Some days, you just have trouble coming up with something to write about. You sit behind your computer and know that a lot of people are waiting to see what I am going to write about next and I don’t what them to be disappointed. Then what should I write about? It doesn’t seem fair to my readers for me just to pound something out but I don’t want them to think that I am not posting either.

So I will do the best I can do. I will get inspiration, out of non inspiration and write about having nothing to say with the hope that I can do better tomorrow.

It’s Monday, the beginning of a new work and school week. I love Monday’s, because it means getting back to work I love to do; writing and teaching my siblings. The writing I need to get done has been piling up due to the fact that I didn’t do much when I was sic. Now, UI have a few articles that are begging to be written and a book that needs to be worked on. I also have my Bible courses to work on and a younger sibling to help get caught up with school.

Yes, this Monday promises to be a busy one so I better get going. What is your Monday going to be like?

One of the things that I, and many authors tend to do when writing a book, is to make all the characters sound the same. Here is an example;


“Hello, your highness,” the peasant girl said.

“Get out of my way, peasant girl,” the prince said.

“No, I won’t until you say that you will speak to your father, the king, on behalf of my brother.”

“I don’t care for your brother of any other peasant for that matter. Be on your way,” the prince said, turning to leave.


Now there was nothing on the surface that was wrong with that conversation but if I hadn’t told you that was a peasant girl and a prince speaking you would bee hard pressed to guess by their speech what they were. The peasant girl talked the same way the prince talked. She didn’t sound any less educated then he. So lets here that conversation again except this time let’s try to make the peasant sound uneducated and the prince sound more like a proud prince.


“Good day to ya sir prince,” the peasant girl said.

“Get thee out of my way, you worthless girl,” the prince said.

“No, I ain’t going until you promise me that you will speak to your dad about my brother.”

“What do I care what happens to your brother, or any other peasant for that matter? Be gone,” the prince said, turning to leave.


See what a difference that made? Make sure that all your characters have different ways of speaking and different expressions. This will help you and your readers keep you characters separate.

As many of you rightly guessed, the point of the show, staring Mary Beth, Anna Joy and Maria Rose several weeks ago, was to point out all that distracts us from going to and enjoying church. I personally have struggled a lot with this issue for a number of reasons. To be honest, even though we go to a really neat church with homeschooling families and elders who preach straight though books of the bible, I often find myself wishing I could stay home.

Sometimes, when one of our elders is teaching on a familiar passage of scripture, I want to pipe up that I have heard all of the point that he is making plus some instead of listening and hearing the message that God wants me to hear. One of the things that I have learned about sermons, even boring ones, is that if I will just open my ears and listen, I will learn something. Sometimes it has nothing to do with what the elder actually said.

Another reason that I have sometimes dragged myself to church, is that there are very few people with whom I feel connected. Most people are too busy to see us any other time other then Sunday mornings and that is hard sometimes. Sometimes I just am tired of feeling left out so I just don’t want to go.

Another reason we often find ourselves not wanting to go to church, is that we stay up late the night before. Saturday, for many of us, is one of our only free days of the week. During the week we have school, chores, activities and a thousand things that we have to get done. On Saturday we often have at least a few hours just to relax and enjoy ourselves. There is nothing wrong with staying up late to play a game, watch a movie, or reading but we need to make sure that we are not making ourselves totally unfit for church the next morning.

So what about you? What distracts you from fully enjoying church? What can we do to overcome that?

My Modem is still not working but we got another computer connected to the web and I will now begin posting again. I sure missed posting and reading all of your comments and am very glad to be back. Tomorrow, we will discuss the points of the “show” but today I wanted to tell you about things that are going on in my life and hear what is going on in yours.

First of all, I would like to ask for your prayers, I have been suffering from cedar fever for the past few weeks. I have days when I feel like I am getting over it and then the cedar count starts claiming again and I feel worse. Thank you for your prayers.

Second, I have several goals for the New Year and one of them I could really use your help with. As most of you probably know, I struggle with spelling and grammar (makes me wonder sometimes why I write). If you notice spelling and grammar errors in my posts, please, please, please, let me know (is it bad grammar to use the word please three times in a row?). Another of my 2009 goals in to get message board up and going so that we can get connected. Do any of you have any thoughts or ideas about that?

The third thing that I would like to mention is that I am so glad that all for you are here. Thank you guys for sticking with me though my technology troubles; I was afraid that I might lose all my readers. For you who might be new to my blog, I hope that you will come back and join us again.

