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Public Restrooms

 

We may not have it all together, but together we have it all.

You’ve probably heard the saying, “If you need to find a public restroom, ask an old man.” It’s true. Of necessity, we look for the restrooms and fastest way to get to them any time we enter a new store, restaurant, etc. Even as our memories begin to falter, we always remember where the restrooms are.

Since we spend more time in public restrooms that any other group, people who design them should seek our input before they build one. I mean, if you’re going to build a ship, do you want to talk to a sailor or a desert nomad? We know what works well and what doesn’t.

Have you ever sat on a toilet and started to reach for the toilet paper, only to find the dispenser placed so that you almost have to reach behind yourself to get to it? If you haven’t, you haven’t been in many public restrooms.

In the Walmart where my wife and I shop, the toilet paper dispensers are placed approximately even with my hip joint. I have to reach down, pull the paper down, and yank behind myself to tear it off. Why can’t they put it out in front a little so you can pull it toward yourself to tear it off?

That Walmart has a family restroom—I’m not sure if that means you’re supposed to take the whole family with you or what—where the toilet paper dispenser is placed about two inches from an aluminum box whose purpose is an enigma. They dare you to find a way to reach the paper and tear it off the roll.

Most places that have public restrooms assume only women can find any use for a hook on the back of the door or on a wall. If we guys have a sweater or anything to hang while we avail ourselves of the facilities, we’re usually out of luck. More places have begun installing hooks, but for some reason they want to place them about waist level so the anything you hang there will drag the floor.

Seems like many places have non-repair policies, too. If the latch on a stall door malfunctions—or is ripped out of place by some customer angry about the toilet paper—management enters the date on a calendar to be certain it doesn’t get repaired or replaced for at least a year.

And how about the lavatories? More and more of them are using these faucets with motion sensors that turn on and off. Trouble is, most of them can’t sense motion. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve stood at one of these in Walmart madly waving my hands under them with nothing happening. Finally a spurt comes out—just enough to make you sorry you got your hands so soapy—and then it cuts itself off.

I’d like to complain about the hot air hand dryers, too, but they are probably a reaction to the public’s propensity to toss paper towels on the floor. Thanks to someone else’s messiness, I have to stand there wishing the blower would dry my hands and then leave the restroom with them still wet.

Yeah, like any older man, I know where all the restrooms are. I just wish they were a bit more user-friendly.

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Susan A. Perkins Talks About Promises

If you abide in Me and My word abides in you, then you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.

Today, it’s my pleasure to host Susan A. Perkins as she posts about her book series, Promises. Her blog site is at the end of her post, so follow me over there and read my blog. Meanwhile, I’m running a three-day sale on my inspirational, Heaven Sent. Click here to buy it for Kindle for $.99 today, tomorrow or Thursday—a saving of $5.00 from the regular price.

Hello and greetings, everyone! I am absolutely delighted to be invited to guest blog for David today, and it is a privilege to know he’s entertaining my readers as well. When this opportunity came about, I was asked to compose a blog post answering a series of questions pertaining to writing, publishing and my story.

The writing process and development of my series of books Promises is unique, just as every writing process or story is unique. Read on and let me know what you think! What was your writing process like? How did your story come about? What’s holding you back?

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1. Why did you write the book/what inspired you to write the book? What was the writing process like?

Since Seminary I have been writing Biblical monologues about women in the Bible – I perform these monologues for different churches in my community. One specific monologue, “Onnua, Zaccheus’ Wife,” was my husband Robert’s favorite. He often commented that he was not satisfied I was telling the whole story. For Robert’s 52nd birthday I wrote Promises, which is the novel adaptation of the monologue.

The book took only about a month to write; once I began to add flesh to the original monologue the words just jumped out of me. It was exciting to see a phrase from the original story such as, "Whose husband forbade her to speak to me," become the characters of Eunice and her mean-spirited husband Amos.

Robert was a little curious about what was going on in the computer room. And to answer his question, "What are you doing?" I always answered, "Just writing."

When he finished reading the book in two sittings he said, "I have goose pimples. This is great. What happens next?" See, he’s never quite satisfied.

That was six books ago.

As books two through five were being written, Robert and I began investigating standard publishing. After much prayer and soul searching, we decided the books were worthy enough to spend the money on self-publishing. We have been very happy with the results.

One thing I have thoroughly enjoyed about self-publishing is being able to have control over the cover and the editing. I have a local friend, a freelance artist, who I trust with my thoughts. I give him the text of the section I want on the cover and how I see it and he gets inside my head and paints it.

