The above are the Azaleas in my garden. I have three bushes, this is two of them. I will share the other purple one in another blog.

These bushes only bloom in the springtime. I love the colorful bloom, and I miss them when they go away. But the green bush will still be there until the end of fall.

Like these bushes, my writing process is a little similar. There is a process that it goes through. However, unlike the bushes, my writing process is not set in a specific pattern. I’m a go with the flow type of writer. That is something I would like to change.

I know I will have to instill some sort of discipline in order to actually change the way  I write. Not the style of my writing, but the sporadical way I write. In the couple interviews I’ve done, I was asked about my writing process. I had to think, do I even have one. Obviously, I must since I’m still creating stories.

While I’m changing a few things in my life, such as my blog name and my unfit body, I want to change my  way of getting my stories written. With this change I hope to produce more stories at a quicker pace. I know I can do it, because I believe in myself and my talent. I also know that I can do whatever I put my mind to.

I’ve already stated here on this blog, that I’m a student. My major is Early Childhood Education. Here is my concerns: major teaching staff layoffs, and closing of schools.

Will I have a job once I get my degree or will I have yet another piece of decorative paper to hang on my wall?

When did education become such an after thought? Why are we pouring money/funds into all sorts of major change projects, but not into the future of the world. Our children are the future leaders of tomorrow. And without education we’ll be wondering if our world is in good hands.

Getting my education is important to me as well as very costly. The way things are going I’m not going to be able to pay back the loans I’m taking on in order to become a teacher.

My next issue is that with all these schools closing are my children going to have a school to attend? Will I have to rob from Peter to bribe Paul to put all three of them into a private school? The crazy thing is I don’t know where Peter is and Paul ain’t having it.

What are we going to do about this travesty? We need to think about that from now before the mess gets too large to clean up.

Current Word Count: 10,508


Until next time, happy reading and writing.
Namaste!

The rose above is the first one for this season on my rose bush, in the front of my house. No fertilizer or anything like that, only a little rain and Mother Nature at her best.

That’s why I wish sometimes I was Mother Nature. She takes her time to make sure whatever she creates is beautiful. There is no procrastination in her work. Even when the temperature flips back and forth, from cold to warm sometimes even hot, her creations are going along as they should.

For authors, we tend to our characters, the way Mother Nature or gardeners tend to the plants and/or flowers. But we have the nasty procrastination bug sets in sometimes, especially in me, and lots of time grows by without any growth to my characters or the story.

I know what my problem is and now I have to stay consistent in battling my laziness (for lack of a better) so that I can finish the story I’m working on and move on to the next one. Plus, I have a few people waiting and asking about this story and I need satisfy their craving for this story.

As I write I will try to update my word count here and share a little of the story. Maybe I will give out enough teasers, making people beg for more and ultimately making move faster at getting the story out.

“‘Tis the season and fa-la-la-la-lah was officially over. Her face was pain stricken. Where there should have been whites in her eye, red had taken place. It made her look evil or high on drugs.” – excerpt from Beyond New Beginnings


Current word count: 9096

Until next time, happy reading and writing.

This past Friday, April 16th, I was invited as a guest speaker at a private school here in Georgia. The invitation had come earlier in the week from one of my classmates. When she asked I eagerly said “sure, just tell me what you want me to talk about, and I will be there.”

Before I get into Tyler Perry, let me say to all the readers of my blog, I am constantly trying to update my blog. Change is good! I know for some of you something funky happens that takes my light and airy template and makes it all black. I’m trying to get to that happy medium for all of us. Bear with me.

Now on to the subject of this particular blog post. Hot damn Tyler Perry has done it again. Hubby and I went to go see Why Did I Get Married Too and we loved it.

I had a purse full of snacks from home and stubs with $5 marked on it for this awesome movie. We have spent more on terrible waste of screen time, but we couldn’t ask for more for our $10.

I saw some things that reminded me of my own situation a few years back and even now. I saw things that reminded me of people that I know. I wondered if Tyler Perry had peeked through our windows. Of course I knew he didn’t but it sure was realistic and had my mouth wide open and eyes brimming with tears.

But I didn’t cry.

Tyler Perry has been writing, directing, and producing movies that have been touching my heart. Sometimes we have to see things from a different light in order to GET IT.

Now lets talk about the people who bought their children to see this movie- WHY? Seriously, why would any adult bring their kids this movie. PG-13 it was, but the subject matter and certain innuendoes were very inappropriate for children to under age 17.

People be aware of what you are exposing your children to. Yes, we’re proud of Tyler Perry’s talent, but there are others just as talented we can expose our children too.

It’s really difficult to believe it’s April already. 2010 is flying by. Just one month ago I stepped out on faith and published my first novel. The feedback I’m getting has me smiling like the Cheshire cat. picture by muzikqueen