End of National Poetry Month

Well the month is at an end today and unfortunately I was only able to read my poetry at 5 different locations around my home town area. I have to admit I had a lot of fun and am looking forward to my next reading.

Anyone else attended poetry readings this month?

Poetry Readings

I was happy to take part in several poetry readings lately. Of course I happen to love poetry, and would be happy to read my poems at any given time, but I've been having a lot of fun with my poetry reading this month especially, probably due to National Poetry Month. I hosted an event last Saturday, and another one yesterday that were both very gratifying. Thankfully there were several poetry lovers that showed up who all seemed to be appreciative of the motivating poems I selected to read.

I have other poetry readings scheduled this month and expect to have a lot of fun doing poetry readings before this month has ended.
You too can participate in National Poetry Month by reading your favorite poem at your neighborhood poetry reading club, the library, or anywhere else poetry lovers are gathered to exchange poetry.
And of course you can always visit my website and take a look at a couple of my poems from my book:Motivating Poems for Spiritual Growth, Weight Loss and Everyday Use Go to: www.motivationalpoetry.webs.com
Enjoy

Poetry Readings

In celebration of National Poetry Month, Caroline Kennedy will be giving readings from her new book, She Walks In Beauty: A Woman's Journey Through Poems. Readings will be held at selected Barnes and Noble book stores through out major cities.

I will be giving reading from my new book,Motivational Poetry for Weight Loss, Spiritual Growth and Everyday Use Readings will take place at several of the libraries around the South Florida area, in addition to a few colleges and universities.
If anyone would like to read a few poems that are in the book, you can do so by visiting my website: motivationalpoetry.webs.com
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Richard Peck's Ten Rules of Writing

Just watched Richard Peck on youtube give his ten rules of writing while he appeared to be in an informal setting with other writers.

Let me explain to you who Richard Peck is just in case some of you may not know. Richard Peck is an award winning author who writes for middle school age children and young adult readers. He writes mostly mysteries and coming of age stories. He is very knowledgable with a vast of helpful information for inspiring authors. Here is the link:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XREqT69hvDc&feature=related

You can see a sample of my writing if you visit my page on the author's den at: www.authorsden.com/carolysands
To read my motivational poetry please visit my website at:
www.motivationalpoetry.webs.com

Enjoy.

Non fiction writing

I am writing a non fiction book for 10 to 12 year olds. This is the first time I've undertaken such a project. Mostly I write cute short stories for 10 to 14 year olds. To my surprise, this non fiction project has given me much more material than what I realized. I am forced to take this project into a different direction. I will combine all of the information I've collected into several nice books, instead of trying to jam it all in one big book. From the one topic I am writing about, I have at least five different related subjects to explore. Hence, five new book posibilities which I will be following up on.

I happen to love the creative/fictional writing I do for my niche group but I feel just as good about the non fiction writing. The non fictional writing will make my work more diverse of course, and will give it a broader subject selection. I know I've blogged about non fiction writing in the past, as it was always an interest to me. But now I am finally officially doing the work needed to add a non fiction book to offer my niche group.

National Poetry Month

I am amazed at all of the different types of days, weeks, and months our government acknowledges every year. Last week, March 6-12th was read an e-book week, and National Read Day was on March 2nd. This month (has nothing to do with reading or writing) is National woman's month. All of us women should congratulate ourselves for the progress we've made in our society over the years, especially since we won the right to vote.

Now putting all of that aside, I want to talk a little about National Poetry Month, which is next month. I plan to give several readings from my new bookMotiovational Poems for Weight Loss, Spiritual Growth and Everyday Use. I have three readings scheduled so far...two at different libraries, and one at a college campous in my area. Since I live a large metropolitan area, there are several towns with libraries and colleges where I hope to be able to do poetry readings. Hopefully this will be another great opportunity for people to get to know me, in addition for me to get to sell a few more books.

Hope all of you poetry lovers out there also have plans to read your poetry to appreciative audiances. What better time to do this than National Poetry Month?

Help Stay on Task With A Writing challenge

So today is March 4th...almost a week is gone into this month already. Where does the time go? Since it goes by much faster than what we realize sometimes, I help myself to stay on track with my writing projects by using the old and faithful tool... goal setting.

To help me to keep my eyes on the prize and make even more progress with my projects, I am now giving myself writing challenges. Let's say my goal may be to complete a writing project this month. But the challenge itself is to commit to working on my writing project every day for a certain length of time. This will prevent me from getting side tracked, delaying my work, and falling behind.

Why don't you join me in my writing challenge? Simply commit to working on your writing project for a certain amount of time per day (In my case, it is for at least 3 hours) but blogging, time spent on face book, twitter, and etc obviously will not count.

I believe this challenge will truly help you to move further along with your writing aspirations and will help to keep you on top of your game plan.

Join me?