Good Vibration Day 31 - #positive

Day 31 of Raising Your Vibration

Positive thoughts on my This Thought Counts Blog

Soar

(this link takes you to my Day 31 Blog post)

Good Vibration Day 30 - #positive

Day 30 of Raising Your Vibration

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Just Go With It

(this link takes you to my Day 30 Blog post)

Good Vibration Day 29 = #positive

Day 29 of Raising Your Vibration

Positive thoughts on my This Thought Counts Blog

Focus

(this link takes you to my Day 29 Blog post)

Good Vibration Day 28 - #positive

Day 28 of Raising Your Vibration

Positive thoughts on my This Thought Counts Blog

Choose Your Color

(this link takes you to my Day 28 Blog post)

Good Vibration Day 27 - #positive

Day 27 of Raising Your Vibration

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Embrace Your Flower

(this link takes you to my Day 27 Blog post)

Make your own set of Intention Cards

Ever made your own set of Intention Cards? It is an amazing way to find out a little about yourself, plus it gives you a visual representation that will help you when you want to focus.

In January over at my This Thought Counts Blog, I will show you how.

Interested?

Here is a list of things you will want to gather - Intention Cards.

Good Vibration Day 26 - #positive

Day 26 of Raising Your Vibration

Positive thoughts on my This Thought Counts Blog

Look for the light

(this link takes you to my Day 26 Blog post)

Good Vibration Day 25 - #positive

Day 25 of Raising Your Vibration

Positive thoughts on my This Thought Counts Blog

Look at things through a different lens

(this link takes you to my Day 25 Blog post)

Good Vibration Day 24 - #positive

Day 24 of Raising Your Vibration

Positive thoughts on my This Thought Counts Blog

Do Something Silly

(this link takes you to my Day 24 Blog post)

Good Vibration Day 23 - #positive

Day 23 of Raising Your Vibration

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Change Your Perspective

(this link takes you to my Day 23 Blog post)

Good Vibration Day 22 - #positive

Day 22 of Raising Your Vibration

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Just Start

(this link takes you to my Day 22 Blog post)

Good Vibration Day 21 - #positive

Day 21 of Raising Your Vibration

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The future is not written

(this link takes you to my Day 21 Blog post)

Good Vibration Day 20 - #positive

Day 20 of Raising Your Vibration

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Turn Your Thoughts Upside Down

(this link takes you to my Day 20 Blog post)

Good Vibration Day 19 - #positive

Day 19 of Raising Your Vibration

Positive thoughts on my This Thought Counts Blog

Find Encouragement

(this link takes you to my Day 19 Blog post)

Getting past Writer's Block

Ever find yourself without something to say? It is an abysmal thing when you are speaking to someone and all the words you could say just fall out of your head and you are left with a huge blank.

"Uhhhhhhh..."

It is even worse when you are a writer. You have everything set. Clean paper in front of you, your favorite pen, just the right ambiance... and no words come to you at all. You might even start writing hoping the words come and they still don't.

You have hit that wall we call writer's block.

It comes to each and every one of us at some time or another. Nobody knows why. Some blame it on stress, but I find it easier sometimes to write while stressed.

The fact is, you have to figure out how to get past the block. For some, putting the pen down and going and doing physical exercise is the key. For others, meditation.

Sometimes it just takes bursting through whatever your block is. Now how do you do that?

There are books a'plenty out there with hints on how to get over writer's block. One of the more interesting ways that I find can help is to put that pen to paper and just write. Word after word shove themselves onto paper, completely nonsensical as there is no punctuation and half the time one word will be repeated over and over again ad infinitum until whatever was causing the block crumbles and the words begin to make sense. They form intriguing ideas, formulate interesting premises and suddenly I am off...

Before I know it, I have five chapters written of a story that wasn't in my head just four hours before.

Lately I have been having a hard time writing, especially with the horrible news that no matter how hard I work not to hear... well when something that horrendous hits it is impossible not to. Last night, I sat down and wrote the most depressing, most horrid, most hideous 500 word flash fiction I can remember writing.

It poured out onto the page with anger and fury. When I was finished, I stared at the thing in horror, unable to believe that I had penned it.

This morning, the characters from the story I have been unable to write lately are chatting in my head quite amicably. I can only assume their silence was due to a block I needed to get out. So, as horrible as Death of a Dream was to write, I must thank it. Obviously I needed to get it out so that I could return to what I want to write.

Write what you need to write... it might not necessarily be what you want to write in that moment, but it might be just what you need.

