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Choosing a Topic to Write About: Are You Enthusiastic About the Idea?

Posted on Saturday, April 21, 2007 | Comments Off on Choosing a Topic to Write About: Are You Enthusiastic About the Idea?

Writers are sentimental about their writing, but are they enthusiastic about it? You have found a topic to write about, but you don’t know if it’s one you really want to write about. How can you tell if you should use it as your next topic? Just ask yourself this: Am I sentimental or enthusiastic about the idea? Does it matter?

 

Do not mistake sentiment for enthusiasm. They are not the same things. Don’t believe me? Let’s ask the dictionary:

Sentiment: noun

1.) Tender, romantic, or nostalgic feeling or emotion

2.) A personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty

Enthusiasm: noun

1.) A feeling of excitement

2.) Overflowing with enthusiasm

3.) A lively interest

A tender romantic emotion that evokes nostalgia vs. a lively interest filled with excitement. So how does this affect you the writer? Think of it this way: You may have sentiment for an old faded Valentine, but do you have enough enthusiasm about it to write a story about the Valentine and how it came to mean so much to you? It holds a warm place in your heart, and you well never throw it away, but do you burn with the feverish desire to tell the world about it?

 

Now think about your readers. Your reader has no sentimental attachment to your Valentine, if they saw it, they’d probably toss it in the trash, for it means nothing to them at all. Would they read about it? Well that depends on how you write the story, doesn’t it? If you spend you’re times mooning over the Valentine and its sentimentalness, most likely your reader well toss the story aside calling it a load of sentimental tripe.

 

Sentimental tripe. Yep, that’s what kills many a story. People don’t want to read sentimental tripe that moons and simpers over days gone by and the writer’s obsession with their own past. The reader wants to know the hows and whys behind the Valentine. They want the facts, every juicy detail. The Valentine in and of itself is not enough to keep the reader reading, there has to be something more. Think of the Valentine as the skeleton, the bones of the story upon which you must build up the muscle and flesh to give it substance. Write a story about the sentiment of the Valentine and bore your readers to tears. How do you correct that? With enthusiasm. Question is, do you have it?

 

Your reader wants to know how the Valentine became sentimental. They want to know how the Valentine came into the possession of your character. They want to read about the chain of events that caused it to become a sentimental item. Write a story about the Valentine and how it came to be important TO YOUR MAIN CHARACTER. Instead of sentimental mooning you have vibrant enthusiasm. You have a character, not yet turned sentimental. Now the reader has a reason to want to read about the Valentine. They can see a character that has feelings and emotions just like them. They can become the character and feel what the character feels when he feels it.

 

But are you truly enthusiastic about your idea? Do you burn with the desire to write it? Do you feel that you cannot exist until you have spread the word throughout the entire world? Does a fiery passion to tell everyone everywhere about your story, drive you forward? That is enthusiasm, and that is what you need to tell a great story. Leave the sentiment behind, and let your story burn with passion, let that passion fill your soul; pour your soul into the story.

 

 

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A Writer’s Emotions

Posted on Tuesday, April 10, 2007 | Comments Off on A Writer’s Emotions

Writing is a very sacred thing for a writer, it is deeply personal and deeply emotional, because we pour our very heart and soul into what we write, and when someone rejects our words, they in a way reject our very soul as well. While writing we are thrown through every possible emotion, both the good and the bad. Writing can been very relaxing when we do it, because we feel that our words well hold a warm meaning to our readers, but than it become stressful and we are filled with the fear that what we wrote well not be well recieved by our readers.

Writing is prob’ly the most emotional, exhilerating, and stressful act anyone can ever do.

~EK

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testing tags

Posted on Tuesday, April 3, 2007 | Comments Off on testing tags

having a problem getting posts to show up… testing to see if tags are working yet

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Town Begins Investigation of Manager

Posted on Sunday, March 18, 2007 | 1 comment

What follows is a copy of a news article from a Maine newspaper: Portland Press Herald. If you haven’t done so already, please read last month’s post: Government Corruption: Town’s Harasment of Disabled Senior Goes Too Far!for more information regarding the series of events in the lives of just one of the families that this man has tormented.

