Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
Hans Christian Andersen
The meaning of the quote: Hans Christian Andersen's quotes are based on the simple equations of life. We read many tales, and most of them are based on real life or life-inspired. The imaginations of humans who have spent their lives based on what we think and super-think. We should read our tales first that mesmerize and teach us the most important lessons, which would help us live our lives better in the future.
I've been in love before, it's like a narcotic. At first, it brings the euphoria of complete surrender. The next day, you want more. You're not addicted yet, but you like the sensation, and you think you can still control things. You think about the person you love for two minutes, then forget them for three hours. But then you get used to that person, and you begin to be completely dependent on them. Now you think about him for three hours and forget him for two minutes. If he's not there, you feel like an addict who can't get a fix. And just as addicts steal and humiliate themselves to get what they need, you're willing to do anything for love." - By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Paulo Coelho
Yes, my mind was wandering. I wished I were there with someone who could bring peace to my heart, someone with whom I could spend a little time without being afraid that I would lose him the next day. With that reassurance, the time would pass more slowly. We could be silent for a while because we'd know we had the rest of our lives together for conversation. I wouldn't have to worry about serious matters, about difficult decisions and hard words.
Paulo Coelho
Lance described his journey, from his early love of reading to how his parents encouraged him to turn that love of reading into writing. In an interview with i'mBiking, he talked about his book, Guardian, its protagonist, and how he came up with the traits. I can sum it up by saying that he enjoys role-playing games where players create characters.
He tells us the tale of a woman who spent 800 years traveling the globe. Born and raised in the small Ontario town of Chatham-Kent, where he practically lived in the children's library's classics section, Lance Meredith, also known as JL Meredith, started penning stories of adventure and bravery when he was in the fourth grade. An old soul, he tries to sing, and dance, and play, a little each day. He has degrees in political science and psychology.
I was born in the rural community of Chatham-Kent in Ontario, Canada. My parents encouraged my love of reading; that, and a vivid imagination, led to my interest in writing.
I created the Guardian in 1986. I enjoyed playing roleplaying games, a type of game where the players create a character and, acting as a team, go on adventures narrated and refereed by a game master. I had two superhero roleplaying games and made a lot of characters with complete backgrounds, powers, and appearances. Guardian was one of those characters.
In June of 2015, I had some time and wrote the first ten pages of an outline. In August, I began writing her story, completing the first draft in January 2016.
The character has a big heart. My readers describe her as strong, sassy, and smart.
Guardian assumes her superhero name during a television interview in the first chapters of the novel. She’s an entity that arrived on earth in the year 1194 while exploring the universe--she’s an infant by her kind’s standards. She happened upon a young mother who died during childbirth in the English countryside and assumed the mother’s form to care for the newborn and save the child’s life. Experiencing humanity first hand, she fell in love and chose to remain. She does not age, so she moves on every few years to avoid difficult questions.
Other newly super-powered heroes (and villains) appear after the inciting incident, the asteroid’s appearance.
The novel is first and foremost an entertaining read, I wrote it to be a fun, page-turner--a beach-read. There are underlying themes, such as being your true self, and living in harmony with those who are different—which is all of us. One of the great paradoxes of being a human being is that we are all unique and yet, so very much the same.
She was the one constant character in the book. All of the others were in flux until the book went to my editor. Some characters were cut, some were amalgamated. The character, Jennifer, Guardian’s new best friend and the brilliant scientist that helps her through the book, took some time to come into focus. Some characters I can find their voice quite quickly, others I really have to stop and listen and hope they talk to me.
The first story I recall writing was a fantasy. I was nine at the time. I have written fantasy, science fiction, horror, and superheroes. Presently, I’m writing two stories; one of them is another Guardian story, and a paranormal detective story.
I read a lot growing up. My first recollection of a story that I wrote was a fantasy story involving a marauding dragon that had to be slain. It was only one page long, and I used up my red pencil crayon drawing the dragon and the battle described in the story. I wrote many more stories after that, particularly between grade ten and the end of my second year of university, after that the writing workload for school became so intense that writing became a burden.
