Share the Love ...

Loving sharing these books with you ...

Check out Kim's lovingly created works at:  www.kimaya.co.nz

New Zealand author Kimaya, specialises in children’s personal growth and development. Kimaya has a highly contagious enthusiasm for life and love of people; an illuminator of individual magnificence, power, passion and purpose. Her books relay this beautifully to readers from 3 years through to teens and young adults, including the child within us all.

A note from Kim: Through all my work and travel I’ve always gravitated towards roles that focus on mind, body and soul.  I have a number of qualifications and have worked in a wide variety of industries and careers but in all my work there has been a constant theme of holistic health and wellbeing.

Recommend:

Kim's books on love are such a joy to the senses. You can feel the warmth, see the glow and be transformed by all the love that surrounds you. "All the Flavours of Love" is truly the flavours of life itself because love is all there is. Arielle Faith Michael, Hawaii.

Momentum ... Goals ... Momentum ... Goals

Check out David Wallace Fleming  - Indie Literary - Interesting thoughts on technology and relationships, quirky quotes, interviews and more ...

Without goals, would we just stand still and quack quietly?

David Wallace Fleming is writer of self-termed, technical satire and author of many digital books including Not From Concentrate, Modern Manhood, and the social media novel Growing Up Wired.


http://davidwallacefleming.com/2013/03/13/the-audacity-of-momentum/#more-2904

The Audacity of Momentum

Posted on March 13, 2013

by davidwallacefleming

Why do people stop themselves once they’ve got something started? Why do people stop short of achieving a goal, again and again?

Sure, part of the problem is the fear of the unknown but the other problem is a lack of setting goals. If a person isn’t moving toward a goal, then they’re just moving out into the unknown abyss of space. That’s scary stuff. 

Another cool thing about momentum is that it seems to be fairly scalar. If one keeps doing the same thing everyday, there’s no telling where one will end up.

A lot of times when people casually talk about momentum I think what they might really be referring to is inertia or the tendency of things to stay in  a given state of motion. If you ask people why things tend to stay in a given state of motion no one can really give you a straight answer. It’s one of those mysteries that we’re not really supposed to think about or ask questions about. What is inertia? What is mass? Why does mass have the properties that it has and why do those properties behave the way that they behave?

If a duck wakes up every morning and says, “quack,” then we might say that that duck had a certain inertia to keep waking up in the morning and saying “quack,” even if prior quacks weren’t all they were quacked up to be. We might say that said duck had a certain quack-inertia to its character.

Now, IF a second duck awoke each morning and quacked just a little bit louder than our first duck, then this second duck might also have a distinct and slightly greater quack-inertia. Now what’s gonna happen when these two ducks meet? The second duck is going to out-quack the first! This second duck is going to have a greater quack-momentum. This second duck will be a victorious duck and will be invited to all the best duck-parties.

Inertia is a scalar quantity of a system that describes that systems stubbornness. Momentum, on the other quack, is best for describing who or what will win when two systems come into conflict.

So, maybe this is the second secret to the audacity of momentum: not only do we have to set goals, but we have to become more competitive to prepare for eventual conflicts with our competitors.

Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators ...

Blackpool Lit-fest: Wordpool Starts today ...

Wordpool: Blackpool's Lit-fest begins today 


Newly redeveloped Central Library 2pm with 


author Robert Graham 'Man Walks into a 


Kitchen'




Gillian

Summer Indulgence, Happy House and Holiday Centre ...

If you download 'Summer Indulgence' short story by Gillian Hesketh, from Amazon [approx 91p] all the proceeds received until 31st December 2011, will be donated to:

Happy House, Watamu Kenya.
Children's Hospice Holiday Centre, Thornton, UK.

Thankyou -

PS ~ you don't even have to read it !!

Quote of the week ...

'No Garden is without weeds'

Thomas Fuller

Suppose you could consider this on a few different levels ?!?

Check out www.forismatic.com for inspirational quotations of the day.

Sit back and relax - I know I'm trying to.

Jill

The Poetry Book Fair ...

Looking for a day out? Away from the shops, chores, TV, sport, DIY ... ?

Summer Indulgence ...

Out Now on Kindle ... Short Story, Summer Indulgence
by Gillian Hesketh

Bookshop Tour ...



The Poetry Bookshop
Hay-on-Wye

 When the ironing is finished, when all my children have left home, when my novel is complete, when my study is tidy, when all the paper-work is up-to-date, when I have been on a diet, and saved for enough fuel, I'd like to go on tour. To be more precise, I'd like to go on a UK Bookshop Tour ... calling at all the Special and Specialist Bookshops including The Poetry Bookshop, Hay-on-Wye ...


Maybe I could cycle around them all ?... No, not around them, I'd never get anywhere of course, obviously, from one to the next ... raise money for charity along the way ... call in at writing workshops, author readings, borrow library books from one library and return them to another ...

Maybe, when ...

I want to go ... there ...

P & G Wells ~ 11 College Street, Winchester

I want to visit this bookstore, don't you?

This is the only historic bookshop in Winchester, close by Jane Austen's house in College Street. It includes the largest stock of childrens books in the region. We have been suppliers to Winchester College for over 200 years, and the University of Winchester since its inauguration. We are also booksellers to the bi-annual Wessex Children's Book Festival.

http://www.bookwells.co.uk/

Gillian

Book Shops ...

Another cute looking Bookshop:

The Edinburgh Bookshop
229 Bruntsfield Place
Edinburgh
EH10 4DH

Maybe I could take a tour of all the bookshops in the

UK and not visit Tesco once !!