Town Begins Investigation of Manager

Jim Thomas’ management style has led to complaints in Old Orchard Beach

By Seth Harkness;Staff Writer, Portland Press Herald York Edition March 15, 2007 copyright 2007 Blethen Maine Newspapers Inc.

OLD ORCHARD BEACH_ The Old Orchard Beach Town Council voted Wednesday night to hire a lawyer to examine complaints against Town Manager Jim Thomas.The councilors did not name the employee under investigation when they voted unanimously to hire Brunswick attorney Martin Wilk “in connection with a personal matter”, and no councilors would publicly confirm the town manager was involve. But in the last six weeks the town council has held two closed door meetings to discuss personal issues, neither of which were attended by Thomas. The Old Orchard Beach town charter requires the town manager to “attend the meetings of the Town Council, except when the Manager’s removal is being considered.”

Before the meeting, Town Council Chairmen Joe Klein was asked whether the personnel matter on Wednesday night’s agenda involved Thomas. “That’s a logical deduction,” he said.

As recently as last fall, the council extended Thomas’ contract and gave him a raise. Many people also credit the town manager, a Lewiston native who was hired in 2003, with helping to improve the appearance of downtown and attracting a new wave of economic development.

However, what some describe as Thomas’ headstrong style of dealing with town employees and members of the public has credited conflict, both in Old Orchard Beach and at his previous manager’s job in Sterling, Colo.

Thomas was fired from the Colorado position in December of 2002 after four months on the job, according to Frank Gower, a city councilor in Sterling for the past nine years. “He didn’t get along with employees and it was like his way or the highway,” said Gower. “He’s a good visionary man, but I think his management style left a lot to be desired. It was a conflict type management style like I’ve never seen before.”

Some former town employees in Old Orchard Beach said they had similar experiences while working for Thomas.

Tim Braun was director of Public Works in Old Orchard for six years and is now town engineer in Gorham. Braun left his position in Old Orchard one year after Thomas arrived, he said, because he could not tolerate working with the town manager. Braun described Thomas as a temperamental boss, prone to delivering orders and threatening employees with the loss of their jobs.

“He uses the authoritarian model,” Braun said. “I was reminded that I was an employee at will. There wasn’t any mincing of words.”

Thomas did not respond to requests for an interview Wednesday.

In September of 2005 the Town Council discussed residents’ complaints that the town manager had shown a lack of respect toward individuals and a disregard for public opinion. The council took no action at that time and Thomas said that his efforts to improve the town were bound to upset some people.

One recent controversy involving Thomas occurred last week when two town councilors, Jim Long and Robin Dayton, questioned the legality of a closed-door meeting in which they said Thomas urged the council to extend a contract with Poland Spring.

Thomas also was accused of running afoul of freedom of information laws during his tenure in Colorado. In October of 2002, the Journal Advocate, a daily newspaper in Sterling, published an editorial that chastised Thomas for refusing to release a copy of minutes from a city staff meeting. The paper also criticized Thomas for a policy requiring city employees to answer questions from the press only in writing.

Despite the controversies, a majority of the Old Orchard Beach Town Council voted in October to extend Thomas’ contract through June 2008 and raise his salary to $92,000.

Contact Staff Writer Seth Harkness at 207-282-8225 or at: sharkness@pressherald.com

















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Second Round of Blog Additions

Posted on Wednesday, March 14, 2007 | Comments Off on Second Round of Blog Additions

Here is the second round of blogs I plan to add to the Z-List for Writers:

Writing Fiction
Crime Fiction Dossier
Kathryn Cramer
WritersWrite.com
Writer’s Beware
The Fiction Writing Blog: Articles, Writing Exercises, Prompts and More….
sfsignal.com
Bowing to the Future
David Louis Edelman
Louise Marley
Among Amid While
Authors Blogs
The Writer’s Life

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This Day in History: March 13

Posted on Tuesday, March 13, 2007 | 1 comment

March 13 is an interesting day; here are a few examples:

On March 13 in 1781, German born English astronomer Sir William Herschel discovered the seventh planetfrom the sun, Uranus.

On March 13 1887, Chester Greenwood of Maine recieved a patent for earmuffs.

