Trisha Jones' Blog

  life has been a little hectic in the Jones household as of late. I have been running the kids to doctor appointments and dentist appointments with the help of my mom inlaw ( I love u mom) the year checkups and getting the papers my kids need for school. But while at the dentist for my kids, we found out my son had 2 little cavities in adult teeth that would not heal on their own. So this past Tuesday one was filled and tomorrow (Friday) the other one gets filled.  So there have been lots of early mornings to make sure everything gets done so my kids can started school on time this August. So I have not been writing as much or as long as I want or need to. Don't you just love how life gets in the way sometimes.   Enough about my busy life, time to tell you what I have been working on lately. I am trying to get one of my stories done in time to send off by the dead line for the writing critique workshop that will be happening in October. This year I am sending in a stor...

There will all way be haters no matter if you are a writer, painter, or doctor. This blog has come about because I was reading a blog about how to basically ignore them. I agree with most points of this blog. ( here is the link http://positivewriter.com/online-haters/ )  You can't let the haters make you second guess yourself about what you are passionate about. The author of the blog made a good point. If you are getting emails from haters that means at least for artists of most types that your audience is growing. That's the goal for me as a writer to get a big audience reading my blog posts, my books heck anything I write.  So I have come to expect hater mail from people who are not brave enough to do what I am doing. I normally ignore the hater mail or send a reply saying I am sorry they found something wrong with my writing, or just dislike my writing and I invite them not to read anything else I write so I do not displease them anymore.  I invite any of you to...