Shannon Hale provides an excellent quote: “I'm writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.”
Louis L'Amour: “Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”
Guardian Into the Light of Day is my first novel.
Techniques of the Selling Writer by Dwight V. Swain is an excellent text for fiction writers.
Kathleen discussed how to create a character for a story and her own narrative style. Her most well-known book, “the promise,” was well-read and admired by many people. We spoke about her writing routine and writing tips in this interview. She writes every week. Finding out what your characters are doing is always intriguing. So for every writer, preparation and revising are really necessary. Continue reading to learn why developing characters is important in both fiction and non-fiction writing.
If you ever get a question or stuck somewhere while writing, I highly recommend you to read what Kathleen does. Well, how to create a character for a story, all writers have to keep faith in their writing. However, Kathleen advised to embrace each error you come across is one of the keys to success.
“There is a lot more to this story than its genre would suggest. There are touching, honest love stories set against the uncertainty and horrors of WWII, but there is the deeper pull of relationships of all kinds that really drew me in and held my interest. The author went to great care to flesh out the key players in this drama that ultimately spans decades. What starts as a benign, happy look inside post, World War I subtly begins to take on a wary expectancy as England’s Prime Minister declares war against Germany. Suddenly, the sheltered youth who only knew of wartime horrors second-hand are now faced with the possibility of losing everything their predecessors had worked so hard to recover. Young love and the prospect of family and a future are now put on hold indefinitely. Hearing from the key players in this rich historical drama in their own words is what really hooked me. The insights the author has for each of her characters is truly remarkable. Nothing about this story was pat or standard; everyone in this drama comes across vividly, with their own unique mindsets. Watching as they grow and adjust to the impacts of war is eye-opening and refreshing, and most of all authentic. I think this is a wonderful story and I look forward to reading more by this insightful author.” — Cynthia Hamilton
Kathleen Harryman is a storyteller and poet living in the historically rich city of York, North Yorkshire, England, with her husband, children and pet dog and cat.
Kathleen first published a suspense thriller in 2015, The Other Side of the Looking Glass. Since then, she has developed a unique writing style which readers have enjoyed and is now a multi-published author of suspense, psychological thrillers, poetry and historical romance.
For as long as I can remember, I have wanted to write. Stories have always been an integral part of who I am, it just took me a while to find the confidence to write and submit my first novel. Like all important events in life, there are joyous highs and extreme lows. Moments that propel you forward, my first novel, The Other Side of the Looking Glass, did that for me. The book reviews have been lovely, providing me with the confidence and zest to write my second book. The conception for each book is different. My second novel came to me from a single line: What's wrong with being a psychopath... While The Promise is a book that sat inside me for a long time, waiting for the right time to grow.
Research is an integral part of any book, even when writing fantasy, there has to be an element that makes events believable. There have been times when I have even tried some of the escape methods my characters have used, to ensure it is possible. When Darkness Falls is based on the internal dialog of the serial killer, so, it was important that I understood what drove the character to do what she did. There was an immense amount of research on serial killers as well as forensic science and profiling, to keep the book as real as possible.
I've often read that writing is a lonely journey. This makes little sense to me. My head is filled with characters, battling for a chance to be heard. When writing, the story sweeps me away, and time melts. I never see the loneliness, just the visions that flicker in my mind, where the story takes me and what is to come.
From concept, I know the beginning, and the end, everything else is malleable. The ending may change slightly, When Darkness Falls, is one example. I'd always planned the end as I've published it. It was the Epilogue that was the biggest change, and I'm so happy it's there, the book would never have been complete without it.
Self-doubt is a huge part of writing, and there have been many times when I have written a book, and edited, and edited it, that I begin to wonder if it's strong enough. We all make comparisons, it's part of human nature, it is also what opens the door to self-doubt.
By the time I have finished a book, I will have read, and edited it, at least ten times, sometimes more. I need to connect with each story I write, to feel an emotional pull, which I can hopefully pass onto the reader. An author isn't a singular person, it is the story, the characters, and the reader. This connection is important, if the reader doesn't feel the story or become part of it, the story becomes lifeless.
