IWSG Dec 4th: Writer Role Play
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Volume 5 will be released around January 15, 2020.
Be My Grumpy Valentine! V6
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January 3rd, 2020
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IWSG Dec.4th: Writer Role Play
IWSG December 4th:
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IWSG Dec 4th: Writer Role Play
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Heads UP IWSGer’s, IWSG WED in January 2020 WED falls on New Years Day.
SO “our IWSG post day” has moved to WED January 8th, 2020 for the start of the year.
Happy Holidays!
Anthology 2019 Contest WINNERS!
DRUM ROLL PLZ!
And the winners are..
The Third Ghost by Yvonne Ventresca
The Ghosts of Pompeii by Sherry Ellis
Dare Double Dare by Louise MacBeath Barbour
Return to Cahokia by L.T. Ward
Simon Grey and the Yamamba by Charles Kowalski
The Blind Ship by Bish Denham
Winter Days by Katharina Kolata
Feathered Fire by Roland Clarke
A World of Trouble by Rebecca M. Douglass
The Orchard by Beth Anderson Schuck
IWSG Dec 4th: Writer Role Play
OPTIONAL IWSG DAY QUESTION:
Let’s play a game. Imagine. Role-play. How would you describe your future writer’s self, your life and what it looks and feels like if you were living the dream? Or if you are already there, what does it look and feel like? Tell the rest of us. What would you change or improve?
I did this once before with a group of people as we worked at changing habits that were self-defeating and learned techniques to aid in the process. I got a lot out of that 8-month class in 2016 called The Master Keys Mastermind course. I still use a lot of what I learned, and it helps. Visualization was one of those techniques and writing it out in a statement as I did below. I created the blog The Journey: Heart, Mind & Spirit in relation to that class.
*The goal here was to write as if it already happened or was happening with positive word choices and phrases that expressed the feelings and emotion you feel if it were true.*
MY ROLE PLAY & VISUALIZATION STATEMENT: I am a New York Times and USA Today best-selling and award-winning author. I am so grateful and awed to have arrived at this place in my life. People buy my books because they love my stories, which humbles and thrills me. Writing is my passion giving recognition to my creative expression allowing my heart and imagination to take wings.
I write 1000 – 5000 words a day or more creating the stories I love giving me joy. I schedule my day to accomplish my goals honing my craft with pride and love of the tasks I mark off my daily to-do lists. I learn new skills and stay up-to-date on marketing and promotion trends any chance I get. This gives me confidence.
I utilize the best technologies to run my business on autopilot giving me more time to put into the writing. I always take the needed action when I see opportunity devoting 8 to 12 hours a day when needed to the creative and entrepreneur process, which gives me ease, independence, and autonomy in all aspects of my life bringing peace of mind and security.
Recognition comes to me through my loyal enthusiastic readers and those that share my love for storytelling. I cherish the self-reliance this gives allowing me to spend quality time with friends; come and go and play at will.
I am so grateful for my independence, self-reliance, and autogenous feelings that allow me to work and live anywhere with ease and autonomy. Currently, I come home to Tavares, Florida, a tropical seaplane town on Lake Dora.
Traveling gives me a sense of freedom cruising the clear aqua-blue waters of the Bahamas or standing under the dark-starry dome of Hawaii, or the jewel-blue Grecian Aegean sea. This feeds my sense of achievement.
I eat right, use the glider in my office, or take long walks by the ocean. I love the open spaciousness of my home, and the richness that plant life brings to it. I cherish the financial flexibility and stability and the peace that brings me allowing me to share the abundance and help others too. My home is surrounded and filled with love. My home offers all a sense of home and welcome.
I am location independent, financially free AND I’ve got the job of my dreams
That was my role-play imagination, what is yours? I have come a long way since 2016. It may not look like that statement yet, but I am moving toward it.
IWSG Dec 4th: Writer Role Play
Join the IWSG Book Club on Good Reads for polls, freebies, book chats, and fun.
The December 2019/January 2020 book will be On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King.
