Hello, My Friends, I have been writing greeting card verses for many years and I have decided to assemble an e-book of assorted verses that my publisher decided not to use. While I am busy working on this magnificent collection of some of my favorite friendship, love, and new love prospect verses, I have decided to give you a sampling. There are many hobbyists that make their own greeting cards, and are involved in scrapbooking, and they can use these verses for their own personal cards or scrapbook pages.

I give my permission for YOU to use these, as long as you are not putting them into a mass produced card that will be sold commercially. IF you make cards and sell them in limited quantities, such as; at a church bazaar or at an art festival, that’s fine, in fact, IF you make 5 to 10 of the same card with one of my verses, perhaps you can be a “Dear” and send me one as a gift. You are likely to receive a gift in exchange.

I have a fabulous website and Online SuperStore which you can visit, and the link will be found below, and that is also a way to contact me to obtain a mailing address, should you wish to mail me a copy of the card. By the way, YOU receive a 15% discount there, should you wish to buy anything, and your coupon code is: SaveNow

Friendship Verse:

Cover:
The dictionary defines “friend” as; one who is attached
to another by Affection or esteem.
Well, let me tell you something;
I have a great deal of affection and esteem for you,
not to mention; Admiration, appreciation, fondness,
faithfulness, respect, caring, and gratitude.

Inside:
If everyone in the world, was blessed enough
to have just one great friend, Such as you…
the world would be a much better place!

                                                                    
Friendship Verse:

Cover:
A good, close friend is just about the most important
Thing in this entire world.
I am so thankful that I have a friend in you.
I love who you are and what you’re about.
In fact, I can’t remember enjoying anyone else’s
Company this much!

Inside:
I also like myself more, when I am with you.
You really help bring out the best in me.
Thank You for that, and thank you for being
such an awesome friend.

I also have a daily blog with happy and positive thoughts, words of wisdom, and other tidbits. You are invited to visit and please leave a comment. Bloggers always love comments! The link is: http://fathertimespeaks.blogspot.com/
and I sincerely hope you’ll stop by!

Friendship Verse:

Cover:
You and I sure do have great times together…
In fact, they are some of the greatest
Times of my life!
Whether we’re just walking and talking
Or doing something really exciting…
I am happy to be with you, and to be your friend.
You’re one of the world’s greatest people!
I wonder if other people who know you,
are aware of that fact.
If they do, they’re lucky, just like me!

Inside:
Keep up the great way that you brighten the
Lives of people around you, and keep smiling!
And most of all…Thanks for being such a Great Friend!

Quotes:

“The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.”
               -Francis Bacon

“The support of one’s personality is friends. A part of one’s self and a real foundation and existence.”
               -Katharine Butler Hathaway

“It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.”
                -Epicurus

“Good friendships are fragile things and require as much care as any other fragile and precious thing.”
                  -Randolph Bourne

“Actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.”
                   -George Washington

If you sign-up for my FREE e-newsletter, then YOU will be able to be one of the first to know when my e-book of greeting card verses will be available, and I suppose you will have to be offered a special discounted introductory price!

My website is very women friendly and also offers an opportunity for YOU to earn extra money by ordering a batch of Pepper Spray key chains that you can resell to friends, relatives, and neighbors for a profit! You can also buy a course that will teach you how to read tarot cards, and it also contains everything that you need, and in a few short weeks YOU can EARN EXTRA CASH by doing tarot card readings for people in your town! Imagine the possibilities? Most people would love to have a reading done, and they will pay you for it! You can actually have your own little money-making business, and you will get good word-of-mouth advertising! Why work a part time job for $6 or $7 an hour, when others will give you $25 to $50 for a reading that takes you just 20 to 30 minutes!?

My fabulous website is www.FatherTimePublishing.com and I hope you will stop by soon! Thank You and Many Blessings! Don’t forget the 15% discount: SaveNow

(Please note: The discount does not apply to the bulk items for resale, as they are already heavily discounted!)

 I leave you with one more great friendship quote:

“Stay” is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary.”

     -Louisa May Alcott

Many Blessings To All…

She Says, “I Need Some Verses To Put In My Own Homemade Greeting Cards!” Father Time Says, “I Have Them For You!”

Well, after many years of being a published writer, and after several years of also writing greeting card verses; mostly love, friendship, romance, and encouragement; I have decided to assemble a great e-book of verses that anyone can use (who purchases the e-book) inside their own homemade cards! The e-book contains over 30 great quotes from famous people, ideal for putting inside your cards, and over 30 great verses from me, which are even better, as your family and friends have probably not seen or heard my verses, unless they spend hours and hours reading greeting cards in the aisles of stores!