Holding the first finished book in my hand made me cry. It was the culmination of years of story writing, play writing, and dreaming.

2. How did your faith grow or change throughout the course of writing? Is there a scripture that was especially important to you during the writing process?

I want to begin with the second question. The book is obviously the retelling of Luke 19:1-10. During the course of writing, a story arc occurred to me that would help us to see Zaccheus’ character better. It also explains why Jesus knew the man in the sycamore tree. In Promises, Zaccheus becomes the man who was robbed in the story of the Good Samaritan in Luke 10:30-35.

The other scripture that is an important part of the story is from Luke 2:22-35. The story teller in the book, Bernice, tells the story of her father Simeon seeing the baby Jesus in the Temple in Jerusalem.

Now back to the first question. These three story lines from the Bible are some of my favorites. I love Simeon because his faithfulness elicits a promise from God. And I envy him that. I feel when I read his story that I want my faith to grow. I want people to see in me that kind of devotion. I love the Zaccheus story because Jesus goes home to lunch with him. In retrospect, when I go back and read my books; I am stunned by the gift God gave to me by letting me write these books.

3. What is your favorite part of your story and why?

I love the whole book, but especially the Good Samaritan section. After writing the book I wrote a new monologue. I took Bernice’s stories of her father Simeon and turned them into a monologue. This monologue has become one of my favorites to perform. Why? Because for a few moments I am this devoted daughter and I am able to share his story as if it were mine.

4. What advice would you give to those who are considering writing and publishing a book?

I work in a music studio and mothers of five-year-olds call and say, "My child bangs on everything. Is he too young for drum lessons?" The truth about percussion is that children are born with it. I think this holds true as well for actors, musicians, artists, and writers. When God has gifted us we must do. So, if you already have ink running out of your fingers you are probably already a writer. If you have piles of short stories, poems, and plays scattered about your home you have already started. The best advice is write what you know and get started immediately.

As for advice on publishing, the internet and POD has made it so much easier for us to see our work and dreams become a reality. Go for it.

Now, head on over to my site, http://susanaperkins.wordpress.com, and read David’s blog over there.

Susan Perkins is a mother, teacher, actress, writer quilter and devoted friend. She is the author of the Promises series, a series of book that delved deeper into the lives of minor Biblical characters, exploring their society and culture. When asked about herself, Susan would answer with, “I’m sure my mother thought I was nuts. After Sunday School, I would line up my dollies and stuffed animals and preach to them about the day’s lesson. Later, I wrote plays and short stories and acted them out. I always played the “different” character rolls. Seriously, witches have better lines than princesses. From an early age I knew I was supposed to be a minister, an actress, and a writer. None of them have made me rich and famous (yet) but I sure have enjoyed the adventure.

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You’re Good!

We may not have it all together, but together we have it all.

You’re probably a better writer than a lot of those who in the past saw dozens of their books published and earned tens of millions of dollars in royalties. Sound like a bold statement? Maybe so, but I think there’s a lot of truth in it.

One of my all-time favorite mystery writers was John D. MacDonald, who lived from 1916 to 1986. Stephen King called him “the great entertainer of our age, and a mesmerizing storyteller.” MacDonald won many industry awards during his career.

At least two of his books, The Girl, The Gold Watch and Everything and The Executioners (retitled Cape Fear by Hollywood) were made into movies. There may have been others of which I was not aware.

His twenty-one book Travis McGee series has been one of the favorite and best-selling mystery series ever written. I have all twenty-one of these and enjoy re-reading them from time to time.

Recently I sat down to re-read his crime novel The Crossroads. The first time I read this book, probably several decades ago, its style was consistent with the writing of the day, and I gave it little thought. This time, I was shocked.

Currently, I’m on page 50 of 176 pages, and he hasn’t gotten into anything about the crime yet. All these pages have been filled with background description information about the family involved. I’m reading it, because I know I enjoyed reading it in the past. But would I have gotten to page 50 if this were a new author to me? If I didn’t know the story ends up being interesting? I seriously doubt it.

Remember, this is one of my all-time favorite authors, but when I thought of him in comparison with a Lee Child, or some of the indie mystery writers like Julie Cave and Diana Orgain, I seriously doubt if MacDonald could start out today and get a book published. These writers have me in their stories in the first few pages, if not the first few paragraphs.

This is why I make the statement that you are a better writer than some of these old masters. You’ve been taught to draw the reader in. It’s been drummed into your head from your first class or writers’ group meeting that you have to hook the reader in the first few pages if you don’t want him to toss your book out the window.

