I just perused my blog entries and read one from January 2011. In that particular entry I am mundanely recapping the upsets of the week and capitulating about hopes and dreams and goals. It seems so funny to me that a year ago I was that way. I am such a different person now. It is so vital and necessary to me that I DO NOT focus on sharing the negatives or the troubles but rather that I focus firmly on the positive. For this reason I have stopped watching the news. But I digress...we have found a subject and we must stay on it! I love to write.
This week I read 2 books. I believe that if you are to have any hope of writing something good, or any hope of writing something that will inspire people, you must study such things by reading what has been written already. I read "The old man and the sea" by Ernest Hemigway and also I am still reading "Think and grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill. Nothing is new under the sun and all has been done before. It is necessary that we continue to repeat the process, for much like exercise of the physical body, the repetition of our most desired virtues creates strength, not for the body but for the soul. Any and all writing that is good should speak directly to the soul, not just have a symetry or balance in it's physicality. So I seek to inspire and have found many forums to allow that to develop. These are my great successes to date and I plan for greater still to come!
Another source for my inspiration and creativity to flow and do it's work is in the very place it always has been...my family and home. At home I still invite families to leave their children with me while they work so that they may have peace of mind that their child is not a cog in the daycare machine, losing their precious developmental moments under the observance of apathetic childcare workers. Here in my home, their children are fed both physically and spiritually in that they are loved and respected. I do not hesitate to treat them as I would my own children in order to assist them toward understanding the world they live in and how they exist within it.
My own daughter is an Actress, and at certain times her schedule dominates our day. I journal her performances, manage her blog and other social media presence. I support her by driving her to auditions and casting calls, writing her resume and updating all her vital documentation like photos, portfolio and resume. When it comes time to juggle and adjust and get her places, we manage...if barely.
My son is a preschooler who needs to be educated and this I do as well from home during the regular course of governing the daycare here at my home. He is 3 and a half, can spell his name, his sister's name, mom and dad. He has learned to write (not well enough to be read yet) his name as LEX. He reads letters everywhere and asks what they mean. He counts. He is very clever and a good student and a good boy. He makes my job fairly easy.
In the winter of 2010 into 2011, I created this blog and then one about Annika's acting career, and then one about Lex. This fall I created a fourth about my passion, Walt Disney World Florida. I also joined another blog forum where I visit infrequently. I use facebook and twitter to advertise my blogs and I monetize my blogs using google adsense. I am not a techy and am fairly not internet-savvy but I get by. My blogs brought me to my most recent passion...BLOG WRITING. I spent the summer creating romance stories and trying my hand at a handbook for childcare. I seem to have a lot of failure ideas. When I recap them, they make me laugh. Failure makes me laugh...as if it will stop me! No, I persist in doling out my special brand of sunshine and stories and it landed me an awesome freelance writing job. I could not be more happy about anything. I love doing this. I am including a link below where some of my work can be read.
http://thehairshaman.com/ I wrote the entries entitled: "Your practical guide to the moon"
"Thicker Fuller Hair"
"Thoughts of 2012"
I am so proud to be seen on The Hair Shaman page.
http://morroccomethod.com/blog/ I have written so many that have appeared here, I must go through and gather the titles. More recently, I have written the blogs titled,
"Bad Hair day? Difficult hair type?"
"Fascination with color"
"shampoo daily? worry no more"
"Love your curls again (or for the first time)"
"Three words...handmade natural soaps"
and there were about 20 more.
Working as a freelance writer has been the answer to a lifelong desire I have had since about age 8. My first really major piece of literature was a first-hand documentation of the events of Hurricane Gloria when I was around 10years old. It has been lost and never to be recovered but was about 30 pages handwritten. I had some published poetry in high school. I stopped writing and submitting when one day I walked into my grandma's and found one of my mournful laments pinned up on her refrigerator. I guess a friend saw the name and cut it from the local paper and mailed it to her with a note that said, "is this your grandaughter"? Um...YES...until she DIED OF EMBARRASSMENT. Grammi still has that stupid poem up on the fridge 18 years later!
A few years back I started a children's story for fourth grade reading level. But it didn't go far...it felt a little familiar and forced. The ideas were not flowing. I created two impressive essays that I submitted to LHJ and Readers Digest. I never heard anything back from them but I knew they were good. So I focus on keeping my writing skills sharp and hopefully improve them by keeping these vaious personal blogs to practice my styles.
As we close the year of 2011, I find myself having a unique focal point. Retrospect...reflection of a great year. This has been a trying and challenging and particularly up-and-down year for me. In another blog I will discuss that further but for now I will close with something inspiring.
"The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. ~Anaïs Nin"
anon dear friends, anon
You have come a long way and the possibilities are endless for you.
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