Good Vibration Day 18 - #positive

Day 18 of Raising Your Vibration

Positive thoughts on my This Thought Counts Blog

Let Your Imagination Soar
(this link takes you to my Day 18 Blog post and image)

Good Vibration Day 17 - #positive

Day 17 of Raising Your Vibration

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Be Like the Rocks
(this link takes you to my Day 17 Blog post and image)

Good Vibration Day 16 - #positive

Day 16 of Raising Your Vibration

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Turn It Off
(this link takes you to my Day 16 Blog post and image)

Six Sentence Sunday

Hi fellow sixers! Enjoying today's group of wonderful six's? Who knew 6 was such a wonderful number?

Today I am sharing a small bit from one of my WIPs. This is another dating service story. A few weeks ago I shared with you the beginning of Ari's date from hell with Jay, the man who talks and eats at the same time. This is from a little further on in the date.


“So, Arrrrwin,” Jay said, growling the ‘r’ like a pirate while pronouncing her given name wrong. Against her better judgment, she tuned back into the conversation. “Jane tells me you were a bit crazy in college.” He winked at her and leered.

As she fought back the food that wanted to come back up her esophagus, she caught the look of pity from a woman one table over. Obviously Jay’s voice carried. 

If you think this date is bad, you should see some of the other men her sister has set her up with. The woman has seriously bad taste in men.

My first dating service story is L'Amore Perfetto, which is available in both e and Print formats.

Good Vibration Day 15 - #positive

Day 15 of Raising Your Vibration

Positive thoughts on my This Thought Counts Blog

Be Grateful
(this link takes you to my Day 15 Blog post)

Good Vibration Day 14 - #positive

Day 14 of Raising Your Vibration

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Find Your Peace
(this link takes you to my Day 14 Blog post)

Good Vibration Day 13 - #positive

Day 13 of Raising Your Vibration

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Focus on Your Goal
(this link takes you to my Day 13 Blog post)

Good Vibration Day 12 - #positive

Day 12 of Raising Your Vibration

Positive thoughts on my This Thought Counts Blog

Laugh Like a Little Child
(this link takes you to my Day 12 Blog post)

Good Vibration Day 11 - #positive

Day 11 of Raising Your Vibration

Positive thoughts on my This Thought Counts Blog

Choose to Change
(this link takes you to my Day 11 Blog post)

Good Vibration Day 10 - #positive

Day 10 of Raising Your Vibration

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Be Weird
(this link takes you to my Day 10 Blog post)

Good Vibration Day 9 - #positive

Day 9 of Raising Your Vibration

Positive thoughts on my This Thought Counts Blog

Let Go - Just Enjoy Life
(this link takes you to my Day 9 Blog post)

Six Sentence Sunday - L'Amore Perfetto is in paperback!

Hi happy Sixers! Are you ready for the holidays? I can't believe it is Dec 9th already!

I'm giving you another look into L'Amore Perfetto as just this week it came out in paperback form. YAY! After my book In Search of the Drasta came out in paperback, I wasn't sure if I was going to do it again as I wasn't completely pleased with the final look. But this one? OMG! I pulled it out of the box and squealed! Yep, looks that good.

In this scene, Nicki has entered L'Amore Perfetto training and is getting to know the other participants. Jasmine starts to discuss her brothers, both of whom are also in the program.
Her eyes lit up. “Wouldn’t it be wonderful if you were partnered with one of them? My brothers are pretty fine, let me tell you.”

I burst into laughter and she cocked her head. “Sorry, Jasmine…Jazz, that reminded me. When I went to the dinner party, one of the women made mention of the nice looking Lambert men who were part of the program.”

Book Description:

Romance meets a modern-day fairy-tale.

Nicki hates to date; the whole putting herself out there night after night after night is not her thing. Unfortunately, her roommate is the exact opposite. When Kristen comes up with her newest man-catching ploy, joining a discriminating dating service that accepts less than 5% of its female applicants, Nicki sees an opportunity and gets Kristen to agree that if she applies and does not get accepted, that Kristen won’t bug her about going out for nine months.

Full steam ahead, she jumps into the multi-step application process. Each step increases her desire to make it to the next one and when she makes it, she is thrown into a world she didn’t know existed. Will she falter in this new life or will she make it to the end and meet her soul mate?

Purchase through the following distributors:

Print:

• Amazon
• Amazon UK
• CreateSpace

eFormat:

• Amazon
• Amazon UK
• Apple iBooks 
• Kobo
• Nook
• Smashwords

Good Vibration Day 8 - #positive

Day 8 of Raising Your Vibration

Positive thoughts on my This Thought Counts Blog

Limits? Nope, not me!
(this link takes you to my Day 8 Blog post)

Good Vibration Day 7 - #positive

Day 7 of Raising Your Vibration

Positive thoughts on my This Thought Counts Blog

Open Up Your Heart
(this link takes you to my Day 7 Blog post)

Good Vibration Day 6 - #positive

Day 6 of Raising Your Vibration

Positive thoughts on my This Thought Counts Blog

Smile - You'll Feel Better
(this link takes you to my Day 6 Blog post)

L'Amore Perfetto is now in print!

