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I Write My Own Books!
My name is Julia Schmeelk and I write my own books. In the world of Indie Publishing, there seems to be a rash of plagiarism, also an entire culture of people writing for others, collecting a fee per word. (These are called ghost writers and are usually grossly underpaid and under valued) I am not…
Read MoreAmazing Exchange
I was paging through Facebook and Twitter, as I do from time to time, and I came across a woman asking about characters with disabilities. I answered that the NewEarth Series has at least one disabilities described in each book, a challenge that a character, human or dragon, has to work with and she asked…
Read MoreJoy of Writing
Aside from the whole make-it-up as you go, invent a world, populate it, and set your characters free- god like powers, a writer has a few other joys. One of them is working your but off to tell a story, and later, years later, going back and rediscovering it. I have a bank of books,…
Read MoreNormal Costume
So am am starting to get ready for an interview, they are looking for someone who can case managing a certain group of students. I am interested in learning more. The school is less than 20 miles from my house, so that will be nice. As far as I know, it will only be for…
Read MoreSpecial Olympics
I am a huge fan of ’Special O’ and all it represents. This weekend we were able to go to a basketball tournament, cheer on the athletes and add to their coufers. It was wildly exciting and we had a great time. I would encourage anyone to join one of these events and help out…
Read MoreBusy Saturday!
Despite the rain and warmer weather, it was above 32, for which we were glad, we needed to clean out the 4-6 inches of packed ice from in front of the garage. Why you ask, frowning in puzzlement? It was melting and flooding the garage. So I packed up our tools, my husband’s amazing scooter…
Read MoreDystopian and Utopian
In an imperfect world, humans struggle to do the right thing. Is that dystopian? If the world is twisted so it appears idyllic yet is rotted underneath, is that dystopian? A world filled with blood sucking vampires that prey on the innocent, no matter how kind they seem is dystopian. Yet reality is often dystopian…
Read MoreHoops
I made the decision to renew my teaching credentials in Illinois, and I could have made myself crazy trying to figure out what to do. Instead, we went over to the country office of education and I walked in and spoke to a group of people. After they got passed looking at my certificate that…
Read MoreJourney
I have been fortunate enough to take many journies in my life, adventures all of them, but one of my greatest was becoming a teacher. Contrary to popular belief it wasn’t the pay, the summers off, or the short hours that drove me to that particular profession. It was the hard core believe that by…
Read MoreHappy Valentines Day!
I hope everyone had a wonderful, fun filled Valentine’s Day. My husband and I celebrated, bringing a little joy to one another and a few other people as we spread around some flowers and candy. While lots of people use the day in a commercial effort to make others feel alone, bereft, left out or…
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