Marnie L. Pehrson's Blog, page 10
June 4, 2016
An Author’s Golden Elixir
I’d been fascinated by the life of my 4th great grandmother, Dicey Langston, for nearly two decades before deciding to write a book about her life. Her story was the first fiction novel I ever wrote. It hooked me, reeled me into the power of fiction and the golden elixir of story. Over the next few years, I wrote at least nine more novels, eventually tutoring with editors to further perfect my craft.
Writing fiction was a part of my “hero’s journey” as an author. I traveled to other worlds an...
May 30, 2016
The Secret Sauce to Viral Book Writing
Want to know what adds the WOW-Factor to your book, your message, your platform? Find out in this video I made for those in myCreate A WOW Bookprogram.
The key ingredient to good writing is vulnerability. Let yourself go. Put yourself out there. Get real, raw and relevant. You can always edit and reel it back in, but if you don’t allow yourself to get super vulnerable in your writing, you won’t have the secret sauce that makes truly remarkable books that connect with your reader and impact...
The Secret Sauce to the WOW Factor
Want to know what adds the WOW-Factor to your book, your message, your platform? Find out in this video I made for those in myCreate A WOW Bookprogram.
Get Create A WOW Bookand add that page-turning, shareability that we all want in our books.
May 23, 2016
Living in the Light Doesn’t Mean Ignoring the Darkness
A wise man gave me some advice when I was about 16-17 years old. “Continue to look for the good,” he said. I have tried to do that throughout my life – to look for the good in people, to give them the benefit of the doubt, to surround myself with things that are uplifting and inspirational and steer clear of things that are degrading or depressing.
I’ve enjoyed this somewhat naive way of living for fifty years, but every once in a while the darkness rears its head, gets up in my face, and I’m...
May 19, 2016
What Individual Rights Really Mean
Have you noticed a quest to normalize every bizarre, sick behavior anyone might like to indulge in? Making huge hoopla and enacting regulationsto protect whatever minuscule minority might initially like to engage in this behavior until curiosity seekers and social-hypochondriacs claim they too have a propensity for this popular “label”?
In my opinion, the agenda is to create more minorities. Minorities get special privileges and money in this country, if you hadn’t noticed. They also get to m...
May 13, 2016
A Journey of a Thousand Miles Begins with Hope
A journey of a thousand miles begins with HOPE. But what if you’ve lost hope? You feel stuck, sad, maybe depressed. 6 years ago I had lost all hope in an important area of my life.
I noticed some verses in the Bible about Jesus being the resurrection and the life. I caught hold on the idea that Jesus could resurrect this dead thing. It gave me HOPE… and with hope, I set my feet on a path that led to something beautiful and wonderful.
It didn’t happen in the way I expected or with the people o...
April 29, 2016
People Or Puppets: Dangers of Social Media
I sat down next to my husband on the couch after dinner the other night. He was fiddling with his phone, and I leaned over to snuggle on him. I caught a glimpse of his Facebook feed. As he scrolled through posts — liking things, commenting on things — I noticed something significant about his feed. It looked a lot different than mine.
His was filled with political posts, whistle-blowing articles, cop videos, military-related items, funny rants, what’s happening in Europe, etc. My feed has a f...
March 24, 2016
Thrive Again: Recognize Whether You’re Being Used
In relationships, there are often those who feel entitled (USERS) and those who are so kind-hearted they have no clear boundaries and don’t know how to say “no.”
People who are lazy and feel the world owes them something tend to select relationship partners who are kind-hearted, hard-working, giving and boundary-less (OVER-PRODUCERS). In the end, the USERbecomes helplessly enabled and the OVER-PRODUCER endsup used, crushed, and depleted.
Should anOver-Producerdecide to break free of the abusi...
Put Your Oxygen Mask On, America!
If a mom never took time for self-care and constantly spent her strength on her career, volunteering, saying “yes” to everything asked of her until she was depleted, ragged and worn and she had no time to enjoy her life or children, we’d tell her she’s killing herself. That she needs to put her oxygen mask on herself first.
Why do we expect our nation to
March 23, 2016
All Trump Has Is Votes
My son Caleb and I served as County, District and State Delegates to the Republican Presidential election in 2012. We witnessed first-hand the corruption there.
Have you heard the GOP say, "All Trump Has Is Votes"? What do they mean by that? Isn't that what a candidate needs? In this videoIshare myfirst-hand experience with the corruption inside the GOP and what the Republican Party REALLY means by their statement that "All Trump Has Is Votes."
The original delegate selection process, which w...
