Lending a hand to hope

Natalie Bahm has been promoting a amazing event in support of a beautiful child please click on the link to read the important event, I must come out of my semi-blogger hiatus to help spread the word. I hope plenty of people, writers who stumble upon this post will consider offering support by checking out the auction. Here is the information from Natalie's blog about Jayden. Jayden Huynh is a seventeen-month-old little boy who has already survived four surgeries--two bowel, one heart, one gastric-- due to a combination of congenital problems, including Hirschsprung's disease and other issues that are still in the process of being diagnosed. Despite the best efforts of his doctors and family, Jayden has failed to gain enough weight to make it to even the 1st percentile. He only weighs 6.6 kilograms (14.5 pounds) and his low weight is affecting his organ's ability to function. His doctors are considering put him on TPN treatment (IV feeding) which carries its own dangers. The greatest risk to survival is sepsis at the site of his IV port, so Jayden's family need to convert a room in their home into a treatment room that can be kept separate and as sterile as possible in order to give him the best possible chance. This will include buying a small refrigerator/freezer to store the TPN, cabinets for storing medical supplies, a changing table for Jayden, a steam cleaning unit to keep the surfaces as clean as possible, and other supplies. Jayden's family have started a fund to try and raise money to set up this room, and are hoping to hold an auction to make it possible. Because Jayden's grandmother is a writer and an artist, they are hoping to gain donations from people in these industries to auction. Anything useful would be gratefully accepted, whether it be critiques, books, swag, etc. Because of the international nature of the auction, donors would need to be willing to ship items directly to their auction's winner, if it involves goods. We will provide information and links to the donor's websites, etc. along with each auction. The auction is set to begin on June 2 and will probably run for about a week. We've already had some awesome stuff donated, including agent critiques and phone calls, author critiques, signed books, jewelry and art. It's going to be amazing. Mark your calendars. If you feel you can donate anything for the auction or pass this along to friends who might want to help, it would be so appreciated. You can email me if you have an item or critique that you'd like to donate at nataliebahm (at) yahoo.com. If you'd like to help and you have nothing to donate you can always say a prayer, send good wishes to the family, or spread the word! We have a facebook account, a twitter account, and a blog you can follow, like, retweet, or repost. Jayden is such a brave little boy and his family has been through so much already. I know they're already overwhelmed by thie kindness the writing community has shown. We hope this auction will take a tiny bit of the financial pressure off of them, so they can focus on caring for Jayden. Thank you so much, for taking the time to read this. Source: http://nataliebahm.blogspot.ca/

Writing when feeling horrible

I am enduring a terrible situation at work in which my emotions have fluctuated from anger to sadness to disbelieve, I didn't feel the need to write, my muse was not flowing ideas, I felt like a dark cloud was over me, I really wanted to give in and accept that it was okay, but I didn't because I realize my emotions was not caused by writers block and I went over the situation and realized I wasn't going to let it defeat my dream, so I wiped my tears and wrote, now likely what I wrote will be cut eventually, because I will realize it either didn't make sense or didn't do the scene justice and I like to give a decent effort even when I write my first draft. Faith is also really good, believing the ugly situation I am faced with will be rectified and it will be a horrible memory that would eventually leave my thoughts if I let my emotions get the best of my dream of getting published if and when that happens how would I cope with certain things like deadlines, reviews, or other task, now I am not saying its never okay to take time to oneself but for me I feel writing helps me cope it is my outlet to deal with stress it is the career that I hope one day will be something I do on a full time.

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I am back, well sort of, so what has been happening well still honing and revising my first novel, finished two novels during the winter, looking forward to the summer in which I can get in a better groove to finish the latest wip I am working on and blogging on a regular schedule. Going on a mini blog hiatus has taught me a few things but the most significant that I continue to stick by is me being myself and also the online world although vast is quite small, things get around so my focus is to not dwell on others success and get in a glum mood that my opportunity will not come, I made a commitment to strive at my goal towards publication and the rest of stuff that I will never be able to control I will leave it be. Plus I decided as well if I don't love a book, I will keep it to myself, there is too many challenging things that go along with writing so its not nice I think to add to an author/writer challenge by giving a bad review, which brings me to this point although I like Goodreads because I am introduced to books that I may never pick up at my local bookstore it is also a venue in which people express their feelings about books and some are quite nasty. Lastly I have had couple good news which pumps me up to work even harder, sometimes the small strides make the journey worth it. So I will resume my mini blog hiatus to polish ECLIPSE my YA paranormal romance until then a random feature I will add my crush of the week the one and only Ian Somerhalder

Lucky 7 Meme Award Rules:

1. Go to page 77 of your current manuscript.
2. Go to line 7.
3. Copy the next 7 lines (sentences or paragraphs) and post them as they're written. No cheating!
4. Tag 7 other writers to pass this meme on to.

MY EXCERPT

Great. Another dream about him.
Been a while since I had one of those. Aside from shoving Kayla into the lockers, I hadn’t seen or heard from, the faceless figure since Volterra, Italy sort of promised he would leave me alone for a bit after the craziness there, but I should’ve known better than to believe he was capable of telling the truth, maybe he wanted to gloat that he had self control for not ripping Kayla’s body to smithereens. He stood beneath the oak tree that looked ancient, maybe as old as him. Not that I had any clue how old he was.

Lucky 7

Roni Loren
Cece
L.M Preston
Julie Cross
Matthew Merrick
Nina D'Angelo
Natalie Bahm

MY FIRST AWARD

To accept your nomination, please do the following:
SUNSHINE AWARD
Thank the person who gave it and provide a link to them.
Write a post about it.
Answer the questions below
Pass it on to 10 bloggers you know and who you really enjoy reading.
10 QUESTIONS & MY ANSWERS

I would like to thank the lovely Kelbian Noel for this award a fellow blogger that lives in my neck of the woods Toronto (woo hoo)
1. Favorite color: purple

2. Favorite animal: This is very difficult, I like many animals
3. Favorite number: Two

4. Favorite non-alcoholic drink: Water

5. Facebook or Twitter: Twitter! I like both, but deciding two years ago to become a writer I have had to enforce serious discipline to limit my stay on these sites, it is very distracting

6. My passion: WRITING

7. Getting or giving presents: I rather be the giver
8. Favorite pattern: abstract with plenty of colours

9. Favorite day of the week: Friday

10. Favorite flower: Roses

*I will think about the ten bloggers to pass the award onto, then make a list of their sites

1<RONI LOREN


2.Tetonia Blossom

3.Caroline Starr Rose

4.RELICS OF PROVIDENCE

5 NINA DANGELO


6.CECE READ AND WRITE

7.LYNNETTE LABELLE


8.DENISE OF INGLESIDE

9.SHANONA WRITER




10. STEPHEN PORTER