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Big Creek People In Action, Inc. was founded in 1990 by citizens of McDowell County, West Virginia. Since that time, this nonprofit organization has been serving the community of McDowell County in the realms of education and literacy, leadership development, volunteer service, service learning, arts and culture, housing, recreation, and collaborative partnerships. BCPIA's vision of McDowell County is one of empowered and self-sufficient people living in communities that are economically vibrant, democratic, and socially just. To learn more about the history of Big Creek People in Action, please Click Here!
Big Creek People in Action, Inc. continued to be a resource for the community by providing access to resources and networks that encourage self-sufficiency in families and offer opportunities for our citizens to work together to create a sustainable, successful community. We had many accomplishments and successes in 2015.
We were incorporated on December 11, 1990, so on December 11, 2015 we celebrated 25 years of service to the people of McDowell County. Due to the holidays and inclement weather, our reception was held in January. Many supporters of Big Creek People in Action attended the event which featured a video presentation of how the organization got started and its accomplishments over the years as well as good food, music, and visiting with friends.
During 2015, BCPIA provided 7,503 services to 6,304 people in order to educate as well as provide basic needed services. A total of 13,383 meals were served out of the Center and we coordinated 29,113 hours of service by 903 volunteers from inside and outside the area.
Big Creek People in Action (BCPIA) was formed in 1990 by local citizens working to bring about a brighter future in McDowell County, WV. Our mission statement was changed slightly this year and is to "foster a community in which people learn, work, play, and grow together to prepare themselves for success." Our vision of McDowell County is one of empowered and self-sufficient families living in communities that are democratic, socially just, and economically vibrant. BCPIA believes that:
To accomplish our vision, BCPIA works with families and communities to link sustainable community development and economic opportunity with a broad vision for change.
BCPIA has seven full-time staff members, three AmeriCorps members, one VetCorps member, and an Experience Works staff member to carry out the day-to-day work at the Center. In addition, we have volunteer staff through the Department of Health and Human Resources and the Youth Connection program. The staff has participated in various trainings and workshops throughout the year to improve their skills.
BCPIA's Board of Directors currently has nine Board Members. The Board's purpose is to develop policies, procedures, and regulations for the operation of the organization, to monitor finances, programs and performance, and to maintain and update a long-range plan. The Board meets quarterly at the Center to approve reports, set policies, evaluate programs, and ensure that the organization is accomplishing its goals.
We have an Advisory Council, which is part of the requirements of being funded by the WV Department of Health and Human Resources as a Family Resource Center in West Virginia. Our council consists of program participants, business leaders, and representatives from other organizations. They meet once a quarter to evaluate the Family Resource Center programs and services and to participate in the peer review process.
BCPIA partners with many organizations to offer needed services in the community. Our organizational partners include LifeBridge AmeriCorps, who sponsor our AmeriCorps and VetCorps program; the local Department of Health and Human Resources, who provide volunteer staff; Workforce WV, who placed several youth to work here for a three-month employment program; the WV Department of Health and Human Resources, who support our Family Resource Center; the McDowell County Board of Education, Southside K – 8, the McDowell County Career and Technology Center and the county Head Start centers , who allow us to work with their students; West Virginia Public Broadcasting, who work with us on education; Americans Helping Americans, who send us new coats, blankets, shoes, diapers, and food to distribute; and the Council of Southern Mountains and Mountaineer Food Bank, who work with us on hunger reduction
We provide meeting space for the Southern Highlands mental health patients and their workers. We also provide meeting space for local coal mine classes and are the designated Emergency Response Center for three of the local coal mines in case of an accident. We also collaborate with other organizations in the county through referrals for services that we do not provide.
BCPIA continues to write grants to foundations and government sources, seek donations, sponsor various fundraising events, and host college and church volunteer groups to help secure the funding needed to support our programs and services. We have several sources of in-kind income including AmeriCorps and VetCorps staff, who are provided by LifeBridge, Receptionist provided by Experience Works, volunteer staff through the Department of Health and Human Resources welfare-to-work program, staff through the Youth Connections program, work contributed by the college and church groups, and several thousand dollars of in-kind contributions of diapers, blankets, toys, food, household supplies, shoes, coats, etc. that we distribute to the community.
The following statistics shows the challenges we are facing. According to the 2010 Census, Reconnecting McDowell, and WV Kids Count, McDowell County's median family income is less than half the national one, 40% of the population lacks a high school education, 18.9% of kids drop out of school, only 5.7% of the people are college graduates, 46% of students do not live with their biological parents, 72% of students live in a household without gainful employment, and we have an illiteracy rate of 37%, which is the highest in the state. These alarming statistics show that we have much work to do to provide adequate services that will help children further their education and become successful as adults.
Afterschool - One of our most rewarding programs is our afterschool program with 42 different students attending this year. Our program is held year round and is licensed by the WV Department of Health and Human Resources. There are three teachers that work with the students each day and parents have reported improvements in their children's grades. The program offers a full, nutritional meal, homework support, computer time, exercise, and transportation. Good health habits are taught such as brushing their teeth, nutrition education, and oral health education. Kids have the opportunity to form close bonds with other children in order to have more positive relationships with their peers.
