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Bits and Pieces: May 2011
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Monday, 2 May 2011. I can dream, can't I? I’m supposed to be a retired author, but I’ve got so many ideas popping into my head that I sometimes think I could write another forty books. At my age, I suppose, it’s not practical to think along these lines. These days you need to find yourself an agent who will then approach a publisher on your behalf, and so everyone gets a slice of the cake, if you know what I mean. And then there’s the tax man; he needs to get his slice of the cake too. Oh, woe is me!
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Bits and Pieces: A LONG ABSENCE
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Friday, 30 March 2012. Yes, I am back after a long absence. The past year was not easy for my husband, Vernon, and certainly not for me. It is only by the grace of God that we have come through it in the way we have, and can find enjoyment in life again. At our age any kind of illness is making us aware of our own mortality, and at the same time it is also making us more aware of this beautiful world we live in, and how fortunate and how blessed we are. I also crocheted a queen-sized blanket for myself.
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Bits and Pieces: God still performs miracles
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Thursday, 31 March 2011. God still performs miracles. There is a lady from Jeffrey’s Bay who has been suffering from Guillain-Barré Syndrome since July 2010. For those of you who don’t know, it is a debilitating disease that attacks the nervous system and paralyses the muscles, and the healing process is sometimes painfully and agonisingly slow. The healing process has been painstakingly slow, but Christa has been quite remarkable throughout it all. I confess that there were times during these weekly vis...
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KEEPING A PULSE ON LIFE & ROMANCE: December 2011
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Wednesday, December 28, 2011. Before I get to the birthday bash winners.I have one winner to announce from the Stuff Your Stockings Blog Hop! The winner of a. 10 Evernight gift card goes to:. Thank you for participating! It is my extreme pleasure to announce the winners of my Birthday Bash Blog Hop! This was so much fun. I loved reading all your comments! I will definitely do this again next year! 65279; So, without further ado.Here you go:. The winners of the books are:. June M. manning. I'm currently g...
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Val Muller | Val Muller
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Musings in Me Minor. Author Archives: Val Muller. Author Val Muller has a new website! From now on, it’ll be the place to find all my blog posts, news, updates, and contests. Thanks for visiting! Posted by Val Muller. On February 16, 2012 in Uncategorized. I dedicated my newly-published novel,. Corgi Capers: Deceit on Dorset Drive. All I knew of my grandfather was what I had learned from my mother. He was her paragon: a caring, dedicated teacher, a talented linguist, and a loving father. He was m...I thi...
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Bits and Pieces: April 2011
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Saturday, 16 April 2011. The Gift of Life. I’m not functioning very well at the moment. My husband, Vernon, has been in hospital since Tuesday with heart failure and he won’t be coming home until Monday. This means that, with two trips to the hospital every day, nothing much is happening on the home front, but this is not what I’m thinking about at the moment. I’m thinking about those two dreadful, frightening words –. It means that the heart is failing to function normally. It doesn’t mean we won&...
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Bits and Pieces: Writer's Reality
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Tuesday, 22 March 2011. I had forty-four romances published, the first in 1975 and the last in 1992. Today, when I read the first one I think, okay, not bad. And when I read the last one I think, did I really write this? The improvement is glaringly obvious; it’s there in the style, the narrative and the dialogue, and yes, practice does bring about an improvement that will be noticeable to yourself and your readers. Writing can be a very lonely occupation, it just depends how you look at it. Those friend...
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Bits and Pieces: Writer's Block - It's a cramp
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Saturday, 2 April 2011. Writer's Block - It's a cramp. If you’ve never gone through a period of ‘writer’s block’ then consider yourself fortunate. I think of it as a cramp in the creative part of the brain that won’t let go, and it causes extreme emotional pain. You sit and stare at the blank page and the ideas just don’t come. A thread of panic uncoils from somewhere deep inside you and it serves no purpose except to magnify the problem. The more you think, the less you produce and the greater the panic.
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Bits and Pieces: July 2012
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Sunday, 1 July 2012. DARE TO DREAM - A New Publication. Life is an odd mixture of beginnings and endings. In 1992, when I decided to follow my husband into retirement, there was one very important fact that I somehow overlooked – a writer never retires. We cogitate, deliberate, ruminate, investigate and contemplate, but the one thing we never do is retire. During the ensuing years I wrote three full-length novels. What had worked for me before was no longer acceptable for them. Knitting was something els...
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Bits and Pieces: The Gift of Life
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Saturday, 16 April 2011. The Gift of Life. I’m not functioning very well at the moment. My husband, Vernon, has been in hospital since Tuesday with heart failure and he won’t be coming home until Monday. This means that, with two trips to the hospital every day, nothing much is happening on the home front, but this is not what I’m thinking about at the moment. I’m thinking about those two dreadful, frightening words –. It means that the heart is failing to function normally. It doesn’t mean we won&...
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