Discussion Fun Day will be January 22, 2020.
The next #IWSGPit will be in January 15, 2020
8:00 am – 8:00 pm Eastern Standard Time
Create a Twitter-length pitch for your completed and polished manuscript and leave room for genre, age, and the hashtag. On January 15, Tweet your pitch. If your pitch receives a favorite/heart from a publisher/agent check their submission guidelines and send your requested query.
Many writers have seen their books published from a Twitter pitch – it’s a quick and easy way to put your manuscript in front of publishers and agents.
A Seasonal Event For Readers!
Katharina Gerlach’s Christmas Advent Calendar
A Story A Day Until Dec 25th
There still enough time to read a story a day. The first 4 doors are already open.
My story, Dragon Chili, is in the 2019 advent, but I do not know which window it has not opened yet.
Sign up now and join the reading fun! Each story holds a bonus, and you will receive an ebook gift of all the stories on the 25th delivered straight to your inbox.
NOVEMBER SPOTLIGHTS
December 24, 2019 @ 04:31
I love the idea of visualizing and writing my goals as achievements I’ve already accomplished! Good luck to you with those goals, and with the Grumpy series.
December 17, 2019 @ 10:07
Thank You for sharing the techniques. They are helpful.
December 13, 2019 @ 12:37
Thanks for stopping by my blog. Sorry it took so long to visit.
You have a lot going on and I’m very excited about the Grumpy Gods Books. They are so much fun.
Great spotlights this month.
December 9, 2019 @ 21:06
Your confidence and self-belief shines through and inspires me, Juneta. Visualisation is a technique I need to adopt. So far, I’ve only used it as a technique my heroine used in my debut novel.
December 9, 2019 @ 22:27
LOL, thank you, what a lovely thing to say. But I have to admit… ah confident, not so much just trying to loop those thoughts in my head in a positive way so I do become that. I am a firm believer that the thoughts that dominant reflect in our reality because it influences our choices or lack of choice. So working on that.
Two of fave quotes:
“It is well, however, to remember that while every effect is the result of a cause, the effect, in turn, becomes a cause, which creates other effects, which in turn create still other causes; so that when you put the law of attraction into operation you must remember that you are starting a train of causation for good or otherwise which may have endless possibilities.” ~Charles Haanel
“As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.”
― Wilfred Arlan Peterson
December 8, 2019 @ 18:28
Powerful writing role-play imagination. Useful techniques to achieve goals. We can all learn from your experience . Thank you for posting.
December 8, 2019 @ 18:55
LOL, that comes from so many years of Star Wars Role Play. Thank you. Happy Holidays.
December 8, 2019 @ 13:21
We all need a dream, something to aim for but the visualisation idea sounds good. Best wishes
December 8, 2019 @ 14:54
Thank you and best wishes to you.
December 8, 2019 @ 12:39
Hi, Juneta! I wish you every success as you work to achieve your writer’s dream ~ and I loved your dream It’s great that you’ve come a long way since 2016! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
December 8, 2019 @ 14:55
Hi Louse, wishing you much success as well. Thank you. I know I am surprised looking back. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you too!
December 8, 2019 @ 12:22
May every step you take keep on bringing you closer to that beautiful dream. 🙂
December 8, 2019 @ 14:56
Thank you. I wish the same for you.
December 8, 2019 @ 02:56
I love the way you’ve interpreted and responded to the monthly question. It’s positive, refreshing and good for the writerly soul! Oh, and inspiring too!
Thank you, Juneta! 😍
December 8, 2019 @ 11:15
🤞Thank you and thank you, lol. 🙊🙈🙉🤓❤
December 6, 2019 @ 15:58
Wow, you sure have it all planned out way more than me. Location independent is a win indeed.
December 8, 2019 @ 11:14
lol, Thanks Pat!
December 6, 2019 @ 08:10
LOVE this post, Juneta! Visualization is something I’m going to use to get my writing self (and personal self) back on track after a rather disastrous year. Dream it, do it.
