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INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5907,1,'2015-07-26 15:58:29','2015-07-26 21:58:29','<p align=\"center\"><strong>Guest Blog </strong><strong>Participation </strong><strong>Guidelines </strong></p>\r\nHello! Thanks for your interest in guest blogging here at <a href=\"http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/\" target=\"_blank\">View from the Front Porch</a>.\r\n\r\nI love hosting others. If you have a word of wisdom to share or insight on anything faith or fiction focused or maybe a moving or amusing anecdote waiting for an outlet, you’re invited. Guest blogging is for anyone ... everyone.\r\n\r\nOnly three guidelines:\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Articles or essays MUST be new. <em>Please don’t send something that has already been posted on another website without updating.</em></li>\r\n	<li>Length between 500 and 700 words. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Shorter is better.</em></span></li>\r\n	<li>No controversial or political topics.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\nPick a Thursday date from available dates. Right now, any Thursday in 2015 is available.\r\n\r\nOnce you’ve decided what to write and a date you\'d like, here’s what you’ll need to do.\r\n\r\nCopy and paste the form below into your word processor.\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Fill out the form completely.</li>\r\n	<li>Save the file by renaming the MS Word or RTF file with your name (example: JOHNDOE.doc). That will help me keep things organized.</li>\r\n	<li>Return the completed form to <a href=\"mailto:judythe@judythemorgan.com\">judythewriter@icloud.com</a> as a MS Word or RTF attachment.</li>\r\n	<li>You can include a jpg file for any images you wish. No large images and Please only <em>legal </em>to copy images. Your photo would be nice to include, but not necessary.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\nOnce I receive your email...\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>I’ll confirm receipt, so if you don’t hear from me within 72 hours, please contact me.</li>\r\n	<li>I wish I had time to send a reminder before your date, but I don’t. So please mark your calendar.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n<h2>REQUEST FORM to guest blog on</h2>\r\n<p align=\"center\">View from the Front Porch</p>\r\nName/Pen Name:\r\n\r\nContact Email (not to be given out, just for me):\r\n\r\nWebsite (if you have one):\r\n\r\nBlog (if you have one):\r\n\r\nTwitter and Facebook Links (if you wish to share):\r\n\r\nDate you would like to appear (if no date is specified, I will assign one to you).\r\n\r\nYour blog. *Be sure to proofread it. I’m a writer, not an editor!\r\n\r\n<b>Special Instructions if you’re an author:</b>\r\n\r\nBeing a guest blogger can also be an opportunity for you to promote your books. In the bio info at the end of your guest blog, we can include any book information you wish to promote.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">IMPORTANT:</span> No erotica or steamy sensuality. Any book genre including non-fiction is acceptable.\r\n\r\nIn your file please include\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Title of Book you would like to promote. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Remember the exceptions!</span></li>\r\n	<li>Buy Link (either to your author site or to online retailers like Amazon, B&amp;N, etc.)</li>\r\n	<li>URL for your cover: (To find the URL, right click on the pic, then go to properties. It will have a URL, copy and paste that here.)</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Additional thoughts:</span>\r\n\r\nYou are encouraged to show up on your guest blog/interview day to chat with commenters.\r\n\r\nIf you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask. I look forward to working with you.\r\n\r\n- Judythe','BE MY GUEST','','inherit','open','open','','4250-revision-v1','','','2015-07-26 15:58:29','2015-07-26 21:58:29','',4250,'http://judythewriter.com/2015/07/26/4250-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5801,1,'2015-06-23 09:40:28','2015-06-23 15:40:28','<p align=\"center\"><strong>Guest Blog </strong><strong>Participation </strong><strong>Guidelines </strong></p>\r\nHello! Thanks for your interest in guest blogging here at <a href=\"http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/\" target=\"_blank\">View from the Front Porch</a>.\r\n\r\nI love hosting others. That’s what the <em>Company’s Here </em>category is all about--others sharing their story.\r\n\r\nGuest blogging is for anyone ... everyone.\r\n\r\nIf you have a word of wisdom to share or insight on anything faith or fiction focused or maybe a moving or amusing anecdote waiting for an outlet, you’re invited.\r\n\r\nOnly three guidelines:\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Articles or essays MUST be new. <em>Please don’t send something that has already been posted on another website without updating.</em></li>\r\n	<li>Length between 500 and 700 words. <em>Shorter is better.</em></li>\r\n	<li>No controversial or political topics.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\nPick a date from available dates.\r\n\r\nEverything in 2015\r\n\r\nOnce you’ve decided what to write and a date, here’s what you’ll need to do.\r\n\r\nCopy and paste the form below into your word processor.\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Fill out the form completely.</li>\r\n	<li>Save the file by renaming the MS Word or RTF file with your name (example: JOHNDOE.doc). That will help me keep things organized.</li>\r\n	<li>Return the completed form to <a href=\"mailto:judythe@judythemorgan.com\">judythewriter@icloud.com</a> as a MS Word or RTF attachment.</li>\r\n	<li>You can include a jpg file for any images you wish. No large images and Please only <em>legal </em>to copy images. Your photo would be nice to include, but not necessary.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\nOnce I receive your email...\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>I’ll confirm receipt, so if you don’t hear from me within 72 hours, please contact me.</li>\r\n	<li>I wish I had time to send a reminder before your date, but I don’t. So please mark your calendar.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n<h2>REQUEST FORM to guest blog on</h2>\r\n<p align=\"center\">JUDYTHE MORGAN, View from the Front Porch</p>\r\nName/Pen Name:\r\n\r\nContact Email (not to be given out, just for me):\r\n\r\nWebsite (if you have one):\r\n\r\nBlog (if you have one):\r\n\r\nTwitter and Facebook Name (if you wish to share):\r\n\r\nDate you would like to appear (if no date is specified, I will assign one to you).\r\n\r\nYour blog. *Be sure to proofread it. I’m a writer, not an editor!\r\n\r\n<b>Special Instructions if you’re an author:</b>\r\n\r\nBeing a guest blogger can also be an opportunity for you to promote your books. In the bio info at the end of your guest blog, we can include any book information you wish to promote.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">IMPORTANT:</span> No erotica or steamy sensuality. Any book genre including non-fiction is acceptable.\r\n\r\nIn your file please include\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Title of Book you would like to promote. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Remember the exceptions!</span></li>\r\n	<li>Buy Link (either to your author site or to online retailers like Amazon, B&amp;N, etc.)</li>\r\n	<li>URL for your cover: (To find the URL, right click on the pic, then go to properties. It will have a URL, copy and paste that here.)</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Additional thoughts:</span>\r\n\r\nYou are encouraged to show up on your guest blog/interview day to chat with commenters.\r\n\r\nIf you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask. I look forward to working with you.\r\n\r\n- Judythe','BE MY GUEST','','inherit','open','open','','4250-revision-v1','','','2015-06-23 09:40:28','2015-06-23 15:40:28','',4250,'http://judythewriter.com/2015/06/23/4250-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5777,1,'2015-05-29 10:41:08','2015-05-29 16:41:08','&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>A blog by Chicken Wrangler Sara\r\n</em>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/pre-school2.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5758\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/pre-school2.jpg?w=272&amp;h=300\" alt=\"pre-school2\" width=\"272\" height=\"300\" /></a>I was recently sitting in a meeting with one of my favorite two-year-olds named Phineas.\r\n\r\n(He would be one of my favorites even if he didn’t have such a great name.)\r\n\r\nHis twin sister Ellen is another favorite of mine.\r\n\r\nHe was entertaining himself by pulling things out of my purse. He pulled out a collapsible brush I have and asked “What’s this?”\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/brush-2.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-5759 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/brush-2.jpg?w=82&amp;h=150\" alt=\"brush-2\" width=\"82\" height=\"150\" /></a>”It’s a brush” I replied and showed him how it worked.\r\n\r\nI put it back in my purse and he pulled it out again. “What’s this?”\r\n\r\n“It’s a brush.”\r\n\r\nWe did this for a while and on the 439th time he pulled it out and asked what it was I said “It’s a hippopotamus.”\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/comb2-2.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5760\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/comb2-2.jpg?w=150&amp;h=48\" alt=\"comb2-2\" width=\"150\" height=\"48\" /></a>He opened it up and said “It’s a hippopotamus toothbrush.”\r\n\r\nAnd that, my friends, is why I love preschoolers.\r\n<div id=\"jp-post-flair\" class=\"sharedaddy sd-like-enabled sd-sharing-enabled\"></div>','Preschoolers','','inherit','open','open','','5776-revision-v1','','','2015-05-29 10:41:08','2015-05-29 16:41:08','',5776,'http://petoweb.com/judythemorgan/front_porch/2015/05/29/5776-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (7,1,'2011-03-31 21:58:33','2011-03-31 21:58:33','I am a storyteller, a wordsmith, a romantic.\r\n\r\nI read a lot...adore Victoriana...collect tchotchkes...stockpile ephemera...and own up to being a native Texan, most of the time.\r\n\r\nIreland is my most favorite place on earth, and I\'m crazy about all things Irish.\r\n\r\nI love…\r\nSitting on the porch.\r\nTraveling back roads.\r\nMeeting new people.\r\nGaining knowledge.\r\nSharing memories.\r\nWalking my dog in the mountains or on the beach or around the block.\r\nWatching movies, eating popcorn and sipping wine with my husband.\r\n\r\nMost of all, I enjoy weaving emotional stories with satisfying endings.\r\n\r\nI’m a former teacher, proprietor of an antiques business, and one time DAC (Department of Army Civilian).\r\n\r\nNow I write full time--mostly romance (love those happy endings), some short stories, articles, and a bit of non-fiction stuff.\r\n\r\nMy husband and I live in the Rio Grande National Forest of Colorado with a mouthy Maltese named Buster.\r\n\r\nMy blog is an eclectic blending of all of the above sprinkled with guest bloggers.\r\n\r\nThanks for visiting.  Stop by often.','About Judythe','','publish','closed','closed','','about','','','2016-09-13 21:06:58','2016-09-14 03:06:58','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?page_id=2',0,'page','',5);
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INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (95,1,'2012-02-29 08:31:07','2012-02-29 14:31:07','Today’s word is <strong>PROCRASTINATION</strong><img style=\"visibility:hidden;width:0;height:0;\" src=\"http://c.gigcount.com/wildfire/IMP/CXNID=2000002.0NXC/bT*xJmx*PTEzMzA*NDI3MDA4NzYmcHQ9MTMzMDQ*MjcxNzA1MyZwPTQ4ODgxJmQ9Jmc9MSZvPTFkZTIxMWU1Yzk5NzQ3NzJhZWFk/MWQ2NjNlMjNhNTIzJm9mPTA=.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" border=\"0\" /><a href=\"http://www.profilebrand.com/funny-pictures/\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"http://i714.photobucket.com/albums/ww146/pbfunny/funny-pictures/demotivational/131_procrastination.gif\" alt=\"Demotivational Profile Graphics and Comments\" border=\"0\" /></a>\n\n<a href=\"http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/procrastination\" target=\"_blank\">Dictionary.com</a> defines procrastination as the act or habit of procrastinating, or putting off or delaying, especially something requiring immediate attention\n\nI really, really hate when a definition uses the word, don’t you? Still the meaning is very clear -- putting off something.\n\nIs procrastination deliberate or subconscious?\n\nSteven Pressfield, author of <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1936891026/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=hotoenyojo-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1936891026\" target=\"_blank\">The War of Art</a> calls procrastination a form of resistance. He believes creative types face lots of resistance and offers inspiration to overcome that resistance. If you don’t own a copy of Pressfield’s book you should, it’s gotten me over more than one bumpy writing slowdown. Btw, I don’t get any kickback.\n\nI’m not sure what to call procrastination, but I know it’s a disease shared by too many writers, myself included. And, procrastination is a clever enemy. Half the time, Mr. P aka procrastination disguises himself as very worthy endeavors like\nA writer’s meeting to get a writer fix\nA computer game to “clear your head”\nA movie for “research”\nSocial media is one of Mr. P’s favorite tactics. Who among us doesn’t find Twitter or FB or web surfing sucking precious time from our day?\n\nMy favorite delay is a power nap to refresh my brain’s hard drive. Naps may work, but am I really just giving in to procrastination’s subtle ways when fifteen minutes slides into an hour or two?\n\nWriting is hard work. A solitary work. Those two facts alone stall too many of us and allow Mr. P’s power to succeed.\n\n\"Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.\" ~Wayne Dyer\n\nSo how do we cure the culprit that steals our words from the page?\n\nAli Luke in her blog <a href=\"http://www.thecreativepenn.com/2012/02/18/stop-procrastinating-start-writing/\" target=\"_blank\">How to Stop Procrastinating and Start Writing</a> suggests four steps.\n\nGreat hints are offered on <a href=\"http://www.stopprocrastinatinginfo.com/how-to-stop-procrastination.htm\" target=\"_blank\">How to Stop Procrastinating</a>\n\nFor me, and maybe other writers, I shoo Mr. P away by putting my butt in the chair and <strong>W-R-I-T-I-N-G</strong> every day whether I feel like it or not, whether what I write is worthy of a Hemingway or not. It works for me. What works for you?\n\nAs part of One Word Wednesday, I want to play a game I used when teaching spelling—writing a sentence with the word. Leave your sentence in a comment. No grading involved just for fun.\n\nDictionary.com suggests: She was smart, but her constant procrastination led her to be late with almost every assignment.\n\nHow would you use PROCRASTINATION in a sentence?','ONE WORD WEDNESDAY','','publish','open','open','','one-word-wednesday','','','2012-02-29 08:31:07','2012-02-29 14:31:07','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=95',0,'post','',28);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (124,1,'2012-03-02 08:10:01','2012-03-02 14:10:01','<img class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v514/whipsandchains/Arena/purple_cow.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"227\" height=\"216\" />\n\nFriday blog days will be silly or stream of consciousness or who knows what will strike my fancy. The idea comes from the years I taught elementary school physical education classes. Great job compared to my years of teaching reading and language arts with all those papers to grade. LOL\n\nI wore shorts to school and lesson plans were easy because every Friday\'s plan read Free Day. The other P.E. teacher and I put out assorted equipment and allowed the kids to have supervised free time during class. Things may have changed as far as teaching P.E. goes, who knows? But Friday\'s on the blog will be free, crazy, and definitely fun. \n\nToday\'s topic is purple cows. I\'m also testing a principal I learned from <a href=\"http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Kristin Lamb’s </a>WANA class on social media--a snappy subject line. Did it grab your attention???\n\nWhy a purple cow blog? Because I\'ve always been intrigued by the work of <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelett_Burgess\" target=\"_blank\">Gelett Burgess</a> and especially his poem about the purple cow.\n\nBurgess, a fascinating Bohemian, wrote other whimsical, nonsense poetry, but THE PURPLE COW is by far the most famous. I know I’ve quoted it a gazillion times. Though, like most people, I leave off the second line of the title: <em>Reflections on a Mythic Beast Who’s Quite Remarkable, at Least. </em>Pity too because that’s where the essence lies.  Here\'s the original the poem as published in 1895.\n\n<em><img class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r44/live2soar/800px-Burgess-cow.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"592\" /> </em>\n\nPurple cow is a metaphor for something that is out of the ordinary, something remarkable. Maybe Bugress didn’t personally want to be considered different.  In reality he was. Some say his works inspired Dr. Seuss. The Gelett Burgess Center for creative expression, organized to honor his creativity, gives The <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelett_Burgess_Children\'s_Book_Award\" target=\"_blank\">Gelett Burgess Children\'s Book Awards</a> yearly. It\'s not the Caldecott, but still a prestigious honor for a children\'s book.\n\nToo many people do not want to take chances and be that Purple Cow, to stand out from the rest. To conform is to be comfortable, and many of us like to feel comfortable. But, is comfortable the place to be if you are a writer?\n\n I say no. Not with the publishing paradigm shift which allows anyone and everyone to become a published writer.\n\nWe have to be Purple cows. Different. Willing to stand out from the rest.Our stories need to be remarkable. Exceptional. After all, does the world need another ordinary writer, another ordinary story? I don\'t think so.\n\nPurple cow writers must be different at the same time consummate professionals. With the new reader-driven paradigm in publishing, we struggle to be noticed, to stand out in the pack. Often, we\'re not traditionally published because our stories don\'t fit the Big Six  genre boxes. Agents scratch their heads trying to pigeonhole our work. Which makes us half purple. To be a realio, trulio Purple Cow writer, we have to\n<ul>\n	<li>create rich, absorbing stories  with emotional impact to grab the reader</li>\n	<li>know craft rules then break the ones that benefit our story</li>\n	<li>never stop learning</li>\n	<li>view every writing project as a stepping stone to something better</li>\n	<li>be devoted to KL\'s social media theory for getting our name and our work noticed</li>\n</ul>\nWhat about you? Are you a PURPLE COW? Do you dare to step out of your comfort?','It\'s FRIDAY FREE DAY - Being a PURPLE COW writer','','publish','open','open','','its-friday-free-day-being-a-purple-cow-writer','','','2012-03-02 08:10:01','2012-03-02 14:10:01','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=124',0,'post','',6);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (153,1,'2012-03-05 09:00:29','2012-03-05 15:00:29',' When I shared a recent chapter with my critique partners, one of them called me for this sentence, “He found himself in deep water.”\n\n She didn’t understand that my POV character’s internal thought meant he found himself in trouble. She thought I put him in a swimming pool and forgot to put that detail on the page. Another problem I have… getting what’s playing in my head accurately portrayed on the page. But that’s a topic for another blog.\n\nHer stumbling over the phrase led to a discussion of colloquial language and how words, phrases, and even clichés vary from one geographical area to another.\n\n Being from Texas, we have a whole slew of regional words. I just used another one—slew, meaning a whole bunch. We’re always <em>y’all</em>-ing and <em>gonna</em> and <em>fixin’ </em>when we talk. Foreigners sometimes need an interpreter. Consider these colloquial phrases I\'ve been known to use verbally and in my writing:\n<ul>\n	<li> hot as tin toilet seat – in Texas we know that’s HOT</li>\n	<li>screaming bloody murder or  screaming banshee– used to stop the  pleasant sound coming from a kid or grandkid</li>\n	<li>grumpy as an old sitting hen – gives a more vivid image than grumpy old men</li>\n	<li>bone tired – yep, been there</li>\n	<li>slow as molasses – can’t you just see that black syrup oozing out of the jar?</li>\n	<li>keep your pants on – meaning not what you think, but to be patient!</li>\n</ul>\n Besides colloquialisms that slip into my first drafts, I have \"favorite\" words that pop up when I’m being lazy with my writing or rushing. Words like: <em>had, that, could, was, felt, knew, thought, saw, walked, come. </em>\n\n“Weasel words” <em> </em><a href=\"http://www.margielawson.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Margie Lawson</a>,  editing<em> guru, </em>calls these words and colloquial phrases. I learned in her deep editing class, <a href=\"http://www.margielawson.com/lecture-packets/deep-editing-the-edits-system-rhetorical-devices-and-more\" target=\"_blank\">The EDITS System</a>, to keep a WEASEL WORD CHART listing phrases, overused word, throw-away words, clichés and opinion words. The chart is easy to populate. The words we overuse stand out like sore thumbs. (Sorry, Margie had to use a cliché to make my point.)\n\nThen, during the revision stages, I use the chart with my word processor’s search and replace function to eliminate them.\n\nBUT sometimes using colloquial language fits characterization. Sometimes it has a function in dialogue especially if the protagonist is a Texan or the piece is written about Texas.\n\n Throwing such informal colloquialism into novel narrative, on the other hand, can be a stumbling block for readers by pulling them from the story. And, then they do what no writer wants—quit reading!\n\nIf using colloquialisms is your writer’s voice, okay. I caution you to be sure your reader can understand from the scene context what you’re saying.\n\n<strong> REMEMBER:</strong> Our writer’s responsibility is to <span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">always</span> make sure in the battle of words that story reigns.\n\n What did I do with my CP’s suggestion? Eliminate the phrase or not?\n\n In this case, I believed the reader could discern the meaning from the rest of the scene and left the phrase “deep water.”\n\n<strong>Your turn:</strong>\n\nWhat are your favorite colloquialisms and weasel words? Do they slip into your writing?','COLLOQUIALISMS and WEASEL WORDS','','publish','open','open','','colloquialisms-and-weasel-words','','','2012-03-05 09:00:29','2012-03-05 15:00:29','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=153',0,'post','',6);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (160,1,'2012-03-16 08:37:32','2012-03-16 13:37:32','Research shows our brain needs as much exercise as our body. So far I as know, there aren\'t any brain gyms but there are brain games for cognitive training.\n\n My favorite game is Jigsaw puzzles.\n\nAt our house we keep a designated puzzle table in our living room. Amazing to see how guests gravitate to the puzzle table. All the while protesting that they don’t do jigsaw puzzles. Next thing you know, I\'m begging them to leave and join the rest of us.\n\nHere’s the current puzzle underway. Charles Wysocki\'s Cape Cod Fishing Party<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/blog-03-091.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-162\" title=\"March puzzle\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/blog-03-091.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" /></a>\n\nThe table is downstairs on the direct route between the bedroom and the kitchen. I stop by the puzzle table and add a piece frequently.  I\'m exercising my brain. In fact there is some strong research to suggest that working jigsaw puzzles renews your mind and helps stave off Alzheimer’s.\n\nWhen I’m upstairs in my office and have a writing block moment or a piddling urge, I click on a website called  <a href=\"http://www.jigzone.com\" target=\"_blank\">JigZone</a>  to work a puzzle.\n\nCool site with fun stuff. You can even create your own jigsaw puzzle from a picture or a book cover.  NY Times best selling author Jo  Ann Ross has all her bookcovers as jigsaw puzzles on her<a href=\"http://bit.ly/ljZoGl\" target=\"_blank\"> website</a>.\n\nFor daily exercise, Jigzone will send a puzzle to your email daily. Click and give one a try: <a href=\"http://www.jigzone.com/puzzles/44055D588F28\">Fruit and Veg Jigsaw Puzzle</a>\n\nEveryone have a great weekend. I won’t be on the porch. It’s raining pollen here.\n\nYOUR TURN: What\'s your favorite brain game? \n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"> </p>','JIGSAW FUN for Cognitive Training','','publish','open','open','','jigsaw-fun-for-cognitive-training','','','2012-03-16 08:37:32','2012-03-16 13:37:32','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=160',0,'post','',1);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (179,1,'2012-03-07 08:15:29','2012-03-07 14:15:29','ONE WORD WEDNESDAY and today’s word is PIDDLE. No not what puppies and kittens and small children do. Piddling is spending time in a trifling, or ineffective way according to <a href=\"http://bit.ly/wN8pbA\" target=\"_blank\">Dictionary.com</a> \n\nSome call it dawdling. The dictionary defines it as wasteful. I’m not so sure about that wasteful part. I think we all need piddle time.\n\nSoutherners are said to have fine-tuned the act of passing time, without waste or regret into a fine art. The whole idea of piddling is to kill time, but without any great effort or much meaning, according to Rick Bragg, a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer. He claims it’s a cause worthy of lifelong study in his February 2012 Southern Living essay column, <a href=\"http://bit.ly/zpRFX1\" target=\"_blank\">The Fine Art of Piddling</a>. \n\nPiddling is not a necessity. In fact in most circles, it’s frowned upon. In Western pragmatism, we have to <em>do</em> most of the time. I\'m a diehard multi-tasker. I loathe just sitting and doing nothing. Though you will find me stopping to smell the roses, not for long! The one exception--I can easily lose myself in a good book for hours until I come to THE END. Much like Rick Bragg described his wife, I piddle with purpose.  \n\nBut sometimes, piddling’s a forced condition. My latest piddling was neither planned nor welcomed, an unfortunate necessity. A torn rotator cuff took me down. I\'ve had no choice but to kill time waiting to regain full use of my repaired shoulder muscles. Weeks in an immobilizing sling, now <a href=\"http://bit.ly/4nQAWr\" target=\"_blank\">Attila the Hun</a> physical therapy.\n\nI’ve whittled away the hours sleeping with my guard dogs at my side.<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/sleeping1.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-182\" title=\"sleeping\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/sleeping1.jpg?w=292\" alt=\"\" width=\"292\" height=\"300\" /></a>Or we watched movies. Turner and Hallmark movie channels mostly. I learned a lot about plotting and story development from those so I guess technically it wasn’t wasted time.\n\nWe also found some fascinating History channel offerings like Pawn Stars and American Restoration. Toby, Buster and I learned a lot! I really missed my daytime soap operas. Made me mad all over again that CBS canceled Guiding Light and As the World Turns.\n\nTiming was the pits too. Two weeks into Kristen Lamb’s Social Media class. Wore me out typing one handed to get in my tweets, FB, and blog out there.<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/wed-03-09-12.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-183\" title=\"working\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/wed-03-09-12.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" /></a>I’ll be out of the sling soon and up to speed on the keyboard. But I’m thinking I’m gonna miss the piddling. Ironically, it’s been relaxing, refreshing and renewing. I’m thinking I’ll keep at least some piddling a part of every day.\n\nSentence Game Time: Dictionary.com suggests <em>He</em><em> wasted the day piddling around.</em>\n\n<strong>YOUR TURN: </strong>Have a sentence to share? Or a comment about your piddle habits or a time you were forced into piddling?','ARE YOU A PIDDLER?','','publish','open','open','','are-you-a-piddler','','','2012-03-07 08:15:29','2012-03-07 14:15:29','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=179',0,'post','',7);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (196,1,'2014-02-12 23:00:47','2014-02-12 23:00:47','The writer’s life requires<strong> </strong>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><strong>INSPIRATION and PERSERVERANCE</strong></h1>\nWhen either of those wane for me, I pick up one of these books.\n\n<em><strong>The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life</strong>, </em>by Julia Cameron\nAn inspiring challenge to just keep writing.\n\n<em><strong>Bird by Bird</strong>, </em>by Anne Lamott<em>\n</em>A funny, helpful book about what it is to be a writer. This book tells it like it is in a very entertaining way.<em></em>\n\n<strong><em>The War of Art</em>, </strong>by Steven Pressfield\nAn incredible look at the barriers blocking our creativity. It\'s inspirational and funny.\n\nOr I read one of these quotes.\n<ul>\n	<li> \"Write even when you don\'t want to, don\'t much like what you\'re writing, and aren\'t writing particularly well.\" ~Agatha Christie</li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n	<li>“Don\'t worry about selling the story you wrote. Worry about writing a story that will sell itself.” ~Lawrence Watt-Evans</li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n	<li>\"Perseverance is trying 19 times and succeeding on the 20th.\"~Julie Andrews</li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n	<li>“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.” ~Henry Ford</li>\n</ul>\nAnd when things are bleakest, the one quote I read over and over and over:\n\n“<em>Eventually you\'re going to reach the point where just one more attempt, one more effort will bring real success. What a shame it would be to give up just as you reached that point.</em>\n\n<em>You do not know what the next effort will bring because the future is not based on the past. That feeling of wanting to give up is based solely on the past, which really doesn\'t matter anymore. What matters now is where you\'re headed, not where you\'ve been. And when you view it from that perspective, <span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;text-decoration:underline;\">giving up is simply not an option</span></span>.</em>” ~R. Marston','ENCOURAGEMENT FOR A WRITER\'S MUSE','','draft','closed','closed','','','','','2015-05-12 03:02:16','2015-05-12 03:02:16','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?page_id=196',0,'page','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (216,1,'2012-03-14 16:55:44','2012-03-14 21:55:44','I should have spent yesterday writing my ONE WORD WEDNESDAY blog for an  early morning post today. I didn\'t.\n\nMy daughter volunteered to help the son of an on-line friend in Minnesota  with his Flat Stanley Project. She  invited me to tag along while she and Flat Stanley visited the state capitol of Texas. I had a fun and enlightening  adventure.\n\nYou\'ve haven\'t met FLAT STANLEY or heard about the project?\n\nFLAT STANLEY is Stanley Lambchop the protagonist of Jeff Brown’s 1964 children\'s books series. The story goes…\n\n<em>Stanley and his younger brother Arthur are given a big bulletin board by their Dad for displaying pictures and posters. He hangs it on the wall over Stanley\'s bed. During the night the board falls from the wall, flattening Stanley in his sleep. He survives and makes the best of his altered state, and soon he is entering locked rooms by sliding under the door, and playing with his younger brother by being used as a kite. One special advantage is that Flat Stanley can now visit his friends by being mailed in an envelope. Stanley even helps catch some art museum thieves by posing as a painting on the wall. Eventually Arthur changes Stanley back to his proper shape with a bicycle pump.</em>\n\nIn 1995, a third grade schoolteacher in Canada used the book for a letter-writing lesson between schoolchildren as they documented where Flat Stanley went. The students created a two dimension “paper doll” fashioned to look like them and mailed Stanley to pen pals everywhere.\n\nThat project has now become a worldwide adventure for children with Flat Stanley projects. The objective of which is for the child to explore through Flat Stanley\'s adventures. Sometimes by writing diaries for language arts skill or travel journals of Flat Stanley locations for geography and social studies skills. Check for the full concept <a href=\"http://www.flatstanley.com/\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>.\n\nFlat Stanley does get around. He’s traveled to Russia with me once. As you see, my Stanley was a small, easily transportable and pose-able paper doll.<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/st-basil-in-moscow-holding-flat-stanley1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-232\" title=\"St. Basil in Moscow holding Flat Stanley\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/st-basil-in-moscow-holding-flat-stanley1.jpg?w=192\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" /></a>\n\nThe Stanley from Minnesota was a life-size ten year-old butcher paper cutout, flimsy and awkward to pose. March winds forced us to tape him or hold him upright for pictures. We had to strap him into the seatbelt for the trip to Austin!\n\nSome of those observing our antics recognized Stanley from their own school projects. Others scratched their heads and thought we were two crazy ladies. Can’t post the pictures until the Minnesota student completes his project, but I will get snapshots on my <a href=\"http://on.fb.me/zkhLx6\" target=\"_blank\">Judythe Morgan FB </a>page  as soon as I can.\n\nWe began Stanley’s adventure on the University of Texas campus. One of the fringe benefits of spending the fun day with my daughter was touring her old college town haunts, her condo, the intramural field where she worked refereeing softball games, and campus buildings where she’d had classes. Her reaction to the familiar places all these years later was like seeing a child opening a Christmas present. Great memories for her, and I got a glimpse into what her life on campus had been when I sent her off to the big, bad UT.\n\nI shared my memories of growing up in Austin. Flat Stanley saw my high school, the places I went on dates with my daughter\'s daddy, houses I lived in, and some of the ancestral history of her great-grandparents who were among the founding residents.\n\nI thought she’d be bored.  Poor Flat Stanley didn\'t get a vote. My daughter claimed to be delighted to see this side to her mother...the giggles and smiles made me believe her. She suggested I compose a tour plan complete with an Austin map marked with locations for her siblings. Great idea for a memoir.\n\nBefore we ended our visit, my daughter wanted to stop by and see my eighty-five year old aunt who still lives in a small group home for the elderly.\n\nI hesitated. Would my aunt even remember her namesake? A stroke four years ago left my aunt blind. Already deaf, the loss of another source of sensory input and the stroke damage caused memory issues.\n\nAs silly as it sounds—my daughter’s a grown woman, I didn’t want her feelings hurt or the imagery of an old folks’ home stuck in her head. I suggested lunch at a favorite Austin eatery instead.\n\nImagine my surprise when over lunch my daughter told me she knew what those places are like. During her years at UT, she’d gone to see her grandfather in a nursing home nearby twice a week until he passed away. She’d be fine with seeing my aunt and insisted we go.\n\nTears nearly blinded me, and I gave her a hug. Shocked and pleased, the value of respect and honor for elders that her daddy and I tried to instill had worked. \n\nBest part, when we saw my aunt, she remembered my daughter. We had a lovely visit. And over-sized, floppy Flat Stanley had quite the adventure. \n\nYOUR TURN: Have you ever had a FLAT STANLEY adventure or an enlightening moment with a child?','FLAT STANLEY Adventure','','publish','open','open','','flat-stanley-adventure-2','','','2012-03-14 16:55:44','2012-03-14 21:55:44','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=216',0,'post','',8);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (267,1,'2012-03-20 15:39:27','2012-03-20 20:39:27','It appears the Lucky 7 Meme zombie virus for writer-bloggers has arrived on my front porch via <a href=\"http://bit.ly/GBwTLT\" target=\"_blank\">Cora Ramos</a>!<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/lucky71.jpg\"><img class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-269 alignleft\" title=\"lucky7\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/lucky71.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>\n\nI thought I might escape being in lurker mode and all. Not so...Cora found me. \n\nUnfamiliar with The Lucky Meme virus?\n\nThese are the rules:\n\n1. Go to page 77 of your current MS/WIP\n2. Go to line 7\n3. Copy down the next 7 lines, sentences, or paragraphs, and post them as they’re written.\n4. Tag 7 authors, and let them know.\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>Game on</strong></p>\n<strong>My Seven Lines:</strong>  \n\n<em>Annie bit her lip. Two cots barely fit in the room. The shower looked like an RV bath. Still it had a floor, no dirt, and a door, not a piece of cloth, and there was even plenty of bottled water beneath the bedside table. “Thank you, Mr. Welds.” And, thank you, Aunt Gerry.</em>\n\n<em>“Please. It’s Fred. See you at the house.”</em>\n\n<em>A short time later, they gathered around the table in the tiled dining area. Martha served fried plantains and a vegetable salad with a pitcher of fruit water.