Why blog? Who would want to spend time blogging? Someone wanting to make money, perhaps, like someone who's short of money. A stay-at-home mom desiring to connect with other stay-at-home moms. An empty-nester seeking fulfillment. How about an individual who just likes to write?
You don't even have to be a good speller to blog. Spell-check takes care of that for you. But you do have to start blogging. Not only that. Blog often. Blog every day. Blog about what you know. Blog about what you don't know. Blog with humor (unless you're not funny - my other half, the comic, says leave the humor to the one who's funny). Blog about how to perform tasks you've learned how to do. Just blog. If you like to write, you'll like to blog. If you are a writer, you need to blog because successful bloggers will advise to blog every day. Wherever you go, whatever you do, you'll be thinking, "What is there about where I am or what I am doing that I can turn into a blog?" You'll forget all about writer's block.
What comes next? Connect with other bloggers. Visit forums. Join link parties. Comment on others' blogs that you really like. Ask other bloggers for suggestions. Don't be afraid to say that you're new to blogging. Every blogger was a new blogger once upon a time.
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Honor to Our Veterans
Today we honor men and women who have faced danger for our freedom. I am grateful to each one of our veterans and to those who currently serve our country four our freedom. Thank you!
In honor of my father and other WWII veterans, the book Phantom Seven, is soon to be released. For more information, see www.writeyourownhorn.org.
In honor of my father and other WWII veterans, the book Phantom Seven, is soon to be released. For more information, see www.writeyourownhorn.org.
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Writing a Letter to a Friend
How often do you hear of anyone writing a letter to a friend these days? We live too busy lives and don't take the time to write our friends. Instead, we text or send a Facebook message. Sometimes, though, it's nice to send a message to a friend the old-fashioned way - by writing a letter.
This morning I'm thinking of sweet memories of my mother who passed away two years ago. She used to tell me she loved reading my letters. I would tell her what all was going on where I was. Often, my letters told of the new places I had been to. My husband and I were full-time RV'ers for nearly nine years in ministry work. The letters made her feel as though I was sitting in her family room with her. When I would call her, she would often say, "I was just sitting beside the phone, waiting for you to call." I've always thought she had a sixth sense. I miss her, especially just chatting, hearing her voice. When I am thinking of those times now, occasionally I will send a card to my aunts, Mother's sisters. It's a way of letting them know I love them. Also in my thoughts this morning are, "Which friend can I write a letter to this week?" Last, but not least, I'm reminded of a Bible verse telling us he who has friends must be friendly.
When is the last time you wrote a letter to a friend? I'm sure that any friend you decide to write a letter to this week will certainly be thrilled and will be grateful to have you for a friend.
Go write that letter, my friend!
This morning I'm thinking of sweet memories of my mother who passed away two years ago. She used to tell me she loved reading my letters. I would tell her what all was going on where I was. Often, my letters told of the new places I had been to. My husband and I were full-time RV'ers for nearly nine years in ministry work. The letters made her feel as though I was sitting in her family room with her. When I would call her, she would often say, "I was just sitting beside the phone, waiting for you to call." I've always thought she had a sixth sense. I miss her, especially just chatting, hearing her voice. When I am thinking of those times now, occasionally I will send a card to my aunts, Mother's sisters. It's a way of letting them know I love them. Also in my thoughts this morning are, "Which friend can I write a letter to this week?" Last, but not least, I'm reminded of a Bible verse telling us he who has friends must be friendly.
When is the last time you wrote a letter to a friend? I'm sure that any friend you decide to write a letter to this week will certainly be thrilled and will be grateful to have you for a friend.
Go write that letter, my friend!
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Never Give Up
Are you a writer? Want to be a writer? Wish you were a writer? Don't know how to be a writer but wish you could be one?
If you are a beginning, seasoned, or in-between writer, sometimes all you can do is stare at a blank page. That's when you need to just write whatever comes to your mind. It doesn't matter if you ever publish the whatever-comes-to-your mind written word someday. What does matter is that you never give up. So just write. Write what you are thinking this moment or what you would rather be doing this moment. Write and don't stop writing for thirty minutes. By that time if an idea hasn't clicked in your thinking hat, take a walk, look at a magazine, or do something you enjoy that will take your mind off of writing. Write every day. Never give up on your desire to write.