On March 13, 1964 Catherine Genovese was killed in the Kew Gardens Community of Queens, NY, while 38 of her friends and neighbors, “not wanting the get involved” watched for nearly 30 minutes as the girl was repeatedly stabbed by her 29 years old attacker. Others, outraged by her friends’ testamony declared March 13 “Good Samaritan Day”, a day to emphasize the importance of unselfish aid to those who need it.

What happened to this girl reminds me of our family. Dozens of people, possibly hundreds, know what has been happening to our family, and yet, no one well help us, no one well do anything to stop it, even when we have begged and pleaded for help from everyone we can think of, still no one well help us and thier reason is always the same: “It’s not my place to get involved.” Most of those would say this claim to be Christians. Now I ask you, in view of this being Good Samaritain’s Day, “What would Jesus do?”

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The Friends of Star Log Network

Posted on Saturday, March 3, 2007 | 2 comments

EK’s Star Log is a blog for writers, lovers of sci-fi, and just general observations on life, the universe, and everything.

The Friends of Star Log Ning-Network, is for all other bloggers with blogs of similar tastes, that want link together and get more readers for their blogs. All owners of family-friendly blogs are welcomed to join. Thank you for visiting, hope you decide to stick around and join! Once you have joined the network you can add discusions to the forum, post in the group blog, and post links to your own blog//myspace/websites here. I hope to see you around! Thanks for visiting!

Do you enjoy chatting with other bloggers? Want to get more readers to your blog? EelKat has started a Zing Community, just for people like you. Why not join The Friends of EK’s Star Log today?


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~~EK

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The Z-List, EK Edition 1.0: Blogs for Writers

Posted on Wednesday, February 28, 2007 | 4 comments

The Z-List: A great wonderful idea to help advertise blogs. Yes? Yes. I think anyone who has used the Z-List well agree with that. The principle behind the Z-List is the same as a chain letter. In a chain letter, you  mail a letter to five people. One that letter is the addresses of five more people. Each person who recieves a letter, adds five new addresses, and sends those to the five addresses on the letter that they had recieved. The piont of a chain mail is to send the same letter to an ever increasing network. Useualy the letter is an advertisement for something being sold. Basicly it’s a lot of free advertiseing for a company, based on “word of mouth”.

Like the chain letter, the Z-List contains addresses, but it differant in that it never asks you to buy anything. You don’t even have to buy a stamp. The Z-List is the chain mail for bloggers. It gets a blog pingbacks and inbound links, and helps to send more traffic to the blog, hopefully traffic that well stay on to become regular readers.

Anyone can start a Z-List. It’s easy. Just take a list of Blogs which you enjoy reading, and put them in a post on your own blog. Some say not to add your Blog to the list, while others say to go ahead and put your Blog right on the top of the list. Well, it’s your Blog and your list so you can put links to any Blog you please in it.

With the list you leave a message, asking that the next person to read this post, copies it and pastes it into the next post they make on their own Blog. They are free to add as many Blog links to the list as they like, and they are welcome to remove any links that are already in the list, if they feel that theose Blogs are inappropiate to be linked back to their own Blog.

Most Z-Lists start out with five or ten links, but after being passed on to just ten more bloggers, that Z-List can quickly have 100 or more links in it. The advantage of this is, that for each post, that each Blog in each link, well recieve a ping-back for that post. In other words, their Blog becomes linked to your Blog and your Blog to thiers, making it a win-win situation for both your Blog and their Blog, by raising the inbound link ranking with such places a Technorati and Google,  meaning that you Blog moves higher in the ranks on search engins, resulting in more people finding your Blog and giving  you  more readers. Great huh? Absolutely!

Well, I only just discovered the Z-List earlier this week. and searching for more Z-Lists had lead me to one conclusion: most of them are just randomly thrown together with no rhyme nor reason, and so comes my idea for Keyword Specific Z-Lists or links to blogs all on a single topic.

