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...

the rescued hedgehog Wendy had 4 little hoglets. They are just over 2 weeks old and I have been holding them for a little while everyday since they turned 2 weeks old. Today 3 out of the 4 uncurled in my hand so I could see what sex they were they are 2 boys and a girl the 4th one did not want to show me. I will find out later on what it is. With my writing I have been doing some rewrites and adding things here and there that was not added before. So it's slow going but I am getting this round of editing done before sending it off to get more editing done. Then more editing and rewrites before beta reading and proof reading. Sigh this is the life of a writer. Well I'm off to see what my kids are up to Happy reading Happy writing

my kids are on summer break from school until August, so my writing schedule has to shift from  during the day to when my kids are in bed at night or when hubby is off and takes them out somewhere. I think this is something any parent who writes has to go through every year their kid(s) are in school until college. It can be frustrating but I love being around my kids and they are old enough to fix a sandwich for lunch and can entertain themselves, if I have a burst of inspiration or some idea I need to write down. I am planing on spreading as much time as I can with them doing fun stuff, like going to the zoo and the park as many times as we can. I just wanted to pop on real quick because I have not written a blog post in a while I figured it was time. I am off to spread a little more time with my family before they all go to bed. Happy reading Happy writing

We all know to be a good writer you need to write everyday, we need to keep learning from our mistakes, and of course it's a lot of hard work. But something I have not seen in many other writing blogs is writers need to have a good amount of support. Now I am not really talking support financially though that is helpful. I mean moral and sometimes emotional support of friends and family. If you do not have this support it does not mean you will never make it as a writer, but it will be harder because you will not have cheerleader(s) helping you keep trying. I find having the support I have from some friends and some family is a big help to me not only are they my cheerleaders, but they are my sounding boards when I have ideas I am not sure sound right or would work at all. I can ask them about things I don't know a lot about and if they don't know they can point me to the right people to ask. They will get excited with me when I have good things happen, and they encourage...

last weekend and today my hubby and kids have been doing yardwork. last week was trimming up some limbs, today its finishing up the limbs needing to be trimmed and mowing the grass. They do this one because it needs to be done and to give me some time to get some of my stuff done. Which I think is so sweet. I got some house work done, like the dishes from last night that did not get done. I am now going to get things ready so my family can shower and I can get the laundry started. I will get writing done after my family come in from do the yardwork. Well I am off to do the last few things I need to do Happy reading Happy writing

  I thought it was time to answer this question for everyone afaird to ask. What's the question? The question is where do I get all the anger to write the fight scenes, battles. From my every day life I tell the people who have asked me. But it's more then just my life it's events like today that fuel the fights and battles in my stories.   My dad is sick he has cancer, it has spread through out his body and the only thing we can do is try to keep him comfortable. But he is a fighter and has been fighting to be around for his grandkids to remember him. He has been in the hospital for pneumonia at least once that I know of and once he was in the hospital no one told me about. Well he had a nasty cough and was running a fever the last time I talked to him which was Saturday ( April 11th) I called yesterday around noon to see how he was doing and got no answer. I got worried and texted my mom and one of my sisters not long after I tried calling my dad. I did not get an answe...