During the summer and school breaks, the students were again involved in a special project called T.R.A.V.E.L., which stands for Traditions, Research, Arts, Voices, Education, and Learning. They learned about different cultures, food, art, and traditions and were assigned a new country every two weeks to research, study, and enjoy learning about.
As part of this program, they went on several different field trips including to the Beckley Exhibition Coal Mine, Whipple Company Store, site of Bartley mine disaster, the old US. Steel Mine in Gary, Youth Event at the Welch Theatre, the Circus, several trips to the Movies, and the Bluefield City Park Christmas Lights.
In-School Tutoring - We have two Reading Coaches that work 4 days per week at the McDowell County Career and Technology Center to improve Reading and Math skills of the students and one tutor that works one day a week at the Adult Basic Education Center in Welch to assist adults with their GED.
Because of a change at the Career and Technology Center this year, our tutors now work with all students in the school to assist them with the ACT Work Keys Training which they have to pass in order to get their vocational certification. The purpose of the ACT Work Keys Training is to assist them at Work Force to find employment after graduation.
Parenting Education - Positive parenting leads to a happier, healthier child living in a loving and nourishing environment. Children who grow up in a home with positive parenting learn better in school, have better behavior, and are well-rounded children. With our workshops we educate parents on a variety of topics so they can make good choices for their child.
This year we had a series of workshops on Parent Leadership that culminated with a three-day retreat at Glade Springs Resort. Thirty participants attended four workshops held at the Center and the retreat at the Resort in Glade Springs. The parents attended short workshops for two days, and then got to spend the rest of the time with their families swimming, bowling, bicycle riding, and enjoying the activities available at the resort.
PlayPals – After partnering with Community Crossings Parents as Teachers on the PlayPals program last year, Big Creek People in Action is continuing the program on our own this year to give parents the opportunity to share parenting tips and learn new skills and activities to aid in their child's development.
LifeBridge AmeriCorps members are placed at our Center to work on educational programs. Our members worked on the following projects in 2015
McDowell County reports the lowest standard of housing in the state of West Virginia, with age being the primary factor affecting the quality of housing. Big Creek People in Action's Housing Rehabilitation Program was established because many families in our area live in dilapidated, unsafe homes and don't have the resources to make the needed repairs. The mission of our Housing Rehabilitation Program is to efficiently enhance the quality of life of our low-income, disabled, and senior citizens through the rehabilitation of their homes to correct health and safety issues, improve accessibility, and provide a suitable living environment so that they are warm, safe, and dry.
In 2015, BCPIA served 221 individuals with housing rehabilitation services. Types of assistance included installing new roofs, repairing other roofs, painting, handicap ramps, vinyl siding, windows, insulation, plumbing, flooring repairs, bathroom repairs, porch repairs, and others.
College groups that visited during 2015 included the University of Richmond, the University of Notre Dame (two trips), Georgia State, Rider University, Ferrum College, Adrian College, Centre College (2 trips), Emory and Henry College assisting with the carnival, and Warren Wilson College assisting with the Christmas Parties. Church groups included First Parish Church Unitarian Universalist from Massachusetts, Sidwell Friends from Washington DC, Upshur Helping Hands from WV, SS Peter & Paul Church from New York, Unitarian Universalist from Maryland, South Lexington, Red Bank, Smyrna, and Convent Churches from South Carolina, Christ United Methodist Church from Pennsylvania, River Road Unitarian from Maryland, Second Baptist Church from Richmond, Virginia, and Berwick Academy from Maine.
Service Learning is a method of teaching through which students apply their academic skills and knowledge to address real-life needs in their communities. Service Learning teaches the skills of civic participation and develops an ethic of service and civic responsibility.
Students have a variety of service opportunities here from which to choose a meaningful placement. Included are alternative college breaks, community service weekends, summer placements and internships, and special events.
We worked with the Youth Works Program from Nashville, Tennessee during the summer that provided 60 volunteers for four weeks. They worked with the afterschool program, Super Why Camp, and housing rehabilitation.
Many of Big Creek People in Action's programs and services involve job training and preparation. This is an important service we provide to help people better themselves and prepare for a brighter future. When people are placed here to work, they learn workplace ethics and behavior, responsibility, and effective communication skills that they will need when securing permanent employment. We also help many other people in the community prepare their resumes and secure job opportunities.
The Department of Health and Human Resources places people here under the welfare work experience program, youth are placed here to work under the Youth Connections program, and summer interns can work here during the summer while they are in college to fulfill the requirements for their scholarships. These people learn how to be responsible, be on time, follow directions, work with other staff, and gain valuable work experience.
Our VetCorps member has his office in the Computer Lab and regularly helps veterans and other residents to prepare proper resumes, expand their computer skills, and apply for jobs.
We have two tutors that work at the McDowell County Career and Technology Center providing tutoring services to the students in all eleven of the Career and Technical Education course offerings. Big Creek People in Action tutors work diligently with students to ensure that each graduate is not only equipped with academic and career tech skills, but also with professional skills related to entrepreneurship and employment.
