning off the life support and beating it into submission.  The new host is almost ready to rock and I am going to head into year three screaming and on fire.  I know I can’t catch up.  I just have to move ahead.

I would ask how you feel but it seems my comment section is broken, or  you don’t like disqus.  If that is the case, shoot me an email with that nifty contact form over there and say so.  I would like to know my stuff is being read by more than my buddies Ralph and Bob and the Google crawlers.

Today we are heading to “Santa’s Workshop” via the Polar Express with the Make-A-Wish foundation.  I will be writing about that on Amelia’s site tomorrow.

Have a great Wednesday

-Justin

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How teaching my daughter to write is helping me.

September 20, 2013 / / 2 Comments

I started my blog earlier this year as a way to kick start my writing career.  That has evolved a bit, but the main purpose is still writing.  Because of my writing, my daughter has shown some interest.

She was bored on a Sunday because we wont let them watch TV and asked me what to do.  I told her to write a story.  She played shy and was pretending that she couldn’t think of what to write about so I went back to some of my old lessons from elementary school about creative writing.

From that she has started a story and has had some ideas about others that she wants to write.   From these lessons, I have had to up my writing.  I have had to start thinking more about story structure and how to put scenes together.  I have always been a seat of the pants writer so this is getting into some different territory, even though I know what to do.

It continues to be a fun thing to do with her, get her to organize thoughts and ask questions of her character and her antagonist.  It is fun to see her think and then have to change something because it is too much like what was on Disney Channel yesterday.  We have had a plagarism talk as well.

I would suggest teaching someone how to craft a story if your writing is getting hard or a bit stale.  Show someone how to do it and you will gain a lot of insight yourself.  Besides it is a great way to interact with your kids that doesn’t involve the television, just their imagination.

I would love to hear your comments below!

-Justin

Poetry Tuesday 3: Goodbye and Farewell

September 20, 2013 / / 0 Comments

Hey Folks, back again for another Tuesday!  I hope you are having a decent week so far, It is almost Halloween!  Halloween is one of my favorite holidays, I have almost as many Halloween decorations as I do Christmas decorations.  I don’t however have a Halloween tree just yet….Forgive this commercial but if you need anything to spook up your place for Halloween, we have signs, candle holders, table runners and more at http://brendasquiltshop.com/shop!  All orders ship priority mail for $4.95.

Anyway, for today’s installment of Poetry Thursday I present a poem that I wrote a while ago.  I submitted this to the poetry contest at Poetry.com and got a letter saying they wanted to record it as part of a collection “to be released both on compact disc (CD) and cassette tape”.  2001 doesn’t seem like that long ago but when did we lose the cassette tape?  That is another post though.

So, for today, Goodbye and Farewell

Goodbye and Farewell

Goodbye my friends, My time is ended,
The hourglass slips slowly by.
I’ll bow out graceful, and take my leave,
To be a memory by and by.
Alas, time moves swift, now so must I,
My life’s twilight approaches,
Farewell to all who knew my life,
As death inexorably encroaches.
Goodbye my friends, weep not for me,
For ’tis a better place I go.
I will keep in mind each and every one,
Through rain, and sun, and snow.
Goodbye, farewell, To the future look,
As I take my Leave, My heart stays here
I’ll Love, I’ll go, I’ll not forget…..

Any thoughts?

Thanks for reading yet again!

-Justin

A new Name for the email list?

September 20, 2013 / / 0 Comments

I have been quite obsessed with this Pit Of Despair thing lately.  Maybe that is just a metaphor for my life right now.  Except I don’t have much to despair about.  I am not sure what is causing it.  I don’t feel banished to the lower levels.  I don’t even feel bad about the setup I have.  But, the pit it is.

And I have to say it like this…

So that got me thinking.  Should I change the name of my email list to something like “Crap from the Pit of Despair”?  Maybe not.  The real problem is me and not writing.  Maybe I do need to be chained to my desk with magical chains that don’t release until I have written 1500 words across various blogs every day.  That could be helpful.

There is just so much I want to do that I have not been doing.  Excuses abound and I am not going to bore you further.  I am going to get back into podcasting though.  And, you may have guessed it, I am going to call my new podcast “From The Pit of Despair”.  Let’s see how that goes and see if I can attract some readers and maybe some sponsors huh?

Here is one thing I would like to know.  Who is reading this stuff that I put out?  I know the venerable Ralph is reading, he is the only one who seems to make comments.  Bob drops by once in a while out of obligation but who else is out there?  Drop a quick comment, or an email or callme direct at…wait, that is probably not a good idea.  Comments are probably the best.  Let me know you are here.  Let me know you at least glance over this stuff.  I am going to get my act back together.  Look for Poetry Tuesday to return, as well as  Fiction Saturday.   Other observations are coming as well as the podcast on Wednesday or Thursday.

Thanks for reading, thanks for coming by.  Please let me know you were here, like Kilroy.

Have a great Monday.

-Justin

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