a cooking pot and twisted tales
Thoughts and Tales…A Lifestyle Blog with a Zing.
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Jacqueline
Perspective is what transforms a photo that would otherwise look ordinary, to an image interesting enough to spare several looks.
Sometimes, it’s just playing around with angles and lighting that does the trick.
For little tips on photography, you can check out my blog, The Art of Beautiful Expressions.
It’s been a calm week with the children at home for a short break and oh boy, am I enjoying the slower pace of things. My photo taking has been as random as ever with no particular focus in mind and I’ve been playing with taking photos in monochrome.
Lady Lee serves us mouthwatering dishes from The Philippines. Do take a peek.
Sheikh Zayed Road
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When Doves Cry Did you know the significance of Doves crying – Mourning Doves? Interesting read and fascinating information. Now I look at birds a bit differently. Find out what your local duck says about you 😉
Atop What’s your perspective?
Odd Ball Some things you come across simply make you smile.
Urban Quirky Explore the streets and underground passages of NYC with the Roaming Urban Gypsy 🙂
Share Your Heart I am so loving Martha’s poem. Beautiful, beautiful. Do check it out.
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This is my quote prompt for this week’s writers quote challenge. I look forward to your contribution. Have fun 🙂
The lamp that you lit to brighten someone’s path will surely shine on you.
To the beautiful stranger
who has become a friend I’ve never met,
thank you for believing in me,
for lifting me up
especially when I’m sagging
in courage and doubt.
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Your support
is a gift of encouragement
that no thank you can rightly measure.
May your selfless acts
light up your path;
May they bring you manifold favours.
Jacqueline at http://www.Acookingpotandtwistedtales.com
Joan at http://www.familyparentingandbeyoned.wordpress.com
Oneta at http://www.onetahayes.com
We are continuing the same format here and that is: there are no rules to follow. Either make up your own sayings or use a quote from a famous author that you find gives you inspiration.
Each Thursday, we will post the prompt and all you have to do is participate!
On your own blog post do a pingback to this post and make sure to “like” or “comment” on everyone else’s post. A pingback is when you embed (or copy) the URL of my weekly prompt into your own blog post.
Make sure to check our weekly prompt to see if your entry is there. You can copy URL of your blog post and include it in the comments section of my original weekly prompt if that works better for you.
Copy the badge above and include it in your own post. Tag your post on your own blog as “The Writer’s Quote Challenge,” so we can find the posts in the reader.
Unfortunately, due to the exigencies of time, Bernadette has taken a break from Writer’s quote so, we are still welcoming co-hosts. Come and join in the fun.
Clean form, curves, and lines. Beautiful structure.
One of the golden rules of writing is the ‘mini-skirt rule.’ Using the mini-skirt rule can certainly make your prose sexier and vibrant; if you get my drift.
The rule indicates that you should ‘keep your prose long enough to cover everything, but short enough to keep it interesting for your readers.’
Don’t have your writing dressed up like a Victorian lady trussed up in a ball gown with girdles and multi-layered petticoats, topped off with a jacket and a bountiful hat of peacock feathers and flowers. Phew! That is literally exhausting to think of.
It’s a fine art to write in a strategic manner and to create a balance between keeping the bare necessities with some flesh to the bones and over spilling the prose with excesses.
For writers of fiction, don’t waste your words and bore your readers to such tears that your story or your book ends up in the dust gathering pile of books that went unread.
When it comes to length, follow this rule in keeping your story short and engrossing and work at making your book ‘unputdownable.’
She is no longer a Spring chicken
he loves her all the same
her beauty ever fresh in his eyes’
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Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
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