</em>\n\n<em>“I’d go easy on the sauce. It takes some getting used to,” Fred warned.</em>\n\n<em>Erin began to cough, grabbed her glass and chug-a-lugged all the liquid. “Ya say?”</em>\n\n<em>The laughter that followed drained some of the tension from Annie’s shoulders. Maybe this wouldn’t be so bad.</em>\n\n Annie\'s not talking about playing Lucky 7 Meme, but I have to agree this virus isn\'t so bad!\n\nRule #3 was easy.\n\nRule #4, a bit harder. I\'m hoping they\'ll join the fun! Even if they don\'t check out their websites.\n<ol>\n	<li><a href=\"http://twitter.com/#!/janiceheck\" target=\"_blank\">Janice Heck</a></li>\n	<li><a href=\"http://jennyhansenauthor.wordpress.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Jenny Hansen</a></li>\n	<li><a href=\"http://www.jodileastewart.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Jodi Lea Stewart</a></li>\n	<li><a href=\"http://kristylyseng.wordpress.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Kristy Lyseng</a></li>\n	<li><a href=\"http://carriedaws.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Carrie Daws</a></li>\n	<li><a href=\"http://madhatter.ca/\" target=\"_blank\">Wayne Borean</a></li>\n	<li><a href=\"http://elainesmothers.wordpress.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Elaine Smothers</a></li>\n</ol>\nIn case they decline...\n\nYOUR TURN: Join the fun and post a Lucky 7 Meme from your novel/WIP in the comments.','The Attack of the Lucky 7 Meme','','publish','open','open','','the-attack-of-the-lucky-7-meme','','','2012-03-20 15:39:27','2012-03-20 20:39:27','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=267',0,'post','',14);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (283,1,'2012-03-28 11:59:52','2012-03-28 16:59:52','<strong></strong>Today’s word in case you’re unsure from the title – AAR\n\nWhat the heck is an AAR? You’re probably wondering — especially if you have no military background.\n\nAt the conclusion of every mission employed, an AAR, <strong>AFTER ACTION REVIEW</strong> is conducted to determine the effectiveness of the mission. Sometimes called a debriefing, too.\n\nI’m the daughter of an Army Air Corp/Air Force officer, the spouse of a retire Army officer and a former DAC. I thrive on order in chaos and demand order/structure.\n\nMy life, until my husband’s retirement, was pack, unpack, establish a nest, pack, unpack, and establish a nest. I’ve gathered lots of fodder for my writer’s mill and skills I’m sure I’ll not live long enough to use.\n\nTwo years ago I took ex-Green Beret <a href=\"http://bit.ly/aX6Rtm\" target=\"_blank\">Bob Mayer</a>’s Warrior Writer A-Team course. I’m not sure Mayer offers the course anymore, but the book <em>WHO DARES WIN, The Green Beret Way to Conquer Fear and Succeed</em> is available <a href=\"http://amzn.to/yfewjk\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>. \n\nHis Special Forces tactical approach applied to a writing career resonated with me. I credit that class as the turning point in my writing. I especially loved the AAR, After Action Review. I now conduct AARs on all writing activities and projects. \n\nSound silly. Not really. \n\nWe all do AARs unconsciously. We just don’t call them After Action Reviews. Bet you’ve said. “Been there done, that not going again” or something like that. And I’m guessing you’ve also said, I loved &lt; you fill-in-the-blank&gt;, too. You just did a mini-AAR.\n\n After every move, my family discovered ways and methods to make the next move easier, more palatable for the children and the travel to the new location more fun. All the while, reviewing what we’d learned at our last location.\n\nGuess what, we were doing an AAR!\n\nMy husband’s favorite AAR, if the experience is unfavorable: “Done that for the first and last time.” Our shortened code developed from long years of being together: “first and last for that” or FLT\n\nMy AAR  for <a href=\"http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Kristen Lamb</a>’s Blogging-to-Brand class follows. Risky, I realize.\n\n<strong><a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/lady-at-board-reviewing.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-292\" title=\"lady at board reviewing\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/lady-at-board-reviewing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"62\" /></a></strong>\n\nAfter all, Kristen might read it. Not worried.\n\nKnowing her association with Mayer, she’ll probably conduct her own AAR. My thoughts can contribute. Or be a testimonial. Or not.\n\n<strong>AAR Step 1: My</strong> <strong>goal (mission) in taking Blogging-to-Brand</strong>: \n\nI needed to learn about branding and social media. I have two novels, <em>The Pendant’s Promise</em> and its prequel, <em>In the Land of the Morning Calm</em>, in the publishing pipeline. I want readers to recognize my name, buy my books.\n\nI’d read Kristen’s book <em><a href=\"http://amzn.to/AD4C5P\" target=\"_blank\">WE ARE NOT ALONE</a></em>. Actually bought it at Bob’s workshop. I agreed with what I read and decided the class would provide added benefit.  \n\n<strong>AAR Step 2: Was my goal or mission accomplished?</strong> \n\nI’d say DEFINITELY…the class nearly exploded my head!\n\nI have to admit I signed up reluctantly. When I say reluctantly I mean screaming about why, why, why? I’m a writer, not a marketing person. \n\nNot that I wasn’t familiar all the social media places. I was. See the links in the right hand column.\n\nI have a <a href=\"http://judythemorgan.com\" target=\"_blank\">website</a> \n\na <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/Judythe-Morgan/116134279255\" target=\"_blank\">Judythe Morgan FB</a> page\n\n<a href=\"https://twitter.com/#!/Judythe2\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter</a>  \n\na page on <a href=\"http://www.shelfari.com/judythemorgan\" target=\"_blank\">Shelfari</a> where I list the books I’ve read and make a recommendation\n\nAnd, now after KL\'s BtoB, a <a href=\"http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/\" target=\"_blank\">blog</a>! Which you already know because you’re reading this.   \n\nI thought I was off to  a good start. Kristen’s class took me further.\n<ul>\n	<li>My circle of followers has grown. More importantly, I’ve met some terrific people I might never have known existed.</li>\n	<li>I discovered social media is about more than marketing. I really, like these people. We share our heartbreaks, our troubles, our cares, our concerns. They’re good people. Good writers.</li>\n	<li>I know I am not alone in my writer’s journey.As Kristen says, it’s all about the WANA love. Thanks to all for the follows, the comments, the WANA love.</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>AAR Step 3: </strong>“If you accomplished your goal, determine the fine-tuning.”\n\nAs much as I did learn, I’m still sorting through the technology intricacies and would be totally lost without help from WANAs and my techno-savvy daughter. I must follow-up with\n<ul>\n	<li>classes for fine-tuning my blog, my tweets, and my FB postings</li>\n	<li>learning to utilize HootSuite, TweetDeck, and FB Time Line effectively</li>\n</ul>\n<strong>4. Summation</strong>:\n\nKL’s Blogging to Brand was <strong>Informative</strong> –<strong> Enlightening</strong>- <strong>Time consuming. </strong>\n\nThe class forced me to accept what I knew, but didn’t want to admit—\n\n<em>to be a successful, productive writer I must learn to juggle many balls. </em>\n\nWriting. Blogging. Tweeting. FBing. Marketing. Eating. Drinking. Sleeping.\n\nBut then, as Ursula, the evil octopus from Little Mermaid says: “<em>Life\'s full of tough choices, innit</em>?”  \n\nHard choices. Sometimes not fun choices. Especially on wonderful spring days when the porch swing is calling and not the computer. \n\n<strong>YOUR TURN: </strong>You done any AARs lately? Or want to share what you learned from Kristen\'s Blogging to Brand class?\n\n <strong></strong>','AAR on KL’s BtoB class','','publish','open','open','','aar-on-kls-btob-class-2','','','2012-03-28 11:59:52','2012-03-28 16:59:52','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=283',0,'post','',11);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (301,1,'2012-03-30 08:22:26','2012-03-30 13:22:26','We LOVE to play Scrabble at our house. Play it all the time.  <a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/90834504-50-pts-jerry1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-303\" title=\"90834504 50 pts-Jerry\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/90834504-50-pts-jerry1.jpg?w=253\" alt=\"\" width=\"253\" height=\"300\" /></a>My husband and writing partner is the current fifty point word champion.  That\'s him with the scorepad and board to prove it!\n\nWe’ve played on-line at the official Scrabble <a href=\"http://hasb.ro/ZmmQv\" target=\"_blank\">website</a>. If I had an iPhone, I could download a Scrabble <a href=\"http://bit.ly/78a35X\" target=\"_blank\">APP</a> and play on my phone.  \n\nTo score fifty points, you have to have the right tiles, the perfect fit to play on the board and the RIGHT word.\n\nHooks in chaper breaks are the fifty point tool of the writer. \n\nBack in the dark ages (1914 to be exact), a silent movie series titled<em><a href=\"http://www.filmsite.org/peri.html\" target=\"_blank\"> The Perils of Pauline</a></em> starred Betty Hutton as Pauline, the damsel in distress menaced by assorted villains, pirates and Native Americans. In each episode the audience was convinced poor, pitiful Pauline’s situation  would surelyresult in her imminent death until at the last minute she was rescued or otherwise escaped the danger. The damsel in distress and cliff hanger endings kept movie goers returning.  <img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-305\" title=\"perils of pauline\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/perils-of-pauline.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"88\" />\n\nAccording to Wikipedia, in 2008, <em>The Perils of Pauline</em> was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.\"\n\nSuccessful writers need compelling characters like Pauline and strong chapter breaks to keep their readers satisfied. How do we write our fifty point chapter endings to score hits like the screenwriters did with <em>The Perils of Pauline</em>?\n\nI ran across two great blogs with answers to the question. Both bloggers agreed the key  to powerful chapter breaks is raising the reader’s curiosity.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.kmweiland.com/\" target=\"_blank\"> K.M. Weiland</a> suggests these ten ways to raise questions in the readers\' minds.  \n\n1. Promise of conflict to come.\n\n2. A secret kept.\n\n3. A major decision or vow.\n\n4. An announcement of a shocking event.\n\n5. A moment of high emotion.\n\n6. A reversal or surprise that turns the story upside down.\n\n7. A new idea.\n\n8. An unanswered question.\n\n9. A portentous metaphor.\n\n10. A plot turning point.\n\nWeiland warns “not every chapter needs to end with a cliffhanger, but they do need to encompass a question powerful enough to make the reader crazy to know the answer.” If you read her blog <a href=\"http://bit.ly/xHICcz\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>, she elaborates on how to use all ten ideas she suggested. \n\nIn the other blog, NY Times bestselling author <a href=\"http://www.lauragriffin.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Laura Griffin</a> identifies characteristics of poor chapter hooks --\n\n<strong>The sleepy time chapter end <strong> </strong></strong>- letting your heroine end her action-packed scene by going to bed\n\n<strong><strong>Disaster averted  </strong></strong>- ending the chapter when the crisis is resolved\n\n<strong><strong>The threepeat </strong></strong>- Using Pauline-in-peril gimmicks repeatedly. Unlike the silent movie success, overused in writing can turn your reader off\n\n<strong><strong>Lacking punch words </strong></strong>- not ending the last sentence of your chapter with a punch word at the end.\n\nCheck out Laura\'s blog at Romance University <a href=\"http://bit.ly/GXxRhj\" target=\"_blank\">here</a><strong> </strong>for fixes to the problems she points out.\n\n Whether you’re a Scrabble player or not, as a writer you play with words. You have to \"scrabble\" ways that keep the reader hooked into turning the pages. \n\n<strong>YOUR TURN: </strong>What\'s your 50-point strategy for chapter endings?','Fifty point CHAPTER BREAKS','','publish','open','open','','fifty-point-chapter-breaks','','','2012-03-30 08:22:26','2012-03-30 13:22:26','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=301',0,'post','',4);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (337,1,'2012-04-05 09:39:05','2012-04-05 14:39:05','<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Today I’m on the porch thinking on the idea of brand. <a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/brand1.jpg\"><img class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-345 aligncenter\" title=\"Brand\" alt=\"\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/brand1.jpg?w=150\" width=\"150\" height=\"93\" /></a></p>\nProbably too long-winded, but then it’s a lovely spring day to sit and chat.\n\nBeing a Texan naturally the first image of a brand that pops into my head is a branding iron symbol on the side of a cow.\n<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/cattle-brand.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-330\" title=\"cattle brand\" alt=\"\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/cattle-brand.jpg?w=150\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" /></a>\nCREDIT for photo on right: Fleischhauer, Carl, photographer. \"Branding Iron [35mm slide].\" Date Recorded 79/10. Buckaroos in Paradise: Ranching Culture in Northern Nevada, 1945-1982, Library of Congress.\n\n<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/cowboys-branding.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-333\" title=\"cowboys branding\" alt=\"\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/cowboys-branding.jpg?w=150\" width=\"150\" height=\"102\" /></a>\n\nCows are products like a writer\'s novels are products. Cowboys use a different, very specific iron brand symbol for each owner.\n\n Commercial product marketing teaches additional ways to brand products.\n<ul>\n	<li>NAME: Unique and distinguishable</li>\n	<li>LOGO: The visual trademark that identifies the brand</li>\n	<li>SHAPES: Think the old Coca-Cola bottle or the Volkswagen Beetle</li>\n	<li>GRAPHICS: The dynamic ribbon is also a trademarked part of Coca-Cola\'s brand.</li>\n	<li>COLOR: Owens-Corning fiberglass insulation is the only brand that can be pink.</li>\n	<li>SOUNDS: A unique tune or set of notes can \"denote\" a brand: NBC\'s chimes are one of the most famous examples.</li>\n	<li>MOVEMENT: Lamborghini has trademarked the upward motion of its car doors.</li>\n	<li>SMELLS: I love the rose-jasmine-musk scent of Chanel No. 5.</li>\n	<li>TASTE: KFC special recipe of 11 herbs and spices for fried chicken.</li>\n	<li>TAGLINE or Catchphrase: \"The Quicker Picker Upper\" associated with Bounty; Verizon brand \"Can you hear me now\"</li>\n</ul>\nWriters and books are different animals than commercial products. Branding irons won’t work. But will any of the other product techniques work to establish our brand with readers?\n\nBooks as products lack common distinguishable trademarks unless you count <strong>genre</strong>. I’m not sure the average reader has any idea what we’re talking about when we say genre. They know the books they like or the author they like.\n\nPlus in this crazy new publishing climate, genre lines have become as crooked as a roller coaster track and about as scary.\n\nTake, <a href=\"http://bit.ly/GUHexU\" target=\"_blank\">James Scott Bell</a>— #1 bestselling author of the writing book <a href=\"http://amzn.to/HgKVmH\" target=\"_blank\">Plot &amp; Structure</a>, and thrillers like Deceived, Try Dying, Watch Your Back, One More Lie and many more—has a new series written as K. Bennett. A zombie legal thriller series, which begins with <a href=\"http://amzn.to/HiGFUS\" target=\"_blank\">Pay Me in Flesh</a>. Seriously. Paranormal elements combined with a legal thriller. How’s that for blending genres?\n\nStranger combinations are everywhere. So linking books by genres is not that clear cut anymore.\n\nAccording to I’m Laura Stack,<a href=\"http://sparkandhustle.com/takeaway-tips/brand-you-the-basics-of-personal-branding/\" target=\"_blank\"> The Productivity Pro®</a>  “You have to become your own number one product. You must be uniquely you.”\n\nWhile titles and covers can and do link series. Mostly a novel is a stand-alone work and readers connect by the author’s name.\n\nThe other commerical product methods aren\'t so easily implemented by writers. Smells, tastes, movement, graphics and/or shapes of product marketing to attract readers to a novel seems a bit daunting. There are some very clever writers out there so I’m not giving up on someone coming up with an idea.\n\nYet.\n\nAs an author, I\'ve used the spelling of my name as a brand.  Every teacher, every college professor, every stranger who reads my nametag stumbles over the pronunciation. But they don\'t forget the name or me.\n\nFor the full story on how I received the name, check my author website: <a href=\"http://www.judythemorgan.com\" target=\"_blank\">Judythe Morgan</a>. \n\nNext I’ve used the color green color for my website and Twitter. With a bit of luck, green brings happy thoughts and Irish to mind.\n\nMy blog and my FB pages tie together with the front porch. Lots of greenery in those banners too.\n\nGreen=happy thoughts. Porch=down home storytelling.\n\nThat’s how I write, that’s what I write—stories about ordinary events in ordinary people’s lives that end happily. Emotional stories about journeys of the heart.\n\nNot straight romance, not straight women’s fiction, not simple love stories. A combination of those genres. See Bell’s not the only one who can blend genres.\n\nMy taglines also help readers remember me. “Voices and Views from the Front Porch” tag on my blog allows for a variety of blog topics and lets the reader  “know” me and my varied interests.\n\nMy website tagline of “Weaving Love Stories to Touch Your Heart” identifies the type of fiction I write.\n\nWill these strategies work? I wish I knew.\n\nIn Kristen Lamb’s course, we learned that getting our names out there with samples of our writing builds our platform. But I have to admit advertising aka branding/author platform still baffles me.\n\nWhen I had my antiques shop, I had a GREAT location-busy intersection in an active shopping center. My marketing plan was strong. I offered free cookies, lemonade and coffee to customers. A shop full of great merchandise, free cookies and coffee.The people came. Still...\n\n<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/pj1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-343\" title=\"pj1\" alt=\"antiques,\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/pj1.jpg?w=150\" width=\"150\" height=\"111\" /></a>Most of my customers admitted they came because someone told them about the shop.\n\nSo I conclude, a business marketing plan and a writer platform/branding plan are pretty much the same.\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>Word of mouth</strong>\n<strong>Reputation</strong>\n<strong>Name recognition</strong></p>\nBook Industry Study Group’s ongoing Consumer Attitudes Toward E-Book Reading survey in February confirmed my conclusion.  “e-book buyers cite word-of-mouth as No. 2—just like their print book kin.\" <a href=\"http://publishingperspectives.com/2012/03/e-books-how-do-we-love-thee-let-bisg-counts-the-ways/\" target=\"_blank\">Read here. </a>\n\nPeople read a good book; they share the book with others. So a writer\'s primary challenge is first to write the very best story they can and second to make readers recognize their name.\n\nBranding is about communicating. Engaging readers.\n\nI\'ve shared what I do. Remember I am not a marketing major. My expertise is chatting on the porch, sharing my views. Don Block, founder of WeGrowMedia.com, is a qualified expert and he offers some other specific ways to maximize your branding <a href=\"http://www.thecreativepenn.com/2012/03/20/branding-author-platform/\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>.\n\n<strong>YOUR TURN:</strong> Are you branding yourself? How?','Writer Branding Iron Symbols - What\'s Yours?','','publish','open','open','','writer-branding-iron-symbols-whats-yours','','','2012-04-05 09:39:05','2012-04-05 14:39:05','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=337',0,'post','',5);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (354,1,'2012-04-10 08:35:34','2012-04-10 13:35:34','Join me as guest blogger <a href=\"http://bit.ly/HrCEb1\" target=\"_blank\">Shay Fabbro</a> discusses TEMPTATION and  her YA/fantasy novel series, <em>The Adventures of Alexis Davenport</em>. And, if you share a comment there\'s a chance you\'ll win a <strong>FREE</strong> copy of one of her Alexis Davenport\'s books!\n\nWe’ve all been faced with temptation: that delicious second piece of chocolate cake, that cute guy at the office that is married, purchasing something far too expensive, alcohol, drugs...the list goes on and on.\n\nSome temptations are perfectly harmless, though they may drain your bank account!<strong> <a href=\"http://starrkissed.hubpages.com/hub/SHOES-Galore\"><img class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-358 alignleft\" title=\"shoes\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/shoes2.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a></strong>\n\nOther temptations can do serious harm to you as well as to your family. People who are addicted to drugs and alcohol suffer serious physical and mental problems and this often is transferred to their friends and loved ones.\n\nAnd still other temptations can do serious harm to everyone on the planet. I’m talking about time travel, of course (you knew it had to come up sooner or later!). I think most people would JUMP at the chance to go back in time. I know I would! There are so many people I’d love to meet and historical events I would like to witness for myself.\n\nBut time travel could cause some serious problems. What if you inadvertently killed someone? Their descendants would cease to exist. Can you imagine your spouse disappearing? Your children?\n\nYikes! Talk about terrifying!\n\nWhat if that someone that you killed was the ancestor of someone in power? Like the president? Imagine the chaos that would grip the country if our leader suddenly disappeared.\n\nBut what if you lost someone, a parent early in life? Surely it couldn’t hurt anything to go back and prevent their demise? This brings me to one of my favorite Dr. Who episodes.\n\nFor those who don’t know, the Doctor is a Time Lord that travels through time in a TARDIS (it looks like a police box from 1960’s London).\n\n<strong><a href=\"http://that-figures.blogspot.com/2012/02/feature-league-of-extraordinary.html\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-359\" title=\"TARDIS\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/tardis.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a></strong>\n\nThe Doctor always has a companion with him, a human, which he chooses to go on grand adventures through the universe. Ah, what I wouldn’t GIVE to have the Doctor come whirling down in his TARDIS to whisk me away!\n\nMy favorite companion is Rose Tyler. She’s such a little spitfire, smart, funny, and a perfect match for the Doctor.\n\nRose’s father, Pete, was killed in a hit-and-run accident when she was only 6 months old. After traveling with the Doctor for a time, she wants to go back and comfort him as he dies. However, she can’t fight the temptation to save his life. That one act results in a tearing of the fabric of time. Strange creatures appear and begin killing everyone is sight as they try to repair the damage. The rift in time repairs itself after Pete throws himself in front of a car. Rose comforts him as he dies.\n\n<strong><a href=\"http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Peter_Tyler\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-360\" title=\"Pete and Rose\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/pete-and-rose.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"86\" /></a></strong>Would any of us have been able to stand by and watch as a loved one was struck down? Rose knew of the dangers of messing with time and yet she figured because her father was just some average person, it wouldn’t hurt to save his life. But that one act has devastating consequences.\n\nIn my YA/fantasy novel series, <em>The Adventures of Alexis Davenport</em>, Alex must protect the time line from an evil man intent on changing the past. It’s an awful lot for a fifteen-year-old to handle. Especially when she is faced with some tough choices: in one particular case, in order to protect time, she must allow someone to die. Not a very easy choice.\n\nWould you be able to allow someone to die if it was already something solidified in the past? Would it make a difference if it was a stranger or someone you knew?\n\nWeigh in with your thoughts and you could win one of two FREE e-books: <a href=\"http://amzn.to/Hs3lkz\" target=\"_blank\">Dangerous Reflections</a> or <a href=\"http://amzn.to/HvzzIO\" target=\"_blank\">Twisted Reflections</a>!\n\n<strong><a href=\"http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Peter_Tyler\"><img class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-361 alignright\" title=\"TR Front Cropped\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/tr-front-cropped.jpg?w=107\" alt=\"\" width=\"107\" height=\"150\" /></a></strong>\n\n<strong><a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/adebookcover.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-362\" title=\"ADeBookCover\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/adebookcover.jpg?w=107\" alt=\"\" width=\"107\" height=\"150\" /></a></strong>\n\n<strong></strong> \n\n<strong></strong> \n\n<strong> </strong>\n\nConnect with Shay and learn more about her!\n\n<a href=\"http://shayfabbro.com/\">Website</a>\n\n<a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/authorsfabbro\">Facebook</a>\n\n<a href=\"http://twitter.com/#!/DrShayFabbro\">Twitter</a>\n\nShay\'s a busy lady today. Hop over to Patricia Caviglia\'a <a href=\"http://bit.ly/Ist504\" target=\"_blank\">blog</a><strong>  </strong>and learn more about  <em>The Adventures of Alexis Davenport </em>and Shay as a teenager.','TEMPTATION: a guest blog by author Shay Fabbro','','publish','open','open','','temptation-a-guest-blog-by-author-shay-fabbro','','','2012-04-10 08:35:34','2012-04-10 13:35:34','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=354',0,'post','',9);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (375,1,'2012-04-12 07:52:40','2012-04-12 12:52:40','April is NATIONAL POETRY MONTH. I didn\'t know. Did you?\n\nSeems back in 1996 the Academy of American Poet established the tradition to highlight American poets and encourage people about the pleasure of reading poetry. It\'s all explained on their <a href=\"http://bit.ly/IbqFDL\" target=\"_blank\">website</a>.  \n\nThough I’m not a poetry writer, I ♥ to read poetry. I’ve memorized many poems by my favorite American poets. I read poems to anyone, willing or not.\n\nTo further the observance of poetry month, I’ll be sharing some poems by friends and family. I’ll start with one written by my second oldest grandson.\n\n<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/morgan1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-395\" title=\"Morgan \" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/morgan1.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"143\" /></a>\n\n<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/morgan2.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-396\" title=\"O\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/morgan2.jpg?w=106\" alt=\"\" width=\"106\" height=\"150\" /></a>\n\nI may not write poetry, but I am a storyteller so first a little story about how this poem originated.\n\nWe were sitting at the kitchen table discussing how he should be doing homework. He’s home schooled, and I promised his parents I’d work with him while he was visiting.\n\nUnfortunately, like father, like son. I remember fighting many a homework battle with his daddy who also hated doing homework. The thought of poetry homework made the task even less appealing, especially when the swimming pool was calling.\n\nHe starred outside at the squirrel climbing the pole to the bird feeder. He ate a Pop Tart. He slipped away to play a game of chess with his Pepa.\n\nI marched him back to table and the task at hand. No, I’m not your push-over Nana. Although resisting those big, beautiful brown eyes isn’t always easy!\n\nThen I caught him at the window. Again. This time he was watching a chameleon on the Maple tree.  \n\n<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/lizard2.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-380\" title=\"Lizard\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/lizard2.jpg?w=102\" alt=\"\" width=\"102\" height=\"150\" /></a>\n\nI thought he was wasting time and prepared to pull out my mean teacher’s whip! Before I could speak, he pointed to the laptop on the table. “I wrote the poem already.”\n\n And, this is what I read on the screen:\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>Lizard Poetry</em></p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>Lazy lizards leap from leaf to leaf</em></p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>As green as a Sprite can</em></p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>Lizards like to hide under the weather</em></p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>Running, hiding, and sneaking around</em></p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>Crazily, hastily, and hurriedly leaving their tails behind them</em></p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>The miniature lizards are tiny compared to the big, blue sky</em></p>\n<strong>Amazing </strong>I think, don\'t you agree?\n\nHow quickly I\'d forgotten little boys multi-task when you think they\'re playing.\n\n<strong>YOUR TURN:</strong> Share one of your favorite poems!','NATIONAL POETRY MONTH, who knew?','','publish','open','open','','national-poetry-month-who-knew','','','2012-04-12 07:52:40','2012-04-12 12:52:40','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=375',0,'post','',14);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (402,1,'2012-04-13 08:02:34','2012-04-13 13:02:34','<a href=\"http://www.alice-in-wonderland.net/pictures/white-rabbit-pictures.html\"><img class=\"alignright  wp-image-413\" title=\"White rabbit\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/white-rabbit.jpg?w=97\" alt=\"\" width=\"96\" height=\"148\" /></a>\"I\'m late, I\'m very late \" to  paraphrase the White Rabbit in Alice in Wonderland.\n\nAt the end of March, WANA alumni and super blogger <a href=\"http://elainesmothers.wordpress.com/author/elainesmothers/\" target=\"_blank\">Elaine Smothers</a> honored me with the awesome Liebster Love Award.<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/wpblogawardsliebster.jpg\"><img class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-404 alignleft\" title=\"wpblogawardsliebster\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/wpblogawardsliebster.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"51\" /></a>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Then life erupted. Holiday company arrived.  </p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">I forgot!</p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/head-in-hands1.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-417\" title=\"head in hands\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/head-in-hands1.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"119\" /></a>My lovely award sat in my inbox. Lonely and waiting to be shared with others.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">No more. Today I\'m spreading Liebster Love.  </p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">In case you\'re unfamiliar with the legend of the Liebster blog award, let me share the definition from another WANA alumni <a href=\"http://mikeschulenberg.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Schulenberg</a>:</p>\n<em>“According to legends that come to us from antiquity, the Liebster is meant for blogs that motivate, inspire, and have 200 followers or less. Its apparent purpose is to summon new followers like some sort of mystical talisman, increasing the power of those of us who are just beginning.”</em>\n\n<em></em>To Elaine, I send a very, belated thank you for this honor.\n\nAnd I hereby pass the award to the deserving bloggers listed below. So many worthy bloggers it was hard to limit myself to only five.\n\nKat Jorgensen for her blog, <a href=\"http://katjorgensen.wordpress.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Mystery writer by day. Knitter by night. Lovable screw-up all of the time</a>\n\nJanice Heck for her blog, <a href=\"http://janiceheck.wordpress.com/\" target=\"_blank\">My Turn</a>\n\nS. M. Nonnemacher for her blog, <a href=\"http://smnonnemacher.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Sun on My Face, Sand in My Hair</a>\n\nS.J. Driscoll for her blog, <a href=\"http://wp.me/prjeC-A2\" target=\"_blank\">Come Sit by My Fire</a>\n\nRhonda Hopkins for her blog, <a href=\"http://rhondahopkins.com/blog/\" target=\"_blank\">When Love Leads the Way</a>\n\nI encourage everyone to stop by and visit these blogs. You\'ll love them all just as I do.\n\nAnd bloggger nominees...\n\nAll you must do to accept the award and post the logo on your blog is follow these  few rules.\n\n1. Thank the person who nominated you on your blog and link back to them\n\n2. Nominate up to 5 other bloggers for the award\n\n3. Notify them by commenting on your blog\n\n4. Post the award on your blog\n\nMay the power of the Liebster be with you.<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/wpblogawardsliebster2.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-421\" title=\"wpblogawardsliebster\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/wpblogawardsliebster2.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"51\" /></a>','Sharing Liebster Blog Love','','publish','open','open','','sharing-liebster-blog-love','','','2012-04-13 08:02:34','2012-04-13 13:02:34','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=402',0,'post','',6);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (430,1,'2012-04-16 07:30:52','2012-04-16 12:30:52','Drum roll sounding...\n\nA hushed silence fills the porch in anticipation...\n\nAnd the winners are ...\n\n<a href=\"http://catherinemjohnson.wordpress.com/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Catherine Johnson</strong></a> and <a href=\"http://gingercalem.wordpress.com/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Ginger Calem</strong></a>\n\nThanks so much, ladies, for stopping by to visit with Ms Fabbro.  She will be contacting you directly.\n\nEnjoy your new books.\n\nCome by the porch again soon.','Announcing the Winners of Shay Fabbro\'s book','','publish','open','open','','announcing-the-winners-of-shay-fabbros-book','','','2012-04-16 07:30:52','2012-04-16 12:30:52','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=430',0,'post','',1);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (439,1,'2012-04-27 09:37:29','2012-04-27 14:37:29','As writers we need to have emotion and drama to our pages to engage our readers.\n\nOr as <a href=\"http://www.maassagency.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Maass</a> stresses in his <a href=\"http://amzn.to/n9QUjl\" target=\"_blank\">Writing the Breakout Novel</a> and <a href=\"http://www.free-expressions.com/breakout-novel/\" target=\"_blank\">BONI Intensive Seminars</a>...\n<strong>Tension on every page</strong>.\n\nCheck out this video for inspiration on ways to add drama and a little Friday Free Day fun:\n\n[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=316AzLYfAzw]','Adding DRAMA to your novel','','publish','open','open','','adding-drama-to-your-novel','','','2012-04-27 09:37:29','2012-04-27 14:37:29','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=439',0,'post','',2);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (451,1,'2012-04-25 07:29:07','2012-04-25 12:29:07','On April 26th, schools, bookstores, libraries, parks, workplaces, and other venues will ring loud with open readings of poems from pockets on PIYP day or <strong>Poem in Your Pocket</strong>  <strong>Day</strong>. The idea is simple:\n\n• Select a poem you love during National Poetry Month\n• Print or write it out\n• Carry it with you and share with co-workers, family, and friends\n• Or tweet about your selection on Twitter with the hashtag #pocketpoem.\n\nIf you can’t think of a poem to carry, you can click <a href=\"http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/409\" target=\"_blank\">here</a> to download one or simply enjoy the funny, the serious, and the unusual choices when you click on one of the pockets pictured on the page.\n\nAt estate sales I often find books of poetry or handwritten poems in pockets, in desk drawers, framed and displayed, and any number of other places. My favorite discovery happened closer to home when my mother-in-love passed away. We found this poem glued in her Bible and another copy of the same poem in her husband’s.\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>Should You Go First</strong>\nBy Albert Kennedy \"Rosey\" Rowswell</p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>Should you go first and I remain,</em>\n<em>To walk the road alone,</em>\n<em>I\'ll live in memory\'s garden, dear,</em>\n<em>With happy days we\'ve known.</em>\n<em>In Spring I\'ll wait for roses red,</em>\n<em>When fades the lilac blue,</em>\n<em>In early Fall when brown leaves call</em>\n<em>I\'ll catch a glimpse of you.</em></p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>Should you go first and I remain,</em>\n<em>For battles to be fought,</em>\n<em>Each thing you\'ve touched along the way</em>\n<em>Will be a hallowed spot.</em>\n<em>I\'ll hear your voice, I\'ll see your smile,</em>\n<em>Though blindly I may grope,</em>\n<em>The memory of your helping hand</em>\n<em>Will buoy me on with hope.