passion
November 25, 2009
- “We count our miseries carefully, and accept our blessings without much thought." ~ Chinese Proverb I have met countless people who can describe in detail why something is unpleasant for them, why something isn’t working or what is going wrong in their life, and yet their gratitude is only a single word or short phrase. Does being able to explain in detail the reason why you have ...
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November 18, 2009
- Hump Day! Looking ahead at things to come.... It's hump day. A time to look ahead at things to come. In the future, I plan on featuring other authors and their latest releases here each Wednesday. If you're interested, contact me at (maryjeason@netzero.com). 2010 is open at this time.Today, I'll be featuring one of my upcoming releases, Forbidden Passion, coming to New Concepts Publishing ...
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November 15, 2009
- Passion! How many situations, now or in the past, have you found unsatisfying? Which ones did you force yourself to get used to even though you did not like them? Was it something you immediately rejected and then found that you had to satisfy the needs of someone else? If something you are doing does not make sense, there is obviously something wrong with it, or with you. Sometimes you get an ...
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November 10, 2009
- Words – that’s what we’re all about here, are we not? But not just any words – words that have the power to move.No matter how passionate you are about your work, do you ever question if what you’re doing really matters in the larger scheme of things in life? Sometimes I ask myself – how much a difference does my memoir work make as I encourage sons and daughters to recognize the ...
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October 31, 2009
- If Hemingway were here today___wrote this last night in my journal while eating a triple choclate donut and drinking black coffee. Hmmmm! Really that line sums it up for me: sport, passion and patience__all can be referenced to the details of Hemingway's life.Think about it. If you don't have a sport to lose yourself in when your not writing, your dead as a writer period. No time now for ...
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October 21, 2009
- As she walks her way out to the road gently, the man watches her steps from inside the café. She ties her coat belt and turns back to see him for the last time. The man puts the cigarette on his lips and keeps watching her. The girl takes her perfume out of her pocket and sprays it on her wrist and her neck. She takes her handkerchief out from her purse but before using it the wind blows it away ...
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October 11, 2009
- I would like to share this interview with Henry Hutton, a good friend of mine who is helping revolutionize the publishing industry with his self publishing agency, Publish and Sell Enterprises. Known in publishing circles as The PublishingGuy, Henry has also created an online newspaper called PublishingGuy's News Update offering the latest news in the dynamic publishing industry. 1. What made ...
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August 21, 2009
- A number of concepts connect sex, politics, and religion--strong belief systems, rules of transgression, long complicated histories of bad behavior, some unyieldingly bad poetry, and saddest of all, Mel Gibson movies. But, what makes these three arenas of human participation particularly powerful is the degree to which they are ultimately about submission. We like to think of all three as forms ...
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August 8, 2009
- Here's another reason we love working at Red Room: Our jobs require reading the superb writing our community shares with us. Last Friday, for instance, one of the items on our collective to-do list here at Red Room HQ was "Read Red Room blog-topic-of-the-week entries." What a treat!We had asked the entire Red Room community to blog on one topic: "What are your obsessions? Your ...
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August 5, 2009
- I am obsessed withgetting it right. By this I mean I am obsessed with the unavoidable knowledge that I will only live this one life this one time, even if I allow for reincarnation and the possibility that I'll come back as a three-toed sloth. So I want to be as human as I can be this time around. I don't necessarily mean 'right' in the sense of 'right and wrong', I mean 'right' in the ...
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