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In my life there are words that are very powerful for me and evoke a strong reaction (all positive reactions, mind you; I don't want room in my life for things that evoke images of negativity and hate).  These are words of desire, emotion, need, feeling.... words that as soon as I see them or say them, I'm filled with whatever emotion, concept, or idea they bring up for me.

Power
Strength
Choice
Connection
Relationship
Resonate
Intensity
Love
Evoke
Empowerment
Feed
Hunger
Loyalty
Create
Write
Space
Luxury
Desire
Time
Dream
Self
Journey
Energy
Spirit

I guess you could take all these words and sum up Dawn pretty easily - at least that's the way it seems to me.  As a matter of fact, I feel pretty vulnerable putting these out there.  I almost feel naked sharing these words of power.

What do these words do for you?  What is your list of words of power?

June 13, 2006 in Words, Writing Well |

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OMG you’re BLOGGING! Woohoo! I love, love, love your posts, your voice, your design, your photo, your links, your passion for writing...okay, I love it all! Welcome to the Blogosphere! Bravo for sharing and writing from your heart.

Your power words are indeed powerful. What an awesome list! Here are words that hold power for me:

Laughter
Miracles
Magic
Intention
Purpose
Happiness
Heart
Peace
Passion
Soul
Home
Freedom
Bliss
Sanctuary
Service
Inspiration
God
Names of people I love
Blessed

Posted by: Laura Allen | June 14, 2006 at 12:51 PM

I love your words!!! I have to be careful not to poach words from others!!!! Not that there aren't words that I might have missed, but it doesn't seem right to add others' words to my list just because I go, "Oh yeah!!! THAT'S a good one."

There's something about the power of the moment and what those words meant to me when I wrote it. My words of power could be different next week, next month, next year.

So, I'll resist the urge to poach!!!!!

Posted by: Dawn Goldberg | June 14, 2006 at 01:19 PM

I read your words when you first posted them, and haven't yet read Laura's, because I really wanted my words of power to be MINE (not poached). Here they are (and I think you have a good thought about how they might change, so we'll see!):

Love
Sacred
Three
Surrender
Continue
Tikkun
Sanctuary
Silence
Grace
Be
Intensity
Communication
Family
Service
Integrity
Gratitude
Comfort
Knowing
Aha!
Simplify
Moxie :)
Contented
Girlfriends

Thanks for the great topic!

S

Posted by: Stacy Brice | June 19, 2006 at 01:58 AM

Asking for people to help or offering help is psychologically very powerful.

I like to end informal pitching letters and emails with "let's talk" rather than a more formal 'Please contact me if you have any questions' or whatever.

A friend of mine was involved in a major company's website and changed the 'feedback' link to 'have your say' and they got ten times as much feedback as a result of that one simple change.

Posted by: mstibbe | June 28, 2006 at 02:05 AM

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  • Linda Trichter Metcalf: Writing the Mind Alive : The Proprioceptive Method for Finding Your Authentic Voice

    Linda Trichter Metcalf: Writing the Mind Alive : The Proprioceptive Method for Finding Your Authentic Voice
    As a writer, I'm always interested in methods that will help me be an even better writer. Writing the Mind Alive is about a writing process that will help you become more in touch with your emotions, connect with yourself, and even enhance your creativity.

  • Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton: Now, Discover Your Strengths

    Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton: Now, Discover Your Strengths
    I'm fascinated by the authors' contention that people spend too much time focusing on improving their weaknesses when they should be developing and perfecting their strengths. Along with some great research with the Gallup organization, Now, Discover Your Strengths helps you discover your own strengths and suggests ways of managing those strengths (usually in a corporate environment, but this information can apply to life in general as well). My 5 core strengths?

    • Input
    • Maximizer
    • Individualization
    • Strategic
    • Empathy

  • Roy Peter Clark: Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer

    Roy Peter Clark: Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer
    Writing Tools is, as the title states dramatically, essential for any writer, and it's great reading to boot. From using punctuation properly to overuse of adverbs to getting the name of the dog, Writing Tools gives writers at any level something to chew on.

    There are 50 tools, and each is about three to five pages, easy to read and digest. Clark's writing style is friendly and collaborative, and there's a hint of mischief in his writing.

    This book had such an impact on me that I changed the structure of my writing program at Write Well U to incorporate it.

What Dawn Is Reading Today

  • Kim Harrison: The Outlaw Demon Wails (The Hollows, Book 6)

    Kim Harrison: The Outlaw Demon Wails (The Hollows, Book 6)
    I finished Tad Williams's Shadowplay.  It was much better than the first in the series, Shadowmarch. Not that Shadowmarch was awful - obviously, it wasn't or I wouldn't have gone on to read the second in the series.  By the end of Shadowmarch, the character development was in full bloom and the action sequences were rich.  Those good things came to light fully and completely in Shadowplay.

    In retrospect, it felt like Williams was trying to build history and character development in Shadowmarch before he could get to the "real" stuff.  The story was compelling, but not enough to get me to read it very fast.  Shadowplay, on the other hand, had me reading beyond breakfast and lunch, a true mark of a good book.  :)

    Unfortunately for me, though, Williams isn't finished with the third book in the series.  I hope he doesn't take too long, as I have been known to lose interest while waiting for the next book (see Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series - I got so tired of waiting for the next book, and I didn't want to go back and reread the six or seven HUGE novels to get caught back up.  I abandoned the series).

    So now I'm waiting, but I'm putting that time to good use. My three favorite authors have all come out with new books, and because my SOP is to reread the last one before reading the newest one, I have six books lined up!

    I will confess that I've already read Charlaine Harris's From Dead to Worse immediately followed by Dead and Gone.  Back to back, chain reading last Monday, and I can't tell you the last time I did that.