Our computer lab offered access to the internet and many specialized programs and learning activities to enable people to enhance their quality of life through access to information technologies. Self-paced courses are offered to people of all age groups and skill levels. They can take classes to advance their skills on beginning and advanced computer classes, life skills, job skills, G.E.D., driving tests, resume writing, financial information, and a variety of other courses.
Our VetCorps member assists fellow veterans to access services, programs, and benefits that are available to veterans. We collaborate with the American Red Cross on the Services to the Armed Forces program to assist with VA claims and military personnel. Our Vet Corps member also helped transport veterans for appointments and prepared food boxes for veterans and their families,
This year, we sponsored two major health events - the Moms and Babes Fair and the Senior Health Fair. In addition, we had many people attend health workshops on diabetes and two sets of prenatal classes. Another component of the Healthy Lifestyles Program this year was working with the Affordable Health Care Program to assist people in enrolling in insurance programs.
BCPIA hosts many special events throughout the year that support education, family events, entertainment, and holiday observances. These events give families a chance to spend quality time together in a wholesome atmosphere. Events during 2015 included the following:
Spring Carnival – After a long, hard, winter, people are ready to come out and have some fun in a family environment. Emory and Henry College students helped to financially support the Carnival and run the games. Fun games, good food, and great prizes were enjoyed by all.
Moms and Babes Fair - This year's baby fair packed a lot of information for expectant mothers and mothers with children up to age three. Several organizations gave out valuable information about programs and the moms attending also sat through workshops about prenatal and infant care. For the past twelve years, Big Creek People in Action has held a community baby shower that is both informative and fun. Moms get a lot of goodies such as diapers, wipes, lotions, baby bath products, smoke detectors, baby clothing, car seats, and much more.
Mountain Music Festival – Showcasing local talent and giving the community a day of family-style entertainment is what this festival is all about. We sold great home-cooked foods and staged carnival games. Hundreds of people enjoyed the music from the parking lot, gymnasium, and even the Coal Museum located on the first floor, including those who were in front of the stage flat footing and dancing the night away. Great fun for everyone and admission is free.
Senior Health Fair - The third annual Senior Health Fair was a successful event filled with health information from a variety of McDowell County organizations. Seniors attending the event were able to get flu shots, blood pressure readings, and much more. They were treated to a hot, healthy lunch. Afterward, they got to play bingo for some nice prizes, which they really enjoyed.
Diversity Day - Students from the 6th, 7th, and 8th grade at Southside K-8 were bussed to our Center to look at the many projects and artifacts from other cultures we have on display. They ate foods from many cultures around the worlds, watched a video presentation, and received a gift bag. We received some great feedback from the students that attended the event this year.
Super Why Camp - BCPIA co-sponsored with West Virginia Public Broadcasting, a very successful 4 week summer literacy camp. Each week was held at a different community in the county and a total of 70 people attended the camp. Super Why was created to help children ages 3-6 learn to read through interactive story adventures. SUPER WHY features a team of literacy-powered super heroes: Alpha Pig (with Alphabet Power), Wonder Red (with Word Power), Princess Presto (with Spelling Power), and Super Why (with the Power to Read).
Community Christmas Activities - With a lot of help from churches from South Carolina, Gateway Community Church from Virginia, Second Baptist Church from Richmond, Warren Wilson College, and a lot of generous people, Christmas was made a little brighter for many children, families, and seniors who attended our annual Christmas Parties. We had four parties this year, serving 836 people. Each child, received gifts, treat bags from Santa, gifts for Mom and Dad, a shoe box of goodies prepared by Warren Wilson College, food boxes, and a hot Christmas meal. We also served senior citizens, Southern Highlands mental health clients, and veterans with gifts and food boxes.
Big Creek High School Alumni Dance – We were proud to host the 6th Annual Big Creek Alumni Dance in August for all people who graduated from Big Creek High School. Everyone enjoyed great food, a video presentation from yearbook photos, music, dancing, and a great night out with old friends.
BCPIA sponsored or participated in many other special events or projects during 2015 including:
We are proud of our accomplishments this year but realize that there is still more work to be done. We would not be able to continue to offer our services without the generous support of many organizations and people who believe in our cause to create fundamental change in the area. Together, we are making a difference, one family at a time.
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Big Creek People in Action, Inc.
HC 32 Box 541
War, WV 24892
Ph. (304) 875-3418
Fax: (304) 875-3518
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In early December I was pleased to be able to meet today's guest author Susanna Zaraysky for lunch here in Istanbul. Susanna is an accomplished language learner and a bit of an expert in using music to learn languages – something I haven't done a lot of. I am excited to have her share her expertise with us today.
I can listen to music to learn languages?
Is this a joke?
No, I am totally serious. You do have to learn grammar eventually but music is absolutely key in learning languages. I speak seven languages and listening to lyrical music in these languages was fundamental to my being able to copy the melody of these languages and remember pronunciation and vocabulary. The science of language learning shows that not only is the previously considered "critical period" of language acquisition longer than previously thought but that multilingual people are "mental jugglers". Music is a way to keep your language juggling fluid and natural.
