Hello Readers.
I love it when I go to church with a question on my mind about something to do with what I'm writing and I think to myself . . . I ought to ask the Pastor about this so I don't mess this up when I write about it. And then - Lo and behold . . . The pastor preaches on that very thing, or something very similar. Is God good or what? :o) I don't even have to go to the pastor and sound like a goober asking what might seem like silly questions. Because God is anticipating my needs and giving me the answers before I know what the questions are! AWESOME!
What more can I ask? (Give me some time, I'll think of something.) Ha-ha.
Thank you, Lord!
Keep dreaming,
~Susie
Sunday, April 15, 2012
Monday, April 9, 2012
Social Media and Gluten
Hello Readers. I've taken a course on the ACFW loop on Social Media. They recommend everyone not only have a blog but they also have an Author page on Facebook. So . . . I now have an Author page on Facebook. I'm also supposed to have a Twitter account. I'm not really sure what Twitter is. As far as I can make out from my son's usage, it is a text message he gets on his mobile phone. Alerts and such. Updates about people or things he's subscribed to. News and such.
Well . . . I don't have unlimited text messages on my phone and I don't plan to pay for an unlimited text package so I guess Twitter is out of the question for me at this time.
On a personal note. I want to thank Author Colleen Coble for posting a link on FaceBook to The Wahls Foundation. Doctor Terry Wahls is a woman who had secondary progressive MS. She apparently changed the course of her Multiple Sclerosis with diet and supplements. As I am an Amway consultant and I have access to the Nutrilite supplements and I know they are very good. I am taking the Daily vitamins and the B-Complex Vitamins from Nutrilite.
I am also, at the suggestion of the information I got from the Wahls Foundation website, going to try to omit GLUTEN from my diet and eat mostly veggies and fruits and meats. No wheat, rye or barley products. I figure it won't kill me to eat healthier. And being as it is spring, this is the perfect time of year to start a new diet.
Follow the link provided to check out the Wahls Foundation.
~Susie
http://www.thewahlsfoundation.com/
Well . . . I don't have unlimited text messages on my phone and I don't plan to pay for an unlimited text package so I guess Twitter is out of the question for me at this time.
On a personal note. I want to thank Author Colleen Coble for posting a link on FaceBook to The Wahls Foundation. Doctor Terry Wahls is a woman who had secondary progressive MS. She apparently changed the course of her Multiple Sclerosis with diet and supplements. As I am an Amway consultant and I have access to the Nutrilite supplements and I know they are very good. I am taking the Daily vitamins and the B-Complex Vitamins from Nutrilite.
I am also, at the suggestion of the information I got from the Wahls Foundation website, going to try to omit GLUTEN from my diet and eat mostly veggies and fruits and meats. No wheat, rye or barley products. I figure it won't kill me to eat healthier. And being as it is spring, this is the perfect time of year to start a new diet.
Follow the link provided to check out the Wahls Foundation.
~Susie
http://www.thewahlsfoundation.com/
Friday, January 20, 2012
20 January 2012
Well I just don't have the nerve to post on the Hoosier Ink site. I prayed and I just didn't feel like I had a strong leading. HOWEVER. I have felt a strong leading on another matter. * smile * :o) We have at my church a Global Impact Celebration. (a Missionary Confrence) When this was going on I filled out a faith pledge card. I wanted to pledge millions of $$ to missions, but of course I don't have millions of $$ to give for Gods work. So - I marked the box that said - OTHER. Now I had no idea what "other" might be. But it came to me. I thought - Why not give the proceeds of a story I write to the missions fund? Lignt Bulb! (Truthfully, I've had this idea before, but never acted upon it.) So - I called Pastor Mike and had him read my "Sock" story and told him my plan and asked him what he thought of it and he said - Take it to the missions committe and see if they think it will fly.
I took it the next week when the committe met and pitched the idea to them and they suggested I get someone to illistrtare it first and see if the children at say - daycare or preschool like it first- before printing a bunch of copy's and let them know, before they will give me the OK to run with the idea. :o) So I tried to find someone to draw some pictures of talking socks for me.... with not much luck. Long story short. I drew the pictureas myself. Joe said my socks look like boomarangs. * haha * But as of right now, Pastor Eric's wife has it and is going to read it to the pre-school class and get their reaction.
