short story slam week 38, Feb 4, 2016 to Feb 21, 2016, Dreams Beyond Rainbow Sky

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Happy Thursday, Folks,
Please write your story based on what you see and
have fun today!

short story slam week 36, Dec. 31, 2015 --Jan 17, 2016

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It is Spring time, the air is fresh, and the field is loose,
let's celebrate green earth, fresh air, and new born babies...
innocent joy is of our major concern this slam week,
have lots of smiles today!

 

short story slam week 33, Nov. 12 to December 6, 2015

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Please Create a short fiction or a verse inspired by the image provided, have fun!

everyone is welcome!
It Is all about gratitude to your parents, friends, teachers,
colleagues, neighbors, and community leaders..
Happy Thanksgiving!

Short Story Slam Week 16

Image Credit: Chance of Sunshine: Follow Rain Home

http://chance-of-sunshine.blogspot.com/2011/09/follow-rain-home.html

Welcome to Short Story Slam Week 16, Hope that you enjoy the freedom of stretching your imagination and have fun writing...A poem, a prose, or a short story is welcome!

Meet Our Writers Week 7 on Ina

PS: Ina is an active blogger who attends Poets Rally, jingle Poetry Picnic, and Bluebell Short Story Slams, she has a book published and writes poetry in English, which is not her native language, yet she does extraordinary job...Thanks for reading...

Tell us about yourself:

I am Ina Schroders-Zeeders, I live on an island in the north of the Netherlands, married, 3 sons, and I am a novel writer

Tell me about your blog(s), name(s), what does it mean to you?  

The wordpress blog (Ina) is now mostly poetry in English, I do that for fun, to be creative that way

When have you started blogging? :

2005

What's the theme(s) of your blog(s)? What do you write most?

poetry, fiction or novel, or short stories?

 I have a blog with my family tree as well, and now this poetry. I also have a blog Poetry from the sea on wordpress, with poems inspired by or about the sea: http://poetryfromthesea@wordpress.com

What are the inspirations of your writing? :

Relations, love, sea

Does music impact your writing?

Sometimes. I like some songs and use the music to make new song lyrics. At the moment they are making a demo of one of my poems, in New Orleans I think that is fun to do too.

You are involved with Bluebell Books Short Story Slam writing challenge? How do you feel about it so far? What are the benefits of it?

I have done a few and it is fun. The benefits are that you learn how others interoperate a subject.

Do you have a favorite blogging friend to share? Tell us about his/her blog link and the writing in it! 

http://belfastdavid.wordpress.com 

David is a very good writer, and he encourages other bloggers.

Do you have a favorite book or author?

At the moment it is “Staying alive” an anthology of poems.

Do you have a favorite quote?

 “So far, so good” 

Any tips for those who started blogging and wish to become successful in it.

Comment on other blogs, take part in rallies and use a spell check 

What's your writing plans in the near future? :

Keep on writing, try to write song lyrics, and keep my writing job!

Sunday Interview on Kim Nelson

 Hello,

This is Luna and today we have interviewed Kim Nelson from  www.Kimnelsonwrites.com

On her new chapbook, Woman’s Evolution. She is a wonderful poet and it is my honor

To do this interview. Please go to her site and read some of her poetry and you WILL want to go and get her book. So let’s get started!

So Kim Why do you decide to get published?

I had  previously published three nonfiction books and wondered if  my poetry was good enough to attract a commercial publisher, so I began submitting manuscripts to test the waters.

What kind of book do you have there?

Woman’s Evolution is a traditional poetry chapbook, which means it contains about 25 poems  in a paperback format, with an artwork cover.

How long have you been writing?

I cannot remember a time when I did not write. I am a writer in my essence, having kept journals, manuscripts and note books  filled with poems, outlines and stories from the time I was a child.

Do you have previous publishing experiences?

Yes. Rio Nuevo Publishers  released my first two books, A Desert Gardener’s Companion and Southwest Kitchen Garden. Behler Publications released my third book, Mommy I’m Still in Here, which I wrote using a pen name.

What is the reason you choose the host of your publishing?

In all four cases, the publisher chose me and then we agreed to the contract terms, including royalties.. This is the normal course of events.

What is the cost of getting everything done?

I did not pay for any of my manuscripts to be published. In all four cases, I received payment from the publishing companies. 

Which part of the book do you believe most charming to readers?

I think  more than any given part, the flow and progression of the poems will most intrigue readers. The book is laid out to guide one through a woman’s personal evolvement. This is its strength, it’s hook.