Scrapbooking and Cardmaking have become extremely popular in recent years and they are both wonderful activities and whether you do just one or the other as a hobby or even both as a combined project, you are making memories and you are brightening other people’s lives, and I say “Good For You!” These are important things to do for others and you are also spreading good Karma and there isn’t much in life that is more important than that!

Albert Schweitzer once said: “Even if it’s a little thing, do something for those who have need of help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.”

I have a wonderful website where I sell thousands of great items from gifts, toys, jewelry and tarot card decks, to clocks, watches, telescopes, wind chimes and garden decorations. There are so many items that I have had friends and colleagues say that there is too much there! I even have some FREE recipes, FREE quotes from famous people, FREE verses that you can use, and Good Luck Charms, necklaces, and many other cool items!

IF you promise to tell at least one friend (hopefully a few friends) I will give you and them, a 15% discount with the coupon code: SaveNow

The link directly to the wonderful new e-Book of Greeting Card Verses that will be e-mailed to you as a Microsoft Word attachment is:

http://www.fathertimepublishing.com/product_info.php?products_id=33658542

and I hope you will please go there and buy it soon!

There is nothing like a great greeting card handed to a person, sent to them in the mail, or left somewhere as a surprise where they will find it! There are no greeting cards better than the ones that YOU make with love and your own creativity! The cards that are handmade are especially nice and they really touch the heart! A good card can really lift someone’s spirits and “make” their whole day!

Sometimes “cardmaking enthusiasts” do not know what to write in these cards or they are at a loss for words, and that’s where I come in! IF this e-Book is as successful as I anticipate that it will be (Thanks, in part, to YOUR word-of-mouth advertising—and NOT violating copyright laws by giving it to others freely) then I may just have other volumes in the future with even more verses that you can use! You are able to use the verses by putting them inside cards that you make for others, and I am not opposed to folks selling limited quantities of the cards that they make, even with my verses, as long as it isn’t a mass-produced for big profits thing.

IF you do make several of one card, maybe you can be a sweetie and send me one copy as a gift! Inside the e-book is my e-mail address which you can use to contact me and get a mailing address where to send any cards. You just might receive a gift from me in return! Plus: Remember…Good Karma!

So, here’s a card verse for you to use right away…

When I first saw you, I never dreamed that we would one day be in love.

When I first spoke to you, I never knew how amazingly awesome you would be.

When I first felt the warmth of your touch, I never imagined that it would one day transport me to a place that transcends space and time.

When I first experienced intimacy with you, I never, ever dreamed or imagined that you would cause me to feel the Earth move.

Not only that, you have moved ME, and you have touched my soul!

I understand that some novelists use outlines and some just go with the flow, and the beauty of novel writing is that there is no right or wrong way how to write a novel. But I am curious about three things for those of you that have written a novel before. How did you make sure or estimate that what you planned to write would turn into a full-length novel? I have already outlined my story I have 20-25 basic scene cards, I plan to write something in between the scenes that I have already planned, but I fear that I will write the whole story and only come up with 10,000 words or so. And how do you write/divide the book into chapters? When I think of my story I don’t really think in chapters. And what is your method on how to create characters that your readers will love and/or care about and are believable?

Thanks in advance!
- Carrie Sutherland

I’m having writers block, and I need soem good ways to get rid of it so I can get writing again and get rid of my stress.

I was thinking maybe making pieces of paper with things on them like the form of writing (such as diary, chapter/in person, or letters) setting/location, and events. Then put the cards on a table and spread them all around by moving them around with my hands. Which ever cards touch maybe coudl give me an idea?

Is that ^^^^ a good idea? It not can I get a better one?
Thanks!

Liebe GruBe und Kusse,
Kendra
- Kendra

How to write a novel the easy way? Can it be done?

Absolutely. Learning how to write a novel doesn’t have to be complicated. When you follow a step by step process, you can take the complexity of how to write a novel and “dumb it down” to such a simple system that it becomes almost like paint by numbers.

Easy novel writing is a series of connections. You know, like “the foot bone’s connected to the ankle bone.”

In the case of novel writing, your connections look like this (feel free to add the “Dry Bones” tune to this list as you read it if you know it):

IDEA is connected to

QUESTIONS, which are connected to

CONFLICT, which is connected to

STORY QUESTION, which is connected to

THEME, which is connected to

PLOT, which is connected to

CHARACTERS, which are connected to

MOTIVATION, which is connected to

CHARACTER SKETCHES, which are connected to

SETTINGS, which are connected to

SETTING SKETCHES, which are connected to

RESEARCH LISTS, which are connected to

RESEARCH, which are connected to

SCENE CARDS, which are connected to

SCENE CARD FILE, which is connected to

PACING, which is connected to

QUERY, which is connected to

SYNOPSIS, which is connected to

FIRST PAGES, which are connected to

DRAFT, which is connected to

REWRITE, which is connected to

SUBMISSION, which is connected to

SALE!

