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The Road Not Taken–it is my inspiration for this blog

So my blogging buddy Jill (lil mouse) posted some poems…and low and behold…it is the poem that inspired me to try the problogging/freelance writing thing. 

The Road Not Taken – Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

 Thanks Jill…and keep up the great work!

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Thursday Thirteen #1

13 of my favorite quotes/tidbits of wisdom/pieces of inspiration:

1. When you are in a hole, stop digging.
2. What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
3. Your candle loses nothing when it lights another.
4. You can’t lead people if you need people.
5. It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.
6. A man without decision of character can never be said to belong to himself…he belongs to whatever can make captive of him.
7. If you won’t carry the ball, you can’t lead the game.
8. People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.
9. The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.
10. A good leader encourages followers to tell him what he needs to know, not what he wants to hear.
11. Success seems to be connected with action.  Successful people keep moving.  They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.
12. He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all time.
13. The harder I work, the more luck I have.

Who would have known…

Who would have known that writing was the easy part. The hard part is actually making a dollar doing any kind of writing. It is hard to break into freelance writing with no body of work to show. I know blogging is a body of work but there are still those people who don’t think it is real writing. But let me tell you it is. It takes hours upon days upon months to create a fantastic blog. You alway have to be on your toes when it comes to stories and where your muse is. Ideas just don’t happen…alot of the time you have to work for them–and now we are back to working hard for any dollar you can make. To those people who think that blogging is not real writing…spend some time just blog surfing. There are some fantastic blogs out there and more created everyday. Give us bloggers a chance–you will not regret it!

My Best Brainstorming Happens In The Bathroom

It is true. The bathroom is great for brainstorming!!! If any of you have read my momdum chronicles blog, you will know that I have 4 kids. Yea, I mulit-task the h@## out of my day. Bathroom time is the only few minutes I have all by myself. I can read, be alone with my thoughts, think through a storyline, or, like today, I came up with a story, or a book, or something I think will be a great love story. Just in the snap of the fingers, I had a book in my head. The characters, the first line of the book, the place, how they finally meet, what may tear them and their love apart–the whole thing. And I wrote it in about 3 minutes. It was amazing. I think everyone should try it. Just go into the bathroom…ya know…when you have to do #1 or #2 and just take your time doing your business. Yes, I know how gross and kinda wierd it may sound but if any of you out there have kids–even just one–you know how hard it is to get five minutes and how thrilling it is when you actually do. So all I have to do now is find the time to write the next great love story!

Who Knew…

• freelancing was such hard work
• writing took up so much time
• you could multi-task in the bathroom (if you know what i mean)
• my kids would always be taking my notebooks full of great ideas
• i would actually do it
• a frickin website took so long to set up
• how little writing experience i really don’t have
• it was very, very, very, very, very, very, very hard to get a problogging/writing gig
• i would love it this much!

Finding my strengths…

Blogging and freelance writing

After researching all of the previous internet interests, I have found my strenths…basically it is the writing part of the cyberspace I seem to love. Everything I researched always led me back to this subject.

I love to write.
I can’t wait for nap time to get to blogging/writing and everything it involves.
I can’t wait to read about other authors.
I love to look out the window and daydream about—whatever pops into my head.
I love to write.