There are no shortcuts in my writing journey. It's about hard work, embracing errors, self-doubt, and always having faith in my writing.
The first historical book I read was “The Sunne in Splendour” by Sharon Penman. I'm not sure, if you would class it as a love story, but there were essences of real life romance enfolded within the story. Sharon Penman captured my imagination, changing my perceptions around Richard III and lighting my hunger for historical fiction. For this gift, Sharon Penman will remain my favourite historical author.
For me, The Promise highlighted the difficulties historical authors face. Research isn't based only on surroundings, life, machinery, etc, but also on dress, behaviour and speech. When writing an historical novel, you are entering a world that cannot easily be accessed. I was lucky when I wrote The Promise because I had access to the 1930s and 40s from stories told me by my father and great uncles. There was still a lot of research, even though I was plunged deep into WWII.
The Promise is based around stories told me by my family who lived through WWII, it is a story I longed to write, but also one I put off for too long. It was Lucy Marshall, (co-author) who came to me asking if I would write a book with her, that made me write The Promise. Some of the characters are based on Lucy's acting friends.
Like all the books I write, I knew how the story was to begin and end. But the night I met Lucy's friends, as we sat round my kitchen table talking, that's when the characters became real. Character relationships were forged from that night. Circumstances surrounding Tom Amitage and his father came into fruition. My brain works in strange ways, and I could see Tom's darkness and pain, as well as Sergeant Micheals strength and confusion.
Lucy was fantastic. When I told her some of the stories bestowed upon by my family, she would say, 'the hairs on my arms are standing up, Kathleen…' that's when I knew those stories would become part of The Promise.
I cannot tell you how much I cried when writing The Promise, and how much it touched me to write it. The Promise is my way of honouring my grandfather, James Chappell, who never returned from the war. My great uncles have kept his memory alive for me, and The Promise has allowed me to retell some of those stories. Though circumstances have been changed, the integral nature of those stories remain in The Promise. The Promise was a privilege to write, and I owe Lucy so much for asking me to write it with her.
The Promise was also a gift to my dad, Neville Chappell, who died in 2018. He never got to see The Promise published, but I was able to make hime smile and give him the knowledge that James Chappell would live on within The Promise.
The Promise is told from multiple points of views, each character's thoughts, desires, and fears are laid bare as the story unfolds. It was my meeting with Lucy's acting friends that really drove each character's storyline, a lot changed for me that night. The interaction between them was inspirational, I do believe that the best characters are born from watching human interaction. While this isn't always possible when writing psychological thrillers, I can still get a favour of their essence from interviews, etc.
An important factor for me is allowing character growth, without the character becoming too dominant. Characters, even main characters, shouldn't suppress character growth, or you loose interactions you are going to rely on to knit the story together.
One thing I have learnt is that plans are never ridged, allow for outside factors, and so long as you write something daily, the weekly plan is a success. There are days when I'm not there creatively. However, I still aim to write something. Those are interesting days. When I go back and read what I've written the next day, that is when I notice how the story is evolving. If there is nothing imaginatively coming, I focus on a particular feature, like hair or eye colour, or even a dress, by picturing this in my mind. And writing it down, I find it frees up my headspace, allowing imagination to take over without conscious thought. Get fixated on something, and you lose everything because there is no way of moving past that point.
I hope Kathleen covered pretty much on character growth and many other things. Now it's time to explore more topics. Check out below interviews.
Julie has unique ways of telling the stories, in this interview with i'mBiking Magazine, she talked about her book, “The Poetry Mouse” and for her readers, she read her favourite poem. Moreover, there is good news for writers who love to write about horror and suspense. She talked about how her books ends leaving the readers astonishing, in a twist. Kusma also put her thoughts on difference between thriller and suspense according to her. Thus, she believes, unknown outcomes create a tension in any story. Therefore, learn from her why both, thriller and suspense are correlated to each other.