</em></p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>Should you go first and I remain,</em>\n<em>To finish with the scroll,</em>\n<em>No length \'ning shadows shall creep in</em>\n<em>To make this life seem droll.</em>\n<em>We\'ve known so much of happiness,</em>\n<em>We\'ve had our cup of joy,</em>\n<em>And memory is one gift of God</em>\n<em>That death cannot destroy.</em></p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>Should you go first and I remain,</em>\n<em>One thing I\'d have you do:</em>\n<em>Walk slowly down that long, lone path,</em>\n<em>For soon I\'ll follow you.</em>\n<em>I\'ll want to know each step you take</em>\n<em>That I may walk the same,</em>\n<em>For some day down that lonely road</em>\n<em>You\'ll hear me call your name.</em></p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\"><a href=\"http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Rosey_Rowswell\" target=\"_blank\">Rosey Rowswell</a> wasn’t a Longfellow or Edgar Allen Poe. In fact, his real job was a broadcaster for the Pittsburgh Pirates for 19 seasons (1936-54), but he did write <a href=\"http://amzn.to/IPUYjR\" target=\"_blank\">books</a> of humor and poetry. And, I love this touching poem.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\"> More, I love the romantic sentiment of finding a copy in both Bibles. My husband’s parents were married for fifty-nine years before Otho passed away. I’ll guarantee you when Rose went to glory five years later she called Otho’s name and met him on that path.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\"><strong>Will you join us and share your favorite poem in a comment? We\'ll pretend to hear your voice.</strong></p>','PIYP Day is April 26th...Are you ready?','','publish','open','open','','piyp-day-is-april-26th-are-you-ready','','','2012-04-25 07:29:07','2012-04-25 12:29:07','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=451',0,'post','',14);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (465,1,'2012-04-26 14:45:26','2012-04-26 19:45:26','Poetry plays a huge part of the romantic journey my husband and I travel, especially the poetry of Elizabeth and Robert Browning. You\'ll find the words from the Browning\'s poems not only in our pockets but other places too.\n\n<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/step-stone.jpg\"><img class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-472 alignleft\" title=\"Grow Old with step stone\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/step-stone.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" /></a>\n\nAround our garden, on stepping stones.\n\nIn framed silhouettes of us done at Montmartre Art Colony in Paris with the words of <em>Rabbi Ben Ezra</em> by <a href=\"http://bit.ly/aEGLrf\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Browning</a> between our figures. <a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/silhouette-poem2.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-473\" title=\"Silhouette\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/silhouette-poem2.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"96\" /></a>\n\nOn a  special cross-stitched picture which hangs above his dresser. <a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/crossstitch1.jpg\"><img class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-477 alignleft\" title=\"O\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/crossstitch1.jpg?w=118\" alt=\"\" width=\"118\" height=\"150\" /></a>\n\nIn case you can\'t read the small print, the first line of Rabbi Ben Ezra says, \"Grow old along with me, The Best is Yet to Be.\"\n\nMy pocket poem today is a love poem <a href=\"http://bit.ly/4ygP8g\" target=\"_blank\">Elizabeth Barrett Browning</a> wrote to Robert in 1845 that carries extra special meaning for my husband and me.\n\nListen as I read  Sonnet XLIII from <em><a title=\"Sonnets From the Portuguese\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonnets_From_the_Portuguese\">Sonnets From the Portuguese</a></em> to Jerry and you from my porch swing.\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial, Helvetica, Monaco;\">How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.</span>\n<span style=\"font-family:Arial, Helvetica, Monaco;\">I love thee to the depth and breadth and height</span>\n<span style=\"font-family:Arial, Helvetica, Monaco;\">My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight</span>\n<span style=\"font-family:Arial, Helvetica, Monaco;\">For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.</span>\n<span style=\"font-family:Arial, Helvetica, Monaco;\">I love thee to the level of everyday\'s</span>\n<span style=\"font-family:Arial, Helvetica, Monaco;\">Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.</span>\n<span style=\"font-family:Arial, Helvetica, Monaco;\">I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;</span>\n<span style=\"font-family:Arial, Helvetica, Monaco;\">I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.</span>\n<span style=\"font-family:Arial, Helvetica, Monaco;\">I love thee with a passion put to use</span>\n<span style=\"font-family:Arial, Helvetica, Monaco;\">In my old griefs, and with my childhood\'s faith.</span>\n<span style=\"font-family:Arial, Helvetica, Monaco;\">I love thee with a love I seemed to lose</span>\n<span style=\"font-family:Arial, Helvetica, Monaco;\">With my lost saints, --- I love thee with the breath,</span>\n<span style=\"font-family:Arial, Helvetica, Monaco;\">Smiles, tears, of all my life! --- and, if God choose,</span>\n<span style=\"font-family:Arial, Helvetica, Monaco;\">I shall but love thee better after death.</span> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Now go find a love poem to put in your pocket and read it to someone special yourself...</p>','Poem in MY Pocket Today...','','publish','open','open','','poem-in-my-pocket-today','','','2012-04-26 14:45:26','2012-04-26 19:45:26','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=465',0,'post','',8);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (483,1,'2012-05-06 14:18:59','2012-05-06 19:18:59','May is always a busy month around my porch. <a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/girl-spring2.png\"><img class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-524\" title=\"girl spring\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/girl-spring2.png?w=66\" alt=\"\" width=\"66\" height=\"150\" /></a>\n\nTemperatures are rising. Summer is fast approaching. The school year is winding down. There are track meets, field days, talent shows and award ceremonies aplenty.\n\nThis first weekend of the month was  filled  with <strong>FANTABULOUS</strong> happenings.  I\'m sharing two events I attended with fair warning that they\'ll be other postings. May has only begun.\n\n#3 grandson John and his friend Lainey performed in his school\'s talent show. Sponsored by the Junior High Choir, the show was cleverly staged as The Faith Factor with teachers and parents playing judges Simon Cowell, L.A. Reid, Paula Abdul, and Nicole Scherzinger. Very well done. I especially enjoyed the audience  on stage dancing between the category performances and awards.\n\nJohn and Lainey\'s performance was a flawless duet of <em>Ode to Joy</em> and <em>Eagles Summit March</em>. Check out their performance.\n\n[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSdXeWYAKuU&amp;w=560&amp;h=315]\n\nJudges\' call: <strong>FIRST PLACE</strong>. Even if I wasn\'t the Nana, I\'d have to agree!\n\nAnd the best part, he won on my daughter\'s birthday who also happens to be his mother. That\'s her voice shouting \"awesome\" that you hear! A pretty awesome birthday gift wouldn\'t you say?\n\n<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/riley-softball1.jpg\"><img class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-492 alignleft\" title=\"Riley softball\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/riley-softball1.jpg?w=148\" alt=\"\" width=\"148\" height=\"150\" /></a>\n\nEarlier in the week another granddaughter won 1st Place in the softball throw for her school district. Great throw, Riley. I think we have a future women\'s track star emerging.\n\nIt\'s certainly been celebration time on the front porch this weekend. Does your May burst with celebrations too?','CELEBRATION WEEKEND','','publish','open','open','','celebration-weekend','','','2012-05-06 14:18:59','2012-05-06 19:18:59','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=483',0,'post','',6);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (495,1,'2012-05-26 08:33:25','2012-05-26 13:33:25','This Memorial Day weekend along with the hot dogs, hamburgers and swimming, I want to honor and remember those who have gone before with this video of TAPS being played by a ninety-two year old vet. A heartfelt thank you to those who have lost loved ones serving our country. I\'m sincerely grateful to all of you.\n\n\"<em>There is something singularly beautiful and appropriate in the music of this wonderful call. Its strains are melancholy, yet full of rest and peace. Its echoes linger in the heart long after its tones have ceased to vibrate in the air.</em>\"  Quote from an article by Master Sergeant Jari A Villanueva, USAF\n[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XExJibP0TM]<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Words to <strong>Taps</strong></p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\nDay is done,\ngone the sun,\nFrom the hills,\nfrom the lake,\nFrom the skies.\nAll is well,\nsafely rest,\nGod is nigh.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\nGo to sleep,\npeaceful sleep,\nMay the soldier\nor sailor,\nGod keep.\nOn the land\nor the deep,\nSafe in sleep.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Love, good night,\nMust thou go,\nWhen the day,\nAnd the night\nNeed thee so?\nAll is well.\nSpeedeth all\nTo their rest.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Fades the light;\nAnd afar\nGoeth day,\nAnd the stars\nShineth bright,\nFare thee well;\nDay has gone,\nNight is on.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Thanks and praise,\nFor our days,\n\'Neath the sun,\nNeath the stars,\n\'Neath the sky,\nAs we go,\nThis we know,\nGod is nigh.</p>\n\nNote: there are no \"official\" words to Taps. These are the most popular. More about the history of Taps can be found at the official Military Funeral Honors <a href=\"http://www.militaryfuneralhonors.osd.mil/intro.html\" target=\"_blank\">History of Taps </a>page and  <a href=\"http://www.west-point.org/taps/Taps.html\" target=\"_blank\">24 Notes That Tap Deep Emotions</a> \n\nOur Memorial Day celebrations would not be complete without a big thank you and honor to all of those who serve every day and their families.\n<img src=\"http://www.magickalgraphics.com/Graphics/MemorialDay/mem1.jpg\" alt=\"Memorial Day Comments\" border=\"0\">\n</a><br> SOURCE for graphic: <a href=\"http://www.magickalgraphics.com/memorial-day-comments1.htm\"></a>  <a href=\"http://www.magickalgraphics.com\">Magickal Graphics</a><br>','We Remember: Memorial Day 2012','','publish','open','open','','we-remember-memorial-day-2012','','','2012-05-26 08:33:25','2012-05-26 13:33:25','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=495',0,'post','',1);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (500,1,'2012-05-08 10:32:53','2012-05-08 15:32:53','While many of us consider this month to signal the beginning of summer, we also need to think about all the military centered observances in May.\n\nToday is one of four dates set aside for honoring military in the U.S. <a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/v-e-day-stars-and-stripes.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-504\" title=\"V-E Day Stars and STripes\'\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/v-e-day-stars-and-stripes.jpg?w=102\" alt=\"\" width=\"102\" height=\"150\" /></a>\n\nOn Tuesday 8 May 1945 the World War II Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of Adolf Hitler\'s Third Reich. Today we celebrate that victory. \n\nThere’s a fascinating story of the firing of Edward Kennedy the AP correspondent who broke the story-- perhaps the greatest scoop in history-- and was then furiously denounced and expelled from liberated France. He won a posthumous apology from an ungrateful employer after 50 years last Friday. Click <a href=\"http://bit.ly/KwDJRy\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>  to read.\n\n<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/2012armedforcesdaythumb1.jpg\"><img class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-506 alignleft\" title=\"070320-F-7234P-051\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/2012armedforcesdaythumb1.jpg?w=100\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" /></a>\n\nThen on May 19th we celebrate <a href=\"http://www.defense.gov/afd/\" target=\"_blank\">Armed Forces Day</a>.\n\nMay 22th is <a href=\"http://bit.ly/IYGjDs\" target=\"_blank\">National Maritime Day</a>. A day set aside to observe the U.S.\'s proud maritime heritage and honor the men and women who serve and have served as merchant mariners.\n\nLastly, May 28th is Memorial Day. Originally called Decoration Day, it’s a day of remembrance for those who have died in our nation\'s service. Many wear red poppies on Memorial Day which symbolize the red poppies that grew on a battlefield in Belgium during World War I and immortalized by Canadian Lt. Colonel John McCrae’s poem, <em><a href=\"http://bit.ly/15S7x\" target=\"_blank\">In Flanders Fields</a>. <a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/memorial-day-poppies.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-508\" title=\"Memorial-Day-Poppies\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/memorial-day-poppies.jpg?w=127\" alt=\"\" width=\"127\" height=\"150\" /></a></em>\n\nMoina Michaels, an American professor, was inspired to write her own <a href=\"http://bit.ly/a5QWTC\" target=\"_blank\">poem</a> in 1918, which included the lines:\n\n<em>We cherish too, the Poppy red</em>\n<em>That grows on fields where valor led.</em>\n<em>It seems to signal to the skies</em>\n<em>That blood of heroes never dies.</em>\n\nMichaels was the first to wear a poppy, and sold poppies to her friends and co-workers with the money benefiting servicemen in need. Four years later, the VFW became the first veterans’ organization to nationally sell poppies. \n\nYou’ll find a reference to the poem in my soon-to-be released book <em>The Pendant’s Promise</em>. And, a Memorial Day picnic plays a prominent role in the love story of Alex and Lily.\n\nMay is indeed a month with opportunities to honor our miitary. <a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/bugler.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-502\" title=\"bugler\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/bugler.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"101\" /></a>On each of these days, my family will be pausing to remember and recognize those of have and are serving. And, no doubt, we\'ll all be hearing TAPS played at one or more of these celebrations. It\'s the song generally played on a bugle or trumpet that sounds at dusk, during flag ceremonies, at funerals, particularly by the U.S. military, and often at Boy Scout and Girl Scout/Guide meetings and camps. \n\nI recently learned that  2012 is the 150th anniversary of TAPS. Read the complete story of TAPS from blogger <a href=\"http://dianekalas.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">Diane Kalas </a>\n\nBesides the end-of-school/graduation parties and beginning of summer celebrations,  will you be celebrating any of these military holidays in the merry, merry month of May?','The Merry, Merry Month of May','','publish','open','open','','the-merry-merry-month-of-may','','','2012-05-08 10:32:53','2012-05-08 15:32:53','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=500',0,'post','',5);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (532,1,'2012-05-16 07:05:40','2012-05-16 12:05:40','When I was in school, I loved writing book reports. Still do after a fashion. \n\nVoracious reader that I am, I can\'t wait to tell others about great books I read. So I\'m constantly giving oral book reports in the form of \"Have you read such and such?\" I also post lots of reviews for the books I really, really love. \n \nThis five minutes video titled “Book Report” by the Peanuts crew is all about the gang writing a book report on Peter Rabbit. Besides being cleverly done [the music is fun], it offers a comic view of a writer\'s process. Got me to thinking about how we writers approach our writing projects.\n\nMe, I\'m a Schroeder. I write, write, write. Then rewrite, revise, rewrite, revise until the best \"book report\" or, in my case, the story is there. \n\nEnjoy the Peanuts gang as they work.\n\n[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZEmxby8g8A?feature=player_embedded&amp;w=640&amp;h=360]\n\nWhich character -- Charlie Brown, Lucy, Schroeder, or Linus -- do you most idenify with and, if you\'re willing, share why with us in the comments.\n\n','Remember writing book reports?','','publish','open','open','','remember-writing-book-reports','','','2012-05-16 07:05:40','2012-05-16 12:05:40','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=532',0,'post','',7);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (546,1,'2012-05-23 08:39:52','2012-05-23 13:39:52','I thought this was too fun not to share:\n\n[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKVcQnyEIT8?feature=player_embedded&amp;w=640&amp;h=360]','What the books do when the store closes...','','publish','open','open','','what-the-books-do-when-the-store-closes','','','2012-05-23 08:39:52','2012-05-23 13:39:52','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=546',0,'post','',3);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (551,1,'2012-05-13 07:00:26','2012-05-13 12:00:26','<strong><em>Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.</em></strong> ~Oprah Winfrey\n\nToday is Mother\'s Day. I\'m swinging on the porch swing thinking I totally agree with Oprah\'s quote. I\'ve some motherly women in my life. Sad to say, most of whom are no longer with me and only one I called <em>Mother</em>.\n\nFirst, the little four foot six inch Irish immigrant Oma Julia. <em>Oma</em> because she married into a strong German family who settled in Texas. She began the lineage.\n<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/oma-mothers-day-2012-001.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-558\" title=\"Oma Mother\'s day 2012 001\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/oma-mothers-day-2012-001.jpg?w=210\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" /></a>\n\nNext there\'s her daughter Helen, the one who birthed me:\n<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/helen-and-us-2012-mothers-day-blog-002.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-552\" title=\"Helen and us 2012 Mother\'s Day blog 002\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/helen-and-us-2012-mothers-day-blog-002.jpg?w=234\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"300\" /></a>\nApologies to my brother born over a decade after this picture was made. I couldn\'t find a picture of all four of us with Mother, which made me sad. (Note to self--take more pictures.)\n\nThen there\'s Rose, the Mom-in-love I inherited when I married. What a jewel she was!\n<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/rose-hixson-mothers-day-2012-002.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-562\" title=\"Rose Hixson Mother\'s Day 2012 002\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/rose-hixson-mothers-day-2012-002.jpg?w=245\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"300\" /></a>\nShe raised one fine son and for that I am eternally grateful.\n\nAnd last, but never least, my Aunt Bick, the one who always says, \"The stork just left you at the wrong house.\"\n<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/bj-me-mothers-day-2012-001.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-563\" title=\"BJ-me Mother\'s day 2012 001\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/bj-me-mothers-day-2012-001.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" /></a> We\'ve had some real adventures through the years. I love when you remember and we can relive those moments. \n\nCan\'t end a Mother\'s Day blog without special thanks to these three who ushered me into enter the ranks of motherhood.\n<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/3kids.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-567\" title=\"3kids\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/3kids.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" /></a>\nAnd all of theirs who crowned me grandmother.\n<em></em><a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/g-kids-christmas-2011.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-568\" title=\"g-kids christmas 2011\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/g-kids-christmas-2011.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" /></a>\n\nHappy Mothers Day to them all and all of you. Hope everyone is having a <em>fantabulous</em> day.','Mother\'s Day 2012','','publish','open','open','','mothers-day-2012','','','2012-05-13 07:00:26','2012-05-13 12:00:26','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=551',0,'post','',7);
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INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (659,1,'2012-05-21 08:08:49','2012-05-21 13:08:49','Letter posts are an interesting and intriguing way for bloggers to learn more about each other. They’re also entertaining.\n\nRecently, travel blogger and WANA alum <a href=\"http://tamiclayton.wordpress.com/\">Tami Clayton</a> shared her list of 10 things she loved that began with the letter “A.” Her post was fascinating. Her word choices and the accompanying pictures and graphics wonderful. I left a comment telling her so. She gifted with me with a letter to share about myself. Introducing…\n[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xIRY3ZuNIU&amp;w=420&amp;h=315]\n\nIt’s Monday. It’s May. I’ve already done a post about the whole month. But couldn’t resist choose <strong>MOTHER\'S DAY</strong> for my word list. Here’s a picture of the clan minus two granddaughters who gathered to celebrate.\n\n<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/all-of-us-perdue-visit2.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-671\" title=\"Hixson clan\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/all-of-us-perdue-visit2.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" /></a>\n\nI write as Judythe <strong>MORGAN. </strong>It\'s a pseudonym combining my first name and my husband\'s middle name. My latest novel, <em>THE PENDANT’S PROMISE</em>, is available. Click <a href=\"http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/my-books/\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>  to read more about Lily and Alex\'s love story or buy a copy with a click <a href=\"http://amzn.to/KCnFRl\" target=\"_blank\">Kindle</a> or <a href=\"http://amzn.to/L5pswq\" target=\"_blank\">Nook</a>\n\n<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/aspens2.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-663\" title=\"aspens2\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/aspens2.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" /></a>I love <strong>MOUNTAINS</strong>. Soon we’ll be leaving the rising heat and humidity of the Gulf coast and head for the San Juan Mountains and the Rio Grande National Forest of Colorado.\n\n<strong><a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/560-mad-men-cast1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-672\" title=\"560 Mad Men cast\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/560-mad-men-cast1.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"88\" /></a>MAD MEN</strong> As a writer I find this TV series  fascinating. I thought it too edgy at first, but now I’m so hooked. I even read the <a href=\"http://blogs.amctv.com/mad-men/\" target=\"_blank\">blog</a>  for inside info. The script writing is excellent. Don Draper makes an intriguing main character. Not a particularly likeable hero, leading a double life and yet still flourishing. The show represents well the era.\n\n<strong>MR. MAROO </strong>My high school mascot. It’s crazy, but it’s true. My high school mascot is a fuzzy little maroon ball.<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/68581461.png\"><img class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-673 alignleft\" title=\"Mr. Maroon\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/68581461.png?w=150\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>\n\nThe first published cartoon featuring the modern mascot was in the September 20, 1957 Austin Maroon Newspaper, where the Mascot (about 1.3 meters tall and hairy) is attacking the football mascot of one foe or another. Mr. Maroo doesn’t speak - you have to look him in the eye to see if he\'s your friend or your foe. And he wears the beanie because beanies at one time were the traditional headwear for a freshman. Since Maroo never goes to class, he’s still a freshman, more than 50 years later.\n\nI’m including Mr. Maroon for <strong>MARY</strong>Buckham. Her recent BREAK INTO FICTION workshop in my hometown of Austin coincided with my high school reunion. We met and I shared about the school\'s history. I think she’s still laughing over our school sport teams being Maroons.\n\nBtw, if you’re a writer and you don’t have a copy of her book <em>BREAK INTO FICTION</em> you should get one. Plotter, or not, the templates in this book will help you nail down your story. Click <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Break-Into-Fiction-Steps-Building/dp/160550015\" target=\"_blank\">here</a> to order.\n\n<strong>MAJOLICA</strong> is any earthenware with an opaque glaze of tin oxide. I collect pitchers and love the majolica glaze. The colors are vivid and the designs have intricate details. All of these pitchers are examples of 19th century Majolica.\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/majolica.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-667 aligncenter\" title=\"Majolica pitchers\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/majolica.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"283\" /></a></p>\n<strong><a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/mm-dispenser2.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-668\" title=\"M&amp;M dispenser\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/mm-dispenser2.jpg?w=101\" alt=\"\" width=\"101\" height=\"150\" /></a>M&amp;M</strong> This was the very first M word that popped into my head. I count the little chocolate candies as a major dietary component. M&amp;Ms first appeared in 1941 as a treat for the G.I. Before my time, but I’ve certainly eaten my fair share since my birth. We keep my dispenser on the kitchen counter. I count walking downstairs as exercise that entitles me to an extra handful. As you can see g-kids were here over the weekend and the dispenser is empty!\n\n<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/muse.jpg\"><img class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-675 alignleft\" title=\"muse\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/muse.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>\n\n<strong>MUSE </strong> No writer’s list of M words would be complete without including this word. Muse is a writer’s awareness of our environment beyond the level of most people. Anything and everything can be a source of story ideas, no matter how large or small. I hear a fragment of a conversation and have a story starter, the way the light falls on a rose petal gives me a description to use, how a wine tastes or the caress of a fabric provides sensory feeling that translates into a character’s emotional reaction. It’s quite true what my tee-shirt says: <em>Careful or you’ll end up in my next novel.</em>\n\nThanks, Tami for selecting the letter M for me. It worked so well. You’ve stirred my muse. I didn’t realize I used so many M words.\n\nDo you have M word favorites? Make a comment and request a letter to join the Word List blog challenge fun.','Monday Morning M Words','','publish','open','open','','monday-morning-m-words','','','2012-05-21 08:08:49','2012-05-21 13:08:49','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=659',0,'post','',11);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (713,1,'2012-05-29 07:52:38','2012-05-29 12:52:38','How cool to check the blogs I follow yesterday and discover that <a href=\"http://elainesmothers.wordpress.com/2012/05/27/serendipity-and-the-versatile-blogger-award/\" target=\"_blank\">Elaine Smothers</a> blogger extraordinaire had nominated me for the Versatile Blogger awardI’m so excited to accept the nomination. Thanks, Elaine.\n\nAs with most blog awards, acceptance comes with certain rules found on the <a href=\"http://versatilebloggeraward.wordpress.com/vba-rules/\" target=\"_blank\">VBA blog</a> along with the snappy looking logo download.\n<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/wpvba1.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-728\" title=\"wpvba\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/wpvba1.png?w=150\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>\n\nHaving been awarded the Versatile Blogger award, I must now:\n\n• <em>Thank the person who gave you this award.</em> I’ve already thanked Elaine, but I don’t think a second thanks fine. Thanks, Elaine.\n\n• <em>Include a link to their blog.</em> That’s an easy rule to follow and a pleasure to do because Elaine and Forrester share versatile and fun blog posts. Check them out for yourself <a href=\"http://elainesmothers.wordpress.com/2012/05/27/serendipity-and-the-versatile-blogger-award/\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>.\n\n• <em>Next, select 15 blogs/bloggers that you’ve recently discovered or follow regularly and nominate those 15 bloggers for the Versatile Blogger Award. </em>This rule was a bit more difficult to follow because I’m not sure who\'s already been nominated. Here’s my list and bloggers, if you’ve already been nominated congratulations!\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">1. <a href=\"http://neomanu.wordpress.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Margaret Miller </a>\n2. <a href=\"http://katjorgensen.wordpress.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Kat Jorgensen</a>\n 3. <a href=\"http://janiecarver2011.wordpress.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Jane Carver</a>\n4. <a href=\"http://masksthebook.wordpress.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Patricia Caviglia </a>\n5. <a href=\"http://barbaraforteabate.wordpress.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Barbara Forte Abate </a>\n6. <a href=\"http://aehuppert.wordpress.com/\" target=\"_blank\">A.E. Huppert</a>\n7. <a href=\"http://patriciasands.wordpress.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Patricia Sands </a>\n8. <a href=\"http://blog.donaldbueltmann.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Bueltmann</a>\n9. <a href=\"http://ciaragold.blogspot.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Ciara Gold</a>\n10. <a href=\"http://livingwiththemuse.blogspot.com/\" target=\"_blank\">J.D. Faver </a>\n11. <a href=\"http://www.melissaohnoutka.com/#!blog\" target=\"_blank\">Melissa Ohnoutka</a>\n12. <a href=\"http://emmiemears.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Emmie Mears</a>\n13. <a href=\"http://www.wildwickedwacky.blogspot.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Suzan Hardin </a>\n14. <a href=\"http://musetracks.wordpress.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Jennifer Bray-Weber</a>\n15. <a href=\"http://pathunstrom.wordpress.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Pat Thunstrom </a></p>\n• <em>Finally, tell the person who nominated you 7 things about yourself.</em> Okay, Elaine and Forrester get ready. Here are some quick things you might not know.\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">1. I play the piano. Not well. I like to say I have the skill, but not the talent.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">2. My thumb is kinda green. This was our Angel trumpet last year. The fragrance filled the air in the backyard.<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/angel-trumpet.jpg\"><img class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-716 aligncenter\" title=\"angel trumpet\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/angel-trumpet.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" /></a></p>\n3. I used to paint. Still life and tole painting were my styles of choice. Now I paint walls, but only when I can’t hire someone else.\n\n4. I drive slow when going through Missouri. Once got a speeding ticket when “trapped” by a radar tracking helicopter there. I don’t think my Texas license plate with the vanity trim holder that reads, “Get in, sit down, and hold on,” helped my plea of innocence.\n\n5. I’m a dog lover. Especially Old English sheepdogs. We even share bad hair days!<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/metobyblue1.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-723\" title=\"metobyblue\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/metobyblue1.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" /></a>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\"> 6. The dogs and I walk no matter what the weather. That\'s Toby\'s adopted brother Buster walking with us. (He\'s a ten pound Maltese.) They\'re wearing matching red coats.</p>\n<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/walking-dogs-11.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-724\" title=\"walking dogs - 1\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/walking-dogs-11.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" /></a>\n7. Much to my surprise, I enjoy blogging and tweeting. Thanks, <a href=\"http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Kristen Lamb</a> for convincing me. I\'m proud of my WANA tribe badge.\n\n<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/wpwanabadge2.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-744\" title=\"wpwanabadge2\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/wpwanabadge2.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"114\" /></a>\n\nOkay now, blog readers, did you learn anything shocking from my reveals to Elaine and Forrest?','Accepting the Versatile Blogger Award','','publish','open','open','','accepting-the-versatile-blogger-award','','','2012-05-29 07:52:38','2012-05-29 12:52:38','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=713',0,'post','',1);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (747,1,'2012-07-02 09:00:46','2012-07-02 14:00:46','One day I’m writing a blog post and it’s May. Suddenly it’s July 1<sup>st</sup>.\n\nWhere’d June go?\n\n Life was too busy to even notice, but I can tell you there was a whole lot of moving going on. <a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/uhaul-2011.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-748\" title=\"Uhaul 2011\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/uhaul-2011.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"98\" /></a> We helped our son and his family pack their home and move to Illinois. Then we packed and moved ourselves to Colorado for the summer and fall.\n\nDid you notice the new porch on the blog banner?\n\n We’re here in our cool little piece of the Rio Grande National Forest. <a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/06-25-12-temp.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-749\" title=\"O\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/06-25-12-temp.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" /></a> \n\nWe brought two grandsons with us and they stayed for awhile. We had fun hiking <a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/both-million-reservoir.jpg\"><img class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-751 alignleft\" title=\"O\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/both-million-reservoir.jpg?w=144\" alt=\"\" width=\"144\" height=\"150\" /></a> and touring the sites. <a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/boys-at-continental-divide.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-752\" title=\"O\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/boys-at-continental-divide.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" /></a>\n\nThen the boys went to their new home and wildfires erupted throughout Colorado.\n\nWe watched via local news as acres and acres of forest burned and hundreds of homes were destroyed. And wept for the people and the animals. Today those <a href=\"http://bit.ly/LQrqV7\" target=\"_blank\">families are returning to what’s left of their homes</a>.\n\nThe fires are still sad and scary, but thanks to some outstanding firefighters the big Waldo Canyon fire is under control. We’re praying the others will be controlled soon too.\n\nThough we’re safe from forest wildfires for now – the nearest is 50 miles away over the Continental Divide, we’ve had some drama here on the front porch…\n\nThree days ago a couple of summer folk here for the 4<sup>th</sup> of July stopped by the porch to ask if we had seen their two white Pekingese dogs. The dogs had gotten out of the cabin they rented. The owners couldn’t find them.\n\nWe’d only seen them walking with their owners the day before.\n\nMy heart broke for the owners and the dogs. I couldn\'t imagine losing my four legged babies. Plus, there’s lions, tigers and bears in woods, you know.\n\nWe watched for the little white fur balls, but never saw them and feared they were gone forever.\n\nThen today, as we sat on the porch, two kids stopped and asked if we were missing our dogs. Buster and Toby bounded to the fence to greet the kids so they knew we hadn’t.\n\nThey said two white dogs had come down off the mountain from the woods behind their grandmother’s place and they were keeping them until they could find the owners.\n\nMy dh and I looked at one another. The dogs had to belong to the couple. We lent the kids two leashes and told them where to find the couple. We didn’t know the cabin or house number, only the street.\n\nThose two Good Samaritan  kids went door to door with the little dogs until they found the owners. When the young tween returned the leashes, I told her I would write about the good deed she and her brother had done.\n\nI don’t think she believed me. But what better way to get back on the blogging track than with a happy ending story. I love happy endings.