The first of these I shall call:

The Z-List, EK Edition 1.0: Blogs for Writers

The Copywriting Maven
Click Here to Advertise on My Blog
EK’s Star Log, the Pink Edition
EK’s MySpace Blog
Wayfarers Journal
Calling On All Serius Bloggers To Read This And Respond
Are most writing contests even worth it anymore?
Writer’s Block
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Importance of Attitude (for writers)

Posted on Sunday, February 25, 2007 | Comments Off on Importance of Attitude (for writers)

How to you feel about writing? Are you writing because you enjoy doing so? Are you writing because your teacher/boss says that you must? Do you want to spend your days writing or do you do you wish someone else could do it for you? Wither you know it or not, how you feel about writing affects how well you write. No matter how much you try to hide it, your attitude show on paper, and your readers will feel it. If you think of writing as a tiresome task, a nuisance, and an agonizing chore: your readers well know it. Think of you paper as a mirror, it shows your readers how you felt at the time you write it. You would be amazed at a readers ability to “see” how you felt while you where writing the piece that they are now reader.

We can take this one step farther. The way you feel directly affects the way you write. Look at your handwriting. You can see from looking at your daily handwriting that your mood affects you writing. If you are angry, you handwriting becomes jagged and heavy, yet when you are happy it is light and loopy. If your mood affects the physical appearance of your words, how much more does it affect the words themselves? When you are angry, your words on paper will sound bold, even spiteful. Your reader will be able to feel the tension rolling off the pages as they read. Likewise, if you are happy your readers will feel the warmth and love coming off the pages.

And how about your subject? How do you feel about that? What is your attitude towards the person/thing you are writing about? Do you admire your topic of choice? Do you loath it? Are you writing about it because you want to or because you have to? Your readers well know that you have a passion for your topic, because you well through your whole heart and soul into it. They well also be able to tell if you did a half ass job because you couldn’t care less about the subject.

How you write is how your readers well see you. Before you begin writing, take some time to really think about this fact. How can you make boring writing tasks more interesting, so that you do not bore your readers, as much as you are bored yourself? Contemplate why it is you are writing. The attitude you have when you come into any new writing project is the same attitude that your readers well take away with them when they have finished reader the piece. That same attitude you had written, is the attitude in which they well in turn look back on you. How do you want your readers to see you?

Remember too, that the way you speak, is as important as what you say. Think about the tone of your writing. What words do you use often? Cold, indifferent, unfriendly, cynical, critical, or antagonistic tones will put your reader on the defensive and encourage a negative response from them. You want your writing to be warm and inviting for your reader. You as the writer should be seen as the readers friend. You have a story to tell, and you want to tell it to your readers. You want your readers to want to hear the story. If your words are those of a friend, than your readers well give you their full attention, they well hang on your every word. To be seen as a friend of the reader, someone they can trust, that is the attitude you want to convey, that is the message you want to send.

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Paid to Blog???

Posted on Friday, February 23, 2007 | 3 comments

I have a question… I keep hearing about how people are getting paid to write in their blogs… or how people are makeing money just writing blogs…well, I’d like to do that too, if it’s true that you can do that, I mean I’m writing something every day as it is, I might as well get paid to do it right?so, my question is, has anyone done this? are there any good places you could recommend that actually work… meaning they aren’t just scams, that have you write something and than never pay you… is this whole geting paid to blog a real thing that you really can get money to do, or is it just another scam? Anyone know?  

I’m new to the blogging world though… I’ve been online since 1997, and only just FINALLY started blogging! LOL! I’ve got 4 on Blogger, 3 on MySpace, one that I lost the link to and can’t remember the name of the host, and one one WordPress… so that’s 9 right now, but no dought there well be more…I try to keep each on on it’s own topicAs soon as I started though, everyone starts asking me “How much are you getting paid to blog?” and I’m like wth? They don’t blog, but they said they heard people get paid lots to do it, and well, that was news to me, so I figured, well, if I can get paid to do it, than why am I doing it for free right? so, now I’m researching the whole idea of getting paid to blogg… but as far as I can tell so far, it’s just alot of hype… I’ve found a ton of places that “pay to blog”, but than when you read the fine print, they only pay likr .002c per thousand people who read your post!!!!!! wow! that’s less than half a cent for every thousand uniquie page hits! highway robbery that’s what it is!than I found these otherplaces, that you have to pay like $25 a month, to join, and than they pay you to write articles for THIER blog, and than they only pay you if that post gets enough hits… YIKES! what a scam!

