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** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only **  One writer's journey through life and blogging as I try to rebuild a writing routine. Hopefully I will succeed, since, after all, "everything in life is writable about." ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only **
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[Embed For Use By Upgraded+] Song: Change Your Mind Artist: Baylee Littrell Baylee loved sharing the songs he wrote for his albums with his grandmother before deciding whether to add them to his next album. "Change Your Mind" was the last song he played for her before she passed away, and she loved it. So it made sense to him that it would be the first single off his new album EP: Vol. 1, released September 2022. I love how Baylee's grandmother was such a big part of his life. He has told stories of growing up around his grandparents, listening to their older country music, and how much that had influenced his life. Now that my Granny has passed, I realize how much I don't know about her. She wasn't part of my life for the first seventeen years, and even after we moved to Arkansas where she lived, we still didn't spend much time together. I don't know what music she liked, what movies she liked. I do know she loved reading Westerns, which she may have gotten from her mother. I recall reading something in great-grandma Grace's journal about Zane Gray, an author of Western novels. Don't let time get away from you. Learn those stories. |
| Prompt: Write about Groundhog Day for your Blog entry today. I was in a Writing for Children class at university about nine years ago. Our professor had brought it a stack of newspapers and explained how some story ideas could come from newspaper articles or headlines. We were to spend about fifteen minutes or so skimming through articles until we found something that inspired us, then spend the rest of the time brainstorming a story idea. I don't recall how many papers I skimmed through before I found the article on Punxsutawney Phil. I don't even remember what newspaper it was. As best I can remember, which isn't that well thanks to it being so many years ago, local meteorologists had already worked with Phil's handler on the decision between more winter or an early spring. I sat there and just blinked. Punxsutawney Phil's a fake? Oh, sure, I knew it was ridiculous to actually look to a groundhog for predicting weather patterns six weeks ahead. But wouldn't you know it--that triggered a story idea. Sci-fi possibly. A former soldier travels around at the behest of the government, giving speeches and other appearances, some to dedicate memorial sites to his fallen teammates. My main characters, two teens maybe (age hadn't been decided yet in brainstorming), want to speak to him. One of them has a brother/relative on the team this soldier lost. The other just admires him like crazy. They eventually discover, though, that this person isn't the soldier at all. He's just the face--a spokesperson for the soldier himself. The real soldier is living somewhere quiet and private and doesn't want anything to do with public speaking. He slips in quietly during the memorial dedications, though. ... actually, some of that came to me just now as well. I hadn't touched this story idea since that class. Now I wonder if I should. |
| Prompt: How was January for you? Write about this in your Blog entry today. “If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.” – Anne Bradstreet January was a long year that second half of the month. While I've gotten used to the idea that I now need to take blood pressure medication for the rest of my life, I've had days where I've almost forgotten to check my blood pressure. January was also determined not to go without some icky winter weather, sending a mix of sleet and snow across the state. But I'm also working toward bettering my businesses. (Which reminds me that I need to make a quick video for my customers after this.) I have goals to reach, a supportive team, and supportive customers. I didn't hit the writing goal I wanted to. I'll try again, as well as try something else. We celebrated a birthday this month (my brother), as well as grieved at my Granny's passing just last week. Her memorial gathering is this Saturday, and I'm praying that I'll be well enough to go. I've been battling a terrible cold this past week, so I'm worried it might not be safe to go. I wanted to make Granny's favorite oatmeal raisin cookies for the occasion. |
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I've decided I need to put on music until the thunderstorms roll in. I prefer the patter of rain... or silence; but, I can't totally control either (I share this place). 