\n\nWhat about you? Have you had any happy endings lately?','Vanishing Time, Scary Fires, and Happy Endings','','publish','open','open','','vanishing-time-scary-fires-and-happy-endings','','','2012-07-02 09:00:46','2012-07-02 14:00:46','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=747',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (772,1,'2012-07-09 08:00:58','2012-07-09 13:00:58','This makes me want to be a bookmark. How about you?\n\n[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKEB69sOfF4&amp;w=560&amp;h=315]\n\n\nThanks, Passive Guy for sharing. ','Secret Lives of Bookmarks','','publish','open','open','','secret-lives-of-bookmarks','','','2012-07-09 08:00:58','2012-07-09 13:00:58','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=772',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (779,1,'2012-07-16 15:44:32','2012-07-16 20:44:32','Sitting at a table at my high school reunion recently, this thought struck me: “This is how backstory should work.”\n\n<em>Huh</em>, you say. Let me explain.\n\nI’ve know most of the people at my high school reunion more than half my life. I didn’t have to ask mundane questions to get to know them. When I looked in their faces, I saw not the wrinkles but teenagers I remembered from our school days.\n\nWe were (are) a close knit group, attending English class or studying for Algebra or cheering our <a href=\"http://www.austinschools.org/campus/austin/history.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Austin High School </a>Maroon football team. We laughed about our Red Jacket (the drill team) adventures, relived football losses, groaned over teachers and relived our glory days on the yearbook and newspaper staff as reminisced.\n\n<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/ahs-2.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-783\" title=\"O\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/ahs-2.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"49\" /></a><a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/random-ahs-reception.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-784\" title=\"O\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/random-ahs-reception.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"62\" /></a>\n\nI knew their past.\n\nBut what dawned on me was that what I remembered from those good ole days is only a small portion of their story. As we shared over the three day reunion, I learned of their triumphs, their heartaches, their success since we’d last been together.\n\n<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/at-aldridge-house2.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-787\" title=\"O\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/at-aldridge-house2.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"54\" /></a>\n\n<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/friday-nite-june-me-patsy.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-785\" title=\"Friday nite june, me, patsy\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/friday-nite-june-me-patsy.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"109\" /></a>\n\n<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/at-aldridge-house.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-788\" title=\"O\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/at-aldridge-house.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"108\" /></a>\n\nDid I learn everything at once? No. Piece by piece they shared stories. Backstory came to light that had shaped who they were today.\n\nLike all my high school friends, I know my characters. After all, I am creating them.\n\nAnd like my friends who told their stories over the time we were together, that’s how I must reveal my character’s background--slowly as it relates to the story and character development.\n\nThis is where new writers often err in their opening scenes, revealing anything and everything that’s happened up to the time of the inciting incident.\n\nThere are times when a bit of backstory is necessary for the reader to grasp what’s going on and why it’s important. But, editors and agents agree a newly submitted manuscript with backstory dump in the beginning scenes is the biggest kiss of death for the work.\n\nWriters, whether new or seasoned, must tread carefully when considering how much backstory to include. We should trust the reader’s intelligence to “get” what’s going on without providing lengthy backstory.\n\nThink about it. Is it really necessary for the reader to know Mary has been married three times, each relationship ending badly, to “understand” why she’s looking for a good relationship. Usually, that kind of backstory, while indeed important, should be doled out later in the story and bit by bit.\n\nA general rule is keep backstory either absent from the opening or only include as much as is absolutely necessary to set the scene for the inciting incident.\n\nTo quote <a href=\"http://www.maassagency.com/books.html\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Maass</a>, “no backstory in the first fifty pages.” And then, only to do one or more of these things:\n\n1. Raise the stakes\n2. Reveal motivations\n3. Express innermost fears\n4. Reveal obstacles\n\nEasier said than done for most writers, including me.\n\nI think of backstory as \"BS.\" Literally. I ask myself does the reader really need to know this in order to relate to my character? The answer is usually no!\n\nAnother way to think of backstory is as carefully placed clues to the mystery of the character and why they are the way they are. Hints to keep the reader turning the page.\n\nJust as I discovered my old friends’ stories gradually, we writers need to let readers find backstory clues throughout the book until they\'re brought all together to explain how and why the character changed or clarify whatever the character did.\n\nWhat do you think about backstory dumps in the opening pages? Do you close the book or keep on reading?','What my high school reunion taught me about writing BACKSTORY','','publish','open','open','','what-my-high-school-reunion-taught-me-about-writing-backstory','','','2012-07-16 15:44:32','2012-07-16 20:44:32','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=779',0,'post','',15);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (802,1,'2012-08-06 10:55:09','2012-08-06 15:55:09','I ran across this poetic reminder not to rely on your spellchecker and had to share. The poem\'s 225 words are faulty, although all are correctly spelled. The work is more than an exercise in homophonous humor. It\'s a wonderful example of a computer spell checkers\' <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupertino_effect\" target=\"_blank\">Cupertino Effect</a>.\n\n\"Candidate for a Pullet Surprise\" was composed in 1992 by <a href=\"http://www.bios.niu.edu/zar/zar.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Jerrold H. Zar</a>, professor emeritus of biology and retired dean of the graduate school at Northern Illinois University.\n\nIf you read aloud, you get the full impact.\n\n<strong>CANDIDATE FOR A PULLET SURPRISE</strong>\n\n<em>I have a spelling checker,</em>\n<em>It came with my PC.</em>\n<em>It plane lee marks four my revue</em>\n<em>Miss steaks aye can knot sea.</em>\n\n<em>Eye ran this poem threw it,</em>\n<em>Your sure reel glad two no.</em>\n<em>Its vary polished in it\'s weigh.</em>\n<em>My checker tolled me sew.</em>\n\n<em>A checker is a bless sing,</em>\n<em>It freeze yew lodes of thyme.</em>\n<em>It helps me right awl stiles two reed,</em>\n<em>And aides me when eye rime.</em>\n\n<em>Each frays come posed up on my screen</em>\n<em>Eye trussed too bee a joule.</em>\n<em>The checker pours o\'er every word</em>\n<em>To cheque sum spelling rule.</em>\n\n<em>Bee fore a veiling checker\'s</em>\n<em>Hour spelling mite decline,</em>\n<em>And if we\'re lacks oar have a laps,</em>\n<em>We wood bee maid too wine.</em>\n\n<em>Butt now bee cause my spelling</em>\n<em>Is checked with such grate flare,</em>\n<em>Their are know fault\'s with in my cite,</em>\n<em>Of nun eye am a wear.</em>\n\n<em>Now spelling does knot phase me,</em>\n<em>It does knot bring a tier.</em>\n<em>My pay purrs awl due glad den</em>\n<em>With wrapped word\'s fare as hear.</em>\n\n<em>To rite with care is quite a feet</em>\n<em>Of witch won should bee proud,</em>\n<em>And wee mussed dew the best wee can,</em>\n<em>Sew flaw\'s are knot aloud.</em>\n\n<em>Sow ewe can sea why aye dew prays</em>\n<em>Such soft wear four pea seas,</em>\n<em>And why eye brake in two averse</em>\n<em>Buy righting want too pleas.</em>\n\nIn March 2007, Mark Eckman provided additional information about his role in creating the spell-checker poem. Read his account <a href=\"http://grammar.about.com/od/spelling/a/spellcheck.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>.\n\n\"Candidate for a Pullet Surprise\" endures as a cautionary tale for all of us who place too much trust in our computer\'s spell checker. How about you? Any \"horror\" tales with your spell checker?','Spellcheckers and Pullet Surprise Work','','publish','open','open','','spellcheckers-and-pullet-surprise-work','','','2012-08-06 10:55:09','2012-08-06 15:55:09','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=802',0,'post','',7);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (811,1,'2012-07-23 07:00:05','2012-07-23 12:00:05','Last week I <a href=\"http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/2012/07/16/what-my-high-school-reunion-taught-me-about-writing-backstory/\" target=\"_blank\">blogged about scattering smidgens of backstory throughout a story</a>. I received an email from a reader who wanted further explanation about what backstory is. Not being a writer, she’d never heard the term.\n\n I love it when that happens, and I can pontificate. \n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"> <a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/chat_0133.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"chat_013\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/chat_0133.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" /></a></p>\nThe simple answer: Like reunions where we connect with our past and our present, backstory connects the story world and our character\'s past.\n\nWriters understand what I mean. Readers still might need more explaining. \n\nAccording to <a href=\"http://davidmorrell.net/\" target=\"_blank\">David Morrell</a>, NYT bestselling author of high action thrillers, all stories have two parts: backstory and front story. \n\nFront story covers the scenes on the page that are happening in the present and pressing forward. \n\nBackstory reflects the influences from the past, and a character’s past is the key to creating a story where motivation and stakes are credible.\n\n <strong>NOTE to any aspiring writers:</strong> You should have Morrell’s <em>The Successful Novelist: A Lifetime of Lessons about Writing and Publishing</em> on your craft bookshelf. Check it out <a href=\"http://amzn.to/NoqqGi\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>.\n\nNow back to my explanation…\n\nBackstory is made up of all the data of a character’s history. How he became who he is, and why he acts as he does and thinks as he thinks. It also reveals influences of an era, family history, and world events (such as wars) that affect the story and its inhabitants.\n\n Factors writers consider as they create characters include:\n<ul>\n	<li> Major childhood influences, traumas, events, and emotional wounds</li>\n	<li>Family birth order</li>\n	<li>Era and/or historical period/events that influenced him</li>\n	<li>Significant people in a character’s circle. If dead, how did he relate?</li>\n</ul>\n USA bestselling author <a href=\"http://www.patriciakay.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Pat Kay</a> teaches that once a writer defines those factors, the next step in character development is to ask  questions like theseto dig deeper.\n<ol>\n	<li> Who was the most significant person in his childhood?</li>\n	<li>Which past relationship most influenced him?</li>\n	<li>How did his last relationship end?</li>\n	<li>Is his occupation what his parents or family hoped he would pursue?</li>\n	<li>What happened in his past that will affect the plot?</li>\n	<li>What regrets does a character have?</li>\n	<li>What is his worst fear?</li>\n	<li>What is the darkest secret or shame from his past?</li>\n	<li>Which events from the past still influence him?</li>\n	<li>What emotions will a character feel/display/hide when under pressure?</li>\n	<li>What is a character’s central strength?</li>\n	<li>What does a character want to change about himself?</li>\n	<li>What are a character’s long-range goals?</li>\n	<li>What one thing will a character NOT do?</li>\n</ol>\nI could go on and on with questions to ask about a character, but you get the picture. If you look at yourself and others in your family and think of their background, you will see that everyone is influenced by past experiences and way of life.\n\n Same is true of a story character. Writers employ various techniques to know their characters deeply. The more fully developed a character’s past the more three-dimensional characters appear on the page.\n\n Make sense, readers?\n\nWriters, what techniques do you use to fashion your story’s characters?','BS aka Backstory - Part 2','','publish','open','open','','bs-aka-backstory-part-2','','','2012-07-23 07:00:05','2012-07-23 12:00:05','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=811',0,'post','',1);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (847,1,'2012-08-07 10:36:09','2012-08-07 15:36:09','My often neglected blog has been honored with a nomination for the One Lovely Blogger Award by my very good friend Forest and his human, Elaine Smothers (blogger and fellow WANAite). I\'m awed to be considered lovely by anybody.\n\nI did  a Google search for information on this award and found nothing of its origins. I did find lots of links to other bloggers who have earned the award and  choices for award badges <a href=\"http://worldadventurers.wordpress.com/2012/06/30/i-received-the-one-lovely-blog-award/\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>. The rules for accepting the award were easily located and involved nominations, thanks, and sharing.\n<ul>\n	<li>Post the award badge. (not included with all explanations)</li>\n	<li>Thank the person who nominated you and link back to them in your post (an obvious requirement)</li>\n	<li>Nominate 15 other blogs for this honor (the number varied)</li>\n	<li>Share seven little known facts about yourself. (the part we all like best)</li>\n</ul>\nSo I begin my acceptance with a big thank you to Forest and Elaine for the OLB nomination.  Everyone should check out their blog at <a href=\"http://elainesmothers.wordpress.com\" target=\"_blank\">Wonder in the Wild</a>. It\'s one of my favorite blogs.\n\nHere\'s the badge I selected.\n\n<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/one-love-blog-award-two1.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-873\" title=\"one-love-blog-award-two1\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/one-love-blog-award-two1.jpg?w=125\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"150\" /></a>\n\nThe hardest part of accepting any blogger award is choosing blogger nominees. OLB is no exception. There are so many worthy blogs and bloggers.\n\nThe fifteen bloggers I’m nominating have interesting, informative and fun blogs. Stop by their sites and meet them. I know you’ll enjoy exploring and learning about them.\n<ol>\n	<li>Alina at <a title=\"Alina Sayre\" href=\"http://alinasayre.blogspot.com/p/about-me.html\" target=\"_blank\">Illuminations</a></li>\n	<li>Ben at <a title=\"Ben DeVries\" href=\"http://www.notonesparrow.com/motivation/\" target=\"_blank\">Not One Sparrow</a></li>\n	<li>Bethany at <a href=\"http://www.blogger.com/profile/04001921970529109760\" target=\"_blank\">Write by Bethany </a></li>\n	<li>Ciara at <a href=\"http://ciaragold.blogspot.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Finding Treasures in Dreams </a></li>\n	<li>Ellen at <a href=\"http://ellenvgregory.com/about/\" target=\"_blank\">To Beyond and Back </a></li>\n	<li>Ginger at <a href=\"http://gingercalem.wordpress.com/\" target=\"_blank\">I am Blogger Hear Me Tweet</a></li>\n	<li>J. D. at <a href=\"http://livingwiththemuse.blogspot.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Living with the Muse </a></li>\n	<li>Jane at <a href=\"http://janiecarver2011.wordpress.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Janie Carver 2011 </a></li>\n	<li>Jennifer  at <a href=\"http://musetracks.wordpress.com/\" target=\"_blank\">MuseTracks </a></li>\n	<li>Kat at <a href=\"http://katjorgensen.wordpress.com/about/\" target=\"_blank\">Kat Jorgensen </a></li>\n	<li>Linda at <a href=\"http://garridon.wordpress.com/who-is-this-person/\" target=\"_blank\">Soldier, Storyteller </a></li>\n	<li>Megan at <a href=\"http://sortacrunchy.typepad.com/sortacrunchy/\" target=\"_blank\">Sortacrunchy</a></li>\n	<li>Melissa at <a href=\"http://www.melissaohnoutka.com/#!about\" target=\"_blank\">Melissa Ohnoutka</a></li>\n	<li>Patricia at <a href=\"http://masksthebook.wordpress.com/about-the-author/\" target=\"_blank\">Masks the Book </a></li>\n	<li>SJ at <a href=\"http://sjdriscoll.com/about/\" target=\"_blank\">Come Sit By My Fire </a></li>\n</ol>\nNow, the fun part: seven little known facts about me.\n<ol>\n	<li> I decided I only like wildlife from afar after this fellow came to lunch last week and refused to leave until the Area Wildlife Manager Thorpe came to shoo him away. Mr. Bear was only two feet from my dining room window. <a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/08-02-12-bear-22.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-857\" title=\"O\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/08-02-12-bear-22.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" /></a></li>\n	<li>I love my early morning water aerobics workouts.</li>\n	<li>I won’t eat avocados  or guacamole.</li>\n	<li>I love all Harry Chapin’s songs. Especially <a href=\"http://harrychapin.com/music/flowers.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Flowers Are Red</a> and <a href=\"http://harrychapin.com/music/cats.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Cat’s in the Cradle</a>  If you\'ve never heard the songs you can listen on Youtube: <a href=\"http://youtu.be/4cVpkzZpDBA\" target=\"_blank\">Flowers are Red</a> and <a href=\"http://youtu.be/7OqwKfgLaeA?t=14s\" target=\"_blank\">Cat’s in the Cradle </a></li>\n	<li>I finally read a Nicholas Sparks novel, <em>Dear John</em>. Loved it!</li>\n	<li>I\'ve lived in AL, CO, CT, MS, NC, NM, TN, TX, VA, and WV. Only six of the nifty fifty are on my bucket list of places to see. I\'ll let you guess which six. Hint: all but one are close to Canada.</li>\n	<li></li>\n</ol>\nNot one to follow always follow the rules, I’m going to leave #7, the last final fact, for you to ask what would you like to know about me. One caveat: I won\'t tell you my weight, my age, or my address!\n\nSo, dear blog reader, it\'s your turn. What would you like to know? Or, which six states do you think I\'ve never been to?','One Lovely Blog - Never too late to say Thanks','','publish','open','open','','one-lovely-blog-never-too-late-to-say-thanks','','','2012-08-07 10:36:09','2012-08-07 15:36:09','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=847',0,'post','',13);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (884,1,'2012-08-10 10:51:10','2012-08-10 15:51:10','The Millers are Sara, my daughter, and her husband, Brian, who have a mini-farm at their home in Aggieland. For my non-Texan readers, that\'s Bryan/College Station, Texas.<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/hens2.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-885\" title=\"hens2\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/hens2.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"99\" /></a> That’s right, in their backyard, a chicken coop with nine “Easter Eggers,” a few Barred Rocks, a couple of Black Copper Marens, a few black and few gold sex links, some Bantams and  twenty-five American Game Birds. The rest are Barnyard Mutts. All give eggs that are truly delicious!\n\nPart of their backyard also houses beehives. More about dealing with bees and fresh honey in future posts.\n\nYou’ll also find four miniature daschunds - Tucker, Bella, Sadie and Coco, one mixed breed dog name Marvin, and three teenager children—two girls and a boy, who wish to remain anonymous, on the Miller farm.\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Sara, the chicken wrangler, writes such entertaining emails about life on the Miller Farm she should start her own blog. She won’t. That’s why – with her permission, I’ll be sharing the humor and fun of being a city farmer from her emails on Fridays.<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/143848105_9fnqwemu.jpg\"><img class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-886 aligncenter\" title=\"143848105_9FNQwEmu\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/143848105_9fnqwemu.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"99\" /></a>Today: ROOSTER RESCUERS  (my comments and additions in blue)</p>\nYesterday afternoon I <span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">(aka Sara, chicken wrangler extraordinaire) </span> went out to check on the chickens and gather eggs (what few eggs are being laid in this heat). <span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">(Texas, like a good part of the country, is experiencing unending days of triple digit tempearatures.)</span>\n\nOne of our roosters was laying under the coop looking not so good. I tried to entice him out with bread but alas, he didn\'t move. I grabbed him by the legs, an action which usually results in much fussing and flapping. However, he came out with nary a sound. I laid him by the water, hoping that he would perk up. After I checked all the other birds, he was still lying there and the other birds were starting to pick on him.\n\nBeing the rooster lover that I am, I could not tolerate that and gently carried him to the garage where I summoned Dr. Brian <span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">(her husband, who, btw, is NOT a veterinarian but a school psychologist)</span>. Drawing from all his vast avian veterinary experience, he proclaimed that the bird had heat exhaustion.\n\nI carried him (the bird, not Dr. Brian) to the living room where he laid in front of the fan which I have been told is the best remedy for heat exhaustion in humans so it has to work for birds - right?\n\nThroughout the evening Mr. Rooster laid still raising his head just often enough to let us know he was not quite dead yet. When it was time for the humans to retire, we decided he needed to be contained in case he had a miraculous recovery overnight.\n\nI put him in a cage and went to bed feeling quite comforted by the fact that we were just like all our neighbors who had roosters sleeping in their living rooms.\n\nThe next morning Mr. Rooster was much more alert and holding his head up. I put some water in his cage which he promptly spilled all over. At this point, he was making such a mess I moved his cage to the front yard.\n\nAfter caring for all the other chickens, I moved him back with his flock where he stepped out of the cage on his own. He hung out by the water for a while and when I last checked, Mr. Rooster was walking around pecking the ground as chickens are prone to do.\n\nI would say we have successfully snatched a rooster from the jaws of death earning the title <span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Rooster Rescuers</span>.\n\nSara might be okay with a rooster in her house. I\'m not sure I\'d be willing to set up a rooster infirmary in my living room. Would you?','Friday on THE MILLER FARM: Episode #1: ROOSTER RESCUERS','','publish','open','open','','friday-on-the-miller-farm-episode-1-rooster-rescuers','','','2012-08-10 10:51:10','2012-08-10 15:51:10','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=884',0,'post','',9);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (910,1,'2012-08-13 09:28:51','2012-08-13 14:28:51','This month\'s guest speaker at my local RWA chapter was <a href=\"http://writingnovelsthatsell.com/about-adrienne-dewolfe/\" target=\"_blank\">Adrienne deWolfe</a>. \n\nBeing in on vacation, I wasn\'t able to hear her program, but I did check out <a href=\"http://writingnovelsthatsell.com/\" target=\"_blank\">her website</a> and found a wealth of helpful resources. You might want to do some checking yourself.\n\nI also discovered this delightful video Ms deWolfe created which inspired me to get my butt in the chair and WRITE. I\'m sharing so you can start your week with Wit and Wisdom from writers, too.\n\n[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulBofscijPI&amp;w=420&amp;h=315]\n\n\nOkay, so did the authors inspired to write?','Wit and Wisdom from Writers to Jump Start your week','','publish','open','open','','wit-and-wisdom-from-writers-to-jump-start-your-week','','','2012-08-13 09:28:51','2012-08-13 14:28:51','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=910',0,'post','',4);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (929,1,'2012-08-17 09:09:29','2012-08-17 14:09:29','[caption id=\"attachment_945\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"333\"]<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/chickens-for-bella-story2.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-945\" title=\"O\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/chickens-for-bella-story2.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"177\" /></a> Gathered in the shade to stay cool.[/caption]\n\nYesterday morning when I (Sara the Chicken Wrangler extraordinaire) went to let the chickens out and give them food and water I discovered that one of the quail had gotten itself stuck in the space where the eggs roll out of the cage. This is not the first time this has happened so I was not at all surprised. After all quail, do have bird brains.\n\nAs I was getting it unstuck, I saw that the cage looked like something out of a quail horror movie. There were blood splatters all over the feeder. The stuck quail didn’t appear to be wounded enough to produce that much blood so I looked at the other quail.\n\nOne had what I guess would be the equivalent of a bloody lip -- if quail had lips. Its mouth was bleeding and so every time it shook its head, blood went everywhere.\n\nNot being as attached to the quail as I was dear Einstein (the rescued rooster from last week), I decided that what happened in the quail cage, stays in the quail cage and returned to the house.\n\nLater that afternoon I went to retrieve eggs and check on the birds. One of the quail had in fact died. Since there was nothing I could do for it (I only revive roosters.), I went to play another round of “Get the egg from the small coop,” a game in which the challenge is to get the egg from the back of the cage (which is slanted away from the door) to the door and get it out before it rolls back down.\n\nTo make the task easier, I have found the perfect branch with a hook in it to scoot the egg forward. So far, my record is three tries before the egg goes into my basket.\n\nThen I checked the other coop, which had a stunning lack of eggs. I thought perhaps the dirty condition of the nest boxes prevented the chickens from laying. After all, I would not even consider laying an egg in that filth even if I were prone to laying eggs – which I am not.\n\nSo I headed back up to the house for a shovel to clean out the nest boxes. I filled water jugs and headed back to the chicken yard with the shovel balanced on top of the chicken waterer. [In case you don’t know what a chicken waterer is check out this <a href=\"http://www.backyardchickens.com/a/4-dollar-chicken-feeder-water\" target=\"_blank\">site</a>.]\n\nAs I approached the coop, I saw something I never hope to see again. Bella (one of the four daschunds) had one of the chickens by the neck. I assumed she pulled it under the wire covering in the gate.\n\nAnyway, I dropped everything to the ground and ran towards them yelling at Bella to stop.\n\nBella was distracted long enough for the chicken to head under the shed. Little did the chicken know that dachshunds are bred to go into small spaces after animals.\n\nBella headed under the shed. I, being much larger than the chicken and Bella combined, decided to approach the shed from the side in the chicken yard. I pulled the hen out from under the shed into the safety of the chicken yard.\n\nChicken wrangler – 1, Bella – 0\n\nBut Bella is watching, waiting…<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/bella-and-chickens-2.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-939\" title=\"O\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/bella-and-chickens-2.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" /></a>','Friday on the MILLER FARM - A Day in the life of a Chicken Wrangler','','publish','open','open','','friday-on-the-miller-farm-a-day-in-the-life-of-a-chicken-wrangler','','','2012-08-17 09:09:29','2012-08-17 14:09:29','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=929',0,'post','',7);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (955,1,'2015-08-02 19:47:02','0000-00-00 00:00:00','<em>There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.</em>                          <strong>~W. Somerset Maugham</strong>\r\n\r\nIn spite of Maugham\'s quote, writing rules are everywhere.\r\n\r\n<strong>Neil Gaiman</strong> offers what he considers the main rule:\r\n\r\n<em>The main rule of writing is that if you do it with enough assurance and confidence, you’re allowed to do whatever you like. (That may be a rule for life as well as for writing. But it’s definitely true for writing.) So write your story as it needs to be written. Write it ­honestly, and tell it as best you can. I’m not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.</em>\r\n\r\n<strong>Kurt Vonnegut </strong>suggests <a href=\"http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/04/03/kurt-vonnegut-on-writing-stories/\">8 rules f</a><a href=\"http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/04/03/kurt-vonnegut-on-writing-stories/\">or a great story</a><a href=\"http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/04/03/kurt-vonnegut-on-writing-stories/\">,</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>Henry Miller </strong>provides <a href=\"http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/02/22/henry-miller-on-writing/\">11 commandments</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>John Steinbeck </strong>gives <a href=\"http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/03/12/john-steinbeck-six-tips-on-writing/\">6 pointers</a>\r\n\r\nA video hosted by Lycra Communications gives the ten top writing rules from famous writers.\r\n\r\n[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLIGZEBmBUk?rel=0&amp;w=560&amp;h=315]\r\n\r\nYOUR TURN: What are your writing rules?','Writing Rules?','','draft','open','open','','','','','2015-08-02 19:47:02','2015-08-03 01:47:02','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=955',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (981,1,'2012-08-20 08:09:29','2012-08-20 13:09:29','It\'s Monday again time to begin our writing week.  I thought it would be fun to consider how other writers write (wrote).\n\n[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H77Q8nP-Gh0?rel=0&amp;w=560&amp;h=315]\n\nSo what method will you be using to write this week? \n\nWhere will you be writing? \n\nHow much do you play to write?\n\nI\'m inspired. My goal this week is to complete revisions on the first five chapters of my current WIP.\n\nHow about you?\n\n','How do you write?','','publish','open','open','','how-do-you-write','','','2012-08-20 08:09:29','2012-08-20 13:09:29','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=981',0,'post','',8);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (998,1,'2012-08-24 10:56:23','2012-08-24 15:56:23','Today’s email from the Miller Farm…\n\nI went to Target last night in search of, among other things, a biscuit cutter. The handle has come off mine making it a little bit of a challenge to use.\n\n<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/biskit1.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1004\" title=\"biskit\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/biskit1.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" /></a>\n\nI try to minimize challenges in the mornings and replacing the broken biscuit cutter would definitely reduce my morning stress.\n\nAlas, I found a cupcake corer , cookie cutters and muffin pans in every imaginable shape but no biscuit cutters. I didn\'t know cupcakes had cores, did you? See picture below.\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/cupcake-corer.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1000\" title=\"cupcake corer\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/cupcake-corer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"135\" height=\"135\" /></a></p>\nI woke this morning up singing:\n\nO where, o where have the biscuit cutters gone?\nO where, o where can they be?\nIs there no one left who makes biscuits from scratch\nExcept for crazy ole me?\n\nWhen you teach music - all of life is a song.\n\n(NOTE: Besides being a chicken wrangler extraordinaire, Sara is also an amazing pianist who has her own music studio in addition to teaching music at a private school. Music abounds on the Miller Farm.)\n\nBut the email wasn\'t our only communication on the broken biscuit cutter.\n\nSara called. Naturally I asked about the tune to her song whereupon she sang to the words to the nursery rhyme tune of <em>\"Where O Where Has My Little Dog Gone?</em>\".\n\nThen she asked if I had an extra biscuit cutter she could have. I quickly searched my gadget drawer and found four antique biscuit cutters, two plastic flute-edged cutters, one petit four cutter and a fancy Pamper Chef cut-and-seal cutter.\n\nBefore you wonder why I have so many biscuit cutters…I must declare I\'m not a hoarder.\n\nNot at all, I’m a wannabe Martha Stewart who loves cooking gadgets. I have all manner of gizmos and gadgets in my kitchen. One of my favorites is Piercey the hard-boiled egg piercer.\n\n<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/boiled-egg-piercey.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-1007\" title=\"boiled egg piercey\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/boiled-egg-piercey.jpg?w=112\" alt=\"\" width=\"112\" height=\"150\" /></a>\n\nNo master kitchen should be without this clever little tool shaped like a chicken that pokes a hole in the broad end of a raw egg. When the egg is hard boiled, the shell peels off with ease.\n\nWant one? Check out this <a href=\"http://www.surplusdirect.co.nz/default/kitchenware/egg-piercer-jo-e.html\" target=\"_blank\">site</a>.\n\nFYI: I get no kickback from the site, but you\'ll find peeling eggs much simplier. Like Sara, I\'m all about simplifying stressful tasks and not just in the mornings. Using Piercey the egg piercer makes life simple.\n\nWhich brings us back to chickens. Next week we’ll discuss another of Sara\'s emails from the farm. This one on chicken food and chicken lips.\n\nDo chickens have lips!?','LIFE ON THE MILLER FARM: Not a Chicken Story','','publish','open','open','','life-on-the-miller-farm-not-a-chicken-story','','','2012-08-24 10:56:23','2012-08-24 15:56:23','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=998',0,'post','',4);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1025,1,'2012-09-03 07:06:30','2012-09-03 12:06:30','Today is Labor Day. We pay tribute to the contributions and achievements of American workers. To celebrate the writers in the workplace, I\'m sharing a blog and a video about the writing process.\n<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/writer-ink.jpg\"><img src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/writer-ink.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Writer-ink\" width=\"76\" height=\"94\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1100\" /></a>\n\nNathan Bransford\'s blog, <a href=\"http://blog.nathanbransford.com/2012/08/the-publishing-process-in-gif-form.html\" target=\"_blank\">\"The Publishing Process in Gif Form</a>,\" made the rounds on Twitter, FB and many boards and loops. It\'s worthy of another view. \n\nFor those who haven\'t read the blog and don\'t know him, <a href=\"http://blog.nathanbransford.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Nathan Bransford</a> is a children\'s author, a former literary agent with Curtis Brown Ltd. and is now the social media manager at CNET. Bransford knows the emotional process of writing from all angles and his blog illustrates a writer\'s rollercoaster ride perfectly and his blog is hilarious.\n\nAnother blog I read, especially for humor, is <a href=\"http://stevelaube.com/\" target=\"_blank\">The Steve Laube Agency</a>. I met Steve, president and founder of the agency, at an ACFW Conference many years ago. Wise man.\n\nHe\'s a 30 year veteran of the bookselling industry. His career began in the bookselling arena with a store in Phoenix. He worked with Bethany House Publishers. In 2004 he formed The Steve Laube Agency and represents everything from the sweet romance to the systematic theology.\n\nFridays on his blog are </strong>FUN </strong> day. Recently he shared this great video by James Andrew Wilson titled <em>The Five Emotional Stages of Writing a Novel</em>. Make sure to watch through the credits.\n\n[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aly7bSv6xUs&amp;w=420&amp;h=315]\n\n\nWherever you are in your writing process, I hope I made you laugh today.\n\nHappy Labor Day and labor on! Our readers are waiting.','Labor Day from a writer\'s perspective','','publish','open','open','','labor-day-from-a-writers-perspective','','','2012-09-03 07:06:30','2012-09-03 12:06:30','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=1025',0,'post','',1);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1039,1,'2012-08-31 09:06:44','2012-08-31 14:06:44','Last Friday I posed the chicken lips question. Sorry to report, I haven’t come up with a definitive answer. But so far, my research has turned up some most interesting responses:\n<ul>\n	<li>a <a href=\"http://friedchickenlips.blogspot.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Fried Chicken Lips blog</a> that reviews restaurants in Georgia.</li>\n</ul>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/chicken-blog.