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How teaching my daughter to write is helping me.

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

A new Name for the email list?

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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Hello all. I bet you thought the title of this post was one of those fake scarcity things or that my blog was going to be gone in 15 minutes. Not even close. If you have ever heard of Seth Godin, and let’s face it if you are into internet business anywhere you probably have, he started a little trend a while ago called the Domino Project. All of the details are on Amazon.com (my amazon affiliate link not domino project).

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Another Site Review: JustEssay.com!

Hello folks!  I hope you all had a good Easter and are ready to get back into the swing of things this week.  Today, I have a (paid) review of a website that I hadn’t heard of before but will be of great interest to those of you in college especially, JustEssay.com

I have to admit, my first knee jerk reaction to a site where people will write term papers and essays for you was not good.  I thought back to school and all of the papers I had written and  thought, how could you not do your own work and expect a grade from it?

That was all before I explored a site called JustEssay.com at http://justessay.com/essay.   I received an offer to write a review of this website (for compensation, just to be fair and fully disclose) and so I began poking around to see what they had to offer.  After looking into all of the services that they offer, I can see the value of having someone else write a paper for you.

Later, I was talking to my wife about this site and she told me that she knew several people in Nursing School who used similar services to get papers written that they just didn’t want to do.  The more I thought about it, the more I was on board.

Essentially, you are contracting out an assignment, just like everyone will do in business or any other job.  I am handy at many things, but I am going to be hiring someone to redo my driveway.  I can fix some plumbing but I am going to call a guy to put in some new taps correctly.

That is what JustEssay.com at http://justessay.com/does.  They “subcontract” your paper and custom write it for you.  They write original content that is guaranteed not to be plagiarized or copied anywhere else.  All of their staff is Master degree or PhD level writing professionals who truly know how to write in English!

They also guarantee that your paper will be free of errors and ready on time.  Since you are buying the paper, you have the rights to turn it in with your name on it as well, just like when you hire someone to build something for you, it is yours afterwards.  They spend the time that you don’t have to researching, and actually writing a first class paper.

I think back now to how many pointless papers I had to write in both high school and college and think that if I had it to do over, many of these I could have contracted out.  I can’t remember more than a scant handful that I had to deliver orally, most were turn in and get back later and that was the end of it.  I could have saved a lot of time and put that effort into something else with a service like JustEssay.com.

They will send you your paper via email as well so you have a chance to read it and make any changes that you need to.  They want you to succeed and have a great paper to turn in.  So after all of this, would I recommend JustEssay.com?  You bet I would, and I plan on using the service when my wife heads back to Graduate School.  I know there are going to be more papers that she will have to write that we will not have much time for with the kids running around.

So, if you are in the market for a first class, well researched, well written essay, paper, dissertation, thesis, or book report, head over to JustEssay.com at http://justessay.com/buy_essay.  You will be glad to have the free time.

Have a great Tuesday.

-Justin

 

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