It's so simple. Yet sometimes it feels like I am talking to the wall when I tell people how lyrical songs can help people learn language. I've given presentations about my book, Language Is Music, to the US State Department (the Foreign Ministry of the US), various universities and to the Defense Language Institutein Monterey, California and I got many dumbfounded looks from language teachers when I explained how to use songs to teach language.
Really? I can use songs to teach grammar?
The neurological links between language and music are vast but the basic thing to remember is that music activates more parts of the brain than language does, on both the right and left sides of the brain. So if you remember something to a tune, you are more likely to recall the information than if you just read it or heard it spoken.
Have you ever heard a song on the radio that you haven't heard in a decade and you surprise yourself by singing all the lyrics?
Music and catchy jingles can stick in our minds for years while names of people, places, verb conjugation charts and memorized data disappear.
Just yesterday, I was writing an email to someone in Spanish and telling him that I needed to dust off my Thai cookbook to remember the recipe for Thai coconut milk soup for a Lunar New Year party with my friends. I'd never used the word "dust off" in Spanish before, but I recalled it from the song "Aunque no esté de moda" by Silvio Rodriguez, where the singer says:
"Desempolvemos algo las pasiones lejanas algo de aquellos sueños sin ventanas."
(Let us dust off something from our distant passions,something of those windowless dreams).
My words about Thai coconut milk soup were not as poetic or romantic as the words from the song, but it was my memory of the song lyrics that made me think of the word "desempolvar" in Spanish.
Music makes the puzzle of a foreign language come together
What happens when you hear something in a song is that you are opening yourself up to the greater global picture of the language. Then when you learn what the words mean by using a dictionary or reading the translation of the lyrics or just guessing from the context, you are putting the puzzle of the language together. If you start with the puzzle pieces (grammar rules, conjugation charts, vocabulary lists, etc), you may end up using those puzzle pieces as a sleeping pill rather than as means to learning the language. Let yourself breathe in the language with music so you can get a rhythmic introduction to the language.
Music wakes up your brain to remember words
Songs are awakening the language capacity of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords who suffered brain damage caused by a bullet that passed through the left side of her brain, causing her to lose expressive speech. As you can see in this ABC News special report about her recovery, songs are helping the former Arizona Congresswoman regain her speech.
As the Nightline Special says, "When the music fades away, the words stay". After listening to songs, Representative Giffords remembers the words from songs that she previously could not say. The music activates her memory of the words and ability to pronounce them.
If songs can help someone with brain injuries regain speaking abilities, then music can help everyone else learn languages. No more excuses!
Tips on listening and using music to learn languages
1. LISTEN then talk
Watch this video to understand the fundamentals of how to listen to a foreign language to learn. This five minute video can save you many hours of painful work later on to polish your accent. If you listen first to your target language, before speaking, you have a better chance of having good pronunciation. If you launch into speaking from Day One, you are likely to be speaking with a poor accent and it will be hard to rewire your brain later on to produce different sounds after you may have solidified your speaking patterns.
- There's a reason we have two ears and one mouth. Listen first, speak later, then learn the grammar and write.
- Don't rush into speaking. Learn the sounds of your languages first.
- It does not matter if at first you do not understand. You may start singing along without even knowing what you are singing. You are not only learning the rhythm of the language, you are learning new vocabulary.
- Relax and close your eyes. Turn off the lights. Lie down, sit in a comfortable position or play. At first, don't try to understand the words, just listen. Your mind needs to be calm in order to absorb the sounds. Your ears need no other distractions to properly hear all the high, medium and low frequencies of the language. Do this regularly.
Academic proof of why listening first makes sense
Dr. Paul Sulzberger, did his PhD thesis in linguistics in New Zealand about how people learn Russian. He had one group of students who got to listen to Russian speech before formally learning Russian. The other group had no exposure to Russian at all. Those who spent time listening to Russian before studying it, had an easier time than those who had no experience listening to the language when it came to recognizing individual words in speech when they were formally learning the language. Therefore, the exposure to listening to the language to pick up the melody and sound patterns before learning words and grammar was advantageous to the students. Listening is a major factor in language acquisition!
2. What kind of music?
Find music in your target language that you like. Seriously, it's not uncommon to find language teachers who aren't familiar with contemporary music in the language they are teaching and play old songs that don't resonate to their student's ears. You have to like what they are listening to. It's best to find songs that tell a story so you can learn a story line. Stay away from music with profanity or inappropriate content.
3. Find You Tube videos
Go on You Tube and find music in the target language that they like. Some videos even come with subtitles in the target language or in translation. Videos may also help you understand what the song is about. This is especially important for visual learners because they can see the story being told by the lyrics and better understand what the song is about and match their new vocabulary to the images on the screen.
4. Write the lyrics
After listening to the song(s) several time to get used to its sounds and melody, students write the lyrics of the songs while listening. You will have to pause the music and rewind or repeat many times to get the words down. Some words will be hard to write because they may be idioms or slang that you haven't learned yet, but just write as much as they can understand. Compare the lyrics they noted down with the original song lyrics that you will provide them and see how well you were able to understand the song. Some CDs come with the lyrics inside the CD case. If you don't have them, look for them online on lyrics websites.
