Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Ads?

I am wondering if I have enough readers here to ask that I get comments before adding advertisements to my blog ?

I don't wish to annoy anyone but it would be nice if this could begin to stream some Income my way...

Jesus is so good to me,
That is plain for me to see,
I tell you this,
Because I'd like you to come to know Him too.

There have been times when I felt so alone when I walked through a time of trial. Yet on the other side I could see that He had helped me through and given me grace to live though at times I have dispaired some what like Job...


A Valentine Poem...

I want you to know,
That I love you so,
When you're with me,
I am so verry happy,
Please tell me true,
Is it the same for you?
To be apart is to feel blue,
So please tell me you'll stay,
And be with me forever.

I know, I know it needs work and I don't have anyone like that in my life right now but I know the feeling and how it hurts to be apart from those I love.

Saturday, February 25, 2006

Random thoughts

Some more random thoughts

Spring rain is falling,
Green grass growing leaves popping,
New life appearing…

I really didn’t intend that this blog be an advertisement for my ability to write or edit but as I think about it I can see that it will be exactly that and so I must in the future be very wary about the quality of the writing I post here.

I hope that I soon get to work on adding art to my site; if nothing else I’d like to add a portrait. That thought I would say is repetitive… well I don’t have the most consistent access to a computer therefore I don’t get to do some of the things I’d like to do. I want to write some articles on the Proverbs of Solomon; I have been looking over his contrast of wisdom with the evil woman or seductress. Then too there is the idea of the lazy man and the lion in the street… In that case this blog is a way in which I am personally facing lions; I am always afraid that the work I do is unworthy of notice and as a result over the past twenty or so years have let a large number of poems and other written work that I have done simply be lost.

Thus this serves as a place to keep some of the work that I am currently doing and to place it before an audience even if that audience is infitisimally small. So I know I have to think of ways to get my work before the eyes of potential buyers.

Thoughts on my qualifications to edit books...

Over the past 25 years I have read at least 100 novels per year. For the past 5 years I read at least 300 novels per year, doing this has given me a picture of the quality of the writers and their editors or dedicated readers. To put it mildly I find myself embarrassed for the author who has spent a year or more of his life and has published a book that has spell check errors (that is a correctly spelled but incorrectly used word) or other flaws in the work he put before the public. In my capacity as an author which is what this blog showcases I know that I need at minimum a proof reader to catch such errors where I have not said what I intended to say.

Other qualifications?

At various times I have worked in a quality control capacity in food preparation and manufacturing. But mostly I am interested in the art of written communication and how I can possibly help improve the quality of the novels I love to read.

Wednesday, February 22, 2006

I know that the poetry I’ve been writing doesn’t have the best of meter nor does it always scan well… I am however not trying to be obscure…

Simply put it has been some time since I tried to write a poem that was anything except my dashed off thoughts.

I don’t think that I really would want to write for greeting cards but at this point anything that paid would be welcome.

I have been wanting to do some articles on the Ten Commandments but before I do I’d like to look again at Dr. Thomas Sowell’s book A conflict of vision. (I think that is the title.)

If I can find a place and time to write those articles then I may also post them at www.townhall.com

Just now though I think I shall concentrate on getting started at the business of proof reading and editing. That would certainly be the work of my passion both in the doing of it (that is reading new books) and in the mechanics of helping to make the books I love to read better.

Saturday, February 18, 2006

Well 'tis a Saturday morning and I'm at work at writing here.

While I am interested in the political process of the nation I have become very disenchanted with the way both parties accuse their opponent of being evil while busily working to keep their hold on power. The truth seems to me to be that they both worry more about their power base than what is good for America. Therefore we the people are left to look on while both sides of the power strugle sell us as slaves to the highest (or worse yet lowest) bidder.

what can we do about this aweful abuse?

Truely I don't know. But one thing I am certain of; we must stop thinking on party lines and begin to work on the idea that we are all American people and that if we don't wish to become slaves we must see our selves as one people with a common culture at least. Certainly you can keep your traditions if you came here from somewhere else as long as you don't feel that that means that you have to tear down the culture here.

I shall call this enough of a post for today... Please remember that we should all live in peace but living in peace does not require that we ignore evil when we see it.

Friday, February 17, 2006

Poem for today

Please point someone my way,
That is what I’d like to say,

So I did.

Will this help? I hope so I don’t like to beg and I do want to write what I like to write.

Soon I hope to be able to write more frequently on other subjects and to complete a profile.

In the meantime this is a way to keep up with the small poems and other writing I’m doing, hopefully I’ll get to do some of the articles I’d like to write… But unless I can make this pay its way I’ll be very sporadic.

Oh LORD God all mighty,
One thing I desire,
That to do Your will would be,
For me a burning fire.

Wednesday, February 08, 2006

Stop focusing on the impossible…

What is possible?

I don’t know!

What can I do?

Read/proof read, fact check, researcher, edit, ghost write, writing coach, give presentations, and write fiction.
I’ve done all of these and enjoyed them, so how can I move from these being a time wasting hobby to something that provides me my daily bread (not to mention a roof!). This is the question I constantly ask my self. And it is the question I seem to constantly fail to answer.

One certainty that I know is that these can’t be done from the place that I currently occupy. Therefore I need to acquire the means to be elsewhere. That is to have a different place to live. To do that I will have to apply for any job that I can do not just jobs I’d like to do because creating an income is more important at this point than to have the perfect job.

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