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-1045 aligncenter\" title=\"chicken blog\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/chicken-blog.jpg?w=118\" alt=\"\" width=\"118\" height=\"150\" /></a></p>\n\n<ul>\n	<li><a href=\"http://www.chickenlips.com/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Chicken Lips\'</em> </a>-- a World Humor Comedy Theater which presents customized music and comedy performances for businesses, associations, and private events.</li>\n	<li>a <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_Lips_(band)\" target=\"_blank\">Stafford, England dance band</a> named Chicken Lips</li>\n	<li><a href=\"http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=%26%2365279%3Bdo%20chickens%20have%20lips%3F\" target=\"_blank\">Urban Dictionary</a> declares the question a nonsense retort to a stupid or rhetorical question</li>\n	<li><a href=\"http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=1861847\" target=\"_blank\">WordReference.com</a> has an entire thread on the question… (Caution some of the language is a bit over the top and may be inappropriate to you.)</li>\n</ul>\nNothing about the anatomy of a chicken. Never fear, the chicken wrangler and I will continue our search and report.\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_1048\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"199\"]<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/riley-with-hen1.jpg\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-1048\" title=\"riley with hen\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/riley-with-hen1.jpg?w=199\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" /></a> \"Hey, Hen. Do you have lips?\"[/caption]\n\nMeanwhile, I\'ll share another series of emails from the Miller Farm. These are all about feeding the chickens.\n\nFrom Sara – the Miller Farm chicken wrangler:\n\n<em>I was checking on the chicken yesterday after a couple of days of bad weather. I decided to give them some grass. This means clipping grass from the backyard with hand clippers (an action which the neighbors find a bit strange) and tossing the clippings over the fence to the chickens. </em><em> </em>\n\n<em>Since they have eaten the chicken yard grass down to the dirt, they are most appreciative of any clippings they can get.  </em><em> </em>\n\n<em>So I\'m kneeling on the ground, clipping grass and I looked up to see three of our five dogs eating </em><em>grass.  </em>\n\n<em>This made me wonder - is being a chicken contagious? Or does grass really taste that good?</em>\n\nWhat happens with these email conversations is that the whole family chimes in. Each tries to outdo the other.\n\nHere’s how her sister responsed – who happens to be my cover designer extraordinaire (if you don’t believe me check out <a href=\"http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/my-books/\" target=\"_blank\">my books page</a>)\n\n<em>Silly dogs!! Grass is for chickens!!!  </em><em>Finding your children or spouse eating grass now THAT would be problematic to be sure...\n</em>\nA reasonable response. I waited to see what email came in next. Then the chicken wrangler’s father responded:\n\n<em>“Be careful with dogs and chickens and grass. You could end up with <strong>pooched</strong> eggs!”</em>\n\nCouldn\'t top that. I didn\'t try. Next day Sara’s email continued the tale of chickens and grass…\n\n<em>So I went out to check on the chickens and cut some grass for them this morning. I noticed their feeder was almost empty - again. I told them they were eating like pigs. </em><em> </em>\n\n<em>That made me wonder - do we need to consider the chicken we eat as pork?</em>\n\n<em> That would give a whole new meaning to the phrase \"the other white meat.\"</em><em> </em>\n\nNo responses. Perhaps, like our meal conversations, everyone was laughing too hard. Or thinking too hard!\n\nIt’s Labor Day weekend. Last holiday of Summer 2012. A time when we celebrate with parties, parades and athletic events. A time for cookouts and lazin\' around and grillin\' whichever “white” meat you prefer. Be safe and enjoy.\n\nThanks for dropping by the porch today, folks. I hope we started your holiday with a grin or two.','Miller Farm Friday','','publish','open','open','','miller-farm-friday','','','2012-08-31 09:06:44','2012-08-31 14:06:44','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=1039',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1056,1,'2012-09-01 09:48:25','2012-09-01 14:48:25','<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Happy Release Day to  Jody Hedlund for Unending Devotion!</p>\n\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_1057\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"150\"]<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/devotion.jpg\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-1057\" title=\"devotion\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/devotion.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"232\" /></a> If you like historicals, you\'ll love this one![/caption]\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">High-Stakes Drama Meets High-Tension Romance</p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">In 1883 Michigan, Lily Young is on a mission to save her lost sister, or die trying. Heedless of the danger, her searches of logging camps lead her to Harrison and into the sights of Connell McCormick, a man doing his best to add to the hard-earned fortunes of his lumber baron father.</p>\nPosing during the day as a photographer\'s assistant, Lily can\'t understand why any God-fearing citizen would allow evil to persist and why men like Connell McCormick turn a blind eye to the crime rampant in the town. But Connell is boss-man of three of his father\'s lumber camps in the area, and like most of the other men, he\'s interested in clearing the pine and earning a profit. He figures as long as he\'s living an upright life, that\'s what matters.\n\nLily challenges everything he thought he knew, and together they work not only to save her sister but to put an end to the corruption that\'s dominated Harrison for so long.\n\nAuthor Bio:\n<strong>Jody Hedlund</strong> is an award-winning historical romance novelist and author of the best-selling books, <em>The Preacher\'s Bride </em>and <em>The Doctor\'s Lady</em>. She received a bachelor’s degree from Taylor University and a master’s from the University of Wisconsin, both in Social Work. Currently she makes her home in Michigan with her husband and five busy children.\n\nTo celebrate the release of Jody\'s book I’m paying tribute to my dogs who have given me their unending devotion in exchange for so little—food in their bowl and a pet on the head or rub on the belly every now and then.\n\nMy love affair with Old English Sheepdogs began with <strong>Obadiah</strong>  who never quite understood he was a dog.\n\n<dl class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/obie-w-stef.jpg\"><img class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1058 \" title=\"Obie w Stef\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/obie-w-stef.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a></dt><dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\">My daughter treated him like the little brother she never had.</dd></dl>Next came Micah.\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_1060\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"126\"]<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/micah1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1065\" title=\"micah\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/micah1.jpg?w=126\" alt=\"\" width=\"126\" height=\"150\" /></a> A furry bundle of energy for Christmas.[/caption]\n\nHe joined my granddog <strong>Bernie</strong>, a terrier mix, who came to live with us when our son went off to seminary. <strong>Rhinestone </strong>was our rescue OES.The three of us made quite a spectacle walking in the neighborhood.\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_1061\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"150\"]<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/micah-bernie-rhinestone.jpg\"><img class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1061\" title=\"micah-bernie-rhinestone\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/micah-bernie-rhinestone.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"118\" /></a> Micah, Bernie and Rhinestone[/caption]\n\nAs happens with large dogs, Micah’s hips played out. We lost him and Bernie (at age 17) about the same time. Rhinestone became even more attached to me. When we emptied our house to have hardwood floors installed, I worried the stress would be too much for her.\n\nShe went to live with my sister-in-law who had never married.\n\n<dl class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/keta-and-rhinestone.jpg\"><img class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1062 \" title=\"keta and rhinestone\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/keta-and-rhinestone.jpg?w=140\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"150\" /></a></dt><dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\">Two lovely ladies who found one another.</dd></dl> The two became best buds. I wrote about their story in <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Dog-Next-Door-Other-Stories/dp/080073419X/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1346506030&amp;sr=1-3&amp;keywords=judythe+morgan\" target=\"_blank\">The Dog Next Door</a>.\n\nFor the first time ever we were dog-less.\n\nI hated it.\n\n<dl class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/toby-arrival1.jpg\"><img class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1064\" title=\"toby arrival\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/toby-arrival1.jpg?w=141\" alt=\"\" width=\"141\" height=\"150\" /></a></dt><dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\">It was love at first sight.</dd></dl> So we found <strong>Tobias (Toby)</strong>.\n\n<dl class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/buster-on-my-lap2.jpg\"><img class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1072\" title=\"buster on my lap\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/buster-on-my-lap2.jpg?w=143\" alt=\"\" width=\"143\" height=\"150\" /></a></dt><dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\">Helping me write.</dd></dl>A couple of years later <strong>Buster, </strong>a twelve pound Maltese, came to live with us.\n\nAnd once again we’ve become a big happy family.\n<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/family-for-blog4.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1082\" title=\"family for blog\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/family-for-blog4.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" /></a>\n\nYou can read all about a sister\'s uneding devotion in Jody\'s book. Available on <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Unending-Devotion-Jody-Hedlund/dp/0764208349/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1346507184&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=jody+hedlund\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon</a>.\n\nWhat about about you? Do you give or receive unending devotion for someone or pet?','What Unending Devotion Means to Me and a great book release','','publish','open','open','','what-unending-devotion-means-to-me-and-a-great-book-release','','','2012-09-01 09:48:25','2012-09-01 14:48:25','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=1056',0,'post','',8);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1088,1,'2012-09-10 09:37:46','2012-09-10 14:37:46','What does it take to be a writer?\n\nIs all you need to be a writer pen and paper or a typewriter or an iPad or laptop/computer with a word processor? Maybe all it takes is the latest writing tool like this:\n\n[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWqqtybjzXE?rel=0&amp;w=560&amp;h=315]\n\nOr is there more involved besides having the proper writing tool?\n\nSimple answer,<strong> YES</strong>.\n\nA writer’s journey is a solo trip. A lonely trip and no two writers achieve success in the same way.\n\nI think, to be successful, an aspiring writer must possess, at a minimum, these things:\n<ol>\n	<li>A PASSION</li>\n	<li>A WILLINGNESS TO PRACTICE</li>\n	<li>A DESIRE TO LEARN</li>\n</ol>\nOn PASSION...\n\nThe most important trait a writer needs is the deep desire to write and a steadfast commitment to his passion.\n\n<em>“Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.”</em> Hebbel quotes\n\nWriters must write because, if we don’t, we are miserable. The desire flows with our blood.\n\nOn PRACTICE...\n\nIf you watched the Summer Olympics last month, you saw performances by athletes who had practiced and trained <strong>YEARS</strong> for the opportunity to compete in their chosen event.\n\nA certain number of hours practice is frequently necessary to be considered proficient at so many things.\n\nThink about airline pilots who must have a specific number of flying hours before they are qualified to solo. Teenage drivers get learner permits and must practice before taking a test to prove their proficiency and earn a driver’s license.\n\nWriting is no different. Writing requires practice.\n\nThe exact amount of practice depends on your natural talent, how quick you learn the techniques of your craft and how much passion you have for what you\'re doing.\n\nWhich brings up another question, how often should you write?\n\nMy simple answer: <strong>EVERY DAY</strong>.\n\nBut how much should you write? Does it matter?\n\nAccording to James Thayer’s Author Magazine article <a href=\"http://www.authormagazine.org/articles/thayer_james_2009_04_09.htm\" target=\"_blank\">“How Many Words a Day?”</a> Jack London wrote between 1,000 and 1,500 words each day.\n\nStephen King writes 2,000 words a day.\n\nRay Bradbury, who authored over five hundred science fiction novels and short stories which someone calculated to be three and a half million words worth of stories, advises writers to <em>\"Write a thousand words a day and in three years you will be a writer.\"</em>\n\nTo succeed as writers, we must practice by writing something, anything every day.\n\nOn LEARNING  or STUDYING writing craft\n\nMost people wouldn’t dream of trying to build an automobile without learning about auto mechanics. Unfortunately, too many people try to become writers without learning about the craft of writing.\n\nAn idea for a story strikes, and they start writing. They never consider story structure, POV, or any of the other skills embedded in every novel we read.\n\nThis, imo, is why so many aspiring writers fail so often.\n\nWithout learning basic skills, you won\'t go far as an auto mechanic, no matter how many hours you put into practicing. Think about artists. They learn to mix paint, how to prepare a canvas and color theory at an art school. Aspiring auto mechanics go to technical schools.\n\nLearning about basic craft skills requires time and study. To me, it’s the most important aspect of being a writer.\n\nSure, some writers succeed without study. With study, I believe success comes faster.\n\nEven those born with great talent rarely go anywhere without equal measures of passion and practice. Mozart was a virtuoso of musical technique and artistry, but even he needed to learn his craft. He was full of passion for music, he practiced all the time, and he<strong> studied</strong>.\n\nThere are hundreds of great books on writing. I\'m sure you have your favorites. On my <a href=\"http://www.judythemorgan.com\" target=\"_blank\">website</a> you\'ll find a complete list of writer resources and some inspiring quotes. Below is a short list I recommend for every writer’s craft resource shelf:\n<ol>\n	<li style=\"text-align:left;\"> <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Plot-Structure-Techniques-Exercises-Crafting/dp/158297294X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1346637999&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=plot+and+structure+james+scott+bell\" target=\"_blank\">Plot &amp; Structure</a>, by James Scott Bell</li>\n	<li style=\"text-align:left;\"><a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Writing-Breakout-Novel-Donald-Maass/dp/158297182X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1346637977&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=writing+the+breakout+novel+by+donald+maass\" target=\"_blank\">Writing the Breakout Novel</a>, by Donald Maass</li>\n	<li style=\"text-align:left;\"><a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Break-Into-Fiction-Steps-Building/dp/1605500151/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1346637946&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=break+into+fiction\" target=\"_blank\">Break Into Fiction</a>, by Mary Buckham and Dianna Love </li>\n	<li style=\"text-align:left;\"> <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Story-Substance-Structure-Principles-Screenwriting/dp/0060391685/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1346637918&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=story+by+robert+mckee\" target=\"_blank\">Story</a>, by Robert McKee </li>\n	<li style=\"text-align:left;\"> <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Elements-Fiction-Writing-Scene-Structure/dp/0898799066/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1346637881&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=scene+and+structure+jack+bickham\" target=\"_blank\">Scene and Structure</a>, by Jack M. Bickham</li>\n	<li style=\"text-align:left;\"><a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Getting-into-Character-Secrets-Novelist/dp/0471058947/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1346637853&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=getting+into+character+by+brandilyn+collins\" target=\"_blank\">Getting Into Character</a>, by Brandilyn Collins</li>\n	<li style=\"text-align:left;\"><a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Writing-Emotional-Impact-Techniques-Fascinate/dp/1595940286/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1346637739&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=writing+for+emotional+impact+by+karl+iglesias\" target=\"_blank\">Writing for Emotional Impact</a> by Karl Iglesias</li>\n	<li style=\"text-align:left;\"><a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Power-Point-View-Make-Story/dp/1582975248/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1346638041&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=POV+Alicia+Rasley\" target=\"_blank\">The Power of Point of View</a> by Alicia Rasley</li>\n</ol>\nWriting classes - on-line and at colleges and universities - also offer wonderful ways to develop writing skills. Too many classes, in fact, to list them in this post. I\'ll do another blog with my recommendations soon.\n\nWriting conferences offer yet another means to study writing craft with the added benefit of networking with like-minded people.\n\nIf you happen to live in or near Houston, Texas, there’s going to be a great writer’s conference next month—Northwest Houston RWA’s Lone Star Writer’s Conference featuring James Scott Bell.Yep—same one whose book is #1 on my recommended list.\n\nThe conference also offers a tremendous line-up of editors and agents. All for only $130.00. Check it out <a href=\"http://nwhrwa.com/writers-events/lonestar-conference/\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>.\n\nNow you know what 3 things I believe are necessary to be a success writer so get out your iTyperwriter and GO, GO, GO.\n\nYOUR TURN: What do you think it takes to be a successful writer?','3 Necessities to be a successful writer','','publish','open','open','','3-necessities-to-be-a-successful-writer','','','2012-09-10 09:37:46','2012-09-10 14:37:46','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=1088',0,'post','',2);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1105,1,'2012-09-07 08:29:47','2012-09-07 13:29:47','Monday’s Labor Day holiday signaled the end of summer. For a large percentage of the population this week also signaled the start of school which in turn meant moving kids out of the house and back to classrooms.\n\nWith all that moving and changing and settling into routines going on, I thought Sara’s email about moving chickens was a perfect fit today. See if you don’t agree…\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Fowl Moving Day</p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\"><em>There comes a day in the life of every child where they get too big for wherever they are and they have to move. It starts with the move from bassinet to crib, then crib to “big bed” and eventually they leave the house altogether.</em></p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\"><em>The same type of process happens with chickens.</em></p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\"><em>They start in an incubator (which is currently in our living room), </em><a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/chicken-incubator.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-1117 alignright\" title=\"chicken incubator\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/chicken-incubator.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" /></a> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\"> <a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/eggs-in-incubator21.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1129\" title=\"eggs in incubator2\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/eggs-in-incubator21.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"84\" /></a></p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\"> </p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\"><em>then move to a brooder (in our garage).</em></p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\"><em><a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/brooder.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1109\" title=\"brooder\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/brooder.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"107\" /></a></em></p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\"><em>From there, they move into a small chicken yard in our back yard where the Bantams (a smaller breed of chickens) live all the time. As they get bigger than the Bantams, they move into the big chicken yard.</em></p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\"><a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/hens2.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-1118\" title=\"hens2\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/hens2.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"99\" /></a></p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\"><em>A similar, but simpler, process happens with the quail. They simply go from incubator to brooder to one of the quail cages in the back yard. On this particular Saturday, we had both quail and chickens to move.</em></p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\"><em>A multi-step process involving cinder blocks, extra cages and much squawking.</em></p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\"><em>We started by consolidating our three quail cages into one. The cage in the chicken coop only had one quail in it. I believe this quail was somewhat lonely as he spent his days walking in circles in the cage. (Of course, this could also be a result of the bird brain mentality.)</em></p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\"><em>His cage is up high in the chicken coop where neither my daughter nor I can comfortably reach. Hence, the cinder block.</em></p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\"><em>There are two openings in this cage and the quail would run back and forth requiring two people to be ready to catch him. That would be me and my daughter.</em></p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\"><em>So we put the cinder block in the middle and each of us put one foot on it and the other on the side of the coop. Before long, we had trapped the quail and moved him in with his new cage mates.</em></p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\"><em>This left his cage empty for the new quail that were outgrowing the brooder. At first, the move stressed the transferred quail. After all, they’d only seen the inside of our garage, but they have adjusted quite nicely.</em></p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\"><em>Step two of moving day involved putting the young roosters into a separate cage to be fattened up before going to freezer camp and eaten later. Before you cry “animal cruelty,” I can assure you, their life has been much better than that of the chickens you buy at the grocery store. </em></p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\"><em>I must confess, though, I did think of Hansel and Gretel as we were putting food into the cage.</em> <a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/hansel-and-gretal1.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1119\" title=\"Hansel and gretal\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/hansel-and-gretal1.jpg?w=255\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"300\" /></a></p>\n<em><em>In case you don’t remember, the witch locked up Hansel and had him stick out his finger occasionally to see if he was fat enough to eat.</em></em>\n\n<em>Anyway, the roosters had no idea what was happening though I was a little concerned about their transition. But since none of them were named, I wasn\'t that attached and stopped worrying.</em>\n\n<em>Sadly enough, when we returned from church Sunday morning, my daughter discovered all but one of the roosters had died. Apparently, they don’t like change (or they got wind of their fate and decided to commit mass suicide).</em>\n\n<em>There was one lone survivor and my daughter, having learned well from her mom\'s previous rooster rescue of Einstein, brought him inside.</em>\n\n<em>Mr. Rooster spent the night in our living room and seemed to be better the next day. I named him Einstein II and now he\'s living out his natural life with the chickens.</em>\n\n<em>Our final step on this moving day was the easiest – moving chicks out to the small chicken yard.</em>\n\n<em>Teaching them to go into the coop at night is not so easy. For now, I reach under the coop each night to get them and tuck them in with the Bantams. Hopefully they will get the idea soon.</em>\n\n<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/sara-john-michael.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-1120\" title=\"sara john michael\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/sara-john-michael.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"99\" /></a>\n\n<em>P.S. Besides this being the week I start my piano students, this week happens to be the week that the eggs in the incubator are going to hatch. The cycle is continuous. </em>\n\n<em>I started three new piano students to the sounds of a lone chick calling for the others to come out and play  :-) No one seemed to mind. You never know what you will learn at the Millers.</em>\n\n<em>Yesterday one of my piano students danced around the living room during her brother\'s lessons. She said, \"You know how they do a rain dance to make it rain. Well I am doing the chicken dance to make the chicks hatch.\" </em>\n\n<em>Unfortunately it didn\'t work until after she left. :-) </em>\n\n<em>I love my job.</em>\n\nMy favorite part of this email was Sara\'s opening paragraph:\n\n<em>There comes a day in the life of every child where they get too big for where ever they are and they have to move. It starts with the move from bassinet to crib, then crib to “big bed” and eventually they leave the house altogether.</em>\n\nI remember those stages with my three children. I really looked forward to the progress each stage represented and now looking back, I wish they hadn’t come so fast.\n\nYOUR TURN: So how\'d your week go? Any chicken dancing going on? Kids moving out or in? Kiddos climbing those giant steps onto the yellow school bus?','Fowl Moving Day','','publish','open','open','','fowl-moving-day','','','2012-09-07 08:29:47','2012-09-07 13:29:47','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=1105',0,'post','',8);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1168,1,'2012-09-14 08:00:11','2012-09-14 13:00:11','Anthropomorphism is a literary technique in which  human characteristics (or characteristics assumed to belong only to humans) are assigned to other animals, non-living things, phenomena, material states, objects or abstract concepts, such as organizations, governments, spirits or deities. (I\'m <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropomorphism\" target=\"_blank\">quoting Wikipedia</a>.)\n\nThe word has been around since the 1700s.\n\n<dl class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/220px-the_north_wind_and_the_sun_-_wind_-_project_gutenberg_etext_19994.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-1173 \" title=\"220px-The_North_Wind_and_the_Sun_-_Wind_-_Project_Gutenberg_etext_19994\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/220px-the_north_wind_and_the_sun_-_wind_-_project_gutenberg_etext_19994.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"219\" /></a></dt><dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\">In this depiction of  Aesop\'s fable, The North Wind and the Sun, North Wind tries to strip a traveler of his cloak. Picture source: Wikimedia Commons.</dd></dl>\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_1189\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"195\"]<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/white-rabbit1.jpg\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-1189 \" title=\"White rabbit\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/white-rabbit1.jpg?w=195\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" /></a> The White Rabbit in Alice in Wonderlfand is another example.[/caption]\n\nNot being  a literary writer, I don\'t use the technique much, but I\'ve often been accused of anthropomorphizing my dogs and other non-living things.\n\nDoesn\'t every one name their vehicle or their vaccum cleaner? Well, you should!\n\nThat\'s why I understand completely when Chicken Wrangler Sara treats her chickens like they\'re human, which is what happened when one of her hens named Butterscotch got herself into a bad situation.\n\nHere\'s the story from Chicken Wrangler Sara\'s email. Additional comments not italicized are mine.\n\n<em>Our chicken feeder is suspended from the ceiling of the coop with a wire the size of a coat hanger. This morning, when I went to let the chickens out, one of them was hanging by one toe from the wire above the feeder. </em>\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_1180\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"300\"]<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/feeder-with-wire.jpg\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-1180\" title=\"FEEDER WITH WIRE\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/feeder-with-wire.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a> The VILLIAN feeder.[/caption]\n\n<em>One interesting thing about chickens is that if you hold them upside down by their feet, they get very calm. (Don’t ask how I know this.)  </em>\n\n<em>So the poor chicken, named Butterscotch, was incredibly calm. Now if I had been hanging upside down by my toe all night, I definitely would not be calm. This is just another difference between humans and chickens. </em>\n\n<em>Anyway, I had to work hard to get her toe unstuck all the while explaining to her that chickens are not acrobats.  </em>\n\n(Like the chicken was listening. More likely a little anthropomorphizing going on! LOL)\n\n<em>I ended up untwisting the wire which immediately freed Butterscotch’s foot. I carefully carried her out of the coop and set her by the water thinking she might be thirsty as are most of the chickens in the mornings. </em>\n\n<em>So are the bees who share space at the Miller Farm with the chickens, making an interesting scene at the water cooler every morning. </em>\n\n(A bee blog for Miller Farm Friday is in the works. That\'s really anthropomorphizing when you attribute human characteristics to things that can really, really hurt you!)\n\n<em>Butterscotch didn’t drink but hobbled to the front of the yard and sat down. I went on with the morning chicken chores, keeping an eye on her. </em>\n\n<em>When I had finished, I picked her up to examine the injured toe. It had begun to bleed and was getting caked with dirt. I’m no vet, but I am a mom and I know that open sores and dirt are not a good combination.</em>\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_1187\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"300\"]<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/butterscotchs-foot.jpg\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-1187\" title=\"butterscotch\'s foot\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/butterscotchs-foot.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" /></a> Notice the toe at the top is missing its nail. but, thanks to human care, not the whole toe.[/caption]\n\n<em>So I carried Butterscotch up to the garage where we keep the betadine and poured some on her foot. </em>\n\n<em>Then I gently washed it off with the hose and decided she needed to go to the chicken infirmary for observation. So I hollered for Catherine (her oldest daughter) to bring me a rag towel and laid it down in a laundry basket. </em><em>Then I gently lowered Butterscotch into the basket and put a small waterer in with her. </em>\n\n<em>I went back in the house but soon realized that if she happened to get out of the basket, her toe would be the least of her problems.  The dogs would love to “play” with her.</em>\n\nEspecially Bella. Remember she\'s the farm daschund who is always watching and waiting for a chicken to get free. And trust me she\'s not thinking about anthropomorphizing that chicken.\n\n<em>So I put another laundry basket on top and behold a “chicken infirmary.” </em>\n\n<em>Butterscotch rested comfortably all morning and after a consultation with the resident chicken vet, Rachel, Butterscotch returned to the chicken yard. </em>\n\n<em>She immediately started pecking at the ground for food then ran to where all the other chickens were pecking to see if they had found something more appetizing. </em>\n\n<em>At last sighting, she was limping slightly but seemed to be glad to be “home.”  I made her promise not to do any more acrobatics, and Chicken Vet Rachel  decided to wash her foot every morning to prevent infection.</em>\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_1188\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"245\"]<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/butterscotch.jpg\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-1188\" title=\"BUTTERSCOTCH\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/butterscotch.jpg?w=245\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"300\" /></a> Butterscotch strutting her stuff.[/caption]\n\nYOUR TURN: Are you guilty of anthropomorphizing either your pets or using the technique in your writing?','Acrobatic Chicken ends up in Miller “Chicken Infirmary”','','publish','open','open','','acrobatic-chicken-ends-up-in-miller-chicken-infirmary','','','2012-09-14 08:00:11','2012-09-14 13:00:11','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=1168',0,'post','',1);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1205,1,'2012-09-17 10:53:11','2012-09-17 15:53:11','I wish I could say <strong>NO WAY</strong>!\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Can\'t.</p>\nWhen I shared a recent chapter with my critique partners, one of them questioned this sentence, <em>“He found himself in deep water.”</em>\n\n  Not understanding that my POV character’s internal thought meant he found himself in trouble, she thought I had put him in a swimming pool and forgot to put that detail on the page.<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/deep-water1.jpg\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-1211 aligncenter\" title=\"deep water\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/deep-water1.jpg?w=209\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" /></a>\n\nFrequently what’s playing in my head fails to come across on the page in early drafts. Thank heaven for CPs who call me when that happens.\n\nNot this time, though. This time I was using Texas talk.\n\nShe\'d never heard the expression <em>“in deep water” </em>used that way. Her stumbling over the phrase led to a discussion of colloquial language and how words, phrases, and even clichés vary from one geographical area to another.\n\nIn Texas, we have a whole slew of vocabulary that has folks scratching their heads. I just used one—<em>slew</em>, meaning a whole bunch. We’re always <em>y’all</em>-ing and <em>gonna</em> and <em>fixin’ </em>when we talk. Non-Texans do sometimes need an interpreter.\n\n Some more phrases:\n\n<em>come hell or high water</em><em> - </em>proceeding, regardless of the problems, obstacles, etc.\n\n<em>conniptions</em><em> - </em>get upset and raise a ruckus\n\n<em>hissy fit </em>– kin to a conniption a state of extreme agitation and not a pretty thing to see\n\n<em>hot as tin toilet seat</em> – in Texas we know that’s HOT\n\n<em>screaming bloody murder</em> or <em>banshee scream</em> – not a pleasant sound at all\n\n<em>bone tired</em> – yep, been there\n\n<em>slow as molasses</em> – visualize black syrup oozing out of the jar\n\n<em>keep your pants on</em> – meaning not what you think, but to be patient!\n\nWhen I’m being lazy with my writing or rushing, Texas terms and phrases naturally flow into my first drafts. \n\nI also have favorite words that pop up. Words like: <em>had, that, could, was, felt, knew, thought, saw, walked, come. </em><a href=\"http://www.margielawson.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Margie Lawson  </a>calls these “<strong><em>weasel words</em></strong>.”\n\n I learned in Margie’s deep editing class, <a href=\"http://www.margielawson.com/lecture-packets/deep-editing-the-edits-system-rhetorical-devices-and-more\" target=\"_blank\">The EDITS System</a>, to keep a WEASEL WORD CHART listing colloquial phrases, overused word, throw-away words, clichés, and opinion words.\n\n Unfortunately, my chart populates too easily. I\'m my own worst copy editor. that\'s why I always pay a professional before my books are published. The words I overuse stand out like sore thumbs to others.  (Sorry, Margie had to use a cliché to prove my point.)\n\n During the revision stages, the chart helps eliminate such weasel words and phrases using my word processor’s search and replace function.  \n\nBUT characterization can need slang and colloquial regional dialogue. Texan talk has a function if the protagonist is a Texan or the setting is Texas.\n\nAre you working on a Texas setting or character? Here’s a great resource: <a href=\"http://www.rice.edu/armadillo/Texas/talk.html\">http://www.rice.edu/armadillo/Texas/talk.html</a>\n\nOther times, overuse in novel narrative becomes a stumbling block, pulling readers from the story.\n\n When that happens, the reader does what no writer wants a reader to do—QUITS reading!\n\n If colloquialisms are your writer’s voice, I caution you to be sure your reader can understand what you’re saying. Always remember what I learned in a <a href=\"http://www.susanwiggs.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Susan Wiggs</a> workshop.\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>In the battle of words, the story reigns.</strong></p>\n Our word choices should always move the story forward.\n\nIn case you’re wondering what I did about my CP’s question, I decided the reader could discern the meaning from the rest of the scene and left the phrase “deep water” in the manuscript.\n\n<strong> </strong><strong>How about you…</strong>\n\nDo colloquialisms, local slang and weasel words slip into your novels?\n\nAre you guilty of using expressions you grew up with that might confuse a reader? Care to share some and explain their local meaning?','Texas talk, colloquialisms, and weasel words - in my writing?','','publish','open','open','','texas-talk-colloquialisms-and-weasel-words-in-my-writing','','','2012-09-17 10:53:11','2012-09-17 15:53:11','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=1205',0,'post','',12);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1224,1,'2012-09-21 11:20:57','2012-09-21 16:20:57','No recipes or no recommendation for the best fast food restaurant serving chicken nuggets.\n\nAlthough if you\'re ever in South Fork, Colorado, I do highly recommend the chicken strips at Rockaway Cafe &amp; Steakhouse.\n \n<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/rockaway-cafe.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1228\" title=\"rockaway cafe\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/rockaway-cafe.jpg?w=179\" alt=\"\" width=\"179\" height=\"300\" /></a>Rockaway is a small family owned business with a casual atmosphere. Reminiscent of eating in someone\'s home. John handpicks the fresh chicken breasts and carefully breads with his secret recipe.\n\nYou’ll love ‘em. We do.\n\nBut back to the Miller Farm.\n\nToday our resident chicken wrangler is sharing some observations and a follow-up on last week\'s acrobatic chicken.\n\n<em>The follow-up first – Butterscotch, the acrobatic chicken, seems to have recovered nicely. I had intended to clean her hurt foot every morning but I have yet to be able to catch her. Since she is moving faster than I am, I would say she is doing pretty well.</em>\n\n<em>Observations on the concept of pecking order... \nWe have introduced new chickens into our flock on several occasions. Usually we have a group of birds that have gotten large enough to move outside but are still somewhat smaller than our mature hens, putting them on the bottom of the pecking order.</em>\n\n<em>One evening I noticed that there was some “discussion” about who got to roost on a particular perch. Little Grey Hen come running out of the coop then she ran back in.</em>\n\n<em>I heard all kinds of noise and saw that a smaller black bird was trying to roost on the end where Little Grey Hen usually sleeps. She would have none of that and before I (or the smaller hen) knew it, the black hen was on the ground and Little Grey Hen was back on her perch.</em>\n\n<em>My first thought was “They all rolled over and one fell out.” (from the song Ten in the Bed).</em>\n\n[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yd8CApTkCtw?rel=0&amp;w=560&amp;h=315]\n\n<p>\n\n<em> Thoughts on hatching... \nWe have an assortment of fowl (chickens and quail) in the brooder in the garage. They hatched over a period of two days.</em>\n\n<em>The last chicken to hatch seemed to have its shell stuck to its back side. We left it alone for a while, knowing that the struggle to get it off was making the bird stronger. \n\nAt a certain point, however, we could stand it no longer, and I held the bird while Rachel carefully cut away the shell which was hanging on by a thread.</em>\n\n<em>We added the chicken sans the large chunk of hanging shell to the brooder where its feathers were able to dry and the last tiny bits of the shell came off.</em>\n\n<em>I thought about parenting – <strong>sometimes we have to help kids get completely out of their shell so they can begin their own life</strong>.</em>\n\n<em>The baby quail in the brooder nearly drove me nuts. They started sleeping on their sides with their feet stretched out making them look dead. \n\nI guess I opened the cage and woke them up enough times that they decided if they wanted to get any sleep at all, they’d better sleep on their feet like fowl are supposed to do.</em>\n\n<em>I’m definitely getting more sleep as well.</em>\n\n<strong>MY TURN:</strong> \nSara, the Chicken Wrangler, observed that a chicken\'s process of hatching is like watching our children growing up. We need to help them out of their shells before they can begin their own life. Seems to me, that\'s what writers do for their protagonists. We help them out of their shell. The literary term is character arc. \n\n<strong>YOUR TURN:</strong> Do you see your child or your main character\'s growth as hatching out of a shell?','Miller Farm Friday - CHICKEN NUGGETS & Hatching Children','','publish','open','open','','miller-farm-friday-chicken-nuggets-hatching-children','','','2012-09-21 11:20:57','2012-09-21 16:20:57','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=1224',0,'post','',6);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1251,1,'2012-09-24 14:30:30','2012-09-24 19:30:30','When I started writing for publication, I repeatedly heard three \"absolute must dos.\"\n\nYears later and many published works, I have my own opinion about those MUSTs.\n\n<strong>#1 Write what you know.</strong>\nFirst, imo, writing what you know is <del datetime=\"2012-09-24T19:14:44+00:00\">easy</del> lazy writing. I’ve done it, you’ve done. Who hasn’t?\n\nBUT, we live in the technology age. These days you can research anything without leaving home.\n\nOr looking at it another way, we write fiction. We can make it up!\n\nIt’s been my experience, as long as my reader can suspend their disbelief and buy into my story I don’t have to be an expert about what I’m writing.\n\nI will qualify my opinion by saying that IF you write about what you know and what interests you, your story is more likely to come alive for your reader. <del datetime=\"2012-09-24T19:16:41+00:00\">Good</del> Sound research can produce an engaging story too.\n\nSo, don’t limit yourself to what you know. Explore. Be adventurous. Be creative. Research.\n\n<strong>#2 Don\'t write to market.</strong>\nIndie publishing has blown this MUST out of the water.\n\nOn the other hand, if you write to the traditional publishing market, you might want to AVOID market trends.\n\nBy the time a manuscript is ready for what is currently trending, that trend may have died. Big Six publishers take too long from contract to reality in a bookstore. Do you really want to spend weeks, months, even years writing a book that won\'t sell?\n\nBUT if you’re considering indie publishing or e-publishing, I suggest you keep your eye on the marketplace. <a href=\"http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Publishers’ Marketplace </a>offers deal news which is an indicator of what’s coming out.\n\nSubscribe to the free lunch edition of Publishers’ Market place or spring for a paid subscription to the Marketplace. Check regularly to see what’s trending.\n\nThen if you need a story idea, you’ll have plenty of ideas. You might find one that appeals to you and will likely be most saleable.\n\n<strong>#3 Write the best book you can.</strong>\nThis one is absolutely, positively TRUE.\n\nWhat sells a book or an article or a paper is <strong>CONTENT</strong>.\n\nAgents and editors reject mediocre or unsellable submissions. Reviewers and readers will post bad reviews. So write the best, most creative, most marketable manuscript or article you can. ALWAYS!\n\nI wish I could promise that you follow these MUSTs you’ll find success. I can’t.\n\nThere are two other elements.\n\nOnly one of my early advisors – New York Times bestseller <a href=\"http://www.joannross.com/\" target=\"_blank\">JoAnn Ross</a> -- was honest enough to share this illusive element of writing success.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.commentsyard.com/\"><img src=\"http://www.commentsyard.com/graphics/good-luck/good-luck43.png\" alt=\"Good Luck Graphic #43\" width=\"353\" height=\"294\" /></a>\n\nThank you, JoAnn\n\nThe other key element and critical MUST is\n<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/persevere.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1254\" title=\"persevere\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/persevere.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"253\" /></a>\n\nSo I end by wishing you luck because every author – aspiring or established – needs a boatload of LUCK and this perserverance quote from <a href=\"http://judythemorgan.com/writers.html\" target=\"_blank\">my website </a>writers’ resource page:\n\n<em>You do not know what the next effort will bring because the future is not based on the past. That feeling of wanting to give up is based solely on the past, which really doesn\'t matter anymore. What matters now is where you\'re headed, not where you\'ve been. And when you view it from that perspective, giving up is simply not an option.” ~~~R. Marston</em>\n\n<strong>YOUR TURN:</strong>\nWhat’s on your list of MUSTs for aspiring writers?','Debunking Must Dos for aspiring writers','','publish','open','open','','debunking-must-dos-for-aspiring-writers','','','2012-09-24 14:30:30','2012-09-24 19:30:30','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=1251',0,'post','',8);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1266,1,'2012-10-01 09:30:44','2012-10-01 14:30:44','Last Monday, September 24th was National Punctuation Day. <span style=\"color:#444444;line-height:23px;\">Thanks </span><a style=\"line-height:23px;\" href=\"http://bit.ly/QSi6O9\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Laube</a><span style=\"color:#444444;line-height:23px;\"> and </span><a style=\"line-height:23px;\" href=\"http://bit.ly/PitZfV\" target=\"_blank\">Janice Heck</a><span style=\"color:#444444;line-height:23px;\"> for sharing on your blogs and putting me in the know about this yearly celebration.</span>\n\n<span style=\"color:#444444;line-height:23px;\">I\'m a week late this year, but next year I\'ll be on time to celebrate the day </span>Jeff Rubin established as the “celebration of the lowly comma, correctly used quotation marks, and other proper uses of periods, semi-colons, and the ever mysterious ellipsis” in 2004.\n\nSteve Laube posted this five minute repartee between Dean Martin and Victor Borge skit with Phonetic Punctuation. It\'s hilarious any day of the year.\n\n[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiGgnpUrP98&amp;w=560&amp;h=315]\n\nOn a more serious note, if you have as much trouble with punctuation and grammar as I do, I recommend:\n\n<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/51ysrsn08hl-_bo2204203200_pisitb-sticker-arrow-clicktopright35-76_aa300_sh20_ou01_.jpg\"><img class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1272 alignleft\" title=\"51ysRsN08HL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/51ysrsn08hl-_bo2204203200_pisitb-sticker-arrow-clicktopright35-76_aa300_sh20_ou01_.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>\n\n<a href=\"http://amzn.to/Omhjcc\" target=\"_blank\">Nitty-Gritty Grammar</a>\nA humorous guide to correct grammar.\n\nOr for the serious student: <a href=\"http://amzn.to/SiMdRP\" target=\"_blank\">The Elements of Style</a>\n<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/51yqb9-p84l-_sl500_aa300_.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1277\" title=\"51yQb9-P84L._SL500_AA300_\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/51yqb9-p84l-_sl500_aa300_.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>\n\nClick on either to read more and/or add to your writer resource shelf. I\'m guessing many have the Strunk and White. It\'s been around as long as Dean Martin and Victor Borge.\n\nI think certain T-shirt manufacturers might want to buy one of these punctuation guides for their advertising staff.\n\nCheck out this Old Navy T-shirt ad with the phrase \"Let\'s Go\" wrongly imprinted \"Lets Go,\" missing the appropriate apostrophe.\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/article-2029204-0d8a8efa00000578-706_634x472.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1284\" title=\"article-2029204-0D8A8EFA00000578-706_634x472\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/article-2029204-0d8a8efa00000578-706_634x472.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" /></a></p>\n<strong>YOUR TURN</strong>\nWhat\'s the worst grammatical/punctuation error you\'ve made or seen?','I Missed National Punctuation Day. Did you?','','publish','open','open','','i-missed-national-punctuation-day-did-you','','','2012-10-01 09:30:44','2012-10-01 14:30:44','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=1266',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1291,1,'2012-09-28 09:46:39','2012-09-28 14:46:39','My latest email from the Miller Farm\n\n<em>PLACES I NEVER THOUGHT I’D BE…</em>\n\n<em> </em><em>In a feed store parking lot next to trailers full of cows waiting for my chicken feed</em>\n\n<em>Standing two feet from thousands of bees while filling a waterer</em>\n\n<em>And the latest addition:</em>\n\n<em>Laying under a car in my driveway wearing a Vera Bradley floral apron while holding some piece of the car up while Beekeeper Brian puts in bolts.</em>\n\n<em>I wouldn\'t trade my life for anything, which is good since nobody else would want it ;-)</em>\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_1292\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"287\"]<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/sara-and-spoon.jpg\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-1292\" title=\"sara and spoon\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/sara-and-spoon.jpg?w=287\" alt=\"\" width=\"287\" height=\"300\" /></a> With talent like this, I\'m not sure any one would be able to trade places with Chicken Wrangler Sara.[/caption]\n\nThe following reply arrived from my other daughter (who takes her children to Miller Farm on field trips) minutes later …\n\n<em>One question:  why were the cows waiting for your chicken feed????? LOL</em>\n\n<em>I know three kids (OK, 2 1/2) who would take your life any day of the week...we had a blast!  </em>\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_1293\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"300\"]<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/sara-john-michael1.jpg\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-1293\" title=\"sara john michael\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/sara-john-michael1.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" /></a> Stick my hand inside to get the egg!?[/caption]\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">A short exchange this week, but one that raises a great, thought-provoking question: Would I trade my life?</p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">My answer: Not for all the tea in China.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">YOUR TURN: How would you answer?</p>','Miller Farm Friday','','publish','open','open','','miller-farm-friday-2','','','2012-09-28 09:46:39','2012-09-28 14:46:39','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=1291',0,'post','',4);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1306,1,'2012-10-08 07:48:03','2012-10-08 12:48:03','I’m having an<em> Alexander</em> day. A terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day where nothing goes right.\n\nI’m sure you’ve had those days too, but you may not be familiar with the term <em>Alexander </em>day.\n\nIf not, you HAVE to read, Judith Voirst’s <em>Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day</em>. It’s a delightful children’s book that will warm your adult heart. Click on the cover to read more.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Alexander-Terrible-Horrible-Good-Very/dp/1416985956/ref=la_B000APM5L2_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1348763532&amp;sr=1-1\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1307\" title=\"Alexander book\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/alexander-book.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" /></a>\n\nLike Alexander, I must decide what to do with this terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.\n\nI could grump and get nowhere with my editing or...\n\nsince I believe <strong>action can alter attitude</strong>,\n\nI\'m choosing to blog about a recent experience in a wonderful little Panhandle city called Clarendon.\n\nFor the non-Texan blog readers that would be the northernmost 26 counties in the state. The part that looks like the handle of a pan.\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_1308\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"271\"]<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/panhandle.gif\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-1308\" title=\"Panhandle\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/panhandle.gif?w=271\" alt=\"\" width=\"271\" height=\"300\" /></a> Panhandle counties[/caption]\n\nOn our travels between Houston and Colorado, we\'ve gone through Clarendon on US 287 many, many times. Not a big city. Population is under two thousand. It’s home to Clarendon College (established 1898), the oldest center of higher education in the Texas Panhandle.\n\nOn our most recent trip through, I was having another <em>Alexander</em> day. This time  because I had strep throat. The penicillin hadn’t fully kicked in so I was feeling pretty rotten.\n\nWe arrived in Clarendon late - 7:30 p.m. – and hungry. For all you city dwellers who think that isn’t late, small towns tend to roll up the sidewalks early.\n\nWe saw a sign for the Clarendon Steakhouse and pulled in praying it would be open. I was hoping the buffet had some soup that would soothe my very raw throat.\n\nThe building is a former grocery store converted to a restaurant with funny cowboys on the windows and friendly people inside. Very friendly and very kind people.\n\nWhen we went inside, the place was about empty and the buffet was bare. My hopes sank. They were closed.\n\nA waitress, in an apron that Vera Bradley would give her eye tooth to claim, greeted us. Turns out the waitress\' grandmother made her apron. I asked.\n\nI explained how we were passing though, tired of driving, hungry and really wanted some soup. Okay, I admit I shared more detail than necessary, but I am a storyteller.\n\nShe walked us to a back table to check with the owner whose name was Mary. I think. Remember I was not having a good day and that affected my memory.\n\nMary pointed to her husband’s soup bowl filled with the most delicious looking chicken soup I’d ever seen. I know I looked a bit peaked and I must have drooled because Mary said she had enough for a couple of bowls.\n\nShe directed us to the “non-smoking” section. A booth at the store window under a ceiling fan. (to disperse cigarette smoke)\n\nSitting in the next booth was Fred Gray, local columnist for The Clarendon Enterprise. We shared writing stories. He even went next door to the newspaper office for old editions so we could read his “The Quick, the Dead and Fred” column. Check out some of his columns in the newspaper\'s<a href=\"http://www.clarendononline.com/\" target=\"_blank\"> online edition</a> you\'ll enjoy them.\n\nNaturally, I shared my business card with my website and told him all about my writing. And, I’d love for you to check out <a href=\"http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/my-books/\" target=\"_blank\">my Judythe Morgan books page</a>. :-)\n\nSarah, a lovely young Clarendon High School student, served as our waitress. She was excited and bubbly about her coming class trip to Washington, D.C.  Needless to say, we gave her a generous tip to go toward her expenses.\n\nSuddenly our tiring, drive of 540 miles with another 145 more to go before we stopped had become a pleasant vist with friendly people and delicious down home chicken soup.\n\nAnd Mary wouldn’t let us pay for our dinner! Isn\'t small town America wonderful?\n\nSharing has helped refuel my creative juices and improved my terrible, horrible, really bad day dramatically. I’m back to editing.\n\n<strong>YOUR TURN: </strong>What about you? How do you combat a really bad, terrible, horrible day?','My Alexander Day and Small Town Love','','publish','open','open','','my-alexander-day-and-small-town-love','','','2012-10-08 07:48:03','2012-10-08 12:48:03','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=1306',0,'post','',4);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1345,1,'2012-10-15 07:51:49','2012-10-15 12:51:49','Today\'s inspiration is short, pointed and graphic.\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_1427\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"500\"]<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/writers-glock2.jpg\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-1427\" title=\"writer\'s glock\" alt=\"\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/writers-glock2.jpg\" height=\"386\" width=\"500\" /></a> The Writer\'s Glock created by Kandi Rich and shared with her permission. For more great graphics check out her website at <a href=\"http://kandirich.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Kandi Rich</a>[/caption]\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Now go <strong>WRITE</strong></p>','Monday Motiviation - Ready, aim, write','','publish','open','open','','monday-motiviation-ready-aim-write','','','2012-10-15 07:51:49','2012-10-15 12:51:49','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=1345',0,'post','',2);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1353,1,'2012-10-05 08:17:27','2012-10-05 13:17:27','For an urban city farm, the Miller Farm produces a wide variety of products. I love the eggs. And, the honey Beekeeper Brian extracts is equally tasty.\n\n<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/2012-06-30_11-06-19_134.jpg\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-1354 aligncenter\" title=\"2012-06-30_11-06-19_134\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/2012-06-30_11-06-19_134.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"263\" /></a>\n\nChicken Wrangler email today is about the bees on the farm.\n\n<em>Today has been a bit busier than a normal. I added blood donation to my already full errand list.</em>\n\n<em> When I</em><em> returned to the Farm, I discovered an interesting object on my kitchen counter. </em>\n\n<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/bottle-and-banana-peel.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1357\" title=\"bottle and banana peel\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/bottle-and-banana-peel.jpg?w=225\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" /></a>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\" align=\"center\"><em>It is a two liter bottle (which I had saved at Beekeeper Brian\'s request) which is about a quarter full of clear liquid with what appears to be a banana peel in it.</em></p>\n<em> </em><em>This last part was confirmed by the discovery of both ends of the banana peel in the sink. Now being married to Brian for 25 years, I know this is something he has done.</em>\n\n<em>I suspect it has something to do with the bees. </em><em>Just in case you need a little humor to lighten your day,  any other guesses? </em>\n\n<em>I\'ll</em><em> let you know what this contraption is </em><em>when I find out.</em>\n\nThen the next morning this Chicken Wrangler email arrived.\n\n<em>A moth trap! </em>\n\n<em> </em><em>Apparently there is a type of moth that takes up residence in bee hives and greatly hinders honey production. They are extremely attracted to the clear liquid in the two liter bottle which is actually a mixture of sugar, water and honey.</em>\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_1358\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"300\"]<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/varroamiteonahoneybee.jpg\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-1358 \" title=\"VarroaMiteOnAHoneybee\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/varroamiteonahoneybee.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" /></a> If you look closely, you can see the moth mite on the bee\'s neck.[/caption]\n\n<em>The banana peel puts off some gas thing as it ferments that is extremely unattractive to the bees so they are not tempted to join the moths in their final swim.</em>\n\n<em>The banana must ferment for two days so tomorrow the  bottle will go out back near the bee hives. I\'ll report back on the success of the \"two liter bottle/banana peel moth trap.\"</em>\n\n<em> </em><a href=\"http://eberthoney.com/honeybeeblog/blog4.php/main/?paged=12\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-1359 aligncenter\" title=\"WaxMothDamage\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/waxmothdamage.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\n\n<dl class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\">A hive destroyed by wax moths. Note the larva in the honeycombs.</dd><dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\">Learn more about the wax moth and bees: http://eberthoney.com/honeybeeblog/blog4.php/main/?paged=12</dd></dl><em><em><em>Now I am sure we will all sleep better having solved this mystery.</em></em> </em>\n\n<em>~~Sara - who never ceases to be amazed at the wonders her husband discovers</em>\n\nI, too, am amazed at the things Beekeeper Brian can do. Some blog we\'ll talk about his fly-fishing skills or his woodcrafting bowls or his dulcimer building skills. A multi-tasking beekeeper-farmer that Brian.\n\nYOUR TURN: Ever found something unfamiliar on your kitchen counter?','Miller Farm Friday - Wax Bees and Bananas','','publish','open','open','','miller-farm-friday-wax-bees-and-bananas','','','2012-10-05 08:17:27','2012-10-05 13:17:27','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=1353',0,'post','',2);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1380,1,'2012-10-22 09:23:29','2012-10-22 14:23:29','A friend recently shared this video titled <em>Neglected Ducks Get Their First Swim</em> from Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary. Great music, btw.\n\n[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrPajlIsKd0&amp;w=560&amp;h=315]\n\nMy first thought after watching the ducks repeatedly turn away from the water was that we writers are sometimes like those hoarded ducks-afraid to test new waters with our writing.\n\nWhen was the last time you tried to write\n<ul>\n	<li>a different genre</li>\n	<li>a short story if you normally write novels</li>\n	<li>a novel if you normally write short stories</li>\n	<li><span style=\"color:#444444;line-height:23px;\">a blog instead of just reading blogs</span></li>\n	<li><span style=\"color:#444444;line-height:23px;\">a tweet - </span><span style=\"color:#444444;line-height:23px;\">now that will test your skill</span></li>\n	<li>a 1st person POV if you usually write 3rd person POV</li>\n	<li>a <span style=\"color:#444444;line-height:23px;\">3rd person</span> POV if you usually write  <span style=\"color:#444444;line-height:23px;\">1st person </span>POV</li>\n</ul>\nTo me the pond in the video represents possibilities for our writer creativity. If we\'d only venture forth and test the waters more, I think we\'d see brave new worlds open up for our muse.\n\nDid you notice how much fun those ducks were having once they took the plunge?\n\nAnd who knows, we might find we like writing something new and different more than what we\'re comfortable writing.\n\n<strong>YOUR TURN:</strong> Have you ever written something out of your comfort zone? How\'d it feel?','Monday Motivations: Testing the Waters','','publish','open','open','','monday-motivations-testing-the-waters','','','2012-10-22 09:23:29','2012-10-22 14:23:29','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=1380',0,'post','',2);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1397,1,'2012-10-12 07:56:09','2012-10-12 12:56:09','This week\'s email from the farm...\n\n<em>I love my chickens and my chickens love me - especially when I feed them.</em>\n\n<em>I was checking for eggs in the nest boxes this morning when one of the black hens started moving hay from one next box to the other. I guess she is the designated interior decorator.</em>\n\n<em>Meanwhile, Essie (short for Survivor Girl from the Christmas Eve massacre at Barneyville) follows me around the whole time I am in the chicken yard.</em>\n\n<em>In fact, I have accidentally stepped on her before. That hasn\'t stopped her. Anyway, she hopped up on the door to the nest boxes and watched the redecorating process.</em>\n\n<em>She is the only chicken we have who will let you pet her. I guess I now understand how people can have pet chickens. But, she’s not coming inside. Already tried that with Einstein and look where it got him.</em>\n\n<em>I know that is shocking to you, but this made me think of a song.</em>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>I have a chicken my chicken loves me</em>\n<em> I feed my chicken on tender leaf tea</em>\n<em> My little chicken goes bak bak bak</em>\n<em> My little rooster goes cockle doodle doodle\ndoodle doodle doodle do.</em></p>\n<em>Anyone else remember that one?</em>\n\nI did remember the song, but had no idea who wrote it or when. After a quick Google search, I discover Arkansas folk singer named <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almeda_Riddle\" target=\"_blank\">Almeda Riddle</a> (1898-1986) was the first to publicly sing “My Little Rooster.”\n\nAlso known as Granny Riddle, her acapella recording of the song appears on the 1997 cult film \"<a href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119237/\" target=\"_blank\">Gummo</a>.” If you’d like a listen click below:\n\n[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtbPk5NsEQA?rel=0&amp;w=420&amp;h=315]\n\nIf you’ve got a preschooler or kindergartener, gather them up to the computer screen and have a watch of this more pleasant sounding variation. They’ll love it.\n\n[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvaaBB_UhMQ?rel=0&amp;w=420&amp;h=315]\n\nChicken Wrangler Sara isn\'t singing, though it could be her. She is a professional musician and music teacher. It’s exactly the sort of thing she’d do.\n\nWell, on second thought, maybe not. She\'d probably bring Essie so the kiddos could pet a real chicken and sing!\n\nYOUR TURN: I’m sure we have you humming the \"I love My Rooster\" tune by now. If you don’t have a rooster or a chicken or a pig or a cow or a …, what would you substitute for rooster in the song?','Miller Farm Friday - I love my chickens','','publish','open','open','','miller-farm-friday-i-love-my-chickens','','','2012-10-12 07:56:09','2012-10-12 12:56:09','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=1397',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1436,1,'2012-10-16 08:31:14','2012-10-16 13:31:14','If you\'re like me, you follow lots of blogs and skim. Shoot, there are some weeks I don\'t even skim, I press delete.\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_1437\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"150\"]<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/gg574322411.jpg\"><img class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1437\" title=\"gg57432241[1]\" alt=\"\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/gg574322411.jpg?w=150\" height=\"150\" width=\"150\" /></a> SOURCE: http://www.gograph.com/stock-illustration/delete-key.html[/caption]Last night I played catch up and found some great blogs you might have missed and thought the links worth sharing.\n<ul>\n	<li>For bloggers: How to get more readers</li>\n</ul>\nThe Write Conversation: <a href=\"http://thewriteconversation.blogspot.com/2012/10/social-media-mondaydrive-traffic-to.html\" target=\"_blank\">Drive Traffic to Your Blog Using Twitter</a>\n<ul>\n	<li>For writers: Great tips on increasing your fanbase and sales</li>\n</ul>\nAuthor Media:. <a href=\"http://www.authormedia.com/2012/02/13/10-ways-to-get-more-facebook-fans-this-week/\" target=\"_blank\">Ten ways to get more FB fans</a>\n\nThe Creative Pen: <a href=\"http://www.thecreativepenn.com/2012/09/16/get-amazon-book-reviews/\" target=\"_blank\">How to get Amazon book reviews</a>\n<ul>\n	<li>If you use gmail, a how-to prevent HACKERS</li>\n</ul>\nNathan Bransford: <a href=\"http://blog.nathanbransford.com/2012/10/two-step-e-mail-verification.html\" target=\"_blank\">Two step e-mail verification for G-mail users</a>\n<ul>\n	<li>For Trivia</li>\n</ul>\nSmithsonian Magazine: <a href=\"http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/The-Accidental-History-of-the-at-Symbol-165593146.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Accidental History of the @ symbol</a>\n<ul>\n	<li>For Fun</li>\n</ul>\nToday.com <a href=\"http://on.today.com/Rtdt0a\" target=\"_blank\">Why CBS still loves I Love Lucy</a>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">ENJOY!</p>\nYOUR TURN: If you\'ve found a blog, you think I missed, tell me your comment.','Bonus Tuesday-Blogs you may have missed','','publish','open','open','','bonus-tuesday-blogs-you-may-have-missed','','','2012-10-16 08:31:14','2012-10-16 13:31:14','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=1436',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1445,1,'2014-06-17 21:38:07','0000-00-00 00:00:00','According to Christopher Vogler:\n\n\"Many cultures believed the letters of their alphabets were far more than just symbols for communication, recording transactions, or recalling history. They believed letters were powerful magical symbols that could be used to cast spells and predict the future. The Norse runes and the Hebrew alphabet are simple letters for spelling words, but also deep symbols of cosmic significance.\n\nThis magical sense is preserved in our word spelling. When you \"spell\" a word correctly, you are in effect casting a spell, charging these abstract, arbitrary symbols with meaning and power.\"\n\n','SPELLING Magic','','draft','open','open','','','','','2014-06-17 21:38:07','0000-00-00 00:00:00','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=1445',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1449,1,'2012-10-19 08:21:26','2012-10-19 13:21:26','<em>I think I figured out why the new little chicks are not going into the coop at night.</em>\n\n<em>I went out before the sun was completely gone last night and watched one of the Bantam hens stand at the door of the coop, refusing to let the little chicks in. When one slipped inside, she chased it back out. </em>\n\n<em>I explained to her that she was behaving like a bully and it had to stop. She didn’t listen very well and continued to chase the little chicks away.</em>\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_1454\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"148\"]<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/istock_000012250677small-bantam1.jpg\"><img class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1454\" title=\"iStock_000012250677Small-bantam\" alt=\"\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/istock_000012250677small-bantam1.jpg?w=148\" height=\"150\" width=\"148\" /></a> Bully Bantam[/caption]\n\n<em>Thinking a distraction might discourage her bullying. We decided to let three quail out of their cage so we could use the cage to transport other quail (another moving day – this one less traumatic). </em>\n\n<em>Watching freed quail is quite fascinating. </em>\n\n<em>They are not interested in leaving the chicken yard. In fact, I’m not sure they know how to fly very far. They can get away from the dogs if necessary, but prefer to walk around with the chickens. </em>\n\n<em>Perhaps, living with chickens, they don’t know they are quail.</em>\n\n<em>Anyway, one of the newly freed quail began chasing the chickens around. Why the chickens run from something a fraction of their size is beyond me. I think it is the bird brain phenomenon.</em>\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_1452\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"100\"]<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/istock_000004026536medium-quail1.jpg\"><img class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1452\" title=\"iStock_000004026536Medium-quail\" alt=\"\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/istock_000004026536medium-quail1.jpg?w=100\" height=\"150\" width=\"100\" /></a> Chicken Chasing Quail[/caption]\n\n<em>I must confess when I saw it chasing Bully Bantam, I felt a certain sense of justice. </em>\n\n<em>Apparently, Bully Bantam learned her lesson. All six little chicks were safely in the coop tonight.</em>\n\n<em>However, </em><em>I did notice a frog in the chicken waterer. I was afraid he was planning to move in and worried about how he would be received by the Chasing Quail and Bully Bantam.</em>\n\n<em> </em><em>This morning Mr. Frog was gone so maybe he just came to get a drink at night when all the bullies were sleeping.</em>\n\nBy definition bullying is aggressive behavior that is intentional, hurtful, (physical and psychological), and/or threatening and persistent (repeated). There is an imbalance of strength (power and dominance).\n\nIn the Miller Farm Barnyard, the imbalance corrected itself when the small quail took on the Bantam hen.\n\nIn real life, if we see someone being bullied, we have the power to step up and be a bully chaser like that quail in Chicken Wrangler Sara\'s email today.