If you can't locate the lyrics on the lyrics websites, just type in the name of the song in quotes in a web search. If you don't know the name of the song, type in the refrain or the lyrics you do recall.
5. Make a vocabulary list with words from the songs
Prepare a vocabulary list from the songs and quiz yourself. Delete certain words from the verses of the song and fill in the blanks.
6. Sesame Street for beginners
If you don't think that Sesame Street is actually a viable option for anyone over the age of five, think again. The Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California which trains staff from all branches of the United States military in different languages shows Sesame Street in Arabic to its Arabic language students. If GI Joe and GI Jane can learn to speak al- arabi with the Arabic equivalent of the Cookie Monster, then so can you! I don't know if the Arabic Cookie Monster eats baklava or cookies, but his message can reach you.
Note: Sesame Street has various international versions available on You Tube from Russia, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Egypt, Indonesia, South Africa, Brazil, Palestine, Jordan, Bangladesh, Japan, India and France. The best way to find the videos in those languages is to do a search for Sesame Street and the name of the country or language. If you know the name of the program in the specific language, like Plaza Sésamo in Spanish, then use that name in your search on You Tube.
How have you used music as part of your language learning?
Susanna Zaraysky speaks seven languages with native to near-native accents and is the author of Language is Music, El idioma es música in Spanish), a short and easy-to-read book on how to learn foreign languages using music, TV, radio, movies, the Internet and other free and low-cost resources.
Find Susanna on her website or follow her on Twitter, Facebook, Picasa, and on YouTube.
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Really proud of Paris as she blazes a trail no other trans person in the UK has been able to in the UK when it comes to the media. She also became the first trans TV presenter a few months ago on a late night CH4 TV show.
First question: I would like to ask is how much the straightees are paid by the BBC?
With a BBC Income of £3bn plus, http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2006/jul/07/bbc.broadcasting1 , does this affect you?
What a disappointing insipid programme…I had high hopes at first but its dodged the harder questions.
Paris why did you not tell the Muslim woman that your trans!?!
It's great that the BBC finally has its first trans woman radio presenter but at the same time I find it kind of sad that this has taken so long. I feel this only goes to show that the Beeb is a very conservative organisation which is typically behind the times. Why, I don't think I can even recall a news presenter even using the word 'transsexual' in a broadcast to date – even though there have been very many newsworthy stories involving trans people throughout the years, major changes in legislation etc. Either 'transsexual' is regarded as such a dirty word that even admitting that we exist is seen as akin to uttering one of the list of banned swear words on live, primetime television – or else the major changes of the 20th and early 21st century have passed the archaic Beeb by. Now that they finally have a trans woman on the radio then how about a trans woman, trans man or even – shock horror! – a gender non-conforming person on TV reading the news? Wait another 80 years…?
In fairness to the BBC, I think it has a transsexual correspondent who is not publicly out.
Paris Lees is only paving her way to be famous, that's it.
All she is concerned about is her own fame, it's rank.
What exactly has she done for Transsexual People, nothing as far as I can see.
She rides on the back of the misery of transsexual people whilst climbing the fame ladder.
But then all those air brushed photo's of her is just normal right? because she's so down to earth and not pretentious in any way?
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All US coins are supposed to have this motto on them. I think this Dollar coin will probably be about $10-$12 depends on its condition. If there is "CC" above the 'DOLLAR' it may worth $75-$110.
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'Tis the Season
After a completely wild ride in which I believe I gained what we shall call "experience" over the last nine months, I'm back in the writing mode again. It was a season for really focusing on the needs of my family–which were many and varied and…yeah, intense. But, it's winding down, and I'm ready for a new thing. A new season.
There are seasons for things, I often find myself telling people. I used to lament, when my kids were small, that I couldn't, well, actually go anywhere. Five kids in less than ten years'll do that to you. Now, my youngest is about to turn nine, and things are a little less crazy. I mean, I don't have to worry that one of them will dump out the entire maraschino cherries display at the grocery store if I take them with me. It's great. It's a relief. But back then was a different season, for daily story time and making crafts and teaching them to thread a needle and such. This isn't so much that season anymore. In some ways I miss it.
Now, it feels like a season to write–while they're at school, and to be present for them when they're at home. It's that season. I like it.
I'll miss them when it's not this season anymore. But it will be a new season with new challenges and new excitement. I think it's hard to not long for a different season–one that has passed, and one that has yet to come. The best thing, I'd imagine, is to make the most of the season we're in.
And so, in keeping with that, I'm going to embrace this season. I've written about 45,000 words since last Monday. Not all of them will stay in this book, (likely since I'm out of practice and they're disconnected and weird), but the productivity is ramping up again, and I'm getting my muscles back in shape. Goal: 5,000 words today. And tomorrow. And to finish this novel and start another for NaNoWriMo.
My challenge to you: Find your season. Live in it. Embrace it.
Win Free Books–Just for READING
Did you see the subject line for this post? Well, if that isn't a dream come true, I don't know what is.