Her paranormal, supernatural, and horror stories contain simple truths about our human experience, and she shines a light on shadows with weird situations, unexpected themes, and twist endings. She holds a Master of Health Education, a Bachelor of Science in Health and Wellness, and a Master in English, Creative Writing, fiction.
No matter what medium art takes; canvas, clay, or words on paper, the message isn’t so much what it means to the artist, but rather what the piece says to the observer. I hope my work speaks to you.
Julie Kusma
Moreover, every writer has his own way of gathering ideas. However, Julie get inspires is something unique.
The idea for “The Poetry Mouse” emerged in a conversation with my writing partner, Derek R. King. He shared several poems he wrote about hedgerow creatures and the idea of a mouse, Evie, anthropomorphized, took hold of me. I saw her living her ordinary life of doing what others thought best for her, and I realized this story had the potential to speak to children on so many levels. It is a story about authenticity and pursuing our talents and passions.
For me, my first thought was the visualization of Evie holding her notebook with Derek’s poetry written on each page. I then formulated a storyline and wove Evie’s tale around his poems. At the end of the story, Evie sends her work to a publisher in the city, so there’s a sequel underway.
Wow, I’ll have to look… I have short stories in three anthologies: one with two stories that won publication in a contest, one with a horror story from a contest, and the third with four horror short stories. I also have two meditation CDs, three solo children’s picture books, two children’s picture books written with Jill Yoder (my amazing editor), three children’s picture books written with Derek R. King, eight more collaborations with Derek, and finally, three horror collections of my own.
So, the short answer is, I currently have 22 published works and 2 CDs. Additionally, three collaborated children’s picture books are slated for publication yet this year, along with another Keepsake book, Our Halloween all in collaboration with Derek, and a solo project of mine, The Crooked Crone & Other Mystifications, all scheduled for 2022 publication.
I do fancy a twist ending. My solo work, which is mainly paranormal or psychological horror, quite typically ends in this manner. I love taking the reader along on a ride and making that sharp turn at the end which reveals the destination is somewhere entirely unexpected. I love that.
For me, writing suspense is about layering your story, and this is accomplished through the writer’s voice and the literary tools and devices employed. Diction, syntax, figurative language, and the tone in which the story is told, offer many layering options for themes and symbolism— all creating the story’s motifs. So, with diction, for example, when writing horror, choosing words that are morose and macabre pull the reader in. All part of setting up the story’s suspense.
Thriller is a genre where danger is present from the onset of the story: The thrill of the ride, reading the story. Suspense, although categorized as a genre, is really a technique where the unknown outcomes create a tension, a suspensefulness as the reader anticipates what happens next. Any story can be suspenseful, but not all stories are thrillers.
Sure, a great thriller is suspenseful, and in a non-genre definition way, suspense is thrilling.
I am. This week, I will write the final chapter of The Crooked Crone, which began as a solo short story. I’ve expanded this into a novella by the same name, and it will release yet this year. Other than that, I always have at least a dozen projects going at the same time. Current open projects include two children’s books, a keepsake book— Our Halloween, and the above-mentioned solo project of mine, and dozens more just waiting to materialize. I seem to work best this way, as I can perform various tasks for the different stages of progress as suits my mood on any given day.
Just depends on, really. Sometimes, nature inspires. Other times, it’s people. The things people say and believe are excellent fodder for stories. For example, I saw an appointment reminder card stuck to a drain pipe with cobwebs, and Derek took a picture of this for me. A creepy horror story began to emerge as I asked myself how long has that been there and why. Additionally, my current stay in Scotland has inspired an entire series of micro fiction pieces titled Scottish Gothic and is available on my website here.
Probably “A Lover’s Silence.” I love the voice of this piece. It has been recorded for me by Jacqueline Belle and a video to compliment by Daniel Lacho of Guru Art Official. You can listen to this on my YouTube channel at A Lover's Silence or for all of my recordings, visit YouTube.com/c/juliekusmaauthor
But I’d love to share one of my published 50-word micros from my Scottish Gothic collection. This piece, along with a few others, is available to read on my website.
