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About My Mother

Puppy Whisperer Revisited

Listen to internet radio with The Puppy Whisperer on Blog Talk Radio

This was my first "on air" radio show episode that I created, wrote and hosted for over a year. This is another form of writing but also a way to express it through voice;-) The show continues to build a listening base even though I no longer write episodes which is awesome!

Scene After Scene for The Deep Freeze

I am on Spring Break and writing is in full force! I wrote a high point today and it is flowing freely again. Monday I start back to school so I will slow down again but now I am on a roll and hope to have another 2,000 words out. Part of a scene I wrote may end up on the back cover but  have to see where the rest goes before I decide. I don't always write in order and I sometimes go back and fill in more or take some out. This is writing and I love it! Accounting and Sci Fi...What a combination huh? Maybe I will produce my next novel on the two together lol! Mayyyyyybe not.

Tammy Holloway - To Be Published - Contest Winner

I just got an email letting me know that I placed in the top ten for the writing contest I entered a while back. Here is the link for the story I submitted - "About My Mother" This is great news! I will be published which helps build my platform for my novel! I hope this also brings out the writer's in all of you! Here is the email I received:


Hi Tammy,

I am the coordinator for the Aberdeen Bay About My Mother writing contest. I'm pleased to tell you that your entry earned 8th place. Your mother sounds like a wonderful woman. Her strength and ability to endure loss after 52 years of marriage gives hope for us all. Thank you for considering our contest. I will need you to respond to this email and attach your entry in Word format so that Aberdeen Bay can get started on the e-book. Please do this within the next five days. The e-book will be available at no cost once published. Right now, our lead time is 50-60 days.

Congratulations and let me know if you have any questions.

Denise Middlebrooks

ABERDEEN BAY PUBLISHING
California Office

Inspiration from Will Smith - Awesome Words to Live By

Let me say a word or two about life and how "I" feel. There has been a drive in me for most of my life. I never fully understood it but always managed to push past the fears and "go for it". I've never been a track star or someone amazingly smart with all the answers. Only most...just kidding. But seriously, watching this video made me understand. It brought me back to reality once again. I have been guilty of letting others bring me down or influence me in the wrong way. Not anymore. I live my life the way "I" want to live it and I am the happiest I have ever been. I do my best to achieve greatness no matter how small. It might be something simple like telling my husband how much I appreciate him or it might be working hours and hours on homework to get that "A" I want or finishing that novel I plan to have complete by the end of the year but I achieve it. I have a goal and I will reach it but until then I plan to achieve greatness every day! I can and I Will!!! Thanks Will Smith....This was very motivational.

No matter who you are or what your dreams are, they are yours! Don't let anyone take them away. As a former Seabee we would say "CAN DO"! There is so much truth in that statement. See this picture of me on that pole???? I was scared to DEATH...but I did it!
Over and over again for several weeks of school.....

See this picture? It's my Bachelor's Degree. It took me 10 years of trying again, and again, and again.....but I did it!

Remove "can't" from your dictionary and push forward my friends! So what are you waiting for? Go write that book!

Words of Wisdom for Writer's from: Spongebob Squarepants

Seated at his desk, Patrick Star was attempting to write a poem, but Patrick had writer's block. Patrick continued sitting at his desk, looking at his pencil and paper, drooling; “SpongeBob, this pencil is broken. Why won’t it make words?”

SpongeBob answered Patrick, “Patrick, you have to think of the words yourself.”

 "But I'm worried my poem isn’t going to be any good and you’re going to hit me with dodge balls."

Patrick speaks the following words to himself as self-motivation to write: "Come on you stupid brain, work.”

Immediately after this, smoke and steam begin to emanate from Patrick's head, accompanied by the sounds of machinery cranking away.

After all this commotion Squidward Tentacles exclaims,"What is that horrible smell? It sounds like something in your brain died!"

Patrick flatly replies: "That’s the creative process at work."

After Patrick's poem has been completed and put to music on an album, prior to playing the song Patrick asks SpongeBob, "Are you going to throw any dodge balls at me?"

SpongeBob, always a good and faithful friend, replies, "I don’t see any dodge balls here, buddy, just an artist and his work."

WISDOM FOR WRITERS FROM SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS

1. You have to think of the words yourself.
Your pencil (or keyboard) won't think of them for you.

2. In extreme cases of writer's block, you may wish to exhort yourself with the words
"Come on you stupid brain, work." (See # 3.)

(Disclaimer: Use extreme caution when engaging in this activity.
I take no responsibility for any resulting injury or damage
should you choose to speak those words.)

3. Be prepared to have your brain begin to smell,
make nasty sounds, or even die on occasion--
but then take heart and remember that such happenings
may be proof of the creative process at work!

4. Find a buddy or two who will not throw dodge balls at you
but will keep telling you all he sees is just an artist and his work.



Hey, you. Yes, you out there in cyberspace....
Uh, pardon me, but is that a dodge ball I see in that there hand of yours?

Ghost Story Contest!

The “SCARE THE DICKENS OUT OF US” Short Story Contest 2011
AND
The JUNIOR “SCARE THE DICKENS OUT OF US” Contest 2011 FOR AGES 12-18
Sponsored by the Friends of the Dr. Eugene Clark Library in Lockhart, Texas.
First prize, $1000.00 and a trophy.
Second prize, $500.00 and a ribbon.
Third prize, $250.00 and a ribbon.
Junior contest prize $250.00 and a trophy.

Download contest entry form here.
Download junior contest entry form here.
Entry fee $20.00 (check or money order).
Junior contest entry fee $5.00 (check or money order).


The Scare The Dickens Out of Us ghost story contest and the Junior Scare The Dickens Out of Us ghost story contest share identical rules except the entry fees and the following: Junior contest writers must be age 12-18. Winners will have to provide proof of age.


All publication rights remain with the author.


The contest is a Friends of the Dr. Eugene Clark Library fundraiser and is privately funded. All entry fees go to the Friends and are used for library projects.

The “Scare The Dickens Out of Us” Short Story Contest is in conjunction with the annual “A Dickens Christmas In Lockhart” which is held on the first weekend in December (Friday night, Saturday) in Lockhart, Texas.

We want ghost stories. Any genre, any tone, any subject, whatever type of ghost story you can come up with.

CONTEST RULES:
1. The contest is open to published and unpublished writers alike. All publication rights remain with the author.

2. The ghost story must be 5,000 words or less, in English, and typed double-spaced. Entries must be original and unpublished. There are no other restrictions.

3. Only one entry per writer.

4. The judging will be done in a blind format. Do not put your name or any other identifying information on the manuscript itself except for the name of the story. Download, print and submit our entry form or our junior contest entry form. The information will include the name of your story, the author’s name, address, phone number, and email address, where you heard of this contest, and your permission to have your story read out loud at a literary gathering if you are one of the winners.

5. Your manuscript and entry fee must be mailed to us at P.O. Box 821, Lockhart, TX 78644 and must be postmarked no later than October 1, 2011. We will accept entries beginning July 1, 2011.

Winners will be contacted at contest end. Winners also will be announced at the “A Dickens Christmas in Lockhart” festival in December, and will be posted at our web site www.clarklibraryfriends.org.

No manuscripts will be returned. Keep the original copy. At the end of the contest entries will be shredded.



See more by clicking here:

http://www.clarklibraryfriends.com/