Yep, that's right. L'Amore Perfetto is now in print. I've been working on this for awhile, getting it reformatted for print and going through several proofing rounds.

But finally today - I got the final copy and it is available on CreateSpace.

YAY! There is no greater joy than holding that book in your hands and saying "MINE!"

Currently it is available via CreateSpace.

It is also available via Amazon and Amazon UK.

So pick up a copy. For you, your daughter, your cousin... Get a large glass of lemonade, and lay back, prepared to smile and say "ahhhh" when it is finished.

Just in time for the holiday! L'Amore Perfetto in print!

Good Vibration Day 5 - #positive

Day 5 of Raising Your Vibration

Positive thoughts on my This Thought Counts Blog

Imperfectly Perfect
(this link takes you to my Day 5 Blog post)

Good Vibration Day 4 - #positive

Day 4 of Raising Your Vibration

Positive thoughts on my This Thought Counts Blog

Have fun! Laugh because you can.

Good Vibration Day 3 - #positive

Day 3 of Raising Your Vibration

Positive thoughts on my This Thought Counts Blog

Beauty is Everywhere - Look for it

Good VIbration Day 2 - #positive

Day 2 of Raising Your Vibration

Posted this to This Thought Counts and forgot to add a reminder here. 

So, here you go!

Love and Laugh - For the pure joy of it 

I will post a link for every one of the 31 positive posts I am making this month over at This Thought Counts.

Now I'm caught up - the posts will coincide with one another:)

Good Vibration Day 1 - #positive

Day 1 of Raising Your Vibration

Posted this to This Thought Counts and forgot to add a reminder here. 

So, here you go!

Enjoy the Simple Things

Six Sentence Sunday

Hi fellow sixers! Happy Six to you!

This week, I am sharing a little from my scifi/fantasy novel In Search of the Drasta.

The planet of E'Loi lived a good existence now that the Travelers were gone. Except for one thing - they could no longer reproduce. Thus, the leading scientists of the planet were placed in charge of creating a fix for the problem. Kape Kruence came up with one, but it quickly turned bad and he was banished to the mines of Swapesh. The other senior scientists were then charged with finding a fix.


Soon enough the problem became insurmountable in their minds and the senior scientists thought it would be best to retire and hand the problem over to all the junior scientists; in the name of saving their world, of course, not because they didn’t want to end up like Kape who was now working the mines of Swapesh forever; they made that point very clear. So clear in fact that the rulers of E’Loi got tired of their self-serving attitude and sent them all to work in the mines of Swapesh anyway, just to get rid of them.

The junior scientists were ecstatic as they had so many ideas that the seniors would not even think of. They made the proposal that the person who came up with an idea that worked would become Chief Scientist forever, or until he decided to step down. Their offer accepted: they set about making plans. Of the seventeen scientists who were trying to fix the problem, 3 groups ended up forming: one group of twelve, one group of four, and one lone scientist who said he did not want to work with others because he was too smart for any of them, which is the actual reason none of them had asked him to be on their team. 

Book Description:


Some days it just doesn’t pay to be brilliant. Braun Tapesh is the chief scientist for the planet E’Loi and is happy to tell anyone who happens to be standing near him that it is he who saved his planet.

Despite his advanced scientific knowledge, Braun makes a small mistake and finds himself on a rescue mission to find the Drasta—the last true Eloim female born on the planet. Unwillingly thrown into his own science experiment, he is tossed across the universe in a special chamber he created. Much to his dismay, he is transported into the body of a university student and must learn to eat Earth food and adjust to life on a college campus—all while still focusing on his important mission to locate the Drasta and bring her home. Soon, he is traveling from planet-to-planet with two humans, a princess, and a half-dwarf in tow. But someone else is on the same mission and will do anything to snatch the Drasta first.

Just when Braun wonders what could possibly be worse, he realizes he never should have asked.


Purchase through:

• Amazon.com (hardback, paperback or kindle versions)
• Amazon.co.uk (hardback, paperback or kindle versions)

Barnes & Noble

Hardback / NookBook
Paperback

iUniverse

Positive thoughts are live and kicking

Today I started my 31 days of motivationa/positive thoughts on my blog This Thought Counts. I originally started This Thought Counts to place my blogs from when I was heavily into the Boundless Living Challenge, but had let it lag for a couple years. Well, no more.

For the month of December, I am posting a motivational thought and image every day to help you raise your vibration so that you can achieve your dreams. Me too:)

So go on, head on over and check it out. And you are welcome to display the images anywhere you want. Just save them to your computer and post them. All I ask is that you do not change the image in any way.

If you post a positive/motivational/life-affirming blog post, comment that day on mine. I will add the links to a list to have on the site so that others can visit:)

Thanks and Enjoy!