I would have answered no before, but last year I met my amazing writing partner, Derek R. King. He lives in Scotland and I visited him last December. We have an amazing creative spark and exchange between us that is very easy and enjoyable. I believe this is why we are able to produce so many books in such a short amount of time. I’m currently in Scotland, and have been here since the end of March. I head back to the states in September, but while I’ve been here, I have travelled, met many people, seen a lot, embraced new ways of living and being, as well as created a volume of writing.
I don’t know if I’ve had anything particularly funny, but that’s subjective, right? I find life in generally humorous, so there’s that. However, walking through a grocery store in Scotland is quite entertaining for me. Seriously, no salad dressings to speak of. No pickle relishes. What? Pancakes are freshly made in the USA, not precooked and sold in a package on the bread aisle. And ice, don’t get me started on drinking soda room temperature without ice. Lots of funny stuff regarding food and lifestyle tickle my mind while staying in a foreign country. I highly recommend venturing outside one’s known territory and truly seeing how others live, especially if you’re a writer.
Every writer enjoy book on their weekend and on any occasions. Therefore, reading books teach us every day, and that is a time when most of our learnings occur. Every day is a new and special for us.
However, in case of Jackie, her education actually happened when she joined IBM. In 1972, during her schooling, everywhere was violence, the protesters, and the Vietnam War. Jackie also shared how her mother used to read romantic novels and enjoy her life. Jackie has also written a poem, “Out from the Shadows” accidentally, upon reading, it brings power to the one's selfness.
She believes, marketing is writing and selling an idea. Therefore, she took one more step and started investing more in writing romance as an endeavour to get lost in love stories.
Jackie's passion is writing, and her favourite place is the ocean. Besides, she loves painting landscapes, collecting sunglasses and crave sunshine like there's no tomorrow. She has worked as a marketing manager at IBM, writing technical spec-sheets for computer engineers. Now retired from the corporate world and writing fiction, family saga, and romance full-time. She is currently living in South Carolina.
The first book I read at a young age was “Gone With the Wind”, by Margaret Mitchell. I read it again in a different mindset at 40 years old. The genre I gravitate to is romance and family saga. I also write in that genre. I don’t write historical romance. I write what I know.
My mother was a romantic bookworm. I watched her get lost in her paperback romance novels growing up. Some of her books, she would tape a brown paper grocery bag over the book cover. I remember the first time I pulled off the brown paper to see what she was hiding on the cover. It was like unwrapping a present. I would read her romance books when she was out of the house. From then on, I dreamed of riding off on a white horse with the shirtless hero my mother was hiding on the cover of the book.
Reading books for enjoyment is a luxury I never had while raising my children and during my corporate career, and as a business owner. Life was too busy to just relax and get lost in a great novel. I know I missed out, and I am making up for lost time reading for pleasure.
I don’t believe we ever finish our schooling. Life lessons happen every day. I dropped out of high school in 1972, went to night school, and later took the General Educational Development Test (GED), which took me nowhere. In the ’70s, racial tension and school dropouts were high, and the Vietnam War and protesters were on every corner. The world was on fire as peace signs, tie-dye t-shirts, and standing up for our rights were the thing. The '70s is a future novel in the making I hope to write someday. Life lessons in a small southern town are on my bucket list for my seventh novel.
Fast-forward to the 90s, I returned to the classroom at Winona State University in Minnesota. Short-lived but productive. In 1994, I began my corporate career with IBM in marketing. This is where my education began. I learned more on the job than I ever learned in a classroom. Later IBM relocated us to North Carolina where I wrote technical spec sheets for computer engineers. The documents were online and sent with the product for the customer to read and learn how to use their new computer and software.
I fell in love with poetry in college. In the summer of 1993, I wanted to add credit toward my marketing degree and took a poetry class. It felt beautiful to hear words flow, and Walt Whitman turned me on to poetry.
The first poem I wrote was by accident. I was writing notes for my novel, At Her All. The main character Lara Faye Edison is a college student. I was trying to get inside the main character's head. In my past novels, if I wanted to get into character, I would paint with oil on canvas the location's scenery.
