Sherrie Miranda's Blog, page 182
September 3, 2015
Celebrate Literacy
Lovely art and music! What more could we ask for? ;-)
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&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent
Originally posted on Art by Rob Goldstein:
GERSHWIN: Rhapsody in Blue
byOscar Levant, piano
Philadelphia Orchestra
Eugene Ormandy, conductor
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August 30, 2015
RANDOM MONDAY FUNNIES…
Another lovely set of funnies from Chris, the Story Reading Ape.
Thanks, Chris! ;-)
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&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent
Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:
August 29, 2015
Reblogging As a Way to Promote Others
I reblog articles that are of interest to me that I believe would also be of interest to my followers. I am planning to post more of my own writing as well as those of the South Bay Scribes, which is the writing group I started that has taken on a life of it’s own.
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&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent
Originally posted on Dream Big, Dream Often:
Reblogging is a great way to share an interesting article or post with your readers. I have had a few people comment that they wished the reblog button was removed from WP as it is simply a way for lazy bloggers to “steal” or “borrow” content to promote their page.
I guess that is one view point and everyone is entitled to their opinion. I do not hold this opinion. I have seen a few pages that only reblog other’s material, but very few in relation to the 60+ million bloggers on WP.
I use the reblog button to help others in the same way the reblog button was used to help me. I share to promote others; plain and simple. If you would like me to promote your page via the reblog button then click the link below and leave your post in the comments:
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How To Use 3 Words to Grow Your Readership: Meet and Greet
Looks like a great way to meet more people! I hope to share some work very soon, some of my own, but also some from the South Bay Scribes!
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&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent
Originally posted on Dream Big, Dream Often:
Think and dream big words written on chalkboard
Today we have 3 events going on simultaneously:
Meet and Greet: leave your blog link, reblog the post and then visit other’s pages!
Reblogging: leave a link to your post and I will reblog
Social Media: leave a link to your social media pages for others to view and connect
Opportunities to connect with new bloggers on 3 levels!!
August 24, 2015
RANDOM & MAXINE MONDAY FUNNIES…
I need to start looking for these early Monday mornings! Anyway, it’s only 5 p.m. so we still got some Monday left here on the West Coast! ;-)
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&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent
Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:
I invented you, honest. An author’s apology to a blameless town
I truly believe fiction is more truthful than nonfiction. Fiction is a larger truth. Therefor, it could clearly end up being about several places at several times in the recent past.
I have the opposite problem. It seems that (so far, according to an expert) my novel “Secrets & Lies in El Salvador” has one small mistake – the approx. time & place Archbishop Romero was assassinated. I purposely wrote the story the way it would have the most impact on the reader so when this nonfiction author told me I was wrong to put the details about Romero’s death at a different time, I never expected him to say, I got all the other facts right. (Mind you, there are know exact dates – a few years, but nothing more exact than that.)
Anyway, it’s all good! Just write a great story. The rest will take care of itself!
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&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent
Originally posted on Nail Your Novel:
I’ve nearly finished the second run-through of Ever Rest, and now I know the characters well, I can flesh out details that I’d previously left vague, such as where they live and what I want that to suggest. But this brings certain hazards, as I found when I published my first novel. I thought you might like this post from my archives, originally penned for Authors Electric.
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It’s a funny thing, releasing a novel. You think you’ve made everything up, then someone informs you that it’s not as fictional as you’d hoped.
And moreover, you got it wrong.
Like the time when I received an email telling me the fusty village where I’d set the action in My Memories of a Future Life was not spelled Vellonoweth but Vellanoweth.
‘No it’s not,’ I replied, thinking my correspondent had a cheek. ‘I made it up.’
‘It’s near Penzance,’…
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There Are No Excuses Under The Sun For Inaction
Jack,
I totally understand how you feel. I have been there, done that, and found out that for every friend or acquaintance that does not respond by reading and/or posting a very short review, there are at least 10 people out there that you do not know that WILL read your novel and WILL post a review.
I think we need to stop relying on our “so-called” friends. Some of them are real friends; some of them are acquaintances and some of them are fair weather friends who will not be there when you really need them. AND that’s ok ‘cuz someone else will step up to take their place. ;-)
This has been proven to me over and over as I have moved around the country and have friends from many places. :-)
Sherrie
P.S. I found the same to be true for family! :-)
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&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent
Originally posted on Have We Had Help?:
People make me laugh. Whenever you call them out over something, nine times out of ten they will have an excuse for their inaction. A dear friend of mine who shall remain genderless and nameless came up with the absolute classic today – ‘I don’t have time’. That one is usually accompanied by another equally feeble excuse – ‘I’ll get around to it’. Yeh right, pull the other one!
I had made my mind up to give the individual in question a signed copy of my latest science fiction novella – The Guardian to thank them for their unwavering friendship to me over the years. To begin with it took them just over two weeks to wander round the corner from their home to where I live, to collect it. They went away assuring me that they would read it. That was a week ago. Considering the novella is eighty…
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Wishing all a #WonderfulWeek
This is a wonderful quote and one that I was not familiar with before. Wishing you all a wonderful week and a lifetime of making dreams come true! May we all make the world just a little bit better!
