Recently Rated:
Stats
Aspiring Authors - How Aspiring Are You?
ThePower Of Aspirations
Great leaders have always been visionaries able to inspireothers with their aspirations and dreams.
President J F Kennedy had no idea of the technical challenges involved in
getting a man to the moon but he motivated people to meet that challenge and succeed. This year we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the realisation of that dream. Apparently when he asked Werner Von Braun what it would take to put a man on the moonthe scientist told him, the will to do it.
Dr Martin LuthorKing went to the mountain top and others followed.
WinstonChurchill inspired Britain to stand firm before the might of Nazi Germany as Europe threatened toslip into darkness.
They painted an irresistiblepicturein the mindsof menthrough the power of the
spoken word. Imagination embraced the dream and thedream became reality. Einsteinsaid "Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Captivate the heart and mind through the powerof the imagination and knowledge will follow. If weare inspired to accomplish something, if the dream isbig enough we will acquire the skills and knowledge we need to create the reality we desire.How largeare your aspirions?
"Thesoul," said Aristotle, "cannot thinkwithout a picture." The dream is an intangible picture by which we create a tangible future.
Nothingever happens without a dream. A man or woman with a clear dream can achieve anything. If your aspirations arebig enough nothing else matters. Walt Disney lived by that truth and children everywhere have enjoyed the fruit of his vision.
Please take the time to visit the websites, blogs, Facebook Pages and Twitter accounts of these aspiring authors. There is so much fantastic talent waiting to be read. Just click on theirimage.
| Here are some of our talented Aspiring Indie Authors | ||||
 |  |  |  |  |
 |  |  |  |  |
 |  |  |  |  |
 |  |  |  |  |
 |  |  |  |  |
 |  |  |  |  |
 |  |  |  |  |
 |  |  |  |  |
If you would like a free copy of Google+ eXplosion all you have to do is Pay With A Tweet (or Facebook Post)
This book has great information for us authors who prefer writing to the mystifying maze of
marketing. Thank you Phil for guiding us through in such an understandable way .
Richard Silverton (Author)
Thanks to Phil Rowlands, for pointing me to Google+ as a marke ting tool for independent authors. Bryan Murphy (Author)
Wonderful! Colleen McKlintock
I could say 'yes' Harold but I would be lying! I'm not that clever. Truth is I didn't even realise it was Lyndon B.Johnson. I think the events that unfolded left a lot of people wondering.
Philip, the picture you chose to illustrate your excellent blog made we wonder: "Did you intend a visual double entendre?" I read the title of your piece then looked at the picture, but, as a yank, my eye was immediately drawn--not to President Kennedy who was front and center--but to the face immediately behind the President's right shoulder. It is Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson. His aspirations to become President were no secret. And to this day I still wonder...
Gaabi, I remember Stephen Fry visiting the Bigfoot guy! Don't feel too bad, When he came through St. Louis he stayed on the Illinois side in East St. Louis. You have to be either courageous or foolhardy to go there. Remember when Clark Griswold family on their first National Lampoon Vacation took a wrong exit and wound up in East St. Louis? Stephen Fry was lucky to get out of there with all four wheels remaining on his London Cab,
I watched some of those Stephen Fry in the United States and liked those very much, although all he did in Oregon was talk to a nutball about Bigfoot. Bit disappointing but you can't have everything. The show in Alaska was great.
Another series I enjoyed was Kingdom with Stephen Fry. It is set in England (oh, well). Stephen Fry also did a travel series where he drove a London Cab the length and breadth of the United States. Except for a few occasions, he skipped the major tourist haunts and spent much of the time driving the back roads.
Hamish Macbeth has been repeated recently too, on ITV3; I liked its feyness and Wee Jock. Again very different from the books in which Hamish is tall and lanky with red hair which doesn't describe Robert Carlyle at all!
Thanks Gaynor. That's good to hear. I so rarely watch terrestial TV these days I not sure know how it survives. The continual barrage of adverts and the so called "reality" TV is disgusting. We mostly watch IPTV on our Roku.
Quantum Leap is still being repeated here on terrestrial "Freeview" TV so it's odd they haven't noticed!
I loved BallyK but I find that very few Americans have heard of it except in a few select cities where it was carried by PBS.
Jack, I love(d) Doc Martin (don't know if it's going to be renewed).
I lovedMonarch of the Glen and Hamish Macbeth, too.
There seems to be a small town theme running through all of those stories.
When Assumpta was killed it took me totally off guard. I didn't see it coming. Friends and family in the UK were somewhat forewarned that something dramatic was going to take place through promotional adverts. But watching it on Netflix I had no "heads up," not even a premonition. Assumpta was the same age as my Mum when she was killed along with my Dad who was just two years older than my Mum.
The power of the bard is incredible!
I could barely sleep for three nights after that episode. What's more, Assumpta (Dervla Kirwan), with her auburn hair and green eyes looked so much like my wife (who definitely takes after the Gwynn side of her family). It all was so haunting.
So, writing "fan fiction," for me, was a catharsis.
I can't tell you how many times as a little boy I dreamed about being able to travel back in time in order to change what had happened.
Gaynor, a lot of my friends in the UK seem to be unaware of Quantum Leap. I'm glad you remember it. It was a good show.
As so often happens, we seem to have drifted from the res but that's how conversation goes, I suppose. You might like the place where Inspector Montalbano lives in the Italian TV series too; he has a home with a big veranda right on the beach in Sicily. Luca Zingaretti, who plays him, is a bit of all right. I also think the TV series is better than the books although I would aspire to be as successful as the author and have a TV series made of my own efforts.
www.locatetv.com/tv/inspector-montalbano/2622675