Simple Bliss

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bliss, love, Poems, simple

 

My Hubby and I on our wedding day. (I was 9 months pregnant)

The pain has surrendered, it’s no longer knocking at my door. The happiness sinks in, a feeling I’ve never known before. The touch of your hand, sets my mind at ease. And the wind roar’s in and takes me on loves magic breeze. These feelings are new, I’ve never known them before. There is no more darkness or pain standing outside my door. Loves bells of true bliss begin to ring in my ear. Reminding me of your faithfulness and to always hold you near. Like the pureness of a dove, your love cannot be replaced. And I’m reminded of all these things, when I simply see your face. The darkness and pain have surrendered, they no longer exist. But the light in your eyes shines brighter, and your love is Simple Bliss.

 

Wrote this poem for my Hubby, you may use it but please do not claim that you wrote it. A link back would be nice too. Thanks

Oh Dear Bird.

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beautiful, feelings, happy life, write, writing

Oh dear bird, how I’ve longed to see you so. See the feather’s of your freedom and the depth’s of your soul. The sound of your wings put my heart at ease. And to hear your beautiful song is like an unimaginable dream. With your beauty and grace you slowly take flight. And sail off into the dawn’s breaking light. With my heart attached to your feet I watch you disappear. While my happiness and freedom turns quickly into fear. The fear of your absence is the worst fear of all, but I will wait for you my dear friend and I will see you in the fall. We will meet at our place of wonder and delight, and I will feel freedom once again when your are back in my sight. Oh my dear bird, how I’ve longed to see you so. See the feather’s of your freedom and the depth’s of your soul.

 

-Sandra

 

The Fog, My Love.

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darkness, feelings, fog, husband, love, short story, writing

Stepping onto the cold wet pavement, I began to feel the cold rain droplets fall onto my face. As if they were meant to land there, to wash my sorrows away. Looking into the distance I notice a tall dark figure standing in the foggy forest. The feeling of sorrow, of loneliness, and hate began to overcome my emotions. As the tears began forming in my eyes I slowly fell to the ground. My knees were my cushion and the pain was so dense. The heaviness began to overcome me, starting from the top of my head. My eyes widened and I could see the figure begin to slowly walk towards me. As it stepped out of the fog I saw it more clearly. The figure of a human but his body was filled with all of my misjudgments, the pain, the sorrow, the suffering I had collected throughout the years. Not a word was spoken as it slowly crept to stand before me. The figure extended it’s arm and placed it on my right shoulder as if it were knighting me. Knighting me for being the most shameful being it had ever seen.  Bells began to ring in my ears as the figures mouth slowly opened. Slowly my body began to rise as if I were an object floating through space. As the bells grew louder my body rose higher and soon I was face to face with this haunting creature. Quickly it’s mouth closed and I could feel the weight of my past slowly lifting from my shoulders. Watching the figure I began to notice that all of my shameful memories were erasing from the figures form. Closing my eyes I began to feel relief, pleasure, and a small taste of happiness. The figure coughed as if to grab my attention and I slowly opened my eyes. There before me stood the man I loved, the man who wrapped me in love all those years ago. The husband that I had married and the man who would always save me from the darkness of my life.

-Sandra

Versatile Blogger Award!

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I have been nominated for “The Versatile Blogger Award” . Thanks to “Dark Zone“.

For this award i have to do a couple of things as follows:

1. Thank the award-giver and link back to them in your post (done  ). 

2. Share 7 things about yourself. 

3. Pass this award along to 15 recently discovered blogs you enjoy reading. 

4. Contact your chosen bloggers to let them know about the award.

Now a little bit about my self:

1. I’m a writer in the making.

2. Alabama is where my ghosts from the past haunt me.

3. Everything in my world is constantly rushing through my head, there are so many things I need to get out .

4. My blog is the only place I can really be myself.

5. My family inspires me to be so much more than I already am.

6. My two kids are my life, and my world revolves around them.

7. Writing is like my medicine, I can feel so many things but when i write i am able to take those things off of me and share them with the world.

