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Lately I've been having some serious issues with writer's block. It seems like all the time I have so many ideas just floating around my brain until I sit down to actually write. The second I pick up a pen/pencil, or sit down at the computer my brain just empties. It's beginning to make me insane. I have all these things plotted out and notes written down, but when it comes time to turn them in to something -- *poof*. Sometimes I get lucky and can get a few words down, but then if I look them over I am horrified. I start wondering who on earth would read this? It's worse than the worse thi...
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Hi everyone! I'd like to apologize for the long hiatus. Many things have been going on in my personal life. I won't go in to too much detail, but I've had a lot of health issues and a couple of surgeries in the interim time. I've also lost three close family members in the space of the last couple of years that have thrown me and I have still not really absorbed their loss. Another reason that I have been absent so long is that I've also had a lot of self-doubt as a writer. I have actually gotten some writing done, as well as a bit of my first novel started. After the first bit I was hi...
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Just recently I began submitting my blog to various blog related listing sites, and found I had a small problem. All of them ask me to classify what this blog is about. Uh-oh. For some reason they all seemed to lack the proper category. The neglected to add the "whatever strikes my fancy" category. That led me to sit down and really think about what this blog is about. I've been told it's a "mommy blog" since I have posted parenting relating things, or it's a "contest blog" because I post giveaways. Ok, I can get with that, sort-of. Those are parts of me, but I have a problem with cla...
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Many of you don't know that I have both a sister and a niece with special needs. My sister suffered brain damage as a result of her belirubin climbing to record heights as an infant. Her functioning level was put at that of a six year old, even though she is 30 years old. She is the sweetest person, but has had a very rough life due to this and other unrelated problems. My niece has been diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome, and I have been learning all I can about this very common Autism Spectrum Disorder. As a result, I am a proud supporter of sites and causes that promote information and f...
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Well, the last week or so has been fantastic! I’ve been officially published twice now on Associated Content. They published the article that is posted on this site as well as the poem. This is the first time that anything that I have written has been published by someone other than me. It’s a heady feeling as well as a validation that maybe I do have some talent for this.

For those of you that would like to keep up to date on the items that Associated Content publishes please feel free to go to http://www.associatedcontent.com/user/184797/heather_quarnstrom.html and subscribe. You can also send me an e-mail at Heather@HeatherQuarnstrom.com asking me to subscribe you. This will allow Associated Content to send you an e-mail announcing every time they publish something I have written. (This is also good because I am paid by how many times my pieces are viewed. So please — visit often and share with everyone you know.)

I also received a wonderful e-mail from someone that was looking in to hiring me and happened across my writing as well. She encouraged me to follow my dream and become a writer. She told me that what she read on my site made her want to know what happened. It was especially rewarding because she told me she isn’t really a reader to begin with. I will admit that her e-mail had me on cloud nine for DAYS.

That’s about it for now. I am off to work on a new book that I am writing. I have the hook and a basic plot for it. I am working on fleshing out a basic outline to give me a direction to head in, and will go from there. I’ll post more information here and there.

I hope everyone out there is doing well!
Have a great day!
~ Heather

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Apr

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Whirling in the void of today
Blanketed by the comfort of yesterday
I hide in fear of tomorrow.

The uncertainty rings through
My soul is filled with quiet terror
And I huddle against the chill of my future.

I peek, just a peek
At what might be and startle.

It’s warm, so very warm,
To thaw me to the core of my insecurity.

The love, the fire, the strength,
Of what could be is powerful.

But is the power enough
To pull me from
My self imposed stasis?

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