Hello! This
is one of my tour stops during my one month book tour for Time to Say Goodbye
by
Parker J. Cole. This virtual book tour is organized by Write Now Literary Book Tours. This tour runs
ISBN-10:
1973224151
ISBN-13:
978-1973224150
Genre: Sweet
Inspirational Romance
Gargi Kapoor
is the only one convinced her brother, Dev, is innocent of the crime he was
convicted of. When he is sent to the hospital with an unexplained paralyzing
disease she finds herself having to lean on the last person she'd ever want to
depend on -- a man who wants her brother to pay for stealing his mother's life
savings.
Leon Reckley
is extremely satisfied to find the man who ripped his mother off suffering from
an unknown disease that leaves him paralyzed and in need of rehabilitation
therapeutic services. He's even happier when he is given the opportunity to be
the therapist that makes him fit enough to return to prison to finish his
sentence. No one will work harder to make sure Dev Kapoor serves every minute
of his prison sentence.
Gargi never
dreamed the man who has utter contempt for her brother would be the man she
slowly begins to trust. Leon never thought he'd be convinced Dev might be
innocent, let alone be drawn to his enemy's little sister. Together, will they
find the truth? Or when Leon's job is over, will it simply be time to say
goodbye?
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FIVE WAY TO FIND INSPIRATION.......The kids are hollering, the TV’s blaring, the cell phone’s ringing, the tablet’s pinging, and the food’s burning on the stove. This isn’t the start of your day – it’s the end of you day. The start of you day pretty much is the same. There’s so much to do and little time to do it. How can you find inspiration to write?
Believe me, there is a way to find
inspiration. But I don’t think it’s about sitting cross legged on the floor and
holding your hands up, searching for inner peace. I think it about WHERE you
find it.
People laugh at me when I tell
them this but most of my inspiration comes…wait for it…when I’m in the
bathroom. Yep. I said it. When I go into the bathroom, I’m able to think
clearer.
My family will attest to this:
growing up, if you wanted to find me, you looked for me in the bathroom. As a
kid, I took my books there to read while making use of the facilities. I read
while I was in the tub taking a bath, too. As an adult, this is still the place
where I can focus.
When I get story ideas or a
character is talking to me, I’ll go in the bathroom, look myself in the mirror
and start a dialogue. You’d think I’d had multiple personalities (which I think
ALL WRITERS do in a way).I act out the scene, throw a toilet tissue roll in a
fit of anger. “David, you scumbag.” Use the shampoo bottle as a microphone.
“Oh, no, no I! I will survive!” Give myself the crazy eye as I contemplate
murder. “Where is the best place to hid the body, Holmes?” Whatever it is, I
find my inspiration in the bathroom.
Do you know why? No one else is in
there but me. If I want to stand on the toilet and tell my country, “We will
not go quietly in the night! We will not vanish without a fight!” (Independence
Day speech, circa 1997) I can do that. I can completely let go and think.
You may be thinking, “Parker, I’m
not feeling you on the bathroom thing.” Fine then! Be snooty! Hahaha!
Seriously, the next time you’re
looking for inspiration, instead of sitting cross legged on the floor getting a
Charley Horse of epic proportions you can’t recover from try these:
1. Your car. The drive to work, school, church, whatever is often a familiar one. How many
1. Your car. The drive to work, school, church, whatever is often a familiar one. How many
times have you been driving to the same place every day
and you look up and you’re already there? Your mind was completely somewhere
else that entire time. While you’re in the car, you can find your inspiration
there.
2. The
basement. Now, I found inspiration in the basement but it was freaked me out
because our basement growing up was pretty scary. We had an old house with lot
of stuff in there and one light. Creepy for me. I was always scared to go down
there. Even now, I don’t go down in my basement and it’s not nearly as creepy
as mine’s was growing up. But the basement maybe your place to wind down.
Perhaps you do the laundry there or you store things. Try it!
3. At
work. Yeah, I know you’re supposed to be working while you’re at work. For some
reason, bosses have this thing about doing your job while you’re on their time.
I mean, what is that! Fascists all of them! But what better place to find
inspiration than work? Your co-workers have stories to tell. Maybe even your
job’s not your dream job – you can daydream a little. I mean, do your work but hey,
I got some of my ideas at work and on my lunch hour or break, I’d write them
down.
4. Grocery
store. These places are a great place to get inspiration. How many times have
you been in the produce area and you’ve seen…something. A kid falling out while
his or her mother is standing over them. A couple smiling while shopping for
Kleenex. The old man knocking you over in the motorized chair. The greeter
smiling at you. You can find a lot of inspiration at a place full of activity
and people. The popcorn you love, the shag carpet for the bathroom, the cookies
and ice cream – this is the hub of social activity for we humans.
5. In bed. As the day closes, you’re lying down ready for sleep. Then all of a sudden, you think about the tadpole you saw when you were ten years old in science class. Your mind, as it gets ready to sleep, starts to bring up old memories (hopefully good ones!) and you drift on. Believe it or not, this is inspiration. You’re just almost asleep when you get it. Hurry up and write down your thoughts or record them on your phone or digital recorder. Unless you’re like me: my hubby snores like a train and my dog snores like a man. The only inspiration I get is wondering how long will I do time if I smother them?
5. In bed. As the day closes, you’re lying down ready for sleep. Then all of a sudden, you think about the tadpole you saw when you were ten years old in science class. Your mind, as it gets ready to sleep, starts to bring up old memories (hopefully good ones!) and you drift on. Believe it or not, this is inspiration. You’re just almost asleep when you get it. Hurry up and write down your thoughts or record them on your phone or digital recorder. Unless you’re like me: my hubby snores like a train and my dog snores like a man. The only inspiration I get is wondering how long will I do time if I smother them?
So I hope this helps you the next time you’re looking for
inspiration. Sometimes, it’s in the darndest places!
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