\n\nI love this quote by <span style=\"color:#444444;line-height:23px;\"> </span><a style=\"color:#df0000;line-height:23px;\" href=\"http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1036517.Taylor_Swift\">Taylor Swift</a><span style=\"color:#444444;line-height:23px;\"> </span>“If you\'re horrible to me, I\'m going to write a song about it, and you won\'t like it. That\'s how I operate.”\n\nThat\'s being a bully chasing quail!\n\nFor another example of how  <span style=\"color:#444444;line-height:23px;\">an overweight television newscaster </span>handled being bullied, check out fellow WANA tribe member <a href=\"http://gingercalem.wordpress.com/2012/10/03/writersbutt-wednesday-being-mean-sucks/\" target=\"_blank\">Ginger Calem\'s blog</a> about the much publicized bullying episode.\n\n<strong>YOUR TURN: </strong>Have you had any experience with a bully? Did a quail come to your rescue? Or have you ever stepped up to be a bully chasing quail?','Miller Farm Friday - Barnyard Bullies','','publish','open','open','','miller-farm-friday-barnyard-bullies','','','2012-10-19 08:21:26','2012-10-19 13:21:26','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=1449',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1473,1,'2012-10-28 07:16:18','2012-10-28 12:16:18','I found this three minute video titled The Empty Pickle Jar offered some wise motivation.\n\n[vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/44102006 w=500&amp;h=331]\n\n<a href=\"http://vimeo.com/44102006\">Empty Pickle Jar</a> from <a href=\"http://vimeo.com/giftstogive\">GiftsToGive</a> on <a href=\"http://vimeo.com\">Vimeo</a>.\n\nHere\'s to a golf ball day of writing and lots of chocolate milk for you.','Monday Motivation: Empty pickle jars, golf ball days and chocolate','','publish','open','open','','monday-motivation-empty-pickle-jars-golf-ball-days-and-chocolate','','','2012-10-28 07:16:18','2012-10-28 12:16:18','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=1473',0,'post','',2);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1496,1,'2012-11-02 09:24:55','2012-11-02 14:24:55','I missed posting an email from the Miller Farm last Friday. My week was crazy with a whirlwind trip <span style=\"color:#444444;line-height:23px;\">from the gulf coast of Texas </span>to central Illinois. Left on Thursday back home on Monday. Two thousand miles in five days!\n\nWe made the trip to take most of our antique furniture to our son. Chicken wrangler Sara and her sister helped us out by taking some furniture, too. In the grand scheme of things we have more than our fair share of stuff. Watch for coming blogs about how we\'re simplifying our lives by downsizing.\n\nWhile we were traveling, life on the Miller Farm had its drama too.\n\n<em>We are remodeling our bathroom so right now things are really a mess, and we have no shower. </em>\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_1503\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"300\"]<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/sink-pix.jpg\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-1503\" title=\"sink pix\" alt=\"\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/sink-pix.jpg?w=300\" height=\"225\" width=\"300\" /></a> Talavera sink we bought during our days as missionaries in Mexico City and granite top are set. Wall texture and painting yet to come.[/caption]\n\n<em>We remodeled a bathroom in a different house 16 years ago and so we knew what we were in for…we thought.</em>\n\n<i>We\'ve</i><em> discovered, with two teenagers, things work a little different. </em><em>But no matter what’s going on inside the house, the chickens outside must still be let out, watered, and fed every day.</em>\n\n<em>So this morning, after I swam and showered at the pool, I went to let the chickens out and discovered not one, but two quail stuck where they didn\'t belong.</em>\n\n<em>One was in the space where the eggs roll out of the cage in the coop. This has happened before so I was not too surprised.</em>\n\n<em>Another quail was stuck in the feeder in the long cage. I have no idea how that happened.</em>\n\n<em>I was able to free both quail without major trauma to them or </em><em style=\"line-height:23px;\">me</em><em>.</em>\n\n<em>Then as I was filling the water for the cage in the coop, one of the quail got out. He was on top of the cage, which is hard to reach.</em>\n\n<em>Next, the escape artist quail  jumped to the ground. I shut the door to the coop (checking to make sure the string was on the inside so I could get back out) and trapped him.</em>\n\n<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/quail-coop1.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1505\" title=\"quail coop\" alt=\"\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/quail-coop1.jpg?w=300\" height=\"225\" width=\"300\" /></a>\n\n<em>Unfortunately when trying to put him back in the quail cage, he escaped again. At last sighting, he was hanging out on top of the cage. </em><em>He must think he is a chicken, which is fine with me.</em>\n\n<em>I figure the worst case scenario is he joins the other quail, who thinks he’s a chicken, that hangs out in the chicken yard all the time. </em>\n\n<em>Score one for Chicken Wrangler Sara.</em>\n\n<strong>YOUR TURN:</strong> Made any whirlwind trips or chased down escape artists this week?','Whirlwind trips, Quail escape artists and bathroom remodels','','publish','open','open','','whirlwind-trips-quail-escape-artists-and-bathroom-remodels','','','2012-11-02 09:24:55','2012-11-02 14:24:55','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=1496',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1519,1,'2012-11-05 07:20:17','2012-11-05 13:20:17','Hit a roadblock in your story? Creative juices won\'t flow?\n\nView this short two minute video for ways to get back in the groove.\n\n[vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/24302498 w=400&amp;h=300]\n\nI liked #25 and #29. #18 is great, especially with Thanksgiving looming on the horizon.\n\nI\'m not so sure I agree with #23. Doesn\'t sound like fun to me.\n\n<strong>YOUR TURN</strong>: What works to stir your creativity?','Monday Motivations: Creative juices dried up? 29 Ways to refresh','','publish','open','open','','monday-motivations-creative-juices-dried-up-29-ways-to-refresh','','','2012-11-05 07:20:17','2012-11-05 13:20:17','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=1519',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1538,1,'2012-11-06 09:12:34','2012-11-06 15:12:34','<em>When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature\'s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.</em>\n\nAnyone recognize that paragraph? I hope so. It’s the introductory paragraph to the <strong>Declaration of Independence</strong>. My fingers automatically typed those words instead of what I was meaning to say thanks to some teacher who made us memorize it and the Preamble to the Constitution.\n\nGuess I became sidetracked by all the political ads and chatter everywhere. Today we have the option to cast a ballot for the Presidential candidate of our choice.\n\n<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/vote.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-1539\" title=\"vote\" alt=\"\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/vote.jpg?w=150\" height=\"150\" width=\"150\" /></a>\n\nNow you go do the same. It’s our right and our privilege.\n\nBut I digress, the course of events that I meant to reference is that point in our lives when we recognize the time for change has arrived and we must do some personal downsizing.\n\nNo denying. All of us reach such a point sooner or later. By choice or by death.\n\nAs an antiques dealer, I’ve done enough estates – either as organizer, buyer or seller – to know that all our stuff ultimately has to go. Hearses don’t pull U-Hauls. We’re no longer an Egyptian pyramid culture where we entomb our worldly goods with us.\n\nRecently, my husband and I returned from our vacation home and looked around at our beautiful home in the suburbs of the nation’s 4th largest city and experienced a tipping point.\n\nWe asked one another, “Why do we need all this stuff?”\n\nThe obvious answer was we don’t. For 4-5 months every year, we live in a small, small house in the Rio Grande National Forest and love every minute of it. We come back to hustle and bustle and headaches. So we asked ourselves, “Why?”\n\nThat’s when we reached the tipping point and decided to sell our house and stuff and vie for a simple life in the woods.\n\nOur children are extremely grateful that they won’t be saddled with the grueling task after we’re gone. I think watching us disburse estates of our parents, his older sister, and our aunt and uncle convinced them it was an arduous job.\n\n<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/kids-at-easter.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1540\" title=\"kids at easter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/kids-at-easter.jpg?w=300\" height=\"224\" width=\"300\" /></a>\n\nWe’ve discovered a fringe benefit -- seeing our children enjoy the things of their childhood and objects from our home in theirs.\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_1559\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"150\"]<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/sara-and-her-barbie-house1.jpg\"><img class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1559\" title=\"O\" alt=\"\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/sara-and-her-barbie-house1.jpg?w=150\" height=\"120\" width=\"150\" /></a> That\'s Chicken Wrangler Sara and her original Barbie house. She couldn\'t believe we\'d kept it all these years![/caption]\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_1562\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"150\"]<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/jb-landry-chess3.jpg\"><img class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1562\" title=\"O\" alt=\"\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/jb-landry-chess3.jpg?w=150\" height=\"74\" width=\"150\" /></a> Our son and his son playing chess on the table where my husband and son played many a game.[/caption]\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_1566\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"150\"]<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/knives-at-stephs4.jpg\"><img class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1566 \" title=\"knives at steph\'s4\" alt=\"\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/knives-at-stephs4.jpg?w=150\" height=\"121\" width=\"150\" /></a> This knife set (a wedding present to my husband and me) now hangs in our youngest daughter\'s kitchen.[/caption]\n\nOn Tuesdays, I’ll be blogging about our journey to simplify and the amazing freedom we’re finding as we turn the stuff loose. I\'ll tell you how we decided what to get rid of and what to keep and how we disbursed the stuff.\n\nProbably not every Tuesday. After all, this is a monumental task that takes time.\n\nPlus I have another book due out this year. Gotta get in my writing time.','Tipping point and the course of human events','','publish','open','open','','tipping-point-and-the-course-of-human-events','','','2012-11-06 09:12:34','2012-11-06 15:12:34','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=1538',0,'post','',4);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1577,1,'2012-11-12 07:16:52','2012-11-12 13:16:52','Mondays are usually blogs to motivate writers. Today I\'m deviating a bit.\n\nI live on the Texas gulf coast. I\'ve seen lots and lots of storms. Big hurricanes, little hurricanes, and tropical storms that did more damage than any hurricane.\n\nI\'ve also been stranded in a volunteer fire department in Deep Creek, Maryland during a Nor\'easter blizzard for days with three small children,  a miniature schnauzer <span style=\"color:#444444;line-height:23px;\">and a husband anxious to get home to check on our house</span>. We shared the small fire department\'s building with about two hundred other motorists traveling home after the Thanksgiving holiday.\n\nBEFORE the era of cell phones I might add. No one knew what had happened to us for days.\n\nI\'m sure most of  you have seen the pictures of Hurricane Sandy\'s devastation. If you haven\'t, check out this site with before and after shots. Slide your mouse over the before snapshot and view the aftermath of Sandy. You\'ll be shocked.\n<h1><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/03/before-after-hurricane-sandy-photos_n_2068996.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular\" target=\"_blank\">Before/After Hurricane Sandy Photos Show How Storm Devastated East Coast (INTERACTIVE PICTURES)</a></h1>\nA week later a Nor\'easter visited the east coast. Too much for an already crushed area.\n\nThere is no doubt the damaging effects of Hurricane Sandy will be with us for a long time. Today I want to encourage everyone to help out and suggest donations to:\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http://tinyurl.com/d5lahgr\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-1578 aligncenter\" title=\"m6440078_148x68_ButtonLogo_Stacked\" alt=\"\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/m6440078_148x68_buttonlogo_stacked.png\" height=\"68\" width=\"148\" /></a></p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">From my personal experience with the Red Cross in a weather crisis, I know they are \"Johnny on the Spot.\" Red Cross volunteers offered some terrific sandwiches, <span style=\"color:#444444;line-height:23px;\">warm blankets, </span>and delivered messages for us during our blizzard experience. Just click on the logo above to donate.</p>\n<span style=\"color:#444444;line-height:23px;\">Based on my research,</span><span style=\"color:#444444;line-height:23px;\"> </span>I believe the following organizations are also trustworthy and<span style=\"color:#444444;line-height:23px;\"> positioned to help those in need receive immediate help and care. In order to make it easier for you to donate to these organizations, here are the direct links:</span>\n\n<a href=\"http://echo4.bluehornet.com/ct/18474661:20941368000:m:1:384838661:7AD889D7D0B175433840F9854C8609DE:r\">Salvation Army</a>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\"><a href=\"http://www.samaritanspurse.org/index.php/articles/hurricane_sandy/\" target=\"_blank\">Samaritan\'s Purse</a></p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">For our military families in the path of both storms, these organizations offer assistance:</p>\n<a href=\"http://echo4.bluehornet.com/ct/18474664:20941368000:m:1:384838661:7AD889D7D0B175433840F9854C8609DE:r\">Air Force Aid Society</a>\n\n<a href=\"http://echo4.bluehornet.com/ct/18474663:20941368000:m:1:384838661:7AD889D7D0B175433840F9854C8609DE:r\">Army Emergency Relief Fund</a>\n\n<a href=\"http://www.nmcrs.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Navy-M</a><a href=\"http://www.nmcrs.org/\" target=\"_blank\">arine Corps Relief Society</a>\n\nI\'m sure you may know of other organizations where you can help out in person or send a donation. HELP.\n\nI found <a style=\"color:#df0000;line-height:23px;\" href=\"http://www.facebook.com/events/388020704611404/\" target=\"_blank\">Write Now Relief </a><span style=\"color:#444444;line-height:23px;\"> </span>on Facebook that I know isn\'t a scam and offers the opportunity to win a like a 50-page critique of your novel by a published novelist in exchange for the winning donation bid.\n\nYou bid at  <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/events/388020704611404/\" target=\"_blank\">Write Now Relief </a> between Nov 9 and Nov 16. Highest bidder\'s amount with be  sent to relief efforts for the victims of Superstorm Sandy.\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Okay,  back to the writing...</p>','Monday Motivation: Lending a Hand or a $','','publish','open','open','','monday-motivation-lending-a-hand-or-a','','','2012-11-12 07:16:52','2012-11-12 13:16:52','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=1577',0,'post','',6);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1620,1,'2012-11-09 07:36:11','2012-11-09 13:36:11','<em>Well the inevitable finally happened – I got stung by a bee. </em>\n\n<em>I really can’t blame the bee. It flew into my hair while I was filling the chicken waterer and it got lost. </em><em>The bee panicked and burrowed into my scalp and stung me.</em>\n\n<em>I understand. I panic when I get lost too so I can feel its pain – literally.</em>\n\n<em>I managed to avoid doing the frantic bee dance and walked quickly to the water hose where I “washed that bee right out of my hair.”</em>\n\n<em>As I continued my morning chicken chores, I had two thoughts:</em>\n<em> 1. Where are the <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epinephrine_autoinjector\" target=\"_blank\">epipens</a>? </em>\n<em> 2. How long would it be before someone found me if I passed out in the yard?</em>\n\n<em>Fortunately, I did not have the same reaction to the bee sting as Beekeeper Brian so I didn’t need an answer to either question.</em>\n\n<em>Later as Beekeeper Brian was checking my head for stingers, he suggested that I wear a hat or bandana to prevent a repeat of the incident. This was a great idea.</em>\n\n<em>I remembered the bonnets you made for us to wear at<a href=\"http://www.osv.org/museum/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"> Sturbridge Village </a>on the 4th of July a million years ago? I still have one, or at least one just like it and it works perfectly for keeping bees out of my hair. </em>\n\n<em>So now, if the neighbors did not have enough entertainment before today, they now can watch me doing my morning chicken chores wearing a blue gingham bonnet.</em>\n\n<em>Ah – what a life.</em>\n\nOur other daughter immediately responded:\n\nI am not sure, the bonnet might make things worse. For, as the song goes, don\'t women frequently get a bee in their bonnet? Or is that just me to whom that happens?\n\nEither way, I am quite impressed that you still had your Sturbridge Village ephemera. All I have left is fond memories of a picture taken on a canon, with either Sandra Kay or some other random individual.\n\nWith our family, you just never know who it might be... friend, foe, fowl, feline or canine.\nCheers, Steph\n\nInteresting to me that both girls remembered the bonnets and not the reading of the Constitution or the fireworks. Which were the reason we originally made the trip!\n\n<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/4-of-july-1980-001.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1623\" title=\"4 of July 1980 001\" alt=\"\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/4-of-july-1980-001.jpg?w=300\" height=\"235\" width=\"300\" /></a>\n\nSteph is correct we did always have a house full. Someone who needed a place to stay or escape or an animal or bird that needed rescued.\n\nThat\'s why there are so many characters in my stories. Every visitor came with his own backstory which spawned a new story idea for me.\n\nI’d recommend <a href=\"http://www.osv.org/activities_events/events.html\" target=\"_blank\">a trip to Sturbridge Village</a> if not on the 4th of July then one of the other seasonal events. It made quite an impression on our children as you can tell.\n\n<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/4th-july-declaration-001.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1624\" title=\"4th July Declaration 001\" alt=\"\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/4th-july-declaration-001.jpg?w=300\" height=\"237\" width=\"300\" /></a>\n\nAnd, for those of you who might want your own bonnet. <a href=\"http://www.prairiebonnets.com/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">Prairiebonnets.com</a> has some excellent choices including flannel-lined for winter.\n\n<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/bonnetchambray.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-1625\" title=\"bonnetchambray\" alt=\"\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/bonnetchambray.jpg?w=150\" height=\"122\" width=\"150\" /></a>\n\n<strong>YOUR TURN TO SHARE:</strong>\n\nEver been stung by a bee?\n\nBeen to Sturbridge Village? Did you have as much fun as we did/do?','Miller Farm Friday: Bees in the Bonnet','','publish','open','open','','miller-farm-friday-bees-in-the-bonnet','','','2012-11-09 07:36:11','2012-11-09 13:36:11','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=1620',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1635,1,'2012-12-03 07:07:41','2012-12-03 13:07:41','<strong>It\'a not hard.</strong>\n\n<strong>Actually it\'s quite easy. </strong>\n\n<strong>Follow these ten SIMPLE steps...</strong>\n\n<a href=\"http://www.copyblogger.com/10-steps-to-better-writing/\"><img title=\"10 Steps to Becoming a Better Writer - Infographic\" alt=\"10 Steps to Becoming a Better Writer\" src=\"http://netdna.copyblogger.com/images/better-writer-graphic.png\" height=\"776\" width=\"500\" /></a>\n<small>Like this infographic? Get more <a href=\"http://www.copyblogger.com/content-marketing/\">content marketing</a> tips from <a href=\"http://www.copyblogger.com/\">Copyblogger</a>.</small>\n\nNow <strong>go</strong> <em>be a better writer</em>...','Wanta be a better writer? Monday Motivation','','publish','open','open','','wanta-be-a-better-writer-monday-motivation','','','2012-12-03 07:07:41','2012-12-03 13:07:41','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=1635',0,'post','',1);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1644,1,'2012-11-16 08:22:36','2012-11-16 14:22:36','<em>I looked out the kitchen window last evening and saw a rooster about 5 feet off the ground on top of the quail cage in the middle of the chicken yard.</em>\n\n<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/chick-yard1.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1675\" title=\"chick yard\" alt=\"\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/chick-yard1.jpg\" height=\"162\" width=\"448\" /></a>\n\n<em>This would not be a problem if he could get back down to the ground on the right side of the fence (the one with the chickens, not the dogs). However, we have learned that chickens (and roosters) are not particularly coordinated.</em>\n\n<em>I headed out to the chicken yard to make sure he was safe.</em>\n\n<em>Later, we decided if the rooster could make it to the top of the quail cage must be time to clip wings. While this sounds horribly painful for the birds, it is actually more like clipping fingernails.</em>\n[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Hr9ioWrmis?rel=0&amp;w=420&amp;h=315]\n<em>The hardest part is catching the birds.</em>\n\n<em>Since the sun was setting, the chickens headed for the coop. They are creatures of habit and every evening they go to bed in the coop, and every night I shut the door to keep non-chickens out.</em>\n\n<em>Since the birds were contained, Beekeeper Brian decided to go into the coop and clip wings. He started with the smaller game birds which made the most racket I ever heard. </em>\n\n<em>I was afraid the neighbors would think we were killing them. Eventually all the wings were clipped and no chicken died, though from all the noise I’m sure the neighbors did wonder.</em>\n\n<em>Wing clipping prevents the birds from flying over the fence where Bella (the dachshund) could “play” with them. At the same time, wing clipping also makes it very difficult for them to fly up to their roosts in the coop.</em>\n\n<em>I believe at least one of the birds held a grudge against us. </em>\n\n<em>When I went to collect eggs the next morning, she pecked at my hand. I’ve gotten used to that and it doesn’t really hurt – especially when compared with bee stings. </em>\n\n<em>So I got the eggs and the chicken immediately went to the roost in front of the nest box and started squawking very loudly. I swear she was saying “Thief, Thief!!!!.” </em>\n\n<em>If you spend enough time around chickens, you learn to speak their language.</em>\n\n<em>That evening when I went to close up the coop, one of the birds sounded very raspy. I told Beekeeper Brian it was probably the one who had fussed at me. She’d squawked so loud she made herself hoarse.</em>\n\n<em>Without missing a beat, Brian replied, “Well how is she supposed to lay eggs if she is a horse?”</em>','Bedlam in the Chicken Yard-Miller Farm Friday','','publish','open','open','','bedlam-in-the-chicken-yard-miller-farm-friday','','','2012-11-16 08:22:36','2012-11-16 14:22:36','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=1644',0,'post','',1);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1685,1,'2012-11-23 08:26:47','2012-11-23 14:26:47','<em>I have a confession to make.</em>\n\n<em>Sometimes, especially if it is raining, we do not close the door to the chicken coop at night. The chickens don’t know the difference and some nights we are just too tired to walk out there.</em>\n\n<em>This has all changed after last weekend.</em>\n\n<em>I was getting ready to get into the shower on Sunday morning when I heard a lot of racket coming from the chicken yard. I’m accustomed to hearing the roosters and can, in fact, distinguish which rooster makes each “cock a doodle doo.”</em>\n\n<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/rooster-crowing.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1687\" title=\"rooster crowing\" alt=\"\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/rooster-crowing.jpg?w=300\" height=\"300\" width=\"300\" /></a>\n\n<em>This was, however, a hen making the racket. She sounded very distressed so I knew something was amiss. I grabbed a flashlight, put on my muck shoes and headed out to the chicken yard.</em>\n\n<em>As soon as I left the garage, I knew there was trouble.</em>\n\n<em>A large number of the birds lined the fence looking very scared (at least I’m guessing it was a scared look on their faces.)</em>\n\n<em>Something had gotten into their coop and they were trying to get away.</em>\n\n<em>Had it not been 5:45 a.m. and my brain still foggy, I might have thought more about rushing into an unknown situation. All I could think about, though, was my poor chickens and how I had left them vulnerable by not closing the coop.</em>\n\n<em>As I approached, I could see the announcer hen still squawking at something in the corner. </em>\n\n<em>A possum and it was eating a chicken!</em>\n\n<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/possumsnarl.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1688\" title=\"Snarling Virginia Opossum\" alt=\"\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/possumsnarl.jpg?w=200\" height=\"300\" width=\"200\" /></a>\n\n<em>Not wishing to add “possum wrangler” to my titles or face-off with a possum and his breakfast, I headed back to the house for my husband. He reached for a hand gun, but I reminded him it would be illegal to fire in the city limits. He grabbed a BB gun instead, and we went back outside.</em>\n\n<em>Fortunately, possums do not have a “flight” instinct and in fact will freeze when they are frightened (think deer in the headlight look). So when we got to the coop, Raider Possum was still there.</em>\n\n<em>Beekeeper Brian was able to put enough BBs into him that he will not be eating any more of our chickens nor will he be able to tell his friends where to get a free meal.</em>\n\n<em>As we retold our morning adventure, we did get asked several times if we were making a meal out of the possum. (The answer is a resounding “no.”)</em>\n\n<em>With the danger eliminated, we coaxed the chickens back into the coop. They may have bird brains but they remembered there was something scary in that coop and balked when we tried to herd them back inside the chicken yard.</em>\n\n<em>We picked each one up and placed it gently into the coop. As we lifted them, they cried out what sounded like “Ouch, Ouch.” We got as many as we could back into the coop and shut the door until the sun came up.</em>\n\n<em>The chickens seem to have no recollection of the events and have gone back into the coop every night since. All except for one black hen who slept on top of the quail cage for several nights.</em>\n\n<em>Now, every night, we shut the door to the coop and tell the chickens:</em>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em> “Good night, sleep tight and don’t let the possums bite.”</em></p>\nI had to laugh over her caution to the chickens. You see, when she was little we often sent her off to bed with <em>“Sleep tight and don’t let the bed-bugs bite.</em>”<strong> </strong>\n\nStrange saying, but evidently <a href=\"http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1570/whats-the-origin-of-the-expression-sleep-tight\" target=\"_blank\">founded in the fact that bedbugs were once real threat </a> and have recently made a <a href=\"http://www.michigan.gov/emergingdiseases/0,1607,7-186--147759--,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">comeback.</a><strong>\n</strong>\n\nAll I meant was for her to have a good night\'s sleep, which worked for Chicken Wrangler Sara and her siblings. I hope it works for the Miller farm fowl.\n\nIt has been a rough week at the Miller Farm. Chickens facing raider possums. Thanksgiving Turkey\'s roasting. The fowl must have felt like they were watching a horror movie.\n\n<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/chicken_microwave.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1743\" title=\"chicken_microwave\" alt=\"\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/chicken_microwave.jpg\" height=\"307\" width=\"500\" /></a>\n\nYOUR TURN: How do you pick yourself up after a horror movie week or day?','Raiding Possums, Scary Times at the Miller Farm','','publish','open','open','','raiding-possums-scary-times-at-the-miller-farm','','','2012-11-23 08:26:47','2012-11-23 14:26:47','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=1685',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1696,1,'2012-11-22 08:33:37','2012-11-22 14:33:37','<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/tg-turkey-2.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1699\" title=\"TG turkey 2\" alt=\"\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/tg-turkey-2.jpg\" height=\"288\" width=\"448\" /></a>\n\nI\'m thankful that in this great big blog world we have connected.\n\nIf you\'ve read my about page, you know <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/The-Pendants-Promise-judythe-morgan/dp/0615645917/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1353536533&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=judythe+morgan\" target=\"_blank\">I\'m a writer</a> and an antiques dealer/collector. <strong>Ephemeron</strong> fascinates me. That\'s why I chose this particular greeting today.\n\nNot familiar with the term?\n\nEphemera (the plural form) refers to something transitory or short-lived. Items like pamphlets, notices, tickets, postcards or greeting cards designed to be useful or important for only a short time. In this age of technology, we\'re losing ephemera.  Especially old postcards like these.\n\n<dl id=\"attachment_1712\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width:237px;\"><dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/tgd3.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-1712 \" title=\"O\" alt=\"\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/tgd3.jpg?w=227\" height=\"300\" width=\"227\" /></a><a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/tgd3.jpg\"></a> </dt><dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\">Back reads \"from Ray to the Baby 1913 H. R. M.\"</dd></dl>\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_1722\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"212\"]<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/tgd54.jpg\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-1722\" title=\"O\" alt=\"\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/tgd54.jpg?w=212\" height=\"300\" width=\"212\" /></a> \"Wishing you a Peaceful Thanksgiving Day; With all of Earth\'s fruit from the blossom of May.\"[/caption]\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_1723\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"209\"]<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/tgd41.jpg\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-1723\" title=\"O\" alt=\"\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/tgd41.jpg?w=209\" height=\"300\" width=\"209\" /></a> \"North South East and West; Let\'s all join hands So that we may truly rejoice on Thanksgiving Day\" To Marguerite from Grandma, 1915.[/caption]\n\nEach card undoubtedly has a story. Who was Ray and why did he send a Thanksgiving card to Baby? Were Marguerite and Grandma feuding and needed to join hands? There\'s definitely a story connect to that one.\n\nThe writers among us could probably plot some compelling stories based on these old postcards. I think that\'s why I find ephemeron so intriguing.\n\nBut just for today, let\'s forget about writing.\n\nInstead, let\'s\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_1725\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"150\"]<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/2010-stefs.jpg\"><img class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1725\" title=\"2010 stef\'s\" alt=\"\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/2010-stefs.jpg?w=150\" height=\"97\" width=\"150\" /></a> Sit around the table and visit with family and friends.[/caption]\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_1729\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"150\"]<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/football1.jpg\"><img class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1729\" title=\"football\" alt=\"\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/football1.jpg?w=150\" height=\"112\" width=\"150\" /></a> Cheer for our favorite football team. Or nap.[/caption]\n\nAnd most important, remember to take the giblets out of the turkey!<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/me-and-tom-turkey.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-1730\" title=\"me and tom turkey\" alt=\"\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/me-and-tom-turkey.jpg?w=150\" height=\"132\" width=\"150\" /></a>\n\nThanks for showing up today to read my blog.\n\n<span style=\"color:#444444;line-height:23px;\">I\'m going to enjoy my blessings today.I hope you h</span>ave a wonderful Thanksgiving day with your family and friends.\n\nSee you here on the 26th.','Grateful for YOU','','publish','open','open','','grateful-for-you','','','2012-11-22 08:33:37','2012-11-22 14:33:37','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=1696',0,'post','',3);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1763,1,'2012-12-01 08:08:47','2012-12-01 14:08:47','NaNoWriMo 2012 has ended. (btw, MAJOR congratulations to those who stayed the course and wrote 50,000 words. I\'m so impressed.)\n\nToday\'s December 1st. The holiday season is upon us and closing in like a speeding bullet.\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1822\" alt=\"ticking clock\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/ticking-clock.jpg?w=300\" height=\"270\" width=\"270\" /></p>\n<span style=\"color:#444444;line-height:23px;\">If you\'re like me, you\'re skimming and skipping on social media sites and blogs.</span><span style=\"color:#444444;line-height:23px;\"> </span>\n\nHere are some blogs with <span style=\"color:#444444;line-height:23px;\">writerly</span><span style=\"color:#444444;line-height:23px;\"> </span>news or information I thought you\'d want to know about:\n\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.the-digital-reader.com/2012/11/15/fictionwise-is-now-on-life-support-theyre-pulling-the-plug-in-3-weeks-time/#.UKW-WGBWyuI\" target=\"_blank\">Fictionwise is Now on Life Support – They’re Pulling the Plug in 3 Weeks’ Time</a></strong>\n<ul>\n	<li> <span style=\"color:#444444;line-height:23px;\">Digital Reader advises n</span><span style=\"color:#444444;line-height:23px;\">ow would be a good time to go download any ebooks you still can.  </span><span style=\"color:#444444;line-height:23px;\">After <span style=\"color:#444444;line-height:23px;\">December 21, 2012</span>,  you will not be able to access any of the ebooks you </span><span style=\"color:#444444;line-height:23px;\">bought from</span> Fictionwise sites (including Fictionwise.com, eReader.com and eBookwise.com).</li>\n</ul>\nVery latest on Fictionwise’s demise:\n<ul>\n	<li><a href=\"http://www.the-digital-reader.com/2012/11/29/bn-is-still-sending-out-emails-re-shutting-down-fictionwise/\" target=\"_blank\">B&amp;N is Still Sending Out Emails Re: Shutting Down Fictionwise</a></li>\n</ul>\n<b><a href=\"http://blog.nathanbransford.com/2012/11/what-people-talk-about-when-they-talk.html\" target=\"_blank\">What People Talk About When They Talk About Bad Writing</a></b>\n<ul>\n	<li>Writer/agent Nathan Bransford\'s take on a definition of bad writing.</li>\n</ul>\n<a href=\"http://www.chipmacgregor.com/blog/questions-from-beginners/why-is-your-second-novel-so-important/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Why is your second novel so important?</strong></a>\n<ul>\n	<li>Agent Chip Macgregor discusses the biggest pitfalls in a second novel.</li>\n</ul>\n<a href=\"http://janefriedman.com/2012/11/13/sell-more-fiction-by-activating-the-power-of-book-clubs/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Sell More Fiction by Activating the Power of Book Clubs</strong></a>\n<ul>\n	<li>How to employ bookclubs and discussion questions to increase your   book sales.</li>\n</ul>\n<a href=\"http://www.livewritethrive.com/2012/11/12/6-common-myths-about-book-reviews/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>6 Common Myths About Book Reviews</strong></a>\n<ul>\n	<li>Debunks common misconceptions about book reviews</li>\n</ul>\n<a href=\"http://www.livewritethrive.com/2012/11/12/6-common-myths-about-book-reviews/\"></a><a style=\"color:#df0000;line-height:23px;\" href=\"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MarinBookworks/~3/SdN7sRXtiOQ/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=email\"><b>How Twitter Hashtags Help Authors Find Readers</b></a>\n<ul>\n	<li>Loved this list of handy hashtags to connect with readers</li>\n</ul>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\"><a href=\"http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/11/26/your-e-reader-is-watching/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Your-e-reader-is-watching</strong></a></p>\n\n<ul>\n	<li><span style=\"line-height:14px;\">Interesting discussion about trackers in eReaders: Your data profile shows when you read and when you don’t. Will it soon determine what you read? </span></li>\n</ul>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\"><strong>YOUR TURN to SHARE:</strong> If you’ve found a blog, you think I may have missed, tell me about it in your comment.