Also, I sketched the scene on paper with a pencil and the character’s faces helped my creativity flow. It was like I could talk to the character, and they could talk to me. I am a visual writer. By doing this, the story would flow out of me like turning on a faucet, and the characters came alive. The poem in the novel At Her All is about Lara and her hovering parents.
“I wasn’t born to spoil under anyone’s shadow and rot like an unhatched egg. I wasn’t born to follow orders. I wasn’t born for boredom. I wasn’t born to satisfy someone else’s needs, to take care of them or they take care of me or hide in their arms or to be taken for granted. I wasn’t born to follow ideas of what truth is or to live according to someone beliefs or to think along their lines or to learn their facts. I was born to think independently I was born to find my own truth and make my own rules and find my own way. I was born to meet life full throttle. Walk the Appalachian trails. To be seduced by an alpha male. Kissed a thousand times and loved for a million years. To meet different faces, travel, and learn other cultures. Watch the stars at night. Take long walks dance on the beach be swept off my feet be taken by storm to be heartbroken. Stunned. Shocked. Devastated. Lost and found again. I was born to get my hands dirty and plant a garden and watch it grow. To get sand between my toes. Mud on my face. Sand spurs under my feet. I was born to jump into the ocean. Pick up seashells and find starfish. To go beyond time and space. To welcome miracles. To share a wishbone and make a wish. To totally lose myself. I was born to feel everything and to experience everything. The bitter taste of sorrow. The foul taste of hatred. The sweet taste of love. I was born to learn how to be grateful. I was born to know the truth and learn how to give to I have nothing more. To work hard and play hard. To pray. I was born to learn how to speak the language of love and unlock my heart. How to take care of my health. Learn how to let go of all expectations and let the future unfold like unwrapping a present. I was born to learn how it feels to lose everything except for the things that matter. I am born to spread my wings fly towards the sun burn into ashes fall to the earth and rise again. I will be proud of my scars and my wrinkles. My stories. My memories. My wisdom. My freedom. I was born to be free and therefore, time will let me live my life out from the shadows.”
I’ve been in business for many years, and I was always marketing something. Marketing is writing, elaborating about a product, service, retail, wholesale, or selling an idea. In any trade, you have to write to market. It’s a labor of love.
Writing romance is one of the unlimited endeavors to get lost in a love story. To be invited into another human’s world of romantic thoughts and read stories about falling in love is the greatest triumph for a romance writer. I want the readers to question, cry, laugh, hope, feel emotion, fall in love, and dream you are the one and only. An overall feeling you belong in the story rescues optimism. Romance starts with an invitation into the most beautiful thing, love. Writing about love is personal.
The first manuscript I wrote was about health, and I mailed it to a publisher in New York in 1987. Motivated by the women who exercised at my health salon called Slender You in Winona, Minnesota. As a business owner of an exercise salon, I learned how important it was for women to support women. The manuscript was written to inspire women to exercise, with motivational quotes, and a diary to track success and healthy recipes. Six months later, it was rejected.
I filed the manuscript in the closet for safekeeping. I sold my business in 1989. The computer industry took off, and I knew IBM would change my life. I kept writing stories and frequently drew inspiration from my own experiences in the corporate world and private life. My career ended with a buyout at IBM. I reinvented myself and did something I had dreamed of for years. I took the real estate test and got my license to sell homes in North Carolina. I found success in real estate for 23 years. I am now a retired broker and writing romance and family fiction novels full-time.
I witnessed my son pass away tragically at the age of 45, in 2017. I learned he was also a closet writer, and he loved writing about his hunting and fishing trips. Heartbroken by my son’s death I learned writing was helping me with my grief. It was time to be the author I dreamed of being. In 2018 I wrote romance while working full time and as a caretaker for my mother who died at my home under the care of hospice.
I self-published my first novel, Plantation Hill in October 2020. Never planned to write a series, but I just kept writing. The next novel, Nectar (2021 second series) and then Hart to Hart (2022 third series) in Plantation Hill. The novel Inside Glass Towers was published in May 2021. I began writing Inside Glass Towers when my beloved husband was diagnosed with stage 3 lung cancer and treated with radiation and chemo at UNC Cancer Center. My latest novel At Her All was published in February 2022 and the story would never be complete without At His All (second series) out in 2023.