It's the annual event of events: The Summer Reading Trek. If you are looking for the perfect excuse to spend the entire month of July reading (and maybe you don't even need an excuse, but I do), here it is! This one's for you!
I'll probably be posting more about this soon!
Workshop Excitement
I'm so excited about this. My friend CJ Anaya and I are heading to the hot, hot desert (okay, we already live in one, but this one is even hotter) for a workshop in Phoenix to learn from one of the greats–Dave Wolverton, the mind behind mystorydoctor.com. I've read his books, watched his vlogs, taken lots of his advice over the years, followed him on social media, and now I get to meet him in person and possibly even ask him some questions about my own work. How awesome is that?
A huge shout out of thanks to CJ for being willing to drop everything at the last minute to go with me. And another huge thank you to my family for being willing to say see ya later to me for a couple of days. THANK YOU! It's great to have a family that supports my little dream of being a writer.
I'll let you all know how it goes. And here's hoping my writing improves VASTLY by paying close attention to the tips Mr. Wolverton teaches us. I'm always hoping and working to improve my skills, even if the result is just making that Cotton Candy for the Soul a little more flavorful.
Legally in Love Series Writing Process Revealed
I have always thought it was odd when people have asked me about my writing process. I guess in my head the answer is along the lines of, "Well, I sit down in a comfy spot with my laptop, minimize distractions, and then type whatever comes into my head, which is (I always hope) a story. Then I edit it a lot."
That's been the deep dark secret of my writing process for years–at least as far as I'd ever analyzed it.
But then as I started the next installment (Book 4) of the Legally in Love series, I realized I had jumped the gun and wasn't doing something right so I couldn't get the story to work. Yet.
This made me think, hey. There actually IS a method here–at least for this particular series.
So, here's what I realized it is.
1) Title of the Series
Knowing the title of the series has been the anchor for all the themes of the books. Yeah, the first two are about two competing lawyers who happen to have chemistry, and the third is more about two students skirting the law for personal gain (and love!), but the LAW is the theme that ties them together. That's in place for the fourth book, as well.
2) Title of the Book
Not everyone can start with a title. It's not really a tried and true method. With one of my books I started with a setting (BIG IN JAPAN). With another I started with a character (A LITTLE SISTERLY ADVICE). In another book, I knew the plot because I was doing an Austen adaptation (CHOCOLATE AND CONVERSATION.) With another, I had a really cool concept (for a book I'm not ready to release yet, but someday!) But with all the books in this legal series, the titles have been the catalyst for the plot. They're all legal phrases, and that's the same for Book 4, 5, and 6. (And 7, if I get that far.)
3) Cover Photo
With all these books, I've found it impossible to even start the storytelling until I found just the right cover. I couldn't even get names or character types until I saw the faces of the characters. This was what tripped me up with writing Book 4–I didn't have a cover photo picked. Well, I did, but it wasn't working. So now that I spent nearly the whole writing day on Wednesday trolling for the right cover models, I'm feeling ready to proceed! Yay!
4) Characters' Backgrounds
Knowing who the people ARE is more important than knowing what is going to happen to them. Because it doesn't matter what happens to them so much as exploring how they'll react to any given circumstance. I kind of have the setup for Book 4, but until I know who the characters are, I won't have any idea for the plot. Consider: the story of a nuclear meltdown would play out much differently for Anne of Green Gables than for Oscar the Grouch.
5) The Setting
Figuring out where the story can take place has been a huge hurdle. Once I had the cover photo in place, I could tell where the book could happen. Sometimes in a story, the setting is almost as much a character in the book as the characters themselves. The setting can shape the action greatly, including some of the conflict involved in the story. You can't have a hurricane be one of the challenges if you set the story in Arizona. But you can have a dust storm. So…yeah. I'm excited to have my cover photo, as it gave me a sense of where my story could happen, and now I've nearly nailed it down and am doing research on the location so I can get all the culture and history and sense of place correct. (I *so* hope to do it justice. It's a beautiful place!)
6) The Plot
Yes! Now that I have all the other elements in place, I can figure out what is going to happen to these people in this place when they're placed in these circumstances. It's much easier to imagine alllll the things that can go wrong with their love–before their ultimate happy ending. That is NOT a plot spoiler. I only write happy endings; it's my life view that we are all going to end happily, if we just latch onto goodness and put the most important things first in our lives. And I try to have my characters do that, even if they make mistakes along the way.
7) Writing, Editing, Publishing
Yeah, that's all a ton of work. And some of it is pretty tough! But the end product is almost always something I can feel happy about. There's a sense of accomplishment in creating something, even if it's just the literary equivalent of a spun sugar dessert.
So, there you have it. Secrets revealed! I hope now to be able to find time in among the crazy demands of life to get Book 4 cranked out–soon!
My (Not So) Secret Love Affair
I am in love. SO in love. Yes, with my husband (who is the very best man I could imagine and the prototype for pretty much every hero I've ever written into a book), but also with another. This other love is dangerous, and comforting, and helps me sleep better at night. I'm telling you, this newfound love has changed my life.
It's my Kindle Paperwhite.