Writing is a lot more competitive today than it was 40 or 50 years ago—or even 20 years ago. There are a lot of unknown writers competing for the reader’s attention and dollars. But that competition has also made us better writers. I take my hat off to you, the indie or self-published writer of today. Well done.

Incidentally, if you’ve never heard of Julie Cave or Diana Orgain, click on their names above to read about them. Try one of their books. If you like mysteries, you’ll like both of them.

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Guest Blogging Today

Today I’m guesting at Lori Freeland’s blog, http://wp.me/p1YiWH-N2, where I introduce my book Heaven Sent to her readers. Lori is a Christian author whom I’ll be hosting here in the near future. Jump on over there and check out her site.

As a special offer in conjunction with this guest blog, you can buy Heaven Sent for Kindle today and tomorrow for only $.99—as saving of $5.00. Click here to get your copy. If Amazon is NOT showing the $.99 price, please leave me a comment or send me an email.

 

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Heaven Sent

If you abide in Me and My word abides in you, then you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.

Welcome to another Terrific Tuesday, where we take a look at God’s word, His kingdom or His people to see what we can learn about ourselves, Him and/or our relationships with Him.

Today we’re going to veer of course slightly while I talk for a moment about my book Heaven Sent.

As leader of my Sunday School class for the past eight years, I’ve made it a practice to read a short piece to the class each Sunday before bringing up the teacher. Sometimes it would be something funny or something to do with current events, but frequently it would be an inspirational or devotional piece I’ve received in an email. I’ve carefully saved all of these readings over the years.

Last year it dawned on me that I had a treasure trove of Christian stories I could share with others. I went back through my files and selected 67 of the pieces I’ve read through the years. The selection includes some of my own thoughts and one piece written by my daughter. The rest are those I’ve received in emails.

My first step was to try to contact the authors of the pieces whenever I could find their names. Then I sent emails to each asking permission to include his or her piece in my book. Of course, I had to omit a number of them whose authors either were unlocatable or denied permission. The result was the stories I’ve included in the book, Heaven Sent. Many of them are anonymous, but I’ve attributed those authors I found who gave me permission to use their stories.

Once I selected the stories which would go into the book, I appended comments of my own to them, except, of course, for the ones I originally wrote. To eliminate confusion, I put the original stories in italics, with my comments following in plain text.

Please click here to read more about Heaven Sent on my website, including how to order it. Or click here to read about it on Goodreads.

I’m announcing a three-day sale Tuesday January 29 through Thursday January 31, during which time Heaven Sent will be $.99 instead of $5.99. In case Amazon doesn’t show the price properly when you click here, please either leave a comment or email me. We’ll make it right.

Do you have a New Testament passage or concept you’d like to see discussed here? Maybe something you’ve never quite understood. I’d love to hear from you about that, too. I’ll try my best to explain it.

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Oops!!!

We may not have it all together, but together we have it all.

Sharon and I recently bought a new hot tub. We’d been using our old one over fifteen years and been very happy with it. We’d had to have minor repairs done on a few occasions, but that’s to be expected. Fifteen years seemed like a pretty reasonable time for a hot tub to last.

Last spring it developed a serious enough leak that I had to replenish about 20% of the water each time I used it. We called a repairman we’d used a few times before, but before he came, the leak suddenly stopped. I don’t understand how those things happen, but for the next six months it held water just like it was supposed to.

Just before Thanksgiving it finally gave up. The leak returned with a vengeance. I called the repairman, and he came and checked it out, The leak turned out to be at a junction where a number of different lines and pipes came together, and it was in a very difficult place to get to. He started adding up what it would take to get it repaired, and when he got to $4,000, I said no. We could almost buy a new one for that.

After checking online with several different manufacturers, we decided to take an hour-and-a-half drive over to the other side of Dallas to Aries Spas. They manufactured our old one, and we were happy with it, so that seemed logical, even though I try to stay out of Dallas County as much as possible. I mean, our Fort Worth traffic is horrible, but Dallas is much worse.

Anyhow, we found what we wanted, and a crew from the factory came out to remove the old one and install the new one. By the way, they went to a lot of trouble to remove the old one, which was huge. They worked with us on getting it positioned just right. The last thing for them to do was hook up the electricity, which is 50 amps and 220 volts.

