Sherrie Miranda's Blog, page 10
November 28, 2021
Horizons.
This is from 2020, but since I didn’t share it then, I’m sharing it now!
Peace, love & justice for all,
Sherrie
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Dear Friends,
as every year, the Christmas Season has approached much too fast.
Time flew by and a changeful year is drawing to a close.
I hope it was a good time for you and you start the next year confidently.
I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a successful year 2020 from my heart. May all your wishes come true!
Thanks for your kind...
November 14, 2021
The Pug.
It’s amazing what can be done with photography if you aren’t afraid to play!
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Designed and created by Josephine.
November 9, 2021
Quotations on Intellectualism
I remember think this way as a silly teen, but to continue down this road your entire life?! You would have to be inherently lazy. To the point where learning hurts your head.
charles french words reading and writing
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as goo...
October 30, 2021
Creative Writing vs Writing as Therapy
Are you writing to feel better? Or are you planning on sharing your writing? That is the question you need to ask yourself.
I had a rough childhood and adolescence (but hey, who hadn’t?), and often times found consolation in making up stories. I would write short, gothic stories with monsters and witches that helped me cope with my everyday issues. Later on, when I became more serious about my writing, I realized that creative writing is so different from writing to soothe your s...
October 27, 2021
How to Make Your Character’s Choices More Difficult – by Angela Ackerman…
Writers, this is some great info!
Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog
One of the best things about conflict is that it pushes your characters to act. In every scene, your characters are making choices—big ones and small ones and thereby steering their fate.
Some decisions will be obvious and require little to no thought, but others will be muddier, with no clear “better” option, generating inner conflict.
These choices, provided the characters feel personally invested in the...
What Is This Thing Called Writer’s Block? – Guest Post by, Jaq D Hawkins…
May we all end writer’s block once & for all!
Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog
What makes me a writer is the need to write. It’s an incessant driving force characterised by a series of scenes from stories constantly animating through my mind. Not just one, I always have several stories playing out in my head. So when articles come out talking about what to do when you get writer’s block, I wonder how that can work with a host of characters continually clamouring for attention in a creative m...
October 19, 2021
Can You Imagine the Character You Read About?
For fellow writers: Something to think about.
Can you imagine the character you read about?
More importantly, is the character relatable?
How do we take abstract ideas and develop them into three-dimensional characters who love, laugh, hurt? Who live a life we can understand.
Here is what I’ve found through reading, writing, studying:
Give them a background. Why is the character a horrible person? Was he in an abusive household? Create nervous tics or h...October 10, 2021
#PictureOfTheDay and #writingprompt: 05/Oct/21
Are you in the mood to be inspired?
Pictures to entertain, spark interest, and inspire you to create with words or images, if you wish. Whether it’s a poem, story, play, novel, memory, essay, painting, drawing, sculpture, or another photograph is up to you. Or you can just enjoy the pictures. My image is untitled to avoid directing anyone. But you can find the title here.
If you use the prompt, post a link to your work, or the work itself, in the comments section, if yo...
It’s been a while since I shared my debut novel “Secrets & Lies in El Salvador”
Please keep in mind that SLIES is book 2 in the Shelly’s Journeys series so do read CIINO first. A short (2-3 sent.) review would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks to all my faithful followers & readers. ~Sherrie
Sherrie Miranda’s historically based, coming of age, Adventure novel “Secrets & Lies in El Salvador” is about an American girl in war-torn El Salvador: tinyurl.com/klxbt4y
Her husband made a video for her novel. He wrote the song too:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P11Ch5chkAc
...Why Do You Write?
You can see my response below. But why do YOU write?
Or, alternatively, why don’t you write?
Peace, love & justice for all,
Sherrie
by Kate Colby
If you’re reading this, I assume you want to be or already are a writer. I also assume that there’s a decent chance you want to be a full-time author. So, if that’s you, let me ask you two difficult questions: Why do you write? And why do you want to be a full-time author, when there are hundreds of easier career options?