My husband surprised me for my birthday with the original Kindle a few years ago, and I liked it, mostly, other than I couldn't read it at night without the light on, and my husband needed the light off to sleep, yada, yada– until I made the mistake of letting my kids borrow it, and they set it conveniently on the floor underneath one of the wheels of the rolling office chair. Crack. Gone.
This was sad. Very sad.
So my husband surprised me a few months later (also for my birthday) with a Nexus 7, which is a tablet made by Google, in case you don't know. It had a Kindle app, which was all fine and good, but I'll admit, I was a little like that "Oh, look! A squirrel!" stereotype, and every time I'd turn on my device to read a book, the Nexus would make a little bell go off to tell me something interesting was happening on Facebook or that someone had sent me an email or liked my tweet, and boom, I'd forget about the book I was reading. (No, I'm not proud of my attention span, in case you're wondering.)
Eventually I just stopped trying to read on that thing since, frankly, it was guilt-inducing.
Around this time, I developed some insomnia. Anyone who has dealt with it knows what I mean. Let's just say it's not awesome to awaken in an already too-short night only to be bombarded with thoughts of worries and not be able to shut off the brain and to lie there obsessing hour after hour, night after night, until you think you might die of tired.
So my first love (Gary) birthday surprised me yet again–this time with the Kindle Paperwhite. VOILA! Suddenly, the world started to look rosy. For one thing, I could turn it onto airplane mode and never have the internet distracting me. (In fact, I've never used it for anything online other than synching new books I've added to it.) Guiltless! For another, it has an adjustable backlighting. I can read it in full daylight, and I can crank down the backlight and read it on a super-dim setting at bedtime so it doesn't distract my One True Love from his sleep. And best of all, I can load it with THE MOST MIND-NUMBING BOOKS OF ALL TIME (in addition to some exciting books) to help me fall asleep again when that little nudge of wakefulness used to turn into full-blown anxiety for the remainder of the night. Now, thanks to the Kindle Paperwhite, all I have to do is slide my little love out from under my pillow, run my finger across the page to load Anthony Trollope's "Golden Lion of Grandpere," and boom! Six pages later, I'm snoozing again.
Magic! Magical magic. Magically magical magic that has turned me from a woman with dark circles under the bags under my eyes and a gaunt, scared animal look about me most of the time into a rested, refreshed mother with much more normal and pleasant interactions with my kids.
I'm telling you, I love this thing.
Now, for the danger. A Kindle Paperwhite combined with a Book Bub daily email can be a dangerous thing. Every day Book Bub tempts me with amazing, incredible deals on books they are *sure* I'll like. (And they're right, since I'm the one who signed up under the genres I'm most interested in.) Just 99-cents for a book about the life of Cary Grant? Yes, please. So many incredible, well-reviewed books for so little money! I'm in heaven, I tell you. (If you're a reader who likes fluffy, happy romance such as Cotton Candy for the Soul and want to follow me on Book Bub, be my guest.) I'm loving it even more. It has deepened my love affair to a true commitment level. I'm at the point where I can barely relax at night if I can't reach my hand underneath to the cool side of the pillow to find my insomnia cure there, waiting for me with its healing pages and adjustable font size.
Bless you, little Kindle Paperwhite. You've made my life so sweet.
And an even bigger dose of love to my sweet husband for surprising me with the perfect gift. So glad he doesn't mind sharing his bed with this other love.
ASU Visit
Last week I had an amazing opportunity! An English Lit class taught at Arizona State University had read Big in Japan as part of their curriculum, and the professor, Lynette Austin, invited me to come and give a little writing workshop and talk to the students. HOW AMAZING! Honestly, as a writer of Cotton Candy for the Soul, I never imagined a chance like this on a university level.
First, I gave a workshop on using archetypes to help readers connect with characters. The students were quite adept at pointing out archetypes in great fiction and movies, and that was fun to hear how quickly they warmed to the topic. They were great.
Then, the professor had them give responses to BIG IN JAPAN, what they'd written in their papers after having read the book. Some wrote about the archetypes present in the story. Others wrote about the culture. One girl talked about Buck Cooper as "Other" — first as "exotic other," and then as "demonic other" for his counterparts in the book. Fascinating. Frankly, it's been a long, long time since I was doing literary analysis, so it blew my mind. I was just nodding and going, "Whoa." Probably looked like a dork. But in another way, it was so cool! Was all that really in a book I wrote? Yes, I did write some of it in there on purpose, and it's definitely a book I put enormous effort into, but the responses were so amazing to me.
I want to thank the students for reading BIG IN JAPAN, and I want to thank Lynette for choosing it as her curriculum and for inviting me to be part of her class. It was one of the coolest days I've spent as a writer.
Domo arigato! (Now you're filling in the blanks with "Mr. Roboto." Sorry.)