Re-Nominees:

1.Caliburnus Rises

2.Belladonna23

3.Chembelle

4.Slow Mover

5.The Memoirs of a Young Heart!

6.The Official Website of Janrae Mendoza

7.Nihilistic Poetry

8.SPELLCHECKAHOLIC

9.Pitching Pennies Poetry

10.Mortal hearts with immortal souls; contemplating the mysteries of our Earthborn Life.

11.superfictious

12.Queen Alisha’s Guide to Life

13.Searching for Jane, Finding Myself

14.Trying to keep sane.

15.Jennifer Neri’s Blog

A Blissful Delight

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blissful feelings, darkness, depressed, happiness, life

 Blissful feelings are so hard to come by. Pain and suffering always seem to follow with every step i take. Where can i run, is there a place i can hide? Things seem to be going great and then WHAM! The pain and suffering are in my face as if they were a shadow standing in a nearby corner waiting for the perfect moment to attack. My head starts pounding the light that was once burning bright in my eyes slowly begins to dim. The laughter and happiness I once held onto just slips from my hands as if it were never meant to be there. Somethings in life are a simple mistake. The mistake of giving someone so down and so haunted the pureness and innocence of something so small. Blissful feelings are so hard to come by, when you are able to grab one hold onto it for as long as you can. For in the darkened corner of a nearby hallway might just be the darkness to take it from you yet again.

-Sandra

Love?

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beautiful, happy life, life, love, quotes, share, writing

“What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!”

― Victor Hugo

Love, what is it?

Is it that funny feeling you get deep in your stomach. When the one you crush on walks into sight? Or is it the flutter in your heart when a touch or a simple caress is made by someone special? The quote “It’s better to love and be loved then to have never loved at all.” How can a person not love at all? Love is not just with a significant other. When a newborn child is born he loves his mother. When a child receives his first pet, he loves that pet. When someone gets a memory that they want to hold onto , they love that memory. Everyone loves and has been loved at some point in their lives. Rather they want to admit it or not. Love? What is it? It’s the sensation you have when you have realized it’s all true.

Love this? Share it. We would Love for you to do so.

-Sandra

Remember Them

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Copyright, Eleventh, Poems, September, Twin Towers

I wrote this poem back in September of 2010. After seeing all the tributes on t.v. I was inspired. Feeling that thousands of voiceless souls had something to say. Closing my eyes I began to imagine the pain, the horror that they all felt. So this was my attempt to give them all a voice, to show the world what they were faced with. These people will always remain in my heart and with every September that rolls around they will remain in my thoughts and prayers.

-Sandra

 

A loud roar is what started it all,

it’s what everyone heard before the buildings began to fall.

Watching with horror and fear in our hearts,

feeling as if our world was falling apart.

But for just one moment imagine you were them,

sitting in your office and watching the planes crash in.

Trapped inside what would seem like living hell,

inside fire filled offices and smoke filled stairwells.

Not knowing if they were to live or die,

imagine your life flashing right before your eyes.

It flashed before theirs over and over again,

never again to see their families and never again to see their friends.

Today we remember these people from nine years ago,

may peace be with them and may God rest their souls.

 

©Sandra Sears 2012

Copyright Infringement is illegal. Please do not steal my poem, if you would like to use it please send an email to sas0327@gmail.com and place a link back to this site . Thanks

Critiques are welcome, just post a comment below.

Quotes That Inspire You!

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beautiful, comment, comment below, inspiration, inspirational, quotes, share, share with us

Do you have quotes that inspire you?

I would love to hear them.

Please feel free to comment and share your favorite inspirational quotes.

I was just posting the last post and I looked up and saw this quote in the corner and loved it!

 

Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.— Marsha Norman

So right, so true.  Share yours with us!

Comment Below. =]

For new writers- How to format a manuscript

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faq, format a manuscript, how to, manuscript, new writer, write

 

ALL AND EVERY CREDIT GO TO THIS SITE: http://www.shunn.net/format/story.html He really did a good job with showing how to do this, and I myself found this to be VERY helpful.  NOTE: The top left corner with all the information did not load completely right so please visit the link provided to make sure you understand.

