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  Today we remember all those sailors, soldiers, Airmen, Marines, Coast Guardsmen, and Merchant Marines who gave their lives in the line of duty to secure freedom for us all. Author Elizabeth Kilbride is a former political operative, author, scriptwriter, historian, and journalist. business professional, creative artist, and life coach consultant. Ms. Kilbride holds a Master's in Criminology and a BS in Business Management she stepped out of the loop for a while but is now back with a powerful opinion and voice in the direction of this country and our economy. As a life coach, she is available to counsel individuals to enjoy their dreams and a better life. Ms. Kilbride loves to travel, and photograph her surroundings and is also a gourmet cook who loves to garden and preserve food for the winter months.

I've been asked many times to explain what it means to insert symbolism into a storyline. So here are my two cents on the symbolism in writing. The answer is simple, it's when you take a real-world object and insert it into a storyline making it represent the abstract idea within your mind. In other words, you take your ideas and use objects to communicate the literal meaning of the concept at hand. For example, water symbolizes the rebirth of an idea or a person. Picture this a beautiful woman elegantly dressed walking out of a lake onto the dry sandy beach and sitting down on a downed tree trunk that was washed up on shore. She lays down, tired from swimming to shore, and falls asleep. The symbolism here is not only rebirth (the water) but also how much work a woman does to survive and the struggles she faces and she needs a break from it all in order to rest. The imagery is powerful and the scene takes on a greater meaning because it opens the door to the trauma a woman endu

  Wishing all the Mothers who read this message a very joyous, loving, and happy Mother's Day.  Author Elizabeth Kilbride is a former political operative, author, scriptwriter, historian, and journalist. business professional, creative artist, and life coach consultant. Ms. Kilbride holds a Master's in Criminology and a BS in Business Management she stepped out of the loop for a while but is now back with a powerful opinion and voice in the direction of this country and our economy. As a life coach, she is available to counsel individuals to enjoy their dreams and a better life. Ms. Kilbride loves to travel, and photograph her surroundings and is also a gourmet cook who loves to garden and preserve food for the winter months.

  Your first draft if finished, now walk away for at least a day or two before you begin your editing process. If you can't afford to hire a professional editor to clean up your project, then you'll have to do it yourself. When I first started writing it took me ages to get the first page written because I kept rereading the page and editing, changing, and redefining the sentences. Finally, my writing mentor who was a previously published novelist who I adore finally got fed up with me during one of his biweekly catch-up phone calls to me when he asked how many pages I got written in the previous two weeks. My response was one page, and my reasoning was that the grammar and wording just didn't sound right to me. He snapped at me and gave me the best advice any writer could receive, stop editing and get the story out of your head and onto the paper or laptop in my case. Editing comes later. It's serious writing time. Now hang up the phone and get to writing and you bette

  Write Articles that Rock! An issue comes up in social media or a conversation with a friend and you do a bunch of research and discover the truth as you know it and then what to do with that knowledge. Have you ever wanted to write an article about the subject matter because it stirred emotions in you that you just didn’t know what to do about it? Well, writing an article will help you get your message across to others and potentially gain you, new clients, or a writing gig that pays because the article helped make you stand out in your field. When you learn how to capture the essential aspects of your soul and passions in writing, everything falls together and can make a difference. Because you see when you become powerful within yourself, you then become powerful in educating or convincing others of the essence to which you were born with. The following items can help you understand what I’m talking about. Each area starts with a letter in the word ROCK to help you remember each st