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World Chocolate Day - July 7
Okay, this topic isn't something to be missed! Thank you, little cacao bean, for bringing us so much deliciousness. So many things can be done with chocolate and food. Blocks, bars, shaved, and melted are only a few. You could spend weeks looking at recipes!
Just think about chocolate and your brain responds. Your mouth waters, you look at the delicious food before you and your brain goes in overdrive thinking about what you'll do with the treat. Think about the senses and how to amplify those in your writing.
HOW do we take that to our writing? Grab an adjective. Those are words that modify a noun. That way you'll know whether it is hot chocolate or creamy chocolate.
Use a verb to help describe...that thing called a participle. Sickening chocolate. Beaten chocolate. Dyed chocolate.
Then there's the adverb. That describes an action. Be careful with this one. But sometimes it can fit in, like "the baker boldly chocolated the cookie". There are words you can add to your writing to help impart the senses, whether you like sweet things or not.
In any case, enjoy the sweet and enjoy the day. And of course, Write On!
This month's question: What are some fun words to describe your favorite food?
How do you use that in your writing?
Answer below  Editors love feedback! 
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Excerpt: Jasmine barely recognized what her mother had become. Now all she saw was the disease. It had gripped Lillian's mind like a vice, and each day it stole just a little more, sending her backwards in time, morphing her into a frail little being. Almost like a child. Each month, each week, each day Lillian could handle less and less, forcing Jasmine to handle more and more. Eventually their roles had reversed, Jasmine no longer the child, Lillian no longer the adult.
Excerpt: I could barely see her as she pretended to sleep. By the dim light coming in through the window, I watched her body rise and fall with each tortured breath. I always tried to synchronize my breathing with hers. I always failed.
“Are you awake, love?”
Her eyes opened. She smiled and said, “Maybe. What’s it to you?”
I smiled to match hers as she stretched and groaned. She could be so cute sometimes. “I love you, you know,” I said.
“What’s that?” she pretended not to hear me.
I’m oblivious to these things, “I said I love you.”
I could see that beautiful smile creep across her face as she said, “I love you, too.” Sometimes I could tell she didn't really mean it.
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Excerpt: I could tell by the way he looked at me that my lie hadn’t held water. Not that a lie should hold water, or anything. A lie isn’t like a container, sink, or salad bowl, but lies do hold the frame of things. They give stuff and people a sweeter package, a better border.
Excerpt: He had not been expecting a letter.
At least, not this one. He had gotten plenty of letters lately: military dispatches, legal documents, condolence cards. He had long since stopped opening all of them.
They were in a pile on the kitchen table, next to the box from the funeral home. Next to the rose he had clutched throughout the service, the white petals now withered and brown. Next to the newspaper with her obituary printed on page nine.
Excerpt: Haven!” Papa’s voice always brings to mind thunder. This particular clap crackled up the elegant staircase and into the library where I sat with my twin sister and the middle of her three daughters. “That lover of yours is up to his shenanigans again!”
“Daddy says Mr. Mallory is a flibberdydigget,” said six-year-old Sarah.
Excerpt: Dale took good care of her; he gave her coat a brushing every day and combed the tangles from her mane and tail. He turned her out into the pasture every morning and called her to the barn each evening. Yes, she lived a pretty nice life on the ranch. There was only one thing that bothered Iris. She thought about it often and sometimes would stamp her hoof in frustration when she was reminded that she was SHORT.
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Excerpt: No one knew how the boats got there; they just appeared overnight as if by magic. We were all stunned. We had been on this island for what seemed like an eternity, maybe it was an eternity….
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This month's question: What are some fun words to describe your favorite food?
How do you use that in your writing?
Answer below Editors love feedback!
Last month's "Action/Adventure Newsletter (June 7, 2023)" question: Do you have a little time to spend on submissions and publishing? Why or why not?
Monty  : Done it 4 times.
Quick-Quill  : I am going to take a chance on this new MS when I finish. I may even start sending query letters as I write
Igor Skoglund  : I have time for submissions and publishing. I have written many texts already so I have time to do other things.
TheBusmanPoet : I'm just here to interact on the news feed, post what I come up with. I have no interest it pursuing publishing. But then again it all comes down to each of our preferences. Whichever way you decide, it's good IMO. 
s  : I have heaps published. Not as much as I'd like, but because I rely on trad publishers, rejection is the norm.
I need to check out the In Print section, I guess, and see what I can do...
N.A Miller : submitted a few but clearly I am not good enough to be published. So I am here, but not for long... thinking about taking a break from writing (posting) and looking at my work at a much later date.
Let's be honest with myself. I suck... I admit it and I think I lack any more motivation to write anything new... so I'll see ya around...
buddhangela's Wounded Not Dead  : N.A Miller I'm sorry your writing has you so frustrated right now that you want to stop. Take a break if you need to, but consider whether you write because you love to write, or you write because you want to be a published author.
If you love writing, then you are a writer. Just because you think your writing sucks right now doesn't mean it's going to suck in six months or two years or ten years – if you continue to practice writing.
I found out when I came here less than two years ago that although I'd say my writing sucks, it's never hopeless. Because as long as I practice and read and try new things, I'm growing as a person and a writer. So I can love to write without being great at it, because there's always something to learn and practice and a new story (or poem) to write. (And if I stopped writing, I'd die, because what else would I do?)
So if you love to write, if you want to keep writing, maybe reach out to a moderator and ask for advice, find out what your options are. There might be members here who mentor other writers. Whatever you decide, I wish you all the best.  
If I began writing with the intention of submitting for publication, writing would become a chore, work. I wouldn't want to write anymore. So I write for the love of writing; it's fun, and it pushes me to stretch my brain, my comfort zones, and to interact regularly with at least a few people outside of family (yes, this means y'all  ).
Scarypotato-doing bettertoday : I submitted a piece of work to a publisher once a few years ago. It was the least thought out thing I’ve done. The publisher said my piece was beautifully crafted out but not in their wheel house. I think about getting published but it’s clear I don’t know what I’m doing. So I’m gonna finish the story I’m writing for my dad. Once I’ve finished a few more stories or a novella(gulp), I’ll think about maybe selling on Amazon or Apple Books.
elephantsealer : Many number of times I spent sending out submissions for publication....
n.lea : I write because my soul needs to release things that I have a difficult time telling people. I write because I enjoy it; turning images into words that you can see has always been rather beautiful to me.
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