 I searched on Google and found a couple of sites that say they pay $4-$25 per post, if you sing your blog up with them, and write reviews for other web sites and products… but they also say that your blog has to be well established and get regular visitors before they well aprove it… I just signed up (cause they said it was free, so I figure what the heck), but my blog has only been around a short while, and I think it’s only had like a hundred visitors since it started,, so I don’t know if they well approve it or not… I’ll just wait and see what happens next.…but, my search continues, I’ve found a few folks who are getting paid to blog, not getting rich by any means, but they are getting an income comming in here and there, and that gives me hope, so, I am studying them and their blogs to find out how they are doing it and how I can do the same thing they are doing, only do it better . If I find out anything that really truly works I’ll post it here and let you guys all know so’s you can do it too.~~EK

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Thieves!

Posted on Friday, February 23, 2007 | Comments Off on Thieves!

You know how that last post of mine, kind of looked like it wasn’t finished? Well, you know what? It wasn’t! X-( Our internet went offline, couldn’t figure out why, so called the cable guy, who came out to look at it, and guess what? Our neighbors (who live at 20 Water St in Biddeford Maine) had broken into our cable box, cut our line, and put a line to their house in!!!!!!!  I am so pissed! Shocked! Stunned! Why would anyone do something like that? That is stealing! Stealing is so wrong! Don’t they know that? How is it that people can think they can steal? Why wouls anyone want to steal? I don’t understand it at all. Not one bit!

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This is a test…

Posted on Monday, October 16, 2006 | 2 comments

Okay, I’m editing again, this is a test post, to see what the layout well look like. Just ignore it. Real posts well be coming soon.

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Prayers Needed For EK’s Dad: Another Update

Posted on Saturday, June 17, 2006 | Comments Off on Prayers Needed For EK’s Dad: Another Update

update:

they’ve moved him to a rehabilitation center, where he is learning how to walk again, but it has been over a week and he still is unable to stand, the doctor thinks he may need to be in a wheelchair, but may only need a cane or walker…that well not go over well with him being an active farmer always in the garden and barns…he won’t be able to farm any more (

The men who did this to him, are nothing but cruel and heartless cads whom God shall judge

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My, My, My, Well Aren’t We Educated Now… TSK-TSK!

Posted on Friday, April 8, 2005 | Comments Off on My, My, My, Well Aren’t We Educated Now… TSK-TSK!

ooohhh I got someone REALLY REALLY MAAAAAD at me (and I didn’t do it on porpuse either ).  Me and another person were just yapping away over at the Padded Cell, since no one else is out tonight, than all of a sudden a third person jumps in with credintials of being a school teacher and starts in bitching how I am a terrible example to the children of the world and no children should be near me—esp, not with my spelling as bad as it is, proof that I am uneducated (she took my lack of spelling as a great threat to humanity! the horror!)….. my, my, my, my, my, my!! Hey I can’t spell worth shit and I know that, I never went to school, I never learned to spell, and I ain’t never made a secret of it either. Well now the 2 of them are over there fighting—I don’t like fighting, so I’m over here until they get done, than I’ll send Scrooge over there and let him attack the teacher—-(it’s a newbie, who has never meet my Scrooge on eBay yet…… I wonder how she’ll like him?)

You know, maybe it’s just me, but if someone is a school teacher, and they are supposed to be setting an example for students, I do have to wounder when they come onto a public forum like eBay’s Padded Cell,  and the first time they post they post a flameing troll attack on a 2 long time posters, and than set out to name calling and belittleing, I do gotta wonder at what kind of examlpe that well educated school teacher is setting for her students. personally if I was running a school and I found out that one of my teachers was acting like that on an online forum with over 6 million members, I’d revoke their liscence for setting a bad  example.

sence when do school teachers discimanate against someone who was never taught how to spell? what kind of a teacher would do something like that?

seems to me that she was the one who is  setting the bad example for children…. just one more example of the corruption of the public school system… people who are that mean unfeeling uncareing foul-mouthed and cruel should not be teaching children.

LA-LA!!! 

 Where is everyone tonight anyways?

The Soapbox is dead… I killed it, they have all run away. Actually, I think everyone with a brain went to bed hours ago, just us zombies and vampires left now. 

 I guess I should take a hint and go to bed too.

~~EK out.

P.$.

I like being called EK, I think I’ll keep it.

 

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