Karey (K.S.R. Kingworth) Shane's Blog - Posts tagged "speakers"

Bella is the main character in her story. The same goes for Batman. Every story you've ever read, or every movie you've ever seen has several things in common: A main character for starters. How do you know you're the main character in your own story?

For every story to be a good story, the main character needs to make choices and show a lot of spine. There also needs to be someone who creates a mess of things--chaos. There also needs to be a strong set of rules, and usually someone who goes against those rules. And sometimes, just sometimes, there is a victim.

Just because you're living your life, doesn't mean you're the hero in your own story. You might not be Bella just because you want to be. You might be playing the role of a victim, or you might be the mess maker in your own life. If you wish you were Batman, you might really be the Joker. It all boils down to the choices you're making for yourself. Are you being true to what matters to you? If you want peace in your home, and peace in your heart, are you creating chaos by hurting the ones you care about with your words?

Just for today try this one thing--it comes from a saying my widowed mother used to tell us five children around the dinner table when I was younger--"If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all."

So, if you've go a little Pride & Prejudice going on, resist the urge to say anything unkind. Bite your tongue if you have to. Be heroic, and see what happens. You might not notice anything on the outside, but you might feel a change take place inside, where it matters most anyway. Be true to who you are: good, worthy and loved whether you believe it or not.

In the weeks and months ahead, I'm going to be doing blog posts under several themes. This one will always begin with "Your Story."

So I finally replaced my ten year-old laptop Spunkie with a new Macbook Pro. Yesterday! And I'm writing on it this very minute. A big thanks to everyone who helped Secret Speakers win the Reader's Choice award as a cell phone novel at Textnovel. I used the prize money to by Spunkie II.





Thanks to Tyler Osmond who sold it to me. Writing to you all from my very own computer sure beats having to laptop hop. (Thanks to very generous family members for your patience.)





This next picture is the reflection of my old laptop that still does word processing, and in fact, I'm tidying up the manuscript which you can see on the screen.



All the little blue things on the left are the sticky notes from my editor, filling the edges of the manuscript. There are lots and lots of them. (And I finally finished going through them, gleeful sigh.)



Now that I've got a computer that does more than allow me to type word documents, I'm going to finish designing the back of the book cover and spine, put together the book trailer for my soon-to-be-released, very amazing new website, complete with a very cool application that allows you to make your own luminamen right before your eyes, and . . . well . . . all that!



Oh, and thanks to the really nice bald guy at Simply Mac.

12 hour days, lately: sitting in front of the computer until I can't see straight let alone form a complete thought. The good news is, I've got all the graphic design done for the soon-to-be released all new website.

One of the things that really stinks with fibromyalgia is that every once in awhile you get lost in pretty hilarious brain fog, which sometimes isn't so hilarious. (As in, I sent the manuscript to my editor's old address in late February because I was too out of it to realize that email with the address was from last August.) Hello dolly!

I just found out today that she hadn't received it, so I had to reschedule the recording dates with the narrator for Secret Speakers, and I'll very likely have to push back the release date.

Stinky bananies, as my kids and I used to say when life throws you trouble. I think I'm going to go turn on some music and dance, even if it hurts! Then, I'll go to bed laughing, knowing that the only thing that matters is being at peace with myself, others and God.