Life squeezed every ounce out of me. My books have been my recovery from life’s blistering truths, turbulent trials, inner turmoil, overwhelming grief, and a maze of absolute chaos through the healthcare industry during the pandemic. I am a caretaker's survivor and I came out on the other side stronger and wiser. It was time to come out of the closet, and share my novels with the world.
Today, my husband is cancer free. A comeback story all in itself for a future novel. Since retiring in 2020, I have published five novels in two years. Stories that have been buried in my brain for years came alive. To write and publish you cannot be a wimp.
I write full time. I am currently writing the novel At His All, the second series in At Her All, a bottle of lies. A Her and His (ladies come first) family saga. I have been patiently waiting for this stage in my life to open up and be who I was born to be, a storyteller. I came from a long line of storytellers.
Over the years, I was inspired by all the characters I met while growing up in a small, close-knit agricultural town in Belle Glade, Florida. The Glades motto is, Her Soil is Her Fortune. My grandfather Walter and my father Douglas were both incredible storytellers and role models for my future craft and my desire to write stories.
My first book is Plantation Hill. A Florida location from 1990-1992. Inspired by a southern family in the citrus business growing oranges. The family lives in an old southern white mansion tucked behind large oak trees with Spanish moss hanging from the trees that looked like an old man's beard. A typical Florida scenery of the old south.
My favorite character is Tee Hart. The readers tell me they fell in love with Blossom Hart, Tee’s daughter. The Hart family goes on different journeys, but with this family, blood is thicker than orange juice. And money grows on trees.
I was born an aspiring author. Two years as a self-published author have been exciting and challenging. If you are not ambitious, curious to learn, and thin-skinned, I’d find another industry to tackle. If you don’t like marketing yourself, social media, technology, and the ever-changing secret world of publishing, it might be a better option to work on your craft and keep writing and keep your day job.
The World Wide Web is still the Wild Wild West. The publishing industry has been like stepping back in time to find the secret code. To me, the most important thing is to entertain the readers.
Masafumi Nagasaki bid his old home in the city a final farewell before heading back to continue his 30-year journey to Sotobanari Island in the Sakishima islands. Why did he leave the city and love living on the island at the age of 87? The main reason behind it is his love for nature and hate for modern civilization. His love is only one, and that is Sotobanari Island.
The island is tiny, about a thousand yards of vegetated land without running water. And, it has one human inhabitant, he is Nagasaki. He is now an eighty-two-year-old man. His full name is Masafumi Nagasaki. He has been there for almost three decades. His distinguished journey started in 1989 and ended in 2018. The reason behind the end of his journey in 2018 was that he was found ill lying on the shore, found by police. A few months ago, a coronavirus outbreak occurred. He was unable to resist the police, and they admitted Nagasaki to a nearby hospital. He was first featured by Vice News as “Japan's Naked Island Hermit”.
Sotobanari island is nearly, 2000 km from Tokyo. Nagasaki thinks that in this crowded world, it is difficult to learn a new thing daily. He has his tent on the island, and his most favourite activities are like roaming in the jungle, listening to his favourite channels on the radio, fishing, and doing some yoga. For living, he gets his groceries by boat. It is his family that sends him around $10,000. Isn’t this love enough for an old man from his family? They have given such freedom to an old man. Masafumi keeps his groceries in the glass bottles and covers them with cotton clothes to avoid further mice attacks.
The modern lifestyle keeps us from visiting doctors at least once a year and varies as per the patient to patient and mostly depends upon his or her immune system. However, Nagasaki has already lived there for three decades without a doctor’s assistance and consultation. What surviving techniques he has developed are recommendable to everyone. In Indian Vedic literature, one of the techniques of Nagasaki is popular. Therefore, no one hardly uses it in urban societies. Most of the experts say that through eating, many people get sick. Thus, what Nagasaki uses as a trick to avoid getting sick is simple and easy.