Do You have a couple poems you would like to share with us

N My YOUth

A child alone yet never lone

A spirit quashed before could hone

An intellect mocked and bemoaned

But in the world, seemed fine.

Injured, broken, damaged, scared

I let few know, I rarely dared

What consequence, when tempers flared

Hurt, pain, no obvious sign.

I lost myself before I grew

Then sought to find that self in you

Safety, peace, my soul renew

A chance (who knew?) was mine.

Into your shelter I would steal

Your faith my inner self revealed

I learned love, kind and gentle, real

My light, you lit. I shined.

Into the world I then could go

My growing sense of self aglow

With confidence and certainty know

I was, I AM, divine.

Focused Energy

Wherein lies the value

Of your focused energy?

Will it bring joy, peace, love?

Serenity?

Will it improve the life of a child?

Enlighten the beguiled?

Soothe the wild?

Will it offer civility?

Increase good will?

If not,

Why

Are you

So

Focused?

Do you have any hints on how to get published?

Take the risk to share your work with others. Edit and revise when necessary. Write and rewrite and rewrite again. Be brave enough to endure the myriad rejections that inevitably precede acceptance and publication.

Do you have a favorite author?

I read voraciously, in nearly all genres. If you’re asking about poetry, Billy Collins, Mary Oliver and Robert Frost are the poets I read and re-read most frequently.

What are your major inspirations?

My writing has always been inspired by my personal experiences and by nature. One or both weave through every poem or piece.

What’s your writing plan for the future?

I’ll do what I have always done. I’ll simply write… every single day.  At the moment, I’m ensnared in poetry’s web, and quite enjoying the experience. That might change. If it does, I’ll write something else. The Good Husband keeps telling me to write a good sex story. “It’ll make you rich!” LOL!

Kim Nelson

kim@kimnelsonwrites.com

www.Kimnelsonwrites.com

Here are two links for purchasing Woman’s Evolution:

http://www.etsy.com/listing/65150107/womans-evolution?ref=sr_gallery_1&ga_search_submit=&ga_search_query=Woman%26%2339%3Bs+Evolution&ga_noautofacet=1&ga_search_type=handmade&ga_facet=handmade%2Fbooks_and_zines

http://finishinglinepress.com/NewReleasesandForthcomingTitles.htm  Scroll down to listing, alphabetical by author last name.

 

The book will soon be available on Amazon.com as well.

Thank you Kim, We wish you all the best in your new book!

This is Luna from Luna’s world http:lunawitch15.wordpress.com saying adieu for now.

Poetry Paradise Book Review #5

Today's poetry review involves a quick hop across “the pond”. Beyond the misty moors of England to romantic city of London where we meet Orna Ross.

Irish by birth Orna lives and writes in London.

Married and the mother or two, she derives her pen name from the names of her daughter Ornagh and son Ross.

Already an accomplished and published author of two novels, Ms Ross defines herself

as a writer and poet and some of her poetry can be read here.

http://www.ornaross.com/novels/poems/

While each of her poems are little gems in and of themselves, I chose one to share with you today. I chose it for its ability to touch me (and I hope you the reader) to the core.

Surfacing. A Poem.