William Shunn about 1,500 words 12 Courier Lane Pica's Font, NY 10010 (212) 555-1212 format@shunn.net   Active member, SFWA Proper Manuscript Format by William Shunn No one knows for certain how many good short stories are passed over because the manuscripts containing them are formatted poorly, but it is certain that a properly formatted manuscript will be more eagerly read by an editor than a poorly formatted one. Here are a few suggestions. First, use black type on white paper only. Other colors make your work difficult to read, not to mention calling too much attention to the manuscript itself. Print on only one side of the page. For easy readability, limit your choice of font to either Courier or Times New Roman. Courier (my strong preference) is a monospaced font, which means that every character is exactly as

Shunn / Format / 2 wide as every other. It's easier for an editor to detect spelling errors in a monospaced font than in a proportional font like Times New Roman (in which the "i" uses less horizontal space than the "m" does). With a monospaced font, there will also be fewer characters on each line, which can make your manuscript easier to scan. Still, many writers have come to prefer Times New Roman, and either is usually acceptable. (If in doubt, consult your intended market's submission guidelines.) Set your font size to 12 points. Use nice wide margins all around your pages. There should be at least an inch to each side of the text--top, bottom, left, and right. Always double-space between lines. Never submit a single-spaced manuscript. The editor needs room to make corrections and other typographical marks between lines--but not too much room, so don't triple-space either. The guidelines I've offered so far will give you pages of about 250 to 300 words apiece. This may increase your page count, but don't fret about that. It's easier to read a lot of pages with fewer words on each than it is to read a few pages with lots of words on each, and as a result your story may feel as if it reads faster than otherwise. Now, to the first page of your manuscript. Place your name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address in the upper left corner. If you belong to a professional writing organization, you may list your membership beneath this information, but only

Shunn / Format / 3 if it is relevant. If you belong to the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, for instance, you would want to mention that when submitting to Asimov's or Realms of Fantasy, but it probably wouldn't cut much ice with the editors at The New Yorker or Cat Fancy. In the upper right corner of the first page, place an approximate word count. Round to the nearest hundred words unless you're edging up into novella length, at which point rounding to the nearest 500 would be appropriate. The point of a word count is not to tell the editor exactly how many words there are in the manuscript, but rather how much space your story will take up in print. If your word processing software doesn't give you a word count, you can estimate the total by counting the number of words on one page and multiplying by the number of pages in the manuscript. Though many sources say you should, it is not necessary to place your Social Security number anywhere on your manuscript. If the publisher wants to know it, you'll be asked for it after your story is accepted. Otherwise, it's extraneous--and in fact presumptuous--information. Place the title of your story one third to one half of the way down the first page. The editor needs all that empty space for writing notes to the typesetter and copy editor. Your title should be centered between the margins. Many writers type the title in all capitals, and you can too if you like, though it's not necessary.

Shunn / Format / 4 One double space below your title, center your byline. This may seem like redundant information, since your name is already in the upper-left corner of the manuscript, but it's not. The name in the corner is the person to whom the publisher will make out the check. The byline is the name that receives credit for the story when it appears in print. These are not necessarily the same. Perhaps your name is J. Scott Bronson but you publish fiction under the pseudonym Everett Stone, or perhaps you are a married woman publishing fiction under your birth name. Whatever the case, even if the two names are the same, both must appear on your manuscript. Begin the text of your manuscript two double spaces below your byline. The first line of every paragraph in your manuscript, including this first paragraph, should be indented one half inch from the left margin. (You can set tab stops or paragraph styles in your word processor to help with this.) Do not place extra line spaces between paragraphs, as is the common practice in blogs and other online writing. The first-line indentation is sufficient to indicate that a new paragraph has begun. Place a page header in the upper right corner of every page of your manuscript except the first. This header consists of your real surname, one or two important words from the title of your story, and the current page number. Do not place the header in the upper left corner because the editorial staff will sometimes clip your manuscript in that corner as they work on it.