</p>','Rush, Stress, and Busyness - Blogs last month you might have missed','','publish','open','open','','rush-stress-and-busyness-blogs-this-month-you-dont-want-to-miss','','','2012-12-01 08:08:47','2012-12-01 14:08:47','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=1763',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1784,1,'2012-11-26 10:44:26','2012-11-26 16:44:26','Last Thursday many in the U.S. sat down at tables loaded with enough food to feed a third world country for a week.\n\n<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/thanksgiving-table-300x298.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1787\" title=\"thanksgiving-table-300x298\" alt=\"\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/thanksgiving-table-300x298.jpg\" height=\"298\" width=\"300\" /></a>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">And we had leftovers.</p>\nThe best part of Thanksgiving to me.\n\nI love the smell of the striped carcass simmering with onions and celery in our traditional turkey rice soup on Black Friday. We add brown rice before serving with whole wheat cornbread. Yummy!\n\nThis year I also found great, nutritious ideas from\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_1790\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"300\"]<a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/23/healthy-thanksgiving-leftover-recipes_n_2161519.html?ir=Healthy+Living\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-1790 \" title=\"turkey taco\" alt=\"\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/turkey-taco.jpg?w=300\" height=\"219\" width=\"300\" /></a> Turkey Taco[/caption]\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><b>Click the picture for the link.</b></p>\n\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_1793\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"300\"]<a href=\"http://www.nj.com/monmouth/index.ssf/2012/11/recipes_using_thanksgiving_leftovers.html\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-1793 \" title=\"turkey sliders\" alt=\"\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/turkey-sliders.png?w=300\" height=\"168\" width=\"300\" /></a> Turkey Sliders[/caption]\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><b>Click the picture for the link.</b></p>\nAre you still moving leftover turkey or dressing or sweet potatoes around in your fridge? You need to pitch ‘em today.\n\n<strong>Why?</strong>\n\nFoodborne illness – Isn’t that a lovely way to say food poisoning?\n\nIn years past, I remember sitting around the table for hours talking and visiting with the food still there. Or, worse yet, moving the serving dishes to the stove top or counter so everyone could nibble all afternoon while we watched football.\n\nOnce we figured out what was causing our tummy problems, we stopped that foolishness.\n\nHappily, most cases of food poisoning can be prevented with proper food handling.\n\nHow did you handle your leftovers? Did you refrigerate perishable foods quickly?\n\n<a href=\"http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/food-safety/AN01095\" target=\"_blank\">According to Mayo Clinic nutritionist, Katherine Zeratsky, R.D., L.D</a>. your goal is to minimize the time a food is in the \"danger zone\" — between 40 and 140 F (4 and 60 C) — when bacteria can quickly multiply. Meat, poultry, fish, dairy and eggs shouldn’t sit more than two hours at typical room temperature or more than one hour at temperatures above 90 F (32 C).\n\nBecause the bacteria doesn’t typically change the taste, smell, or look, you can’t tell until the bacteria attacks your digestive tract.\n\nBut leftovers can be kept for three to four days in the refrigerator before the risk of food poising increases.\n\nThere weren’t many leftovers at our Thanksgiving feast and what there was went quickly. If you still have leftovers after today, my advice:\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>PITCH IT.</strong></p>','Turkey Pitching Day','','publish','open','open','','turkey-pitching-day','','','2012-11-26 10:44:26','2012-11-26 16:44:26','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=1784',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1803,1,'2012-11-30 07:55:19','2012-11-30 13:55:19','<i>Before the school year started, I alphabetized my books in my classroom to make it easier to find what I wanted for each class. </i>\n\n<i> </i><i>Imagine my consternation when I went to pull “</i>Six Little Ducks<i>” and it was not nestled right next to “</i>Silent Night<i>” in the “</i>s<i>” section. I thought perhaps I had loaned it out and would need to track it down. </i>\n\n<i>I chose another duck book, “</i>Little White Duck<i>,” and went on with my teaching.</i>\n\n<i>Well yesterday, I wanted to read “</i>Ten Little Indians.<i>” It was time to start my Thanksgiving songs. It was also missing! </i>\n\n<i>My first thought was “Now I’ve lost six little ducks and ten little Indians and the craziness of the holiday season has not even began. Not a good sign!”</i>\n\n<i>I had to walk away from the bookshelf to collect myself. </i>\n\n<i>Upon returning and carefully searching through the entire alphabet of books, I discovered that “</i>Ten Little Indians<i>” was actually titled “</i>One Little Indian<i>.” </i>\n\n<i> </i><i>Silly me.</i>\n\n<i> </i><i>Very relieved, I looked once again for “</i>Six Little Ducks<i>.” </i>\n\n<i> </i><i>I discovered the title of that book is actually “</i>Five Little Ducks<i>,” and it was right shelved right where it was supposed to be – after “</i>Fire Truck<i>.” </i>\n\n<i>I slept much better last night knowing that every book and everything was in their proper spot. </i>\n\n<i>Including the black hen in the chicken yard who apparently still has flashbacks to the possum episode and tries to sleep on top of the quail cage.</i>\n\n<i>Have a great weekend.</i>\n\nBefore anyone gets excited over CW (Chicken Wrangler) Sara using <i>Ten Little Indians </i>to kickstart Thanksgiving, I have to tell you that she grew up where Mama (me) made sure the “real” Thanksgiving celebration wasn’t forgotten.\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_1804\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"300\"]<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-1804\" alt=\"\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/1stthanksgiving.png?w=300\" height=\"190\" width=\"300\" /> (Image from: www.azgop.org)[/caption]\n\nThe first Thanksgiving feast was to thank the Indians for their contribution to the Pilgrims’ survival.\n\nTo reinforce the concept, I wore an Indian squaw dress custom-made for me by an Apache seamstress on the White River Arizona Reservation.\n\nI’m sure CW Sara told her young students all about a Mama’s custom.\n\nI do wonder if she tells her classes about how I embellished the <i>Five Little Duck</i> story by having the Mama Duck (NOT the Daddy Duck) call the duckies back in the song’s punch line.\n\nI’d tell her and her siblings that disobedience to Mama Duck meant the five little duckies might not have a happy ending.\n\nOn second thought, CW Sara probably doesn\'t tell that story. That would be like the black hen’s flashbacks of the possum episode—recalling unpleasant memories.\n\n<strong>YOUR TURN TO SHARE: </strong>\n\nAny Thanksgiving traditions?\n\nOr unpleasant possum memories?','Missing Books and Memories: Miller Farm Friday','','publish','open','open','','missing-books-and-memories-miller-farm-friday','','','2012-11-30 07:55:19','2012-11-30 13:55:19','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=1803',0,'post','',4);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1840,1,'2012-12-04 08:08:23','2012-12-04 14:08:23','I may have lied in my first phase Tipping Point blog. This is HARD!\n\nIf you read that <a href=\"http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/2012/11/06/tipping-point-and-the-course-of-human-events/\" target=\"_blank\">blog</a>, then you know we decided to simplify our lives, which meant tossing and turning loose of our stuff.\n\nSince my last post, we’ve sorted.<span style=\"color:#444444;line-height:23px;\"> </span><span style=\"color:#444444;line-height:23px;\">Tons and tons of emotions whirled as we weeded through treasures. </span>\n\n<span style=\"color:#444444;line-height:23px;\">We are not hoarders. Yet we found ourselves with so much.</span>\n\nPartly because as you age you simply accumulate stuff. That and we got lazy about cleaning out the stuff.\n\nMostly because we’ve lived here so long. Previously, we’d rarely stayed in a home more than five years. To be here in one place thirty years meant lots and lots of STUFF.\n\nFellow WANA Tribe blogger <a href=\"http://sherryisaac.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Sherry Isaac</a> has also been in what I call the TP (tipping point) mode. In her blog <a href=\"http://romancebeyond.com/sherry/shedding-shredding-the-stuff/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Shedding &amp; Shredding the Stuff</i></a>, she shared a hilarious observational comedy video by George Carlin.\n\nIf you’re not familiar with Carlin (I wasn’t), think <i>Seinfeld</i>. Btw, the definition of observational comedy is humor based on commonplace aspects of everyday life. Carlin’s routine STUFF fits <span style=\"color:#444444;line-height:23px;\">perfectly </span>what happened to us.\n\n[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvgN5gCuLac?rel=0&amp;w=420&amp;h=315]\n\nFor a full two weeks, we organized. We gave away. Passed to children and family. Shredded.\n\nAnd, yes, we kept things. Some treasures we just couldn’t part with and some furniture we’ll use in our new place.\n\nFinally, we held our garage sale. What fun talking with all the folks who stopped by.\n\nWe heard some great stories. (You’ll find parts of some of those stories in future <a href=\"http://judythemorgan.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Judythe Morgan</a> manuscripts.) I loved the smiles on the faces of those who took away our treasures and made them theirs. Our stuff had found happy homes.\n\nThe house is mostly empty now. The rooms echo. The walls are bare.\n\nThe woodwork and floors clean and polished. I can’t praise Liquid Gold enough. Windows glisten thanks to Windex. Easy Off turned our originally installed ovens into shiny clean.\n\nI am feeling like a heavy burden has been lifted, but the process involved lots of physical labor and emotional drain.\n\nOnto the next phase now. The house is up for sale.\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1842\" alt=\"O\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/lockbox1.jpg\" height=\"336\" width=\"362\" />\n\nWe\'re waiting for the perfect person to buy the home we’ve loved and cherished.\n\nNext time I\'ll share how this new phase of our transition progresses.','Tipping Point Phase 2 - Tossing and Turning Loose','','publish','open','open','','tipping-point-phase-2-tossing-and-turning-loose','','','2012-12-04 08:08:23','2012-12-04 14:08:23','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=1840',0,'post','',9);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1856,1,'2012-12-07 07:26:06','2012-12-07 13:26:06','<em>Bella was staring intently into the small chicken yard this afternoon. I figured she was just willing one of the smaller chickens to come out and “play.”</em>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1860\" alt=\"O\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/bella.jpg\" height=\"194\" width=\"151\" /></p>\n<em>When I went out to check eggs, I saw what had her mesmerized.</em>\n\n<em>A quail was eating from the chicken feeder. I thought to myself “That looks like one of our quail. What\'s he doing in the chickenyard?”</em>\n\n<em>So I turned to look at the long quail cage and discovered I had left the door open when I fed the quail earlier.</em>\n\n<em>Now if I were in charge, I would fire me. Unfortunately, I’m not sure I could find a replacement. </em>\n\n<em>After a quick inventory of the quail still in the cage, I realized the one eating from the feeder was not the only escapee. There were five or six others missing.</em>\n\n<em>I debated briefly about simply closing the cage and letting those outside retain their freedom. </em>\n\n<em>Then I recalled we\'d paid money for these quail so I probably should attempt to recapture our investment.</em>\n\n<em>I set the egg basket down and began creeping up on the quail roaming the chickenyard. They weren’t that hard to catch as they did not have much flying experience.</em>\n\n<em>I did learn that I can only hold one at a time as they are wriggly little critters.</em>\n\n<em>I managed to catch all I could find on our side of the fence. One had escaped into the neighbor’s yard, but I chose not to go retrieve it.</em>\n\n<em>Remember, the neighbors already think we are strange after seeing me in my bee bonnet. In their backyard, in my bee bonnet, rounding up quail might prove grounds for a call for the patty wagon!</em>\n\n<em>I suppose “quail wrangler” can now be added to my “chicken wrangler” title making me Sara Chicken/Quail Wrangler Extraordinaire.</em>\n\nI wonder. CW Sara may have chased down some quail, but is that the same as daily wrangling chickens? Enough to earn her a new title?\n\nWhat do  you think?','Does quail chasing=chicken wrangling? - Miller Farm Friday','','publish','open','open','','does-quail-chasingchicken-wrangling-miller-farm-friday','','','2012-12-07 07:26:06','2012-12-07 13:26:06','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=1856',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1873,1,'2012-12-10 07:59:43','2012-12-10 13:59:43','Best way to kick start your writing this week. Simple. Easy Monday Motivation.\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1874\" alt=\"typewriter-write something\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/typewriter-write-something.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" />','Easy, Easy Monday Motivation','','publish','open','open','','easy-easy-monday-motivation','','','2012-12-10 07:59:43','2012-12-10 13:59:43','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=1873',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1884,1,'2012-12-14 07:41:50','2012-12-14 13:41:50','We interrupt our regularly scheduled Chicken Wrangler emails for today’s seasonal email titled\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Don We Now our Gay Apparel</strong></p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\" align=\"center\"><i>Exactly nineteen years ago, my parents gave me a Christmas sweater. It was something they knew I would never buy for myself but would love. They were absolutely right. I wore that sweater for many years. In fact, I wore it in our Christmas picture for our daughters first Christmas.</i></p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1885\" alt=\"Christmas 1993\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/christmas-1993.jpg?w=265\" width=\"265\" height=\"300\" />\n\n<i>This very same daughter, nineteen years later, has borrowed this sweater not once but twice to enter in “tacky Christmas sweater” contests. </i>\n\n<i>I would be offended except for two years running, it has won.</i><i>This year, she wasn’t even the one wearing it.</i>\n\n<i> I think I deserve at least some kind of prize for having held on to that sweater long enough for college kids to think it is tacky.</i>\n\n<i>Today was the first really cold day of the season so I pulled out my Christmas sweatshirt. It is even older than my tacky sweater. </i>\n\n<i>I got it from my music class after my first Christmas program (which was several years before our first daughter was born). It has the name of the Christmas musical – “The Town Hall Christmas Tree” – on the front and all the kids’ handprints in red and green on the back and down the arms.</i>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1906\" alt=\"front of sweatshit\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/front-of-sweatshit.jpg?w=300\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" />\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1886\" alt=\"Sara\'s sweatshirt\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/saras-sweatshirt.jpg?w=300\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" />\n\n<i>This morning my son looked at me as I was putting on my shoes over my Christmas socks so I could take him to school and said, “I’m glad you are not getting out of the car.”  </i>\n\n<i>I almost got out and gave him a big hug just for spite. </i>\n\n<i>Later I was at the doctor for my annual check -up and as I stepped on the scale (a frightful thing in and of itself) the nurse said, “What a cute sweatshirt. Are those the handprints of your grandkids.”  </i>\n\n<i>I texted my son later and said “Maybe I should have stayed in the car.”</i>\n\nI laughed and laughed when I received this email from Chicken Wrangler Sara. What fun to remember all the times like she described when she or her teenaged siblings asked me to wait in the car or wouldn\'t let me out of the house because what I had on didn\'t suit them. We call her sister Stef the fashion police even today!\n\nI love Christmas and have multiple Christmas sweaters. Depending on the occasion, I select which one to wear. And, like an actress take on different persona depending on which I\'m wearing.\n\nFor fun, casual parties and gatherings, especially those with sweater contests I wear this one. btw, it was purchased at the same time we bought CW Sara’s in 1993. <span style=\"color:#444444;line-height:23px;\"> </span>\n\n<span style=\"color:#444444;line-height:23px;\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1887\" alt=\"O\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/my-sweater.jpg?w=266\" width=\"266\" height=\"300\" /></span>\n\nFor more glitzy affairs when I need bling and swing, I choose this one:\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1888\" alt=\"O\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/bling.jpg?w=212\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" />\n\nAnd for conservative affairs, my Ralph Lauren angora. With a long skirt or jeans with high boots, I’m styling.\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1889\" alt=\"O\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/angora.jpg?w=208\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" />\n\nBut the most fun comes from wearing the homemade variety. My girls will probably kill me for this one, but I loved the year I made us all red sweatsuits with appliqued Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer. The suits are long gone, but oh what fun Christmas memories!\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1890\" alt=\"christmassweatshirts\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/christmassweatshirts.jpg?w=546\" width=\"546\" height=\"1024\" />\n\nCW Sara has carried on the tradition of creating crafty Christmas garments.\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1891\" alt=\"O\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/2000-teeshirt.jpg?w=287\" width=\"287\" height=\"300\" />\n\nWe have wreaths with children’s finger and handprints, wall hangings of hand prints/foot prints, and one years she managed to collect ALL eleven grandkids for a handprint Christmas table cloth. Unfortunately, due to the tipping point decision, that tablecloth is packed in storage awaiting our move to Colorado so I can’t show a picture.\n\nYOUR TURN: Do you have any special handcrafted Christmas items?','Chickens and Holiday sweaters: Miller Farm Blog','','publish','open','open','','chickens-and-holiday-sweaters-miller-farm-blog','','','2012-12-14 07:41:50','2012-12-14 13:41:50','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=1884',0,'post','',2);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1909,1,'2012-12-17 09:05:03','2012-12-17 15:05:03','How do we find motivation after Friday’s act of darkness? I don\'t know about you, but I\'m having a hard time.\n\n<a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/#!/Bob.Mayer.author\" target=\"_blank\">Bob Mayer’s FB</a> status on Friday suggested: “Just mourn. No politics, agendas, rants. Losing a child is an exclusive club you do not want to be a part of. Trust me on that.”\n\nThis is not going to be a rant or a political statement. I don’t have an agenda.\n\nWhat I have is a hurting heart.\n\nMy family lived near Newtown at one time. I have an undergraduate degree from Western Connecticut State in Danbury. One of my daughters graduated from New Fairfield High School. Our other daughter took piano lessons from a teacher in Newtown. Somehow, these connections made what happened more real.\n\nI\'ve been restless, perplexed, sidetracked by tears of anger and sadness all weekend. How do we make sense out of senseless?\n\nI\'m wondering how  God can let things like the massacres in Newtown and Aurora , the rampage in Tucson and Virginia Tech happen?\n\nSeeking answers I emailed  <a href=\"http://www.notbyworks.org/Who-We-Are\" target=\"_blank\">my son</a>, a minister with a Ph.D. in Theology. I share his thoughts with his permission.\n\n<i>It is in times like these that our faith meets sight. It is easy to walk by faith when things make sense. It is when our reality is rocked by some inexplicable and incomprehensible event that faith must really kick in.</i>\n\n<i> Because I believe that God has revealed Himself to us in His written Word, the Bible, and because I believe the Bible contains everything we need for life, my mind turns to Scripture to seek an answer. </i><i> </i>\n\n<i>The crux of the matter in cases like this comes down to \"how/why does God allow evil?” </i><i> </i>\n\n<i>It is really a question of sovereignty versus free will. If I could solve that, I would be famous indeed. </i>\n\n<i>By its very nature, the sovereignty/free will issue is an antinomy—something that cannot be explained in human terms, to human satisfaction. Scripture reminds us in Isaiah 40:13-14 that God\'s knowledge is unique to Him. And Proverbs 21:30 confirms that there is no wisdom, or counsel or understanding higher than His.</i><i> </i>\n\n<i>So we are left to trust Him and Him alone as knowing what is best. </i>\n\n<i>For many people, this approach to the question of evil in the world is inadequate and trite. I understand. </i><i> </i>\n\n<i>That’s why eschatology is not just a hobby or whimsy of mine. It is the key cog in my worldview. I could not survive in a world where everyone is under the sway of the wicked one (1 John 5:19) if I did not believe that God wins in the end.</i><i> </i>\n\n<i>When I see things like what happened in Newtown I get angry and crave God\'s divine intervention more than ever. I, too, question why does He wait to claim victory?</i><i> </i>\n\n<i> But I take comfort in knowing that ultimately, God will intervene. A better day is coming. A day of complete justice when Satan and all of his human and demonic envoys will be judged once and for all. It is that promise of Scripture that allows me to keep going when things don\'t make sense in the present world.</i><i> </i>\n\n<i>So, to summarize: The unspeakable events of Friday are incomprehensible apart from a biblical worldview that promises (1) God is in control even when evil seems to triumph; (2) All evil will be recompensed; (3) Justice will prevail; (4) God wins.</i>\n\nI believe,  like my son, God wins the final victory. But until that THE END happens, I will hug my children more, tell teachers I appreciate them more often, and offer prayers of comfort for the families and victims of these tragedies.\n\nAnd most important, as a writer, I will write.\n\nSo should you.\n\nI love Emma D. Dryden\'s suggestions in <a href=\"http://emmaddryden.blogspot.com/2012/12/lighting-dark-corners.html\" target=\"_blank\">her blog</a>.\n\n<em>Create something precious for the world that might help to replace the precious the world’s lost. Write, paint, sing, dance, walk in nature, breathe deeply, and love fiercely. As we reach out to friends, to family, to others, so too must we reach inside to be gentle with ourselves. And we must remind ourselves we do carry the light necessary to light the dark corners, vanquishing one shadow at a time.</em>','After Friday’s darkness Monday\'s Motivation','','publish','open','open','','after-fridays-darkness-mondays-motivation','','','2012-12-17 09:05:03','2012-12-17 15:05:03','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=1909',0,'post','',2);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1926,1,'2012-12-25 06:37:17','2012-12-25 12:37:17','[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNDtHdG5mVk?rel=0&amp;w=560&amp;h=315]\n\n                        MERRY CHRISTMAS!\n\n\n\n\n\n','The Christmas Scale','','publish','open','open','','the-christmas-scale','','','2012-12-25 06:37:17','2012-12-25 12:37:17','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=1926',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1928,1,'2012-12-22 06:50:29','2012-12-22 12:50:29','<p style=\"text-align:left;\" align=\"center\">Okay, I know today is Saturday, but I didn\'t remember yesterday was Friday! I know CW Sara has loyal Miller Farm Friday readers and that\'s why I\'m posting her  email blog. I do apologize and promise to pay more attention to the calendar and not just the clock in the future. </p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Back in the Blog</strong></p>\n<em>The chickens must have heard the rumors that they were being replaced in the blog by clothing/craft stories so they provided the following material this morning:</em>\n\n<em>I noticed while observing our young roosters that male and female of every species share characteristics. </em>\n\n<em>Our roosters have reached what I guess is the equivalent of adolescence and have started fighting. I used to believe that people trained roosters for cockfights, but I promise ours fight on their own.  Yesterday</em><em>I was convinced that two were fighting to the death.</em>\n\n<em>Even Whitey – one of the hens – tried to break it up (just like a momma). </em>\n\n<em>Finally, Samson, the chief rooster, based on seniority not on size as he is a bantam, “explained” to them how things were going to be. They stopped fighting.</em>\n\n<em>Well this morning, I let the chickens out and, as usual, the roosters started their morning boxing bouts. They puff their chests out and bump up against each other kind of like men do at sporting events. Other times they fly towards each other and bump chests as well.</em>\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_1930\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"200\"]<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-1930\" alt=\"2999740_XS\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/2999740_xs.jpg?w=200\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" /> Photo Credit: Andy Lyons/Getty Images Sport/Getty Images[/caption]\n\n<em>As I was feeding and watering the birds, I discovered one young rooster was on the wrong side of the fence. I guess he had been “bumped” over.</em>\n\n<em>Fortunately, the only dog outside at the time was Marv, our old mixed breed, and he was more interested in the stale hamburger buns in the shed than in the rooster in the yard. </em>\n\n<em>Poor rooster was very confused so I was able to grab him easily.</em>\n\n<em>He did protest as I tossed him back into the chicken yard. I have the scratch on my arm and the mud on my shirt to show for it.</em>\n\n<em>I asked my son Matthew if I needed to change shirts before I took him to school. (Remember he warned me to stay in the car when I was wearing my special sweatshirt.) He decided that rooster footprints were not as tacky as a sweatshirt with handprints.</em>\n\n<em>However, since I was taking breakfast to Beekeeper Brian at his school, I decided to put on a clean shirt. Embarrassing kids is one thing but husbands are off limits.</em>\n\n<strong>YOUR TURN:</strong> What do you think are sports bumps and cockfights alike?','Chicken chest bump challenges - Miller Farm Friday','','publish','open','open','','chicken-chest-bump-challenges-miller-farm-friday','','','2012-12-22 06:50:29','2012-12-22 12:50:29','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=1928',0,'post','',2);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1948,1,'2012-12-24 06:30:01','2012-12-24 12:30:01','My second language is American Sign Language (ASL). No, I\'m not deaf. I fell in love with the language of the deaf through one of my best friends in high school whose parents were deaf. \n\nChristmas carols and songs are such fun in sign language. Today I wanted to share via that language. \n\nJoin along with the Deaf Direct in Worcester, signing a familiar Christmas carol:\n\n[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq0Y7qcF1wE?rel=0&amp;w=420&amp;h=315]\n\n\nFor fun: \n\n[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGXDkLo_aj8?rel=0&amp;w=560&amp;h=315] \n\nAnd lastly, my wish for you on this Christmas Eve:\n\n[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-PBixyD_GU?rel=0&amp;w=560&amp;h=315] ','ASL Merry Christmas','','publish','open','open','','asl-merry-christmas','','','2012-12-24 06:30:01','2012-12-24 12:30:01','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=1948',0,'post','',4);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1989,1,'2012-12-28 08:29:16','2012-12-28 14:29:16','Chicken Wrangler Sara\'s day:\n\n<em>This morning I got up at 5:15, made coffee, fixed breakfast and made sandwiches even though it is Saturday. The kids have All-Region Band auditions and I wanted to make sure they didn’t starve. \n \nAfter they left, I went back to bed. It was glorious. I didn’t open my eyes again until 7:45. I should have kept them closed, but chicken wrangler duties called. \n\nI got up and let the chickens out. That was ok.  \n\nI also let the quail out. That was not ok. \n\nLately, I have had difficulty closing the long quail cage securely, and we have had to retrieve quail on several occasions. Rachel even made me a sign that says, “Close the door.” Today, I closed the door on the long cage. However, I accidentally left the hutch cage open.  \n\nStrike one.\n\nI knew something was amiss as I heard Bella barking frantically. She really wanted the quail to come over and play. I ran back outside and closed the hutch door on the two remaining quail. I decided to finish filling water jugs and deal with the loose quail later.\n\nI washed the very dirty waterer from the quail cage in the coop, refilled the waterer, and reached to put it back. (In case you don’t remember, this cage is high up in the coop and somewhat difficult to reach.) The waterer slipped and the lid came open, spilling water all over me.\n  \nI was not happy. This was strike two. \n\nOn the bright side, even though it is December, this is Texas so it is 80 degrees outside. There was no danger of the water making me cold. \n\nAfter refilling the waterer, I headed back to the house, silently praying that fixing coffee and breakfast for Beekeeper Brian and I would be easier. \n\nOne more strike and I’m out.</em>\n\nAbout the same time Chicken Wrangler Sara’s email arrived, I received an email from daughter #2 in Colorado. Her day started with a challenge too. \n\n<em>Woke up to about ten wild turkeys out in the front yard and street. I went out to talk to them and saw a deer. </em>\n\n<img src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/sf-turkeys.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"SF turkeys\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1991\" />\n\n<img src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/single-deer.jpg\" alt=\"single deer\" width=\"160\" height=\"107\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1992\" />\n\nHe had short antlers. I turned my back on him to take a picture of the front of the house and then turned back around he was coming after me! \n\nI walked, rather briskly, back to the driveway and out of the corner of my eye, I see more deer staring at me. \n\n<img src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/deer-next-door-for-12-28-blog.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"deer next door for 12-28 blog\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1993\" />\n\nI was triangulated by turkey and deer!! \n \nI started walking more briskly to the safety of the fenced front yard. Whereupon I saw deer tracks inside the fence, which led me to believe that the only truly safe place was inside the house until Patrick woke up to protect me!!\n\nNature. It\'s not for sissies.\n\nYOUR TURN: Wanta share how your day’s going?\n','Ever had one of THESE days? Miller Farm Friday','','publish','open','open','','ever-had-one-of-these-days-millier-farm-friday','','','2012-12-28 08:29:16','2012-12-28 14:29:16','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=1989',0,'post','',4);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (3128,1,'2014-10-14 12:11:46','2014-10-14 12:11:46','<ol>\n	<li>Where do you get your stories?</li>\n	<li>Why did you write this particular story?</li>\n</ol>\nMy two books definitely have a story behind them.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Morning-Prequel-Pendants-Promise-ebook/dp/B00DQ1AEPQ/\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2181\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/morningcalm_6-for-webpgs.jpg?w=224\" alt=\"MorningCalm_6 for webpgs\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/The-Pendants-Promise-ebook/dp/B007ZU71N2\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-591\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/pendantspromise_8.jpg?w=225\" alt=\"PendantsPromise_8\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" /></a>\n\n<em>Love in the Morning Calm</em> (released June 30th) was written after<em> The Pendant\'s Promise </em>(released May 2012).\n\nWhy write a prequel after the original story?\n\nI never intended to.\n\nOnly people kept wanting to know more about how Lily and Alex met. The mini-flashbacks <em>The Pendant\'s Promise </em>didn\'t give enough details.','Beyond the Book','','draft','closed','closed','','','','','2015-05-12 03:02:32','2015-05-12 03:02:32','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?page_id=3128',0,'page','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (3336,1,'2013-08-11 14:42:49','0000-00-00 00:00:00','<a href=\"http://eatreadrate.wordpress.com/2013/08/07/interview-with-judythe-morgan-2/\">Interview with Judythe Morgan</a>.','My Interview with Eat Read Rate Blog','','draft','open','open','','','','','2013-08-11 14:42:49','0000-00-00 00:00:00','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=3336',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (4250,1,'2014-02-24 07:44:15','2014-02-24 07:44:15','<p align=\"center\"><strong>Guest Blog </strong><strong>Participation </strong><strong>Guidelines </strong></p>\r\nHello! Thanks for your interest in guest blogging here at <a href=\"http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/\" target=\"_blank\">View from the Front Porch</a>.\r\n\r\nI love hosting others. If you have a word of wisdom to share or insight on anything faith or fiction focused or maybe a moving or amusing anecdote waiting for an outlet, you’re invited.\r\n\r\nGuest blogging is for anyone ... everyone.\r\n\r\nOnly three guidelines:\r\n<ol>\r\n 	<li>Articles or essays MUST be new. <em>Please don’t send something that has already been posted on another website without updating.</em></li>\r\n 	<li>Length around 500 words. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Shorter is better.</em></span></li>\r\n 	<li>No controversial or political topics.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\nPick a Thursday date. Right now, most Thursdays in 2016 are available.\r\n\r\nOnce you’ve decided what to write and a date you\'d like, here’s what you’ll need to do.\r\n\r\nCopy and paste the form below into your word processor.\r\n<ol>\r\n 	<li>Fill out the form completely.</li>\r\n 	<li>Save the file by renaming as a RTF file with your name (example: JOHNDOE.doc). That will help me keep things organized.</li>\r\n 	<li>Return the completed form to <a href=\"mailto:judythe@judythemorgan.com\">judythewriter@icloud.com</a> as an attachment.</li>\r\n 	<li>You can include a jpg file for any images you wish. No large, large images. And, most important, only <em>legal </em>to copy images. Your photo would be nice to include, but not necessary.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\nOnce I receive your email...\r\n<ol>\r\n 	<li>I’ll confirm receipt, so if you don’t hear from me within 72 hours, please contact me.</li>\r\n 	<li>I wish I had time to send a reminder before your date, but I don’t. So please mark your calendar.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n<h3>REQUEST FORM to guest blog on</h3>\r\n<p align=\"center\">View from the Front Porch</p>\r\nName/Pen Name:\r\n\r\nContact Email (not to be given out, just for me):\r\n\r\nWebsite (if you have one):\r\n\r\nBlog (if you have one):\r\n\r\nTwitter and Facebook Links (if you wish to share):\r\n\r\nDate you would like to appear (if no date is specified, I will assign one to you).\r\n\r\nYour blog. *Be sure to proofread it. I’m a writer, not an editor!\r\n<h6><b>Special Instructions if you’re an author:</b></h6>\r\nBeing a guest blogger can also be an opportunity for you to promote your books. In the bio info at the end of your guest blog, we can include any book information you wish to promote.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">IMPORTANT:</span> No erotica or steamy sensuality. Any book genre including non-fiction is acceptable.\r\n\r\nIn your file please include\r\n<ol>\r\n 	<li>Title of Book you would like to promote. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Remember the exceptions!</span></li>\r\n 	<li>Buy Link (either to your author site or to online retailers like Amazon, B&amp;N, etc.)</li>\r\n 	<li>URL for your cover: (To find the URL, right click on the pic, then go to properties. It will have a URL, copy and paste that here.)</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Additional thoughts:</span>\r\n\r\nYou are encouraged to show up on your guest blog/interview day to chat with commenters.\r\n\r\nIf you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask. I look forward to working with you.\r\n\r\n- Judythe','BE MY GUEST','','publish','closed','closed','','be-my-guest','','','2016-07-14 11:14:25','2016-07-14 17:14:25','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?page_id=4250',0,'page','',0);