My father is a WWII veteran. He told me a story about a boy who was drafted into the Army that always walked around picking up pieces of paper. He would read the paper then say, "That's not it." Every day he would do this until one day he received a paper dismissing him from the Army. He read that paper and said, "That's it!" All that time he was wishing he could get out of the Army. He hated it. He never gave up no matter how ignorant he appeared to others as he would read those pieces of paper and say, "That's not it." In one sense this boy gave up - in a sad way in regard to his fellowman and country. But he never gave up on what he wanted. This story was included in a book I never gave up on to write - Phantom Seven.www.writeyourownhorn.org
Winston Churchill gave a famous speech on never giving up. You think you've got problems nobody understands and that no one will read what you have to write? Go read about about Churchill's family. He faced sorrow in his family, but he never gave up and became successful in the war against Hitler. The person who succeeds never gives up. So what if you don't know how to write. Write anyway. Find a way. Make a way. Look for a way. Never, never, never give up.
If you are a beginning, seasoned, or in-between writer, sometimes all you can do is stare at a blank page. That's when you need to just write whatever comes to your mind. It doesn't matter if you ever publish the whatever-comes-to-your mind written word someday. What does matter is that you never give up. So just write. Write what you are thinking this moment or what you would rather be doing this moment. Write and don't stop writing for thirty minutes. By that time if an idea hasn't clicked in your thinking hat, take a walk, look at a magazine, or do something you enjoy that will take your mind off of writing. Write every day. Never give up on your desire to write.
My father is a WWII veteran. He told me a story about a boy who was drafted into the Army that always walked around picking up pieces of paper. He would read the paper then say, "That's not it." Every day he would do this until one day he received a paper dismissing him from the Army. He read that paper and said, "That's it!" All that time he was wishing he could get out of the Army. He hated it. He never gave up no matter how ignorant he appeared to others as he would read those pieces of paper and say, "That's not it." In one sense this boy gave up - in a sad way in regard to his fellowman and country. But he never gave up on what he wanted. This story was included in a book I never gave up on to write - Phantom Seven.www.writeyourownhorn.org
Winston Churchill gave a famous speech on never giving up. You think you've got problems nobody understands and that no one will read what you have to write? Go read about about Churchill's family. He faced sorrow in his family, but he never gave up and became successful in the war against Hitler. The person who succeeds never gives up. So what if you don't know how to write. Write anyway. Find a way. Make a way. Look for a way. Never, never, never give up.
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Write Down Your Dreams
Have you ever awaken suddenly out of a dream and wished you had a pen nearby to write it down? You didn't have a pen handy, so you said forget it and went back to sleep? I've done that and regretted not writing down notes about the dream when it was fresh on my mind. Keep a pen beside your bedside lest you forget that next inspiring dream.
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Make Things Happen - Write Them Down
You have the ability to make things happen. When you write or speak things as though they are, you are exercising your faith. Read all the stories in the 11th chapter of Hebrews in the Bible of people who exercised their faith and saw things happen that they had desired. When you write and speak things with faith, not doubting, you will see things happen. Read it in 11:22-24 of Mark in the Bible, KJV. Verse 24 says "What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them." The previous verse says that "whosoever...shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass, he shall have whatsoever he saith." If you can think, then you have the ability to believe for your desires. The choice is yours to believe or to doubt.
What is it that you desire? Get a journal, and begin writing specifically what you desire. Pray for it to happen, believe for it to happen. Ask, seek, and knock. You will find that once you begin writing your desires down, and you pray and believe for those things to happen, doors will open for you.
Eighteen years ago I wrote down a number of goals I intended to do in life. One was to write a book about my dad and his WWII experiences. It happened. The book will be released this year - Phantom Seven. Lately I have been writing things down again and praying and believing. Amazing things have been taking place that I could not have orchestrated alone. But I wrote down my desires, prayed, believed, and they are happening.
What is it that you desire? Get a journal, and begin writing specifically what you desire. Pray for it to happen, believe for it to happen. Ask, seek, and knock. You will find that once you begin writing your desires down, and you pray and believe for those things to happen, doors will open for you.
Eighteen years ago I wrote down a number of goals I intended to do in life. One was to write a book about my dad and his WWII experiences. It happened. The book will be released this year - Phantom Seven. Lately I have been writing things down again and praying and believing. Amazing things have been taking place that I could not have orchestrated alone. But I wrote down my desires, prayed, believed, and they are happening.
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