Paradise Paradigm Shift
After over a year of what I might term "relentless stress," we took a family vacation. As a mom, I wouldn't say I look forward to a family vacation most of the time because they usually entail doing all the stuff you have to do at home but without the conveniences of home–taking care of kids' needs and meals and laundry and entertaining the kids, etc., but while living out of a suitcase. We haven't really done much in the way of family vacations ever (other than visiting relatives. Does that count? Kinda not.) About seven years ago we took our kids to California, but while we were at Disneyland, some of the kids cried a little saying they wished they were at Grandma's house with the baby kittens instead. So, yeah. Why bother with Space Mountain, right? (Even though I adore the Magic Kingdom.)
But this year our oldest graduates, and then he will leave for two years to be a missionary, and then he'll start college, at which point the next one will leave for two years, and, so on and so forth, and some of them will (we hope!) get married, and then…well, our family dynamic and configuration might never be the same again. We needed to do something to create a family memory. We needed a vacation.
So we threw caution to the wind, figured out a frequent-flyer-miles scheme, took up a friend's offer for a beach house, and went to Hawaii. HAWAII, people. Hawaii. I never in a million years thought we could take five children to Hawaii. But with God's grace, we were able to make it happen: a visit to paradise on earth.
Normally, I'd be a stress case about this: what to do, where to go, when to go there, how to entertain five kids on an island…but after minimal looks at Volcanoes National Park, a general map of the area in my head, and certainly zero time to plan (due to aforementioned "relentless stress), we just got on the plane.
GLORIOUS. That's the only word I can think of right now to describe the trip.
And for the first time in over a year, I didn't have any stress. I just absolutely decompressed. Now that we have three teens and two tweens, no one needed much in the way of mom attention. All I did was cook meals, which is…whatever. No problem. We walked to the beach, watched the dolphins jumping in the bay, listened to the waves day and night, drove to the volcano and saw the glow of the caldera, drove up another volcano to 13,000 feet and watched the sun set through the blanket of clouds, sat on another beach, went to church, went to a historical site, ate macadamia nuts, and did nothing.
I'm telling you, it was incredible. And while I was there, I realized that a lot of the things I'd been overstressing about were, frankly, unnecessary. I had been doing everything I possibly could. For everyone. For everything. But that isn't always the right thing. Sometimes I just need to do what's necessary, and not everything that's possible. Does that make sense?
Coming home, I was immediately bombarded with the usual stuff, but instead of letting it take over again, I just pulled back. I had a friend remind me that I need to evaluate "where am I irreplaceable" and then do *those* things. Not EVERYTHING. And it's okay. Other people can take those responsibilities for now, or the duties can wait.
Since I've been back, I've done things at my house that were waiting for a long time. Filing that hadn't been done since 2014. Mopping my floor for the first time since Christmas. Writing letters to my family members far away. Cooking normal meals for my family and standing in the kitchen to listen to my kids. Helping my husband with a major project he's involved in where he needs my support. I even took one nap.
What I haven't done? Write a single word in a manuscript. Promote my novels other than a tweet or two. Spend any time on social media or even answer emails (sorry, email friends!). Start up a single fundraiser for a good cause (unlike several I spearheaded earlier this year.) Stuff like that. Stuff that felt like if I didn't do it I'd be a terrible person. Yes, I still have people to visit, friends to try to lift and support, but I've had to do most of that remotely instead of traveling to them for now.
A couple of months ago, my husband said the most romantic thing he's maybe ever said to me: "Jen, your mental health is important to me." Ha, ha, ha. But it was so touching. And true!
So, for a bit, I'm concentrating on the now, on the moment, on the family, on the sanity.
I'll let myself go insanely obsessed over writing again, most likely. But it's good to have seasons for things in our lives. Sometimes it takes a trip to an island to get our minds redirected to what's really important, and I'm incredibly grateful for the blessing going on that trip gave me. I hope everyone who is as snowed under and stressed out as I am/was can find their island to get their bearings. Because all we have are moments. All we have is now. It won't, actually, ever be the same again.
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Of Wheat Thins and Lessons Learned
This past few weeks has been one continuous round of wild rides. Everything from family surgery to being in charge of fundraisers (that's plural, fundraiserz) to politics to a book releasing to meetings-a-go-go to missionary discussions to two extremely exciting new opportunities to a busted pipe in a field to mission papers to an Eagle project and its accompanying papers (believe me, those are plural) to … you name it, it's been on our calendar.
Except pulling weeds. That hasn't been on our calendar. (Hey, this is Arizona, we have weeds year-round.)
Some seasons are just like that.
And to top it all off, I'm on a diet. WHY must we diet? Why can't we just burn calories by experiencing stress? Shouldn't worrying be a form of physical exercise? I mean, I know it wears me out. Why do I also have to subsist on Wheat Thins (not a bad thing, since they're DELICIOUS, as long as they are the name brand, not the store brand) and whatever "they" define as a "handful" of almonds. Believe me, it's possible to get a lot of almonds in my hand when I'm feeling like I'm starving.
However, I was thinking about something my father-in-law said the other night about signing up for this life. "I didn't sign up for ease. I signed up for experience. And believe you me, I am getting it. In spades."
There aren't any of these experiences hitting us this past month or so I'd trade. I want them all. Even the less-pleasant ones, I can look back on with fondness, eventually, and with gratitude–either for what I learned, or simply that with God's help we survived.
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