back to the basics of this blog

ME!

I have been a very busy, indeed inundated, camper lately and, as such, have not posted anything out here for a few weeks.

I hope y’all had a safe and festive 4th of July weekend … mine WAS the former, if only a smidgeon of the latter.

Lately, I am feeling as if I’ve been put through the wringer of one of those 1950s-60s style washing machines and have not been hung out to dry just yet.  So much stress, so few nerve/brain cells to handle said stress and that is why I’ve not been out here for a minute.

As an update, I have obtained a vehicle that is running (so far, and y’all pray about that one!) and am actively seeking employment.  If you know of something that is not too far from Woodstock, GA (this truck gets about 5 gallons to the mile), please check out my Corp Resume page and feel free to pass it on.  If you are reading this and are a hiring Manager with Siemens and have a position available, please know that I am willing to discuss coming back for a little less money than I was making when I left … a little less.

My novel writing has stalled just a bit, but I did pick up this cool free software called yWriter4 that is helping me with the structural flow of the thing.  I’m well past Chapter 6 of my first draft.  This book is going to be at least 12 chapters and, to date, I have written well over 50K words on it.  To put that into perspective for you, Nicholas Sparks has never published an entire novel that went much longer that 50K words. I have already written the 2nd draft for most of the first 3 chapters and am preparing to start sending them off to Literary Agents … again, y’all please pray.

BTW, I realized that no-one could actually see the excerpt from Morning Calm Sonata, due to my inexperience with WordPress, so I have fixed that page.  You no longer have to be signed in or even registered to read it.  You can check it out here.

During my hiatus from MCS, I turned my writerly attention once again to poetry and tackled something I’ve been meaning to do for a long time.  I wrote my very first Sestina<<<This link is just a page I found online to use as a guideline.

Here is the debut of my first stab at this challenging form >>> sestina primera.

I entered Instauration (the poem) in a contest recently and 1st prize is a traditional publishing contract for a book of poetry, and … well, y’all know the drill … prayers, mantras, crossed-fingers, et. al. 

If you just can’t get enough of my poetry, then click over to my Poetry page and download my chapbook entitled Tuesday and Other Poems … and yes, I did the cover artwork myself :~)

Well, that’s about the update for this week.  I’ll be posting something out here again soon, so check back often.  Please continue to pray for my family as well.  Shauna has had a very hard Spring and Summer so far.  She continues to struggle with Crohn’s Disease and her other illnesses as well … all I can ask is that you continue to pray for all 4 of us and I say Thankee Sai!

peace and love always!

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