I figure if they like it and we can say - print 500 copies and sell them for $2 over what it cost to print them - then we've made $1,000 for missions. And I've helped.
Okay - It sounded like a good idea to me. Well see how it turns out.
Keep dreaming.
~Susie
I took it the next week when the committe met and pitched the idea to them and they suggested I get someone to illistrtare it first and see if the children at say - daycare or preschool like it first- before printing a bunch of copy's and let them know, before they will give me the OK to run with the idea. :o) So I tried to find someone to draw some pictures of talking socks for me.... with not much luck. Long story short. I drew the pictureas myself. Joe said my socks look like boomarangs. * haha * But as of right now, Pastor Eric's wife has it and is going to read it to the pre-school class and get their reaction.
I figure if they like it and we can say - print 500 copies and sell them for $2 over what it cost to print them - then we've made $1,000 for missions. And I've helped.
Okay - It sounded like a good idea to me. Well see how it turns out.
Keep dreaming.
~Susie
Saturday, November 12, 2011
To Blog or Not to Blog? That is the question. 12 November 2011
Hi Folks. I was blessed to go to the Indiana ACFW chapter luncheon meeting today in Kokomo, Indiana. I was approached by Darren, (our Hoosier Ink web master, so to speak) about taking a day each month to blog on the site. Anyone who can do this and not mess it up is a web master in my books! I'm lucky to do this on here as mush as I do. And we all know I don't do this well at all. *sigh* But I've been thinking .... Yeah I hear ya. (Don't hurt yourself, Susie.) And I prayed about it. I'm going to give it until after church tomorrow, but I think I might agree to Darren's request and get my feet wet on the Hoosier Ink site. Seems Darren thinks I have something that someone might want to read. I hope so.
Todays speaker, James Watkins spoke to us about keeping our writing dreams alive. I wish I'd taken a recorder.
All I have so far are dreams.
~Susie
Todays speaker, James Watkins spoke to us about keeping our writing dreams alive. I wish I'd taken a recorder.
All I have so far are dreams.
~Susie
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Frog Legs October 2011
Hello readers.
I had to share this story with you. I got tickled with my mom. She told me she'd gone to dinner with my sister at a chineese place and tried 'frog legs'. She hadn't ordered them, but my sister had some and she tasted one. She said she like the meat well enough, but she felt bad when she got down to the little bone. Mom then proceeded to say, "I just felt so bad, thinking of some little crippled frog." *hahaha* Only a "mom" would say something silly like that. Needless to say, I cracked up laughing and said, "Believe me Mom, the frog is dead. They didn't put the thing in a wheel chair or give it crutches when they cut off it's legs!" Later when we were at exercise I thought about what she might think if I told her we were having roast leg of lamb for supper. :o)
Now I'm thinking about a crippled lamb. *ohh my* But, aren't we all crippled lambs at some time or another? Does something cripple you? Do you have fear, doubt, stress? Aren't we God's sheep? Isn't Jesus our Good Shepherd? It's nice to know we can look to our Good Shepherd for guidance and comfort.
Pray without ceasing.
~Susie
I had to share this story with you. I got tickled with my mom. She told me she'd gone to dinner with my sister at a chineese place and tried 'frog legs'. She hadn't ordered them, but my sister had some and she tasted one. She said she like the meat well enough, but she felt bad when she got down to the little bone. Mom then proceeded to say, "I just felt so bad, thinking of some little crippled frog." *hahaha* Only a "mom" would say something silly like that. Needless to say, I cracked up laughing and said, "Believe me Mom, the frog is dead. They didn't put the thing in a wheel chair or give it crutches when they cut off it's legs!" Later when we were at exercise I thought about what she might think if I told her we were having roast leg of lamb for supper. :o)
Now I'm thinking about a crippled lamb. *ohh my* But, aren't we all crippled lambs at some time or another? Does something cripple you? Do you have fear, doubt, stress? Aren't we God's sheep? Isn't Jesus our Good Shepherd? It's nice to know we can look to our Good Shepherd for guidance and comfort.
