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Computers and Internet, My Own Personal Weirdness, The Past Comes Back to Haunt Me, Writing

BYOB

I am taking an online writing class called BYOB – Blog Your Own Book. It’s thirty-one days of blogging with a goal to use the posts to make an e-book at the end of the month. I’ve decided to blog my own adoption story from start to finish, with a few meanderings here and there to talk about Adoptee Rights, the psychology behind healing the emotional wounds of adoption, websites that help people search, and other adoption related topics. I plan to send copies of the resulting e-book to my family members when it is complete.

I am telling the story from just my point of view, I am leaving out possibly salacious bits of information that might upset anyone involved, and I am not posting the given names of those who are featured in my story. Everyone named will be given a pseudonym to protect their anonymity.

I’ve chosen to post my pieces on Medium because there is the possibility of getting paid for my posts there. If this series works out, I will write more stories on Medium about other topics.

Here is the link to the first piece: https://medium.com/life-according-to-lisa/my-quick-and-dirty-adoption-story-e44ecc9a79db

Computers and Internet, Speaking, What I Love, Writing

Today’s Speaking Engagement at TPLWC

I spoke today at the Tyler Public Library’s Writing Club Facebook Group on Humor in Writing. I shared a handout on writing humorously and we did some writing exercises. It went really well! If you are a member of the group, you can see the replay of the live video here: {link}

Computers and Internet, Speaking, What I Love, Writing

Speaking Engagement at TPLWC on 07.29.20

I will be presenting a writing lesson on “Humor in Writing” at the Tyler Public Library’s Writing Club Facebook Group on July 29th, 2020 at noon. If you’re a member of the group, you can find us here: {link}

Computers and Internet, Speaking, What I Love, Writing

Today’s Speaking Engagement at TPLWC

I spoke today at the Tyler Public Library’s Writing Club Facebook Group on “Writing More Productively.” I talked a lot about From 2K to 10K and shared a lot of links both during the lesson and afterward. If you are a member of the group, you can see the replay of the live video here: {link}

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Speaking Engagement on 07.15.20

I will be speaking at the Tyler Public Library’s Writer’s Club at noon on July 15, 2020. My topic will be “How to Write More Productively.” Hope you will join us! {link}

Computers and Internet, Speaking, What I Love, Writing

Today’s Speaking Engagement at TPLWC

I spoke today at the Tyler Public Library’s Writer’s Club on “Building a Sustainable Writing Career Through Managing Your Creative Assets.” I know, a ridiculously long title, but when I was pulling it all together, that’s what worked for my brain. I felt like I had a lot of ground to cover quickly, but it went all right once Facebook stopped putting pop-ups in my way. If you are a member of the group, you can see the replay of the live video here: {link}

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Today’s Speaking Engagement at TPLWC

I spoke today at the Tyler Public Library’s Writing Club Facebook Group on “Character Creation.” I shared all my favorite character worksheets from various places and it went really well! If you are a member of the group, you can see the replay of the live video here: {link}

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Huge List of Activities to do with Kids during Covid-19

I started this document ages ago and have shared it with many friends, family members, and FB forums already. It’s compiled from many, many different places: lists on facebook, travel websites, space websites, family websites, school websites. It’s broken down into categories for ease of use: The Arts, Books, Celebrities, Coding, Crafts, Disney, Exercise, Food, Movies/TV/ Mental Health, Museums, Music, School Related, Travel, and Non-Internet Things to Do.

Hope you enjoy it. Here’s the link.

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Summer of Themes 2020

School got out a couple weeks ago, but my family has been taking a little staycation. I spent some time working on my summer plan for the kids. With summer camps being out of the question, we went back to the drawing board and decided we were going to do another summer of themed days. We’ve done them off an on for years and I first wrote about them here and here.

A lot has changed since then– we’re down to two children at home now, both teens, the internet can be viewed on the big TV in the living room, and free videos abound about far more subjects than we’ll ever have time to watch.

Here’s a link to this year’s list of themes. I’m updating them weekly on Sunday mornings, usually. Feel free to download and change for your own needs. 🙂

Computers and Internet, Speaking, What I Love, Writing

Speaking Engagement on 06/03/20

I am going to be speaking at the Tyler Public Library’s Writer’s Club Facebook Group at noon on June 3, 2020. My topic will be “Character Creation.” If you’d like to hear me speak, you can find us online at: {link}