When the man looked at the cable containing the wiring, he almost threw it back onto the patio, saying there was no ground wire and that couldn’t connect it without one. We had just had an electrician out a couple of days earlier to connect a GFCI breaker, and he hadn’t said anything about it.

After some discussion, we decided to call a Dallas electrician recommended by the spa company. We didn’t want to take any more chances, even though this guy was a good bit more expensive than a local man would have been. Both this electrician and the installers from the spa company told me that any electrician installing that breaker should have realized there was no ground wire and insisted on installing one.

They seemed mortified that I’d been using the old hot tub for fifteen years with no ground wire. They couldn’t believe I hadn’t been fried sometime along the way. I guess God sends special angels to watch over stupid people who don’t know what they’re doing.

Have you had a scary experience with improper electrical wiring? Makes you stop and count your blessings.

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Love

If you abide in Me and My word abides in you, then you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.

Welcome to another Terrific Tuesday, where we take a look at God’s word, His kingdom or His people to see what we can learn about ourselves, Him and/or our relationships with Him.

The first verse of I Corinthians 13 says, “IF I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.”

This is a very familiar verse to most Christians. In fact, we fondly refer to Chapter 13 and “The Love Chapter.” It’s an extremely important chapter to us, and we learn much from it.

I’ve read this chapter dozens of times. I’ve studied it. I’ve written about it. And yet today I looked at it and found a valuable lesson for a fiction writer.

In the first three novellas in my Fancy series, I had little trouble making Fancy, my teenage protagonist, a likable character. Bad things kept happening, and it was easy to keep the reader’s sympathy with her. Her mentor shielded her from a lot of the tough things that needed to be done.

In the fourth volume, however, she has to stand on her own two feet for really the first time. In giving her the strength to fight her own battles, I neglected to show her as a loving person. As a result, my main beta reader, who had liked Fancy through the first three volumes, told me she had a tough time liking her or even caring about her.

That surprised me, since in my mind she was always a caring, loving person. I was unprepared for her critique. As I read what she had to say and reread the passages she referred to, it became obvious to me that I’d failed to convey my image of my star character.

Fancy had become a much stronger and more decisive person, but she’d also become a noisy gong and clanging cymbal. She needed to show a softer side. She had to show some love.

I had just finished editing my manuscript in light of these latest critiques when I happened across the verse cited above. It all clicked. Our protagonists—the characters we most want readers to like—have to have love, just like real people.

Hopefully, I’ve made Fancy a more likable character—and hopefully also, I exhibit love to others in my personal life.

Do you have a New Testament passage or concept you’d like to see discussed here? Maybe something you’ve never quite understood. I’d love to hear from you about that, too. I’ll try my best to explain it.

For more information about David N. Walker, click the “About” tab above.

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Contact him at dnwalkertx (at) gmail (dot) com or tweet him at @davidnwalkertx.

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Foster Brooks

We may not have it all together, but together we have it all.

Anybody out there old enough to remember the Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts or the Dean Martin Variety Show? No? How sad.

Dean Martin was one of the great entertainers of the twentieth century. Few singers could even approach the quality of his voice, and he did 264 episodes of his weekly variety show over a ten-year period—all without rehearsing. He would come in without preparation and just react to what was going on. How many performers do you think could pull that off? Yet the show was so good and received so well by the viewing public that it was renewed year after year.

Dean Martin did skits with numerous others throughout the years—other singers, comedians, movie stars. . . . He had some of the biggest names in show business as guests as well as honorees—Bob Hope, John Wayne, Don Rickles, Rich Little. The list goes on and on.

Among all the huge stars he rubbed elbows with, the man who always comes to my mind is a much less-known comedian: Foster Brooks. If you’ve never heard of him, play this trailer to see him at his best.

Foster Brooks always played a drunk, as far as I know. That’s the only role I ever saw him in. But he played it so well, he would crack you up every time. He had the voice down perfectly, but he also had the body language to go with it.

These days, it seems like stand-up comedy is a contest to see who can use the most four-letter words or the grossest descriptions of bodily functions. How much talent does that take. I long for some of the old-fashioned comedians like Don Rickles, Rich Little, Dom DeLuise, Carol Burnett, Victor Borge—but above all the rest, I miss Foster Brooks.

What entertainers from yesterday do you miss?

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A Different Kind of Superhero

If you abide in Me and My word abides in you, then you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.

Welcome to another Terrific Tuesday, where we take a look at God’s word, His kingdom or His people to see what we can learn about ourselves, Him and/or our relationships with Him.

Heroes come in all sizes and shapes. Comic books are filled with superheroes. Movies have Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone and other muscle-guy type heroes.