Pray without ceasing.
~Susie
Sunday, June 12, 2011
12 June 2001 Shake and Bake
Ahh, the summer begins. The Genesis contest is over, at least it is for me. I've received the comments back and they were very good. I have someone working on a web site for me. At conference it was suggested we have a web site for promoting ourselves. So..... I suppose this means having a www. I saw no way of making this happen and talked to a friend about this dilemma. She talked to her son and he has agreed to build me a web site. *WOW*
On other areas of the writing front, it is so nice when you hear from a critique partner/friend that they have heard from an agent/publisher that they want to see their whole manuscript! I mean, really! How can you not be excited for them? (And not a little jealous?) I know my writing is just as good as theirs and I've been giving and getting as much in the critique group as the next guy. Yet she is getting the nibbles and I'm not. But then I chastise myself. This is NOT a competition between she and I. We don't even write in the same genre. She isn't querying the same people I query. So I step back and smile again and I want to shout. I helped! I gave her good feedback on that story. We brainstormed together over just how she wanted a scene to go. I helped. Like the little girl on the old TV commercial. It's Shake-n-Bake, and I helped!
Then we have the people we know who ask us..... How's the writing going?
I think it's going just fine. :o) I'm participating in the online courses and reading the how-to-books and attending my local critique group and working on my story. Life is good and I'm still writing. So why do I feel like that question was more of a ... So are you still deluding yourself into thinking you can write - question? Maybe because I know these people? LOL. The joke will be on them when I get my phone call or e-mail asking for my full manuscript. And as the song by John Waller says.... While I'm waiting, I will serve you. While I'm waiting, I will worship. While I'm waiting, I will not fail. I'll be running the race, even while I wait.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-M7oGrOa2I&feature=related
Keeping my dream alive.
~Susie
On other areas of the writing front, it is so nice when you hear from a critique partner/friend that they have heard from an agent/publisher that they want to see their whole manuscript! I mean, really! How can you not be excited for them? (And not a little jealous?) I know my writing is just as good as theirs and I've been giving and getting as much in the critique group as the next guy. Yet she is getting the nibbles and I'm not. But then I chastise myself. This is NOT a competition between she and I. We don't even write in the same genre. She isn't querying the same people I query. So I step back and smile again and I want to shout. I helped! I gave her good feedback on that story. We brainstormed together over just how she wanted a scene to go. I helped. Like the little girl on the old TV commercial. It's Shake-n-Bake, and I helped!
Then we have the people we know who ask us..... How's the writing going?
I think it's going just fine. :o) I'm participating in the online courses and reading the how-to-books and attending my local critique group and working on my story. Life is good and I'm still writing. So why do I feel like that question was more of a ... So are you still deluding yourself into thinking you can write - question? Maybe because I know these people? LOL. The joke will be on them when I get my phone call or e-mail asking for my full manuscript. And as the song by John Waller says.... While I'm waiting, I will serve you. While I'm waiting, I will worship. While I'm waiting, I will not fail. I'll be running the race, even while I wait.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-M7oGrOa2I&feature=related
Keeping my dream alive.
~Susie
Thursday, March 31, 2011
30 March 2011
Hello everyone. This past holiday season was very stressful for me. We have a house full here and it just seemed like a long winter. Spring is upon us and things are brighter. I am much happier and feeling very blessed. The taxes are done and the dog is house broke, things are looking up! :o) I invited a couple women from the former Defining Moments Writers Group to the Novel Group, I'm in. Tara came once and Lynda has been twice. I truly value the Scribes online writers critique group I joined through the ACFW site. Those are a great group of people. I also entered the Gennesis Contest. I certainly don't expect to win in my catagory but I believe it will be an excellent learning opportunity. The stories I'm reading in Scribes are awesome. I don't know how some of these people aren't already published. REALLY! And then there's me.... *haha* ok, and a couple others like me. But not too many like me. And it's a good thing. Because I need all the help I can get. I'll keep trying and continue to pray. :o) I've found it easier to comment and make observations on others work when I pray before reading each chapter. Prayer WORKS. Pray and dream. ~Susie
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