Sherrie Miranda's Blog, page 164
January 1, 2016
Korean Son
I am sure you are good enough! Never think that you aren’t again!
Peace, love & comfort within our own skin,
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:
http://tinyurl.com/klxbt4y
Her husband made a video for her novel. He wrote the song too:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/P11Ch5chkAc?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent
Would I wish upon a Korean son?
Only to have it turn and run.
Accepting the American moon.
The American me, a man too soon.
How I miss you in the night.
Your image fading from my sight.
The right to have a mother’s love.
I simply wasn’t good enough.
-OM
December 31, 2015
A Short Story Is Like A Seductive Dance #Writers #Amwriting
This is so true, Blonde! Thank you for this.
I hope to start writing short stories soon. I also hope to publish an anthology of short stories sometime in the near future. It will be about the aftereffects of war.
Peace, love & happy writing to all,
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:
http://tinyurl.com/klxbt4y
I am really enjoying reading and writing short stories. They are proving to be a great distraction from working on the third draft of my novel.
There are lots of quotes out there about describing a short story:
A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.
Lorrie Moore
Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and other dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner.
Neil Gaiman
Short stories, to me, are like seductive dances.
Here is my rationale:
Both the short story and the seductive dance can be breath takingand captivating.
Both the short story and the seductive dance are short and intense.
I see the author of the short story as the dashing male dancer…
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Advice on Prologues:
It’s very true that many of us love prologues! I insisted on a prologue and as it turned out, I had 3 pieces that had to go in the prologue because these people were dead before the story started. I am working on my 2nd novel “Crimes & Impunity in New Orleans” and it will have a prologue too!
Got a problem with that?!
Peace, love & great storytelling to all,
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:
http://tinyurl.com/klxbt4y
Her husband made a video for her novel. He wrote the song too:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/P11Ch5chkAc?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent
Count Your Writing Blessings #writing #writers
I am thankful for all the things in my life, both past and present. Without the past, I would not be here. Without the past, I would not have had the knowledge, wisdom & heart to write my novel! ;-)
Thanks, Blonde for another great post! I am happy to meet you!
Peace, love & harmony,
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:
http://tinyurl.com/klxbt4y
Her husband made a video for her novel. He wrote the song too:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/P11Ch5chkAc?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent
To be blessed means that you give thanks for things in your life and are grateful.
It’s important to feel blessed for our writing abilities as sometimes we seem to forget that it’s our writing that has a huge impact on ourselves and others.
Let’s count our writing blessings today, here are mine:
I am thankful for having an overactive and at times random / weird imagination. Some people lead unimaginative lives and never get the chance to pop off to fantasy land.
I am thankful for the ability to write, to create new people and places and to be able to get some sort of reaction from a reader.
I am thankful for having folders and folders of unfinished stories. Some writers would kill for my library of unfinished work. I have already started going back and finishing what I have started and that feels good.
I am thankful…
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16 Things a Writer Might Say When Suffering From Writer’s Block #SundayBlogShare
Thanks for this list, Blonde! ;-)
All the best,
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:
http://tinyurl.com/klxbt4y
‘I may never write anything again’ [cue look of despair]
‘Is there an emergency helpline I can call about this?’ [frantically searching Google]
‘I am creatively bunged up!’ [cue pained expression]
‘Why is this happening to me?’ [cue look of despair]
‘Everyone else is writing and I am sat here with nothing’ [cue tears]
‘I think I should give up writing!’ [quickly followed by a door slam]
‘I must email my writing friend again and tell them I am still suffering!’ [types out 56th email of the week]
‘My creativity has dried up’ [cue pained expression]
‘It’s over, the literary dream is over’ [quickly followed by loud wail]
‘Bet J.K. Rowling doesn’t get writer’s block like me’ [cue look of despair]
‘Think I might cry’ [clutch some tissues]
‘I can’t stop crying!’ [cue sobbing]
‘I ate a block of cheese and nothing has happened. I still haven’t written anything’…
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December 30, 2015
Calling all Poets/Creative Minds – Writing letters by the moonlight
Gorgeous poems! Thank you, dreamer & lover of words! ;-)
Peace,
Sherrie
As the last collaboration was such a success, I wanted to start another. This time I will give everyone a week as I realize some of you only blog once a week. As usual I will add all contributions in different colour and list the contributor in the same colour at the end of the piece. I will add it in the order they come. Hope you all will join in on this one :) Thank you!
Unwritten letters of the heart,
which you always meant to start,
sitting by the moonlight…
A thousand words spun from my soul.
I cannot see through blinding stars
These tears by summers moonlight shed
The pen of my mind idle
As words unwritten fall to the floor
Of a broken heart
By loves denial
Opalescent beams pierce the inky dark.
Open arms that embrace my dreams,
and carry them into the ethereal blanket…
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Thief…
Love this! Thanks, Natalie! ;-)
Peace, love & joy to all in the coming year,
Sherrie
December 29, 2015
The sun came out!
A fellow blogger is visiting Viet Nam and all I got were these beautiful photos! ;-)
Sherrie
P.S. I must say I was quite surprised by many of these! Pretty soon, it will be as expensive to visit as a tourist attraction here in the US!
Just as I suspected and hoped, the view is spectacular:
The ocean is still murky brown, but who cares! We are going outside, to have adventures and bask in the sun.
The pool looks pretty good in the sunshine, too:
According to Josh, the pool in nearby Sheraton is even better. Yesterday he went over and asked to see their rooms – for about 50% more you can have modern luxury and amazing facilities, like a proper gym and an infinity pool overlooking the ocean. With all that, there’s no security – so he just waltzed back in later and used the gym. This is the strange benefit of being white here – you are assumed to be a guest in whichever hotel you boldly walk into.
We ventured out on the town and visited the market:
Had to snap a photo of this “security” dog watching over the local…
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Lighting my way
Beautiful poem & stunning photo!
Peace be with you,
Sherrie
Image sourced from :www.magic4walls.com
with each dawn I see
hope rise, high above clouded
Skies, to light my way
December 28, 2015
The word will get around
I would love it if this bird visited me! ;-)
Peace, love & nature for all,
Sherrie
I went out before breakfast
to fill the bird feeder.
So far only jays come,
but the word will get around.
~ May Sarton, Journal of a Solitude
Notes:
Photograph of female bluejay at bird feeder by Cyanocitta
Dec 23, 2015 forecast – a high of 54° F. Tomorrow’s forecast: high of 66° F
