#50actsofkindness

This first appeared on my group blog : The Girlfriends Book Club A long time ago I was a full time screenwriter. If you look up screenwriter on Wikipedia there should be a photo of a pile of dog do next to a burning flame. Because most of the time, you feel one of three ways: 1) On fire with ideas 2) Flaming out in shame or 3) Like that heaping mound your dog just left in the backyard. There…

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From a guest blog from my Blog Tour. To see the whole post go to: http://badassbloggettes.blogspot.com/search?q=fifty+acts+of+kindness Guest Post  — When Nudism Pops Up by Ellyn Oaksmith Comedy is about funny moments that are both weird and relatable. The funniest moments in a book or movie are awkward situations that you’ve almost been in but taken a hundred times further. The main character in…

How Writing 50 Acts of Kindness Changed Everything

Today’s act of kindness: To spread the word about a type of therapy called DBT, dialectical based treatment. This is a highly effective treatment for children who are depressed, abusing drugs and/or alcohol and a variety of other self-harming behavior. DBT programs are located all over the United States and serve children and families from every economic and social background.

  So I wrote a…

How Writing Fifty Acts of Kindness Changed Everything

Today’s act of kindness: To spread the word about a type of therapy called DBT, dialectical based treatment. This is a highly effective treatment for children who are depressed, abusing drugs and/or alcohol and a variety of other self-harming behavior. DBT programs are located all over the United States and serve children and families from every economic and social background.

So I wrote a…

 After a wildly fun and other-worldly trip to Manhattan with my youngest daughter I finally checked my e-mail and up popped a notice from my publisher saying they were delaying the publication date for a month. There were some great reasons and after the initial shock, feeling like a girl who’s been dropped off without a kiss — “But I thought we were having such a good time.” I realized that this…

 Okay so calling myself a girl is pretty funny because I have teenagers who make me feel about 150 when they crawl downstairs with their dewy skin and lithe figures complaining about how horrid they look. But gimme a break, I have a new book that’s getting a  lot of cool buzz. Writers I market and group blog with are even jumping up and down with excitement on this one. Apparently no one told…

This past week, in the middle of facing down the deadline that didn’t seem like such a big deal — final edits, fix some comments from an editor, wham bam, good-bye, I found myself in the middle of a family crisis. Also, since I’d made the amateur mistake of mixing verb tenses (sometimes in the same sentence *blush*) it was a much more detailed and painstaking vetting.

What happened was a…