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WELCOME TO: GEMINI RISING   UPDATED INTRO 30 JUNE 2025: Just a little about me. I've been married for 33 years this past NOV and currently live in Southern California, but I grew up in New Hampshire. I've got 2 boys who are young adults. I work as a 911 dispatcher for LAPD. I enjoy my job a lot. Still. If you can believe that. I love to write. Thankfully both of my boys achieved Eagle Scout. My Scouting days are over and I'm back to focusing on my writing. I like to get out in nature, drink coffee and watch football. Here's a little bio about my zodiac. GEMINI: Gemini, the sign of the Twins, is dual-natured, elusive, complex and contradictory. On the one hand it produces the virtue of versatility, and on the other the vices of two-facedness and flightiness. The sign is linked with Mercury, the planet of childhood and youth, and its subjects tend to have the graces and faults of the young. When they are good, they are very attractive; when they are bad they are more the worse for being the charmers they are. Like children they are lively, and happy, if circumstances are right for them, or egocentric, imaginative and restless. Their good qualities are attractive and come easily to them. They are affectionate, courteous, kind, generous, and thoughtful towards the poor and suffering - provided none of the activities resulting from expressing these traits interferes too greatly with their own lives and comforts. Geminians can be successful in many walks of life though their general characteristics tend to make them unreliable. They are often skilled manipulators of language, in speech and writing, and may be: debaters, diplomats (though in politics they are more interested in theory than practice), orators, preachers (brilliant rather than profound), teachers, authors, poets, journalists, or lawyers. BLOG ACCOMPLISHMENTS: SEPTEMBER 2025:
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My entry is for Task #3 in:
The Task: Do you listen to music when you write? Do any groups/singers/songs inspire you to write? Share a YouTube video of your latest favorite song or artist. What is it about this song that speaks to you? For me, I think earlier in my writing, listening to songs did help to inspire me. I created a whole mixed CD for My novel, "Twilight Over Moldavia" which included songs like "Astronomy" from Blue Oyster Cult and "Night Ride Across the Caucasus" by Loreena McKinnett. In my more recent writing, I haven't relied so much on musical influences to set a tone or mood for the writing. Also, to answer another question, I generally don't listen to music while I write, as I'm more focused on listening to the characters in my head speak. Going back to Twilight Over Moldavia, it is Book 2 in my Moldavian moon, but it's not been re-released yet. It was published by Desert Breeze Publishing in the teens, but when the publisher went out of business, I got my rights back. Re-publishing my work as a self-publisher has been time consuming and I've been concentrating on my smaller work by Victory Tales Press first. This will be the cover to Twilight Over Moldavia when it is re-published:  As for Loreena McKinnett's song I can't seem to find an official version. But she has published the song on YouTube on her account. Here is a version I did find that intrigued me: Here is a video trailer I made of Twilight of Moldavia when it was initially released. |
This is an entry for Day 3
THE TASK: We have ten or more members who joined WDC during the years of 2002 and 2004. Pick any five and review something from their portfolio. Post your review numbers of the five in your blog entry and tell us what drew you to that work. (Remember a paragraph not one sentence) Just think this week reviews earn more gps. My Notes: I can honestly say finding WDC members from 2002-2004 were a lot easier to find this time around since I learned the "Authors" tricks. Thank goodness. Overall, I picked the ports because there's something about these authors/community members writing and expression that I enjoyed. Also, the items I choose to review (because there's A LOT in their Ports!) were mainly based on their titles. There was something about the title of that work that drew me in. Onto the reviews... My reviews:
Review of "Treasure"  The Title was Treasure and I knew treasure could be anything. I clicked on the item and immediately I liked the way it was presented, in a neat, orderly fashion and the WDC ML made it easy to read. The first couple of lines had me hooked - there's more to an action/adventure treasure maps and chests. This poem was about emotional treasure and I enjoyed reading it.
Review of "Rinse, repeat" The title here is "Rinse, Repeat," and it piqued my curiosity. Certaintly, this couldn't be about laundry, could it? Thankfully, no. It's about sticking to what we're used too, because in a way, we're bored and don't know any better. I liked the use of the video to establish a rhythmic beat for the poem as it was written. It was very catchy and engaging.
Review of "The Beatles, Abba Music Journal, Stories" The title had me right away. This is a blog and I'm always game to check out a blog. This blog was about musical influences with a focus on the Beatles and Abba. It was very entertaining, and engaging. The writing was concise and this blog just brought back good memories.
Review of "Waves" Again, the title intrigued me, especially when I opened the item up and discovered 8 lines of poetry/prose. The poet had a lot to pack into those eight lines so when I read them, I was blown away. There's a lot of raw, heartfelt and honest expression in those eight lines. Very poignant and moving.
Review of "Comma: Punctuation That Works Overtime" I think the thing that I liked about this item was just how succinct it was. We all struggle with commas. Who doesn't? It was compact and gave good examples of comma usage and it was just enough that it would hold a reader's attention span (considering our spans are rather short these) and pique enough curiosity that one might explore more. |
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