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Submit your writing, You are ready!

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                                               Photo by Yannick Pulver on Unsplash What stops you from submitting your writing ? There are a ton of magazines on the stands filled with words. There are numerous online sites wanting your writing, and there are people like you hoovering over the submit button. What is stopping you? Self-esteem - This is one of the worst fears. It rears its ugly head when you type when you look for places to submit to, and it talks you out of sharing your work at all. You type or write your piece to submit but you feel you are not good enough. You feel you haven't written as long as others and you should keep reading and not writing to submit, but let me say this, you will not know if you will get published if you do not try. Our self-esteem can stop us or it can take a bump and say, you CAN do it! Turn that fear down into background noise, rise above it, write your best piece, and submit. Judgment from others - Your friends laugh and ask if you are s

Saturday Thoughts

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  Photo by me Have you ever seen something and thought, oh that's a sign? Don't believe in signs ok. I do. No one's belief is correct. It is each of our own personal views so please don't have me for my own views. I see signs on daily calendar pages. I hear it in others' conversations. I hear them in a song at the right time. I see them all over, every day, all day.  From when I was a baby to the age of nine, my mom and I shared a room. We moved in with my grandparents till I was 9 years old. It was peaceful and bliss for a lil one who was madly in love with her grandfather. I followed him everywhere and God rest his soul for not killing me off. I was annoying at best, but my grandpa was my dad figure as well and he thought me a lot.  He taught me to swing by placing an inner tube under my feet so when I swung down I was to kick it and I did over and over and he kept placing it under me. The man was a saint. He worked jobs as a truck driver, as a police officer, and