Whew! Seem like a lot. Well, it is a lot. But that doesn’t mean it’s complicated.

Let’s break it down:

1. IDEA. Your novel idea is the basic concept. For example, the idea for my novel, Alternate Beauty, was that an obese woman finds herself in an alternate universe where fat is beautiful. This is kind of intriguing, but it’s certainly not enough for a novel. So you have to start asking

2. QUESTIONS. To flesh out an idea, you need to start asking questions. Your seed question needs to be “What if”. For instance, what if the woman who was in the alternate universe began losing weight. You throw out a bunch of answers to the what if question, and then you pick one that tickles your fancy and ask another what if question. It goes like this: Once the woman begins losing weight, she ends up as unhappy in the new universe as she was in the old. So what if she got fed up with being unhappy. Etc. etc.

As you work through what if questions, you throw in “Why” questions. Why does the woman lose weight? Why is she unhappy?

Keep stringing these questions together and you’ll begin to find your

3. CONFLICT. Conflict comes from a character wanting to get something and being blocked in some way from getting what he or she wants. A good novel makes characters’ lives miserable before everything turns out in the end (either good or bad). You weave your questions together in a way that reveals your character’s desires and what obstacles preventing him or her from achieving those desires. It’s the conflict that keeps your reader guessing when you keep creating

4. STORY QUESTIONS. Story questions are the secrets you keep from the reader so the reader has questions in his or her mind. You layer the conflict, one upon the other, so the reader has to keep reading to satisfy his or her curiosity. All the story questions, when answered at the end of the novel reflect the

5. THEME. The theme is the central message of the novel-the statement you want to make about the human condition. The theme is the unifying element of everything you put in your

6. PLOT. Plot is the story-the culmination of conflict and story question. It’s not just what happens in the novel but why what happens is compelling. Plot is compelling when it’s driven by life-like

7. CHARACTERS. Characters are the people in your story. Think of them as the train that carries your plot along. Characters only carry along a plot in a compelling way when they have clear

8. MOTIVATION. Motivation is the psychological and experiential explanation for why your characters do what they do. Once you have a central motivation for each main character, you can easily create

9. CHARACTER SKETCHES. Character sketches are your character’s bios. These include everything from physical characteristics to history to personality to favorite color. Great characters are rich with detail and they live in equally rich

10. SETTINGS. Settings are the place of your novel. You can create settings that your reader can easily visualize when you create

11. SETTING SKETCHES. Setting sketches are the who, what, where, why, and how of your settings. They consist of diagrams, pictures, and other specific information to make settings unique and interesting. You get this information and every other fact you need to support the story of your novel from your

12. RESEARCH. Research will answer all the detail questions, and if you do it right you’ll have a good balance of enough information and not too much to bog down the story. Once you’ve done your research you can create

13. SCENE CARDS. Scene cards are index cards that contain outlines of every scene in your novel. Scene is a specific chunk of the story, one that is its own closed loop. Every good scene has a purpose and it leads to the next good scene. This is how you create a

14. SCENE CARD FILE. The scene card file is where you put all your scene cards. Since each scene has its own card, you can easily rearrange scenes as needed to create perfect

15. PACING. Pacing is the rhythm of the novel. You take the reader for a thrill-ride, and then you slow things down. Speed up, slow down. The story questions you created when you plotted is what helps create the speed flow. When you have your novel paced well in the scene cards you’re ready to write a

16. QUERY. The query is the one to two page letter needed to submit to an agent or editor. When you write it before you draft your book, it embeds your theme and central plot in your mind. It also helps you write the

17. SYNOPSIS. A synopsis is a narrative outline of the novel, told in a compelling way but placing all essential information in a concise package of only 10 to 30 pages or so. If you can put your story in this space, you’ll find it incredibly easy to then take the skeleton of the story, fill it in with the meat of your scene cards and write a magnificent first

18. DRAFT. The draft of your story is the natural result of all the connections that have come before. It’s simply sitting at the computer and using all the elements you’ve created to spill the story onto the page. Once it’s there, you can

19. REWRITE to polish the words to pristine perfection. Then you’re ready for

20. SUBMISSION. Submission is easy when you’ve done all the other work. You already have a query, synopsis, and polished manuscript. So you just need to hit Writer’s Market and find a list of agents or editors to whom to send your query. When the agent or editor asks for more, you’ll send the synopsis and eventually the draft, and one day you’ll get the call telling you that you’ve made a

21. SALE. This is when you scream and jump around and go out and buy your favorite meal and then be annoyingly perky for weeks on end.

And just like that, you’ve created a novel readers will love. All because you followed a paint-by-numbers system for how to write a novel.


- Andrea Rains Waggener