Sneak Peek 7: The Circus in Me, by S.M. Bjarnson

“Will you take me back home?” We were blocks away from his car and I made it obvious I lacked motivation to converse. I wanted to be alone and peaceful.We made our way back through crosswalks and cars halting at our right of way. He walked a few steps behind me giving the solitary woman her liberating space.
 We shuffled back to the apartment complex I saw a woman carrying in bags of groceries in one hand and a babe or two in the other. Her husband watching mediocre at the window smoking a cigar.
I didn’t understand this,  don’t think I ever will. No recognition of the duty in myself the way a wife lived in service for her husband, the way my mother had done for my father. Raise the children he had placed into her, neglecting to do other than be a role of command. 

S.M. Bjarnson

Sneak Peek 5 : The Circus in Me, by S.M. Bjarnson

From the main male character's perspective: Briggs

Captivated as my being allowed, I disguised how absolutely incarcerated my feelings went for her. She was the most unordinary gal, I ever touched.
Our walk brought us to the corners of where I once spent helpless nights strolling the sidewalks alone. How I made my way to her very dorm that night, though I saw her through the window seating solo on the Friday night mixer.
In perfect unison our feet stepped along the depths of puddles. With her the night glowed less hollow and dim. I told her my apartment was close, making deceiving comments along the way. It was farther away from her home than she would stroll. Appeared on her doorstep soaked to the bone in October mist.
Reaching out for her I cringe, letting control lose its way. I shook in the silence of my soul, she struck me as a mirage of sorts. Roomates abandoned the household. Twerking off to some wannabe jerks. Trae Lae didn't even know what that was; maybe I could show her. If they knew how jerkish a real man could be, oh how they would run and cry. For the girls who liked to be pushed around, they’d come back for much more. A rather awful growl came up in my teeth. I clenched onto it to use for better executions later that night. Her skin in amazing glow. The thought of her never being touched began to make the carnivore in me unbearable to tame any longer.  

S.M. Bjarnson

Finding the Passion that Drives you to the Core, Getting through the nasty blues of Writers block!

You've gone down every alley to try and devise a plan every turn remains empty and still you are craving inspiration. Your mind is on a pathway and all the streetlamps are burnt out around you. There you are rummaging through old garbage plans going over notes of once loved ideas, they fall flat and you still are strained for words. The music has stopped playing and there is no end to this devastating time insight. You remove all the curtains and go for a walk any swift movement of fresh air is a grasp at something new, the experience you try to overcome is just staggering behind you, laughing at the dying corpse you call a story.

Well that was surely a nightmare!

In a day or two it may fade away and the really weary condition of writers blocks are sometimes only solved with time and patience. I have the worst overwhelming feeling of writers block sometimes, it drains me leaves me out in the rain with and umbrella with holes in it. My head aches as the empty thoughts begin to flow. There you are stuck in a flood with a hole in your boat; you are going down sailor! Sayonara world! My dreams and hopes for a bright authorship life are fading quickly.

!!!!STOP!!!!

Back up?!? Writer's block may not have the means to drown you in your sorrows, but it surely has the means to poison the ideas floating around in that imaginative cranium of yours. So here we are at the round table of hopeful knowledge awaiting the remarks if not insight for our next legion of stories. So here are my helpful hints to getting the wheels working again. The fingers typing/writing again, let's get back to where we find we have truly lost ourselves. :) Enjoy the ride

Tip 1
Go to a heavily populated place.
Watch people, create their life stories.
Breathe some fresh air and take a walk by yourself.

Tip 2
Seclude yourself
Turn on the music
Put on the Headphones
CLOSE YOUR EYES and just TYPE!
Write every phrase and feeling that you see fit.
Just WRITE!!!

Tip 3
READ
READ
READ
I personally start having a drought if my imagination has not been diving into the literary fiction I so love. Besides the more you read the better writer you become and the more you learn and understand about the craft of writing and character descriptions. Believe that your fellow author;s written word could inspire you indefinitely! You can change the world with your words! Hope all the tips help you on your way out of the funk or pit of doom. Hope to be hearing from you soon in the written world of words!



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Inspiring Quotes for us Writers!

"Believe in yourself and in your own voice, because there will be
times in this business when you will be the only one who does. Take
heart from the knowledge that an author with a strong voice will
often have trouble at the start of his or her career because strong,
distinctive voices sometimes make editors nervous. But in the end,
only the strong survive."

- Jayne Ann Krentz

"I've got a folder full of rejection slips that I keep. Know why? Because those same editors are now calling my agent hoping I'll write a book or novella for them. Things change. A rejection slip today might mean a frantic call to your agent in six months."

- MaryJanice Davidson 

 "If you've FINISHED writing a novel you are amongst the elite!!! You ARE NOT A FAILURE IF YOU CANNOT LIVE OFF YOUR BOOKS. You only fail by NOT TRYING."

- Nadia Cornier

"This is for writers yet to be published who think the uphill climb will never end. Keep believing. This is also for published writers grown jaded by the process. Remember how lucky you are."

- Terry Brooks

"You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist."

- Isaac Asimov

"Dig until you hit rock. Then take out that jackhammer and go a little deeper."

- Allison Brennan

"The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night."

- Thomas S. Monson

"It's never too late to be what you might have been."

- George Eliot

“If you are hungry, you should eat. If there is a hunger
in your soul, you must dream.

- unknown

http://www.writeattitude.net/quotes.php

Write, because you need too!