    Now, I'm on to Kim Harrison and The Outlaw Demon Wails. I'm really glad I'm rereading it because I've forgotten so much, and I'd hate to go into White Witch, Black Curse woefully ignorant.

  • Tad Williams: Shadowplay: Volume II of Shadowmarch

    Tad Williams: Shadowplay: Volume II of Shadowmarch

    I said I wouldn't do it again, but I did.  I said I wouldn't read other books and NOT put them on the blog.  It's just that I hadn't technically finished Shadowmarch yet. See, it's a long book, and I was only reading during breakfast and sometimes lunch.

    And then Kathryn MADE me read the Twilight series after she got them for Christmas.  But as soon as I was done reading all four Twilight books, I went right back to Shadowmarch.  I didn't even read my newest Laurell K. Hamilton OR the Kim Harrison book.

    It took me a while to get into Shadowmarch.  I'm sure it had nothing to do with my hiatus. Nothing at all.  The end was the best.  The plot moved long very quickly, and the characters seemed more alive.

    Luckily, since I had Shadowplay on my unread bookshelf, I was able to close Shadowmarch and open Shadowplay.  The second volume picked right up where volume one left off, so that delicious suspense is still there.

    One note: I don't like the cover art for volume two.  I liked Michael Whelan's art much better.  The cover for Shadowplay looks too futuristic, and it's fantasy, not sci-fi.  (I don't have anything against sci-fi.  It's just fantasy books should like fantasy books and vice versa.)

  • Tad Williams: Shadowmarch: Volume I (Shadowmarch Trilogy)

    Tad Williams: Shadowmarch: Volume I (Shadowmarch Trilogy)

    I finished House & Home, and I have mixed reviews.  It was a good light fiction read, but I had some fundamental problems with the plot.

    • I still can't forgive McLeary for her prejudice against short, perky people.  I just can't get past it. 
    • Everything wrapped up perfectly and neatly at the end.  Quick synopsis (caution: spoiler) - Ellen is divorcing her husband because his inventions have depleted their life savings, and their house is mortgaged to the hilt.  Ellen and her two daughters will have to move out of her beloved house, and she can't seem to get past it.  At the beginning of the book, she unsuccessfully tries to burn down her house so that Jordan (she of the perky shortness), buyer of Ellen's house, can't have it.  In the last five pages, the house really does burn down, she discovers she truly does love her husband, and one of her husband's inventions hits it big time, and now they're set for life financially.  Does it always have to wrap up so neatly?  Does it have to turn out perfectly? 

    Okay, I guess that's not too bad.  I was just annoyed at the end with the sitcom-like wrap-up that I wanted to vent.  It wasn't a bad read.

    Now onto the next.  I haven't read pure fantasy in a while (Kim Harrison and Laurell K. Hamilton are urban fantasy).  I'm even starting a brand-new author.  Shudder.  Shadowmarch by Tad Williams.  Even from the first page, I felt like I'd come home.  (And I love the cover pic of the castle. Dawn loves castles.)

  • Kathleen Mccleary: House and Home

    Kathleen Mccleary: House and Home

    House & Home by Kathleen McCleary is the first advanced reading copy from BEA I've started reading.  This is McCleary's first book, and I'm interested for so many reasons:  1) how will the writing be, and 2) it's not just the famous, already-successful authors who get published. 

    I'm only on page two, and I've already been stopped cold.  I don't know if I'll be able to read any further.

    Ellen instantly mistrusted Jordan, quickly assessing her straight blond hair, cut in the usual suburban-mom bob, her small size (she stood barely five foot three, Ellen guessed), and her persistently upbeat tone of voice... Jordan had a heart-shaped face, with a sharp, almost elfin chin, china blue eyes, and a spattering of pale freckles across her nose.  She had probably been a cheerleader, Ellen thought, and a sorority sister.  Ellen, as a petite person herself, felt strongly that small people should avoid perkiness at all costs.

    Harumph.  I'm 5' 1" and very perky.  I take offense.

    (Author's Note:  Despite her obvious prejudice against short, perky people, McCleary has a great website.)

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  • AssistU - Changing Work, Changing Lives
    I'm so thrilled to be Chief Operating Officer of AssistU. I may not be a practicing virtual assistant anymore, but I'm still so passionate about the industry and just the sweet, sweet fact of people working together in collaborative relationships in which the people are key, not the bottom line. Long live AssistU!
  • Out Of Nothing
    All I've ever wanted to do was to write. Well (deep breath), that want has turned out big. It's a book, there's a website, and I must be insane to be this vulnerable.
  • Write Well University
    My first passion has always been words and how we use them. I'm happiest dissecting sentences and seeing how they work (or don't). I've taken that love of words and writing and created Write Well U, a company that offers programs to help people become better writers. What could you do if you wrote well?

Making Dawn Happy - and allowing her to write well

  • Notes from the Universe
    I receive a Note every day, and it's the one thing in my e-mail inbox that I can't wait to read. It's always filled with encouragement, addressed to ME, and sometimes has some pretty powerful words - and they always seem to be words I need to hear.
  • Amazing Juggling Finale - Google Video
    This is the most amazing physical feat I've ever seen, and every time I watch it, I'm transported to another place - a place of calm, peace, wonder at what the world can produce, and just downright glee.
  • Duirwaigh Gallery - The magical place for romantic fantasy art
    This is a beautiful film (and it's finally available for purchase). I find the images, the music, and especially the messages quite peaceful. The book is beautifully made, and it includes every image from the movie. It's lovely, and I feel transported to another world every time I watch it. You can watch it for free at the website, but if you love it, I recommend that you buy it!

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