Well, I guess that is all for right now. What are ya’ll up to? (I love use the word ya’ll, it’s such a good Texas word).

Hi everyone! No, I have not dropped off the face of the earth but my modem is still broken. I hope to back to blogging daily soon.

…when it works. When it doesn’t, it is really annoying. Take the past week for example; I haven’t been able to get on the web because my modem is out. I am taking advantage of the public library’s Wi-Fi in order to post this. I am very sorry that there won’t be any posts for a little longer, but it can’t be helped.

P.S. if any of you notice a spelling and grammar errors, please let me know about them! I am trying to get better at catching those, but unless someone points them out to me, I have a hard time seeing my mistakes.

Ladies and girls, please allow me to introduce you to some new characters on our blog Mary Beth, Anna Joy and Maria Rose. They will be the stars in a new show on this blog which I have yet to title (I would love some suggestions). I thought that it would be fun to tell stories about the issues that we will be discussing instead of just writing articles about an issue. So, though the help of Mary Beth, Anna Joy and Maria Rose, I hope that we can both have great conversation and some fun.

In order to really begin the yet-to-be-named saga of Mary Beth, Anna Joy and Maria Rose, I have to tell you a little bit about each of them.

Mary Beth is a twenty year old girl who is going to school online and has a part time job to pay for online courses. She has a few friends but she does have a lot on her plate so she can’t spend as much time with them as she would like. Mary Beth is shy, sweet and cares deeply for those in need. She is the second child of five siblings and her greatest pleaser is being with her family.

Anna Joy, is a fifteen year old girl who is just tiring to survive high school. She loves being homeschooled but is overwhelmed by the amount of schoolwork and extracurricular activities that leave her little time for anything else. Anna Joy is part of a every growing family (number eight was born recently) and is close to her older sister but wishes she had time to have friends outside the family.

Maria Rose is 18 and is going to act a lot like me in all the stories because that is who I am modeling her after me (poor Maria). Maria has just finished school and has a passion for writing. Maria is very lonely and feels left out at times. Her family has never been involved in co-ops or extracurricular activities so that they could do things as a family and have time for people. Maria Rose’s life has not been an easy one but it has been a good one.

Now for the first episode of…uh…. The show I really need a name for.

It was a cold Sunday morning and Mary Beth dragged herself out of bed. She had watched a movie with her family and then she had it finish a paper that was due tomorrow therefore she had stayed up to late. She didn’t really feel like going to church but it was what she needed to do. Mary Beth hoped that her make-up would hide the bags under her eyes if anyone even noticed her.

Anna Joy grabbed the youngest of the family, Kate, and hopped out of the van. They always seemed to be late for church but how could they help it? Her older sister and brother were a drama group that met on Saturday afternoons and then the whole family was in a Bible study in the evening. It was hard to get out of bed before nine and get dressed and to church by ten. If Anna Joy was totally truthful with herself, she would have admitted she didn’t really care for church. It wasn’t that she didn’t thing that it was important, it was just that she wished that she could have one day a week that she did have to do anything.

Maria Rose tried to keep her concentration on the sermon but it was very hard. She had quite time every morning, or at least tried to, and had evening devotion with her family ever evening. Wondered idly what the pastor would say if she told him that her family had gone over the same passage the night before in preparation for this sermon and had gotten the same things out of it plus some. Maria Rose hated that she, an adult, could not seem to keep her focus on the sermon. If only she could learn some magic cure to keep her mind from wondering to her stories, the weather and the people around her would she ever learn?

What do you think was the point of the stories I just told you? We will discuss it tomorrow and maybe by then I will have a name for the show.

I wanted to take a break from writing Saturday, even though I a subject I was going to write on, to thank all of you for your prayers. My mom is doing much better and is getting around quite well. It was hard for about two weeks because she couldn’t walk on them without pain but she is doing much better. Sorry that is took me so long to give you guys an update.

Thank you all who have voted so far and hope everyone who is reading this blog will take the few seconds it takes to vote.

Good morning everyone! I am so glad that you are here because I need your help. One of the things that want to do is have more interaction with my readers so that we can discuss ideas and get to know one another. I have a couple of ideas for doing that and I would like all of you to help me pick which one we do.

If we do the message board I would have it password protected and only give the password to people I knew a little something about (such as the people that has who have commented on the blog).

If you guys have any other ideas, I would love to hear about them.