IWSG

My head is still spinning from all the changes in my world.  My body is trying to catch up.
Speaking of body Stephen Tremp, Michael  Di Gesu,  Alex Cavanaugh and L. Diane Wolfe are hosting a  Get Healthy Bloghop on May 29th.    It sounds amazing and if you write, craft and/or  blog you might need to tweak your health a bit, move more, and eat better.   ( I can honestly say since my hubby retired from the military,  I am off track with  my routines-exercise and blogging).  

Congrats to all who finished the A-Z blogging challenge!  Arlee had an amazing team of co-hosts~  2013 rocked!    I wish I had done mine different, perhaps poetry next year~  

Damyanti Biswas at Amlokiblogs
Ninja Captain Alex J. Cavanaugh
Tina Downey at Life is Good
DL Hammons at Cruising Altitude 2.0
Jeremy Hawkins at Retro-Zombie
Shannon Lawrence at The Warrior Muse
Matthew MacNish at The QQQE
Konstanz Silverbow at No Thought 2 Small
Stephen Tremp at Chase Manhattan
Livia Peterson at Leave it to Livia
L. Diane Wolfe at Spunk on a Stick's Tips
Nicole at The Madlab Post

Thank you to all of you who encouraged me to continue, among the chaos of my new job and lifestyle.

Oh, yes it is the first Wednesday of the month and time for Ninja Captain Alex's Insecure Writers Support Group.   Is it really May lst...?!   I think Mother Nature is confused!

I am reading this book, You've Got A Book In You by Elizabeth Sims.  She mentions writing is not the problem, perfect is.   It is the root of worry and zaps our life force. We reel with rules and expectations.  "Perfectionism stops us in our tracks far too often in writing and in life, and it holds us back from accomplishing important stuff we want to do, especially long-held dreams."    The author reminds us to have patience for yourself, for your work and the patience for other people's response to your work.  She mentions to cultivate patience is to persist.   I love this:

"That is the great open secret, right there in plain sight. Inborn talent is lovely to have. Good fortune is a fine thing. But over those things you have no control. You do have control over your persistence. Every day you choose what you will do. You choose what is important to be done, and do it."   (It sounds like this could work with diet n' fitness, too)

She suggests to write poorly, give yourself permission to put it on the page and now you will write anything at all....   "When you give yourself permission to write poorly, you are implicitly saying, "I've got the skills to make this better later if I decide it's no good."

This book frees your fear, gives you freedom to fly!    

I want to give a shout out to my poetic friends over in the Garden.  There last challenge in NaPoWriMo was to write an A-Z poem.   These poems dazzle brilliance~ 

Starting with the letter A, every next word should start with the next letter of the alphabet. Like this:

April brings

challenges daily--

Everything feels

great here...

Thank you Marian!  A shout out to Emma who not only wrote her poem a-z, but then finished with a z-a backwards version!   Amazing Emma~

 Congrats to the poets, who wrote poems for all 30 days!