Peace,
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&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent
Originally posted on Belinda Witzenhausen:
Busy week ahead! #Amwriting #Researching #Transcribing Wherever you may be in your day/eve I hope your making each moment matter. Live, laugh & love! #WonderfulWeek #FollowYourDreams #MakeDreamsAReality #DreamsDon’tWorkUnlessYouDo
“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars and change the world.” ~ Harriet Tubman
August 23, 2015
A Letter To Lonely Boy
My reply to a young man (or what some call a teen) who is considering giving up because he can’t see the rainbow on the other side of the bend:
Ali,
I understand your anxiety and frustration with people not being able to see OR not wanting to see your depression.
I was almost the opposite of you. I wore my sadness on my sleeve, cried a billion tears and stopped talking for what seemed like months, all the while waiting for someone to notice my sadness and help me.
No one ever did until I was 39 and my 2nd husband decided he wanted a divorce. I had been crying for more than a week about the loss of a job that, at the time, seemed perfect. After saying he wanted a divorce, he backed up and said he just wanted to “sow his wild oats.” Well, there was no way I would accept that, so I finally decided it was best to go ahead and be alone. Alone, of course, means without a partner, someone to lean on much of the time, but we are never really alone and often, only by not being in a relationship, do we learn how “NOT ALONE” we really are.
I was outwardly depressed and no one bothered to notice or try to help me, but I also never, ever considered suicide. That is why I say I was almost the opposite of you.
On the other hand, I had a beautiful young girl who became my student because she had been sent away from her home school because she was gang-raped. (The boys who raped her all got to stay at THEIR school.) She had ended up pregnant and the day we happened to be alone so she could tell me her story, she said that she had given the baby up for adoption. She cried and said she was so sad and so alone that most of the time she just wanted to die.
This girl had been the sweetest, most bubbly young women I had ever had in my more than a hundred classes I had taught. I couldn’t believe that this was the same girl. I told her about a friend who had adopted two babies and how much he loved them, how fulfilled he was now that he was a father. I told her I was sure she had made some couple very happy and that her baby would receive lots of love.
So, all I can say, Ali, is that you need to find the help yourself. I found help through psychotherapy, both individual and group. I found help through an amazing place called Agape, in their SOM1 class. I later went to a Buddhist therapist and joined group therapy led by him. That was the best, (the Buddhist group therapy), as it involves love and support and courage and meditation. Although I am not very good at sitting still and not thinking, I love guided meditations.
I tried a psychotropic drug once for about a week (the first one on the market), but the day it kicked in, I freaked out at suddenly feeling like there was a veil between me and the world. And from that day on, I have tried every supplement known to man. Many of these helped either temporarily or permanently. My treatment is to get as many of the vitamins, minerals and scant minerals that my body needs. It has helped me both physically and mentally, as well as emotionally. Even drinking water can help ease some people’s depression.
I’m not saying that my answers are yours. I have many friends (especially the ones in LA) who are taking anti-depressants. What I am saying is that you have to find what works for you. You also have to find your bliss. And rather than having a partner, friend or family member who will listen to how terrible you feel, finding someone someday when you have worked through much of your $#!t, who knows you without talking and who, when you are with them, you no longer have those feelings.
I can say I am very happy with my life now. I married a man who respects and loves me with all his heart. And I finally wrote and published the novel I had carried around in my head for years. My husband (my 3rd, his 1st) has been an inspiration to me in many ways. He is a strong believer in following your dreams.
Best of luck to you!
Sherrie
Ali,
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&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent
Originally posted on alimuhdmusic:
Dear Lonely Boy,
I know that you are suffering beyond words or pain could measure. It’s hard to explain to others why are you are depressed, anxious and suicidal.
You know that your friends in school are not real. They have been gossiping and spreading lies behind your back. When you need them the most, they left you hanging. Know that they are toxic and deserve to be cut off from your life.
It’s hurtful that even your family members didn’t notice how different you have been. What’s ironic is that your sister who is studying psychology is not aware of your condition. Your parents and siblings are in denial with your condition and, they keep on questioning the doctor’s diagnosis.
The teachers keep emphasising on education because it’s your future but they don’t know that you are dying inside. What’s unbelievable is how doubtful they are when you show the…
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Meet n Greet
Danny Ray tells us 7 ways to “Meet & Greet” and get more blog followers! Thanks, Danny! ;-)
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&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent
Originally posted on Dream Big, Dream Often:
Ok so here are the rules:
Leave a link to your page or post in the comments of this post.
Reblog this post. It helps you, it helps me, it helps everyone! So don’t be selfish, hit the reblog button.
Edit your reblog post and add tags (i.e. reblogging, reblog, meet n greet, link party, etc.), it helps, trust me on this one.
Share this post on social media. Many of my non-blogger friends love that I put the Meet n Greet on Facebook and Twitter because they find new bloggers to follow. This helps also, trust me.
And if you leave a link and don’t follow me, how about ya show ole Danny some love ?
Call the mayor of your hometown and have him pronounce this weekend as the official weekend of the “Dream Big Meet n Greet!” This might take some persistence, but don’t you dare give…
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