His daily gargle habits win him every time. He also claims that he does gargle when someone visits him, as well as when visiting a new place on the island. Salt water saved him many times from getting sick. However, gargling with seawater is what he used to do. Therefore, we can also adapt this practice whenever we return from shopping or return back to home. We must follow this exercise. We can’t get seawater, but we can easily make salt water at home.
I'm better off without any medicine
Masafumi Nagasaki
Nagasaki believes that if you start having something, you end up relying on it. If there is a medicine to cure a particular disease, then we rely on medicine. Everyone knows that depending on medicine has adverse effects on the human body. It is best to avoid it. This nude hermit does not take any medicine, and clean without any viruses except his recent hospitalization in 2018
When Nagasaki was a young man, he worked as a photographer. This creative gene had come to him as his father was a well-known photographer too. He was the eldest son in his family. But why did he quit photography? It has a hidden meaning. However, he has revealed the secret behind why he stopped clicking the photographs. In the interview with Vice News, he told the correspondent the facts. He still remembers the last day he gave up photography. It was on August 9th. The day of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki The 9th August is celebrated as the Anniversary of Nagasaki to promote peace politics and raise awareness of the effects of the bomb attack.
Furthermore, what was his reason for leaving beautiful modern societies behind and deciding to live on the island? He also revealed that fact to us. In his adulthood, he used to travel by plane. He could see Seto Island from the sea like someone painted it with waste. This was back 20 years ago. Now it has muddy lines. Industrial pollutants are one of the major sources of pollution, according to Musafumi. When he was back in his city during the coronavirus, he couldn't adjust himself to his congested room because of the area of the limited feet. He also used to walk on the road to pick up the garbage. He soon realized that this was not a place he wished to live in. Thus, he soon took a final farewell to his native place and flew back to his island with the help of his best friend, Jun Aoki.
The most important thing in everyone's life is peace, and thus, Nagasaki was searching for the one. After his extensive research, he finally found his dream place until he dies, which is the one and only Sotobanari island, where peace would be his companion forever. When Nagasaki eats fish, oysters, or something like that, he always apologizes. However, it is not a sin; it is natural providence. Therefore, human call it “nature's blessing” However, Nagasaki says, it is not. It is a life you are eating.
Nagasaki is the one who has rare human qualities. One could find a helping and caring attitude toward nature. We, as humans, must find something with unique qualities that could help both man and nature.
In the poem Catharsis, urging of a dream, love, ambitions, and goals
But tears are meant to be silent Freezing in depths of heart, Thickening layers of crimson pain Soaking merrily in drizzling lanes, Piling on every hour. Away, away! For I will fly, and spread my wings across the azure sky, Shredding off hopes and plausible goals, to try with all my heart, behold.
Friederike Irina, who worked for 35 years without any other purpose, such a woman in our society is indeed. Only female could do with such rigour, looking at it, the world itself will bring change.
Irina, once in 1978 travelled to India and found a lot of interest in Indian culture, She never knows that her occasional visit to India will become a permanent residence there. Then She was young and just passed out of her college degree, she was then 20 years old. In India, she explored the northern part and its villages.
When she went Mathura, then she fell in love of the city, people and many other things. She learned Hindi and other languages to interact with locals. However, she understood the problems brought the solutions, and she becomes more emotional when she saw infected and sick cows in the city. She also read Bhagawat Geeta and suddenly brought many changes in her life the novel. Irina decided to open Gaushala. There, more than 2500 cows lives and maintain on her own and from the donation she receives.
Now Friederike Irina called as Sudevi Mataji, She had many problems, one of those was staying in India on the visa, and Sushma Swaraj and Smita Errani had solved her problems related to her travellings, and Visa. Her mission was only to serve the nation with pure of her feelings for cows.
The life became so challenging for her when she started taking cares of those cows, for that she had to rent her own property in Berlin. She had bought 3300 acres of land Became Animal activist without any purpose in life.
Super non-vegetarian women turned pure vegetarian, this is just because of Indian culture. She was bounded and impress by divine Indian culture.
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