Once again, it’s time for a look at what’s been going on over at Story Empire and at Sally Cronin’s Smorgasbord blog. As always, great stuff at both places. Read on to learn more!
Another busy week on Story Empire. Don’t believe me? Just check these out and you’ll see what I mean!
MONDAY: For those of you who aren’t already familiar with those little surprise nuggets called Easter Eggs, Craig Boyack starts out the week with a fun and very enlightening post on how writers can use them to amuse their readers. Even if you already understand the concept, you really should check out Easter Eggs HERE.
WEDNESDAY: Harmony Kent’s mid-week offering is a recap and wrap-up of her wonderful series on Points of View. You really want to take a look at this one, trust me. Check out How to Write Point of View, Part 11, Summary and Wrap-up HERE.
FRIDAY: D. L. Finn brings the week to a close with a fantastic post offering inspirational quotes that every writer should read. You’ll love them as much as I did, I’m sure. Check out Writing Quotes to Inspire HERE.
And just when you think it couldn’t get any better over on Sally’s Smorgasbord Blog, along comes another weekly roundup post to prove you wrong!
Check out Sally’s Smorgasbord Magazine Weekly RoundUp HERE.
Happy Reading Everyone!
The Write Stuff 
Wonderful, Marcia. Thank you for sharing. Sending hugs… 🤗
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You’re welcome, Gwen! Always a pleasure to share! And sending hugs back atcha, too! 🤗
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Thank you for including me in your shares today, Marcia! Much appreciated!
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My please, Denise. You guys always write such good stuff, and I have a special fondness for quotations of all sorts. Especially those that inspire us. Thanks for such a great post! 😀
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Happy Sunday, Marcia. Thanks for sharing! 🙂
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Thanks, Mae. Hope yours was a happy Sunday as well, and you’re very welcome for the sharing. I love passing these along! 😀 ❤
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Okay, will do it ASAP
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Thanks very much Marcia again for your kind reblog and in great company with Craig, Harmony and Denise…I hope you had a lovely weekend and a fabulous week ahead.. Keep Rockin’ my friend ♥♥
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You are VERY welcome, Sally. Sometimes I can’t believe how many goodies you can fit in a week over on Smorgasbord! Amazing. (I made Mark watch all the animal vids this week. They were just too cute, and he’s a lover of cats like me, so he got a kick out of them!) As for Rockin’, I’ll keep on if you will! Deal?
😀 ❤
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Glad Mark enjoyed the videos Marcia… they are my number one distraction… I will keep Rockin’ I promise ♥♥
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Thanks for sharing, Marcia! I hope you had a great birthday week.
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You’re welcome, Jill. And thanks for the kind words about my birthday week. It was a quiet one, for the most part, but yesterday and today, Mark and I worked really hard in the yard, planting a new hedge. It was worth the labor, though, if it does as well as I think it will. I’m tired now, but it’s a good kind of tired, you know? Here’s to a good week ahead! 😀
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Thanks for all the support, Marcia.
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Always glad to pass along the good stuff on SE, Craig! This week was another winner! 😀
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I’ve loved all of these posts, Marcia! Hedge planting sounds like the sort of exercise that makes you aware of every muscle at the end of it all! Glad you felt so good when it was done. ❤
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It was a good week on both of these blogs, wasn’t it, Trish? I enjoyed them, too.
And since I just crawled out of bed (and I mean that almost literally) I can attest to hedge planting having a very painful aftermath. I probably won’t be around much today. Not only am I struggling with painful everything, but I stepped into a large bed of fire ants that was hidden beneath the old mulch. They swarmed up over my feet before I knew it and I have twenty or thirty bites on each foot.
For those who don’t know, fire ants are particularly vicious critters. Not content to just bite you like a regular ant, they bend double while hanging on with their mandibles and sting you at the same time. The bites turn into nasty sores that take two or three weeks to go away, and hurt AND itch the entire time. GAH!!!
But hey! We have a new hedge that I hope will grow for us and be beautiful. 😆 More on this and a few other things in a catch-up post later.
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Oh no! That sounds horrific – I do try to love all critters but some of them make it very, very difficult! ❤
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I’ve tried, but fire ants don’t even belong here. They are invasive to the extreme, and since I grew up in a Florida that didn’t have them, I HATE that they are here now. They have spread across a large part of the U.S. and can be fatal when they swarm over small animals. You really have to be careful with little kids, too. They are awful, and we’ve had the worst year for them in our yard I’ve ever experienced. I refuse to have my whole yard saturated in pesticide, but trying to keep track of the beds to spot treat them is almost impossible. 🙄😮😲😤😬😡🤬
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I’m afraid I’d want to eradicate them anyway I could. Look after those bites of yours – in fact, just look after all of you! <3<3
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Thanks, Trish! I have some powder and some spray I can use on individual ant beds, but I have too many cool critters in my yard and garden to spray the entire place wholesale. But it’s tempting after something like yesterday. I don’t think I’ve ever had this many bites at one time. They are FIENDS. Minions of Evil!! But I’m treating the bites (first with hydrocortisone to help ease the itching). And I’m looking after the rest of me by having a very EASY day today. (I was going to go plant a few more things since it’s blessedly cooler out. (Yesterday was 90 degrees!) But now I’m just going to work on some easy stuff. And maybe even write for the first time in several weeks. Yeah, that’d be fun!
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As always, thanks for sharing, Marcia!
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You’re very welcome, Jan. Also as always, I really enjoy passing along these posts, so it’s a pleasure to share. 😀 ❤
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