Saturday, April 30, 2011

Y and Z

Okay, I missed a day- but those two little letters are such good friends, I didn't think they would mind sharing.

I have some winners to announce....

Diana D
M.A.D.
Julie S
Van_pham
Nebraska Filemans

Congratulations to all you book winners.

And, I noticed someone finally got brave enough to leave a review on Amazon.com for Wings of Light. Thanks for that. I would love some more!

Y is for YES.

We don't hear that word very often in writing. On a professional level, we hear the word "unfortunately" a lot more. So what are some of the yeses of writing?

*Yes, you can write. Everyone is allowed to write, no matter your age, occupation or social standing. There are no limits to who can put thoughts together in a written form.

*Yes, it does matter. I have to remind myself of this a lot. It's easy to forget about all the people that have proven that this journey has been worth it. Sometimes the road is so hard that it seems like nothing I have done has amounted to anything, and then something comes in my e-mail box, or like yesterday, in the mail and reminds me that it does matter.

Here's a snippet of something I got in the mail yesterday from a girl in Washington whom I've never met....

I wanted to thank you for writing Alvor and Wings of Light. I really enjoy reading, but I am finding it more and more challenging to find a good book that has a great storyline and is clean. I was really excited to find Alvor... I just finished reading Wings of Light, and once again, you have created a fantastic book that is clean... Thanks for being thoughtful and keeping morals in your books.

Wow. Thanks Emily. It really made my day to hear from you.

A different kind of Yes is YES- the LDStorymakers Conference is coming up next week and I'm so excited to see everyone!

And Z is for the end. The last letter of the alphabet, and probably the last time I'll ever try to blog everyday for a whole month.

3 comments:

Jeff Beesler said...

Congrats to all the winners! And congratulations to you for having accomplished blogging every day during the month of April!

M.A.D. said...

Thank you very much, Laura!!! And a happy Congrats to the other lucky winners :D

Laura said...

I think the hardest part of this was between letters N to S. I felt like I had nothing earth-shattering to say. Okay, I usually don't, but still.

Thanks to all of you who tagged along with me. You rock!