December 8, 2019 @ 11:14
I try to use that, single affirmations, and mediation. I have fallen out of the habit, but going to try to get back to it.
December 5, 2019 @ 22:56
Your blog post is such a delight to read and chock a block with information. Firstly I love your positively phrased vision of your writerly future. Secondly – I’m rushing over to the Advent story a day. Thanks for your visit to my blog!
Happy Holidays.
December 8, 2019 @ 11:12
Thank you. The Advent is great I love being a part of it every year.
December 5, 2019 @ 18:37
Great visualization. I have no doubts you’ll reach your dreams. 🙂
December 8, 2019 @ 11:11
Thank you. Here is hoping.
December 5, 2019 @ 17:50
What a great visualization/statement exercise! And I love your response. Keep going, Juneta! You can do it! 🙂
December 8, 2019 @ 11:11
Thank you.
December 5, 2019 @ 00:15
I love the “location independent” idea. We really all can be that way today–computer and an internet connection and viola! Here’s to making that dream come true–all of it.
December 5, 2019 @ 14:41
That is definitely part of the dream. Salute!
December 4, 2019 @ 23:08
I love your ambitious, specific plan. Positive visualization is absolutely the key. I am a big fan of Napoleon Hill, including his Master Key teachings.
December 5, 2019 @ 14:56
Yes. I enjoyed reading Napoleon Hill, Og Mandino’s The Greatest Salesman In The World as well.
December 4, 2019 @ 16:14
I like much of your dream (who wouldn’t want to be a NYT best-seller?) but the 1000-5000 words per day–that would be heaven. Sigh.
December 4, 2019 @ 17:51
Thank you. I wish I was closer to that image but I am still working my way there. That would be heaven to me. I don’t always write, write daily and sometimes no more than 250 to 300 words. I have written 1000 to 3000 before and on a really good day 5000, so that was why included those numbers.
December 4, 2019 @ 15:05
You not only dream big but also are visualizing long hours of working when necessary. I admire that. I think many of us would love some of your dreams too.
December 4, 2019 @ 23:20
Thank you. Do the work and see what happens. That could be a motto.
December 4, 2019 @ 14:31
That’s the best way to do it – speak as if it were already real!
December 4, 2019 @ 23:41
Thank you. That is what they said too.
December 4, 2019 @ 12:16
Looks like you spend a lot of time feeding your soul. Nice. 🙂
Anna from elements of emaginette
December 4, 2019 @ 13:17
I did. Kind of had to as I was not coping very well when life took a downturn, so looked for coping techiques that help my mental attitude.
December 4, 2019 @ 10:51
LOVE that dream plan! 🙂
December 4, 2019 @ 13:17
Thank you. Still dreaming but seeing micro bits come to be.
December 4, 2019 @ 09:52
That course you took sounds really interesting! And kudos to you for making progress towards your statement becoming your reality. Thanks for sharing about the course.
December 4, 2019 @ 13:18
It was. I enjoyed it. I may take it again in the future.
December 4, 2019 @ 09:35
What a wonderful visualization! Sounds like a great mastermind group with lots of helpful tips and techniques.
You’re really on a roll with the Grumpy God anthologies. Exciting to see all the upcoming ones planned. 🙂
December 4, 2019 @ 13:19
It was. Thank you. We are trying. We may slow down a bit after V6 or V7 because we really need more time but we set this goal for 7 and we wanted to at least say we did it. We need to work some kicks out our system and improve it. We are getting there.
December 4, 2019 @ 09:14
You have a much better dream plan than I do. Mine is more like a culmination of my lazy nature. I forgot to add so much this month, but that’s pretty much par for the course. Yours is the go-to place for IWSG news.
December 4, 2019 @ 13:20
Only because that course made me sit down and think about it to meet the assignment requirements, but I am glad I did it.
Thank you.
December 4, 2019 @ 08:49
That was really good. Very purposeful and positive.
December 4, 2019 @ 13:21
Thank you. That was the point of the assignment to really make you think when I did this. I need to get back to some techniques I learned that helps that I have allowed to fall to the wayside.