Down by the river bank I http://www.ornaross.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/IMG_0290.JPGsee
a life-ring on a line,
and think of how we used to swim
in talk, your hands
in mine,
our arms encircled round your wound,
that never-ending need.
Your life was so unfairly hard,
you felt, and I
agreed.
So when low words rose from your depths
and surged forth, spitting froth,
I let them ooze, I held on tight.
‘We’ll surf these swirls’,
I thought.
And so we went till cancer came,
insisting I should see,
commanding me to cast away.
A knife, it cut
me free.
It showed the ring my thought had made
was twisted as old bone,
that our two hands were not conjoined.
I clutched, alone,
my own.
Down by the river bank I weep
for how we went astray:
the harsh, embittered things you felt
the love they flung
away,
and my fierce need to go too deep,
the blood and breath I gave
to trying to buoy up a life
that was not mine
to save.

~~~~~

I found all of Orna's poems highly read worthy. She has a lot of range and a compelling way of expressing that range.
She brings her personal passion to each work she pens.

Here is a quote of hers that I love:

“writing isn't produced by a place but by a human imagination in harness to a blank page.”


It seems to me that Orna Ross is to that blank page what yeast and sugar are to flour. Just as those most basic and elemental ingredients combine to produce any number of wonderful breads, she uses the basics of human thoughts, emotions and life events to serve up food for the soul. Her words nourish, sustain, comfort and inspire.

Her first book of poetry is coming out this fall entitled "Ten Thoughts About Love"
Ms. Ross told me the last poem for the book is proving a bit unwieldy.
Boy don't we all know that feeling!

Thank you Orna Ross for taking time out of your busy schedule to email me and I will give my readers here at Bluebell a heads up when "Ten Thoughts About Love" comes out in a few months.

Web site for Orna Ross: http://www.ornaross.com/

review was done by Indie for Bluebells Poetry Paradise.
http://onegirlonepen.blogspot.com/

Sunday Interview Week 4-Luna, The Gem Poet

Hello, My name is Luna, and I am doing an Interview For The Book Titled, “ Survivor” By Mia Lombardi

It is a book of poetry That I wrote to help others know that whatever they are going through, They can make it through, Because I have. I felt that it could not just have my own poems it it because there are so many people who have gone through so much so I also have poems from other poets.

K.Shawn Edgar,
Paula Tohline Calhoun
Celeste Mixer.
Riki Hutchison
Adriana McCutcheon
And my brother
Atreyu Lombardo.

So now some questions I will answer for you.

Why do you decide to get published?

I really have wanted to help others know that life is really hard, but you can get through it.

What kind of book you have there?

I like to think that this book is an inspirational book that will help, guide, and encourage others that may have lost faith.

How long have you been writing?

I have been writing for as long as I can remember, But I never thought to be a writer, I had always wanted to own my own bookstore. Everyone kept telling me I was crazy for that dream, and then after My car accident which left me with mild brain damage and was told I could not work anymore, I gave up my dream and This happened instead.

Do you have previous publishing experiences?

Of a sort if you count I used to design poetry based websites for people in my spare time.

Fifteen years ago I came up with my own trademark, Dreamsagain Designs.

I have never published a book before though.

What is the reason you choose the host of your publishing?

Amazon was pretty easy to follow and upload, and everyone I know buys from them.
So it seemed like the most logical choice. They also let you keep all rights and you can distribute elsewhere such as bookstores and Libraries.

What is the cost of getting everything done?

For me it had cost around $50 dollars, but There are options that can make it go higher.

Which part of the book you believe most charming to readers?

Ooo I am not sure charming would be the right word. I have been told by a few readers that Some have really moved them. Here are a couple that people have mentioned to me so far.
Just because I left


Just because I left
don’t mean I don’t love you
Just because I left
it doesn’t mean i don’t care
Just because I left
don’t mean
I’m not your little girl anymore.

I need my mommy
I need My dad
Just because I left
it don’t mean I’m not sad.

We all have dreams we want to follow
We all have things we want to share
When I wake from bad dreams
I still want you there.

I wanted to stay
I needed to go
What was I supposed to do?
I don’t know.

I left.

But I love you so.
Please don’t get angry
Please don’t be sad

I’m still your little girl
and I need my mom and dad.


I love you both
till the end of time.

The Ballad of the Unread Poet

By Paula Tohline Calhoun

In vain she has searched
Feeling besmirched
By all the un churched

yet unwashed

Who read not her work
But dismiss with a smirk
Like she's some young Turk

and unwashed.)

Now, how on earth did this start?
Oh yes! she was falling apart
In search of readers with heart

though unwashed.

But she's found no one who'll care
To read her abominable fare
With plenty of guts to spare

all unwashed.

But without rhyme or meter
She has neither fan nor reader
Alas! Are there none to heed her

so unwashed?


Do you have any hints on how to get published?

There are many great publishers out there that will publish your book if you are willing to wait up to a year, but that is why I decided to self publish my own. I did not want to wait!

Do you have a favorite author?

I have several depending on the genre, but right now I am reading
Kim Harrison, YasmineGalanorn, Laurell k Hamilton, and Dean Koontz

What are your major inspirations?

Life what happens in it, and the beauty that we see if we care to look.

What’s your writing plan for the future?

The second volume of Survivor, which will deal with; you have survived, now you need to remember to see the beauty that is still out there and continue to dream.


The link for the kindle edition is;

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004ZS8PBO

and the link for the print edition is;

http://www.amazon.com/Survivor-Poetry-lost-broken-downtrodden/dp/1461122953
/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1306716334&sr=1-3

and you can also find me on my blog

Luna’s world at http://lunawitch15.wordpress.com/