Shunn / Format / 5 The surname and keyword are important because sometimes unbound manuscripts happen to fall off editors' desks and become mixed up with other manuscripts. The header helps the editorial staff reassemble yours in the proper order. Except for paragraph indentations, the left margin of your manuscript should be ruler-straight. The right margin, however, should be ragged, not justified. Right justification messes up the spaces between words and sentences and makes the manuscript more of a chore to read. In the days of typewriters, the usual practice was to put two spaces after the end of every sentence, and also to put two spaces after every colon. This helped make the separations between sentences more apparent, and helped editors more easily distinguish periods from commas and colons from semicolons. With the dominance of computers, that practice is changing, and it is more common now to see only one space between sentences. Ingrained habits die hard, though, so if you're used to hitting the spacebar twice after a period, you shouldn't stress out about it, particularly if you're using a Courier font. If you intend a word or phrase to appear in italics, the convention has long been to indicate this in your manuscript by underlining. This practice, too, is beginning to change. In Courier you should continue to underline, since italics in monospaced fonts are easy to overlook. In Times New Roman, though, it's becoming more and more acceptable to use italics directly. (Again, consult submission guidelines when you're in

Shunn / Format / 6 doubt.) If you want to indicate an em dash--the punctuation that sets off a phrase like this one--use two hyphens to do so. Do not place spaces around the hyphens. (Many word processors are set by default to convert two hyphens to a real em dash. You'll want to turn that feature off if you're using a monospaced font, since the em dash and hyphen characters are easily confused by the eye. In proportional fonts, this isn't so important since the em dash is noticeably wider than a hyphen.) "A lot of people ask me about dialog," I told an editor friend of mine recently. "Do you have any suggestions?" "Dialog should be enclosed in quotation marks," she said. "Some writers get away with doing it differently, but they're rare exceptions." "Isn't it also the usual practice to start a new paragraph when the speaker changes?" I asked. "Yes, it is. That helps the reader keep track of who's speaking even when speech tags are omitted." If you want a line break to appear in your story, then rather than leaving a blank line you should center the character "#" on a line by itself. Do this for every line break, not just for ones that fall at the top or bottom of a page. As you edit and revise your manuscript prior to submission, those breaks can move around, and word processors often hide blank lines that come at the start or end of a page. You don't want your scene breaks rendered invisible to your editor.

Shunn / Format / 7 Finally, though you don't need to make any overt indication, some writers choose to center the word "END" after the last line of a story. This can help avoid ambiguity if your final words fall near the bottom of the page. # While you'll find certain variations in the way different writers format their manuscripts, no one departs very far from what I've outlined above. But always check a market's submission guidelines before sending your work. If their guidelines differ from mine, follow theirs. At the very least, these suggestions will guarantee your work looks professional. How the story itself comes across is an entirely separate matter--and that part's all up to you. Best of luck!

This is in no way associated with this blog, I simply posted it to show you, the credits are at the top of this post!

The life of an author

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author, dreams, everyday life, published, stay at home mom, Stephenie Meyer, writing

Not being published doesn’t really name you an ‘author’. But I want to consider myself one. Simply being able to write and love to write should make you one rather you have been published or not. Stephenie Meyer is alot of my inspiration. A past stay at home mom (just like myself) had a in depth dream of her characters and wanted to tell there story. No dreams have come my way however. Does that mean my book won’t be successful? Probably not if I can keep at it. The farthest I had ever gotten in writing was maybe two chapters. With my latest novel I have almost five but I’m in the ‘Writers Block’ Stage. Well I’m in the unmotivated stage. I’m sure if I actually sit and just write I would be able to get alot done. My new goal is to sit down and write atleast one page everynight. Somehow I will make a tracker so everyone can see my progress. I’ve tried planning how many pages I will have , but I realized theres no point in doing that, it will all come naturally. Well to get off and start my day, but come eight p.m. tonight I will be in the World of my Characters. -Sandra