Maybe I could do a sponsored walk around the UK

and take in all the local book shops?

I was looking for something to do ... ?? ,,, ??

Gillian

Love new words ... Love words ... ?

Love Words?
I do just love words, their sounds, make-up, uses, etymology. There are too many words I honestly don't know the meaning of.

Sure, most of you will know the meaning of the following ... I'm not sure whether I'm ashamed to admit I didn't know the meanings ~ or just pleased that I had the opportunity to look them up [any excuse for more procrastinaton].  

These words were found in novels I've been reading over the last two months:


Veld - Yes I know it sounds like one, but didn't know it meant Field.

Toping - to drink alcohol habitually and to excess [!]

Knout - whip or lash sometimes with metal wires wound in [hmm sounds like knot/knots/knotted, doesn't it?]

Farinaceous - as a keen cook, I should have known it means food containing flour / starch

Apprise - to notify - not to be confused with Appraise - to estimate quality or Appease - to satisfy or relieve

Crepuscular - of, pertaining to or resembling twilight; dim, indistinct / appearing or active in twilight [as
certain bats or insects are].

Petit Trianon - small chateau in the grounds of the Palace of Versailles, Paris. Petit trianon is also used to express an act of deliberately slumming [presumably in the small chateau ?]
Kowtowing - to act in a servile manner - yes, I knew that but found this interesting:
Kowtow is the act of deep respect shown by kneeling and bowing so low as to have one's head touching the ground. An alternative Chinese term is ketou, however the meaning is somewhat altered: kòu originally meant "knock with reverence", whereas kē has the general meaning of "touch upon (a surface)".
Source:Wikipedia


So, send me your newly found word and we'll have a shared word-fest.

Gillian

Espresso? Dark Chocolate? Mint Tea?

Here's a bit of fun. Submit your writing to the Creative Cafe Project and assign your story a drink :


The Creative Cafe concept seems to me, a fabulous utopian idea ... I want one ! Or at least I'd love to have one nearby. I want to be the writer who's pretending to write a novel on her laptop, the one who people interrupt ... ask questions ... share writerly stuff ...

The Creative Café is the brainchild of university lecturer and children’s writer, Gill James. In 2006 she envisaged a network of cafés where creative practitioners know they are welcome and where normal coffee lovers know that they will be able to experience something a little different as they sip their brew. This is happening informally. The project aims to identify, create and expand Creative Cafés. Several pilot / benchmark cafés have been identified. The project is now seeking to organise expansion logically.

http://creativecafeproject.co.uk/SubmissionGuidelines.aspx

The Creative Cafe Project is looking for:
... thought-provoking and entertaining stories, though ones which might be a tad different from what you normally read in a woman’s magazine. They should be the sort of length that would make easy reading whilst you drink a cup of coffee, even if you linger a while, but without you needing to rent-a-table.

Each story will be assigned the name of a drink. [You may assign the drink] Something light and frothy might be a hot chocolate. A dark piece of flash fiction could be an espresso. Something good for the soul would be a mint tea.

[Suggest under 3000 words. Shorter stories and flash fiction welcome]

Check it out, Gillian 

Are you lonely?

'An artist is always alone - if he is an artist.
No, what the artist needs is loneliness.'

Henry Miller

via SocialOomph

Gillian

Find it hard to choose a book to read?

I sometimes find it takes tooooo long to choose a book just to read - I know that probably sounds completely odd - but what I really mean is - a book purely for enjoyment rather than assessing writing styles, voice, character, tone, mood etc. etc. etc.

Being part of the World Book Night, I was sent a link to this list of 100 books ... 'kinda' made the job a bit easier for my next read ...

http://www.worldbooknight.org/your-books/the-wbn-top-100-books

and 'kinda' didn't, as I realise how many more I should get through.

Gillian

Natterjack is Calling All Writers ...

Michael Bruce has a vision ... that Natterjack is to grow into a site where different voices, which wouldn’t normally be heard together, can engage with each other and throw light on each other.

Poets and bloggers, businesspeople and academics, sports tipsters and ale critics, fanatics and sceptics, agelasts and satirists, established writers and new writers, adults and children – and more – will be heard in these pages.

http://www.natterjackmagazine.com/

What are you waiting for? Get writing and emailing ... Michael is looking for anything writerly.

Gillian

The Writers' Workshop ...

Bestselling author of fiction and non-fiction, Harry Bingham, [great name btw], runs The Writers' Workshop. Check out his site http://www.writersworkshop.com/ for helpful advice or his blog: Write. Edit. Seek Literary agent [link below].

Harry supplies ideas and samples of how to approach agents; the complicated way, or the lazy way [his words, not mine], either way, here's a link to a very simple 'Sample Literary Agent Query Letter' ...

http://www.writersworkshop.co.uk/blog/sample-literary-agent-query-letter/

Harry makes it look easy - the only other thing you might need, which he does suggest, is a good book!

Also: Join The Word Cloud: where writers meet.  [Its free, just register and join in with a large writing community for feedback, forums and updates.
Well worth a look, great advice, articles, workshops [online workshops] and blog. Thanks Harry.

Gillian

Upcoming Poetry Competitions:

For a comprehensive list of upcoming Poetry Competitions, click below:

http://www.poetrylibrary.org.uk/competitions/

Good Luck,

Gillian

Easy-read Ideas and Tips, Tips, Tips ...

Give this a whirl ...

http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~tpl/texts/sendingoff/

Tim Love shares motivating tips and ideas for wannabe writers that aren't going to take up most of your day.

Gillian

Work V Play ...

Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.

Eleanore Marie Sarton, American poet, novelist and memoirist.