My newest hero is a young lady in her early twenties who probably doesn’t weigh 100 pounds. She’s so slender she has to stand twice to make a shadow. If you saw her in a room full of people, you’d probably barely notice her. If you did, her slight build and rosy cheeks and blondish hair would make you want to throw your arms around her to protect her.

Doesn’t sound like your typical hero? Well, consider this. A couple of years ago she graduated from college and entered the mission field. In case you don’t know any missionaries, let me assure you that the meekest of these people has to be tough as nails to go where they go and do what they do.

Toni Albright was raised in the mission fields. Her father and mother have served as missionaries in Southeast Asia all of Toni’s life. When she left her parents to come back home and go to college, she didn’t know what she wanted to do, but she did know the one thing she did not want to do was be a missionary.

Fortunately, despite that resolve, she kept her ears open to hear God. It seems He had other ideas for her. By the time she finished college she was on fire with the idea of going into the mission field.

She joined a ministry called StoryRunners. They have put together forty-one stories to convey the gist of the Bible to third world people. Rather than preaching or even trying to teach people, they go into other countries and just start telling their stories to whoever will listen. I’m sure they more organized than I make them sound, but the point is that they go into all sorts of uncomfortable situations throughout the world to tell these stories.

I can’t imagine anything scarier than being a small, young, blonde female in a Muslim country, but that’s Toni. She spent some two years spreading Christianity among Muslims through her storytelling, and she won innumerable converts to Jesus in that process.

Toni became so adept at the storytelling that StoryRunners brought her back to their home office to help formalize or upgrade their operating procedures. After helping them with that, she has moved over to Gospel for Asia. I’m not sure just what she’ll be doing there, but I know they operate in all sorts of areas that are relatively dangerous for Christians.

I’m in awe of Toni. Where most of us sit around wondering about taking a step or two outside our comfort zones, she just turned her back on her comfort zone and went where God told her to go. She’s my hero.

Do you have a New Testament passage or concept you’d like to see discussed here? Maybe something you’ve never quite understood. I’d love to hear from you about that, too. I’ll try my best to explain it.

For more information about David N. Walker, click the “About” tab above.

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Contact him at dnwalkertx (at) gmail (dot) com or tweet him at @davidnwalkertx.

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Self-Publishing

We may not have it all together, but together we have it all.

Ever wonder why Amazon.com is the thousand-pound gorilla in the business of indie and self-publishing? After all, Barnes & Noble is a huge bookseller. Their Nook should have the advantage in this field. And iPad? There are millions of them around. They should fierce competitors for Amazon.

Maybe the answer to the question lies in the fact that Amazon takes care of business and makes it simple and easy for authors to publish both paperback and Kindle versions. I speak from a certain amount of experience, since I now have four books on the market.

Shortly after I published Heaven Sent, my first book, a waitress in a restaurant where I frequently eat breakfast asked me if it was available on iPad. I wasn’t even aware iPad published books, but I told her I’d check it out.

Sure enough, I found iPad does publish e-books—as you probably already knew. So I went to their website to upload my book, and I discovered they didn’t want it. Since I use PCs instead of Macs, I was automatically disqualified. Only Mac users need apply.

Okay. It’s their football, so I guess it’s only fair for them to decide who plays and who doesn’t. But since PCs still outsell Macs by a good margin, it looks to me like Apple is shooting itself in the foot on this.

Barnes & Noble’s pubit.com was only too happy to accept my work for Nook. They put both Heaven Sent and Fancy on sale immediately. When I uploaded Fancy: The Search- Vol 2, they accepted it, but they showed it as processing. This was back in October, and it’s still processing. After several weeks and many emails, I decided to try uploading it again as a new book. This time it went through with no problem. But the original attempt still shows on their website as processing. Right next to the one that’s for sale.

In December, I released Fancy: Louisvile – Vol 3. Amazon published it for Kindle and Amazon’s CreateSpace published the paperback—promptly. No problems. Once again, however, pubit.com put it on the website as processing. A month later, it’s still processing.

Again, I’ve sent countless e-mails asking them to correct the problem. They ignore about half of them and respond to about half by telling me there’s a technical problem. No kidding! Who’d have guessed?

Can a company as large as Barnes & Noble not afford to hire a programmer or a web administrator who can fix whatever the problem is? Do they not really care about those of us who self-publish? I don’t understand this at all.

What frustrations have you run into in getting your work published? How did you manage to get the problems worked out?

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