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THE GOLD STANDARD by Lisa J. Lickel: Friday Feature @ Chapter 1 Zone

Friday Feature @ Chapter 1 Zone is: Lisa J. Lickel's THE GOLD STANDARD. Read the first chapter and enter the contest for a free copy of the novel at www.chapter1zone.com

Weekly Feature at Chapter 1 Zone: JOHN DARRIN'S SCREENSHOT

This week's FEATURE novel at Chapter 1 Zone is John Darrin's thriller, SCREENSHOT.

Read the first chapter and enter the contest drawing for a free copy HERE.

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CHAPTER 1 ZONE LAUNCHES

Today, I've launched a new Special Project, CHAPTER 1 ZONE.

The purpose is to provide a forum where authors and readers can connect through the first chapter of the author's novel.

A chapter will be featured for a week. The first feature is James Rollins' ALTER OF EDEN.

Additionally, there will be a weekly drawing for a free novel contest for those who choose to enter.

Read more about the CHAPTER 1 ZONE Special Project HERE.

Or skip straight to the reading and figure it out as you go by clicking HERE.

I hope authors and readers will connect and readers will find authors whose work they love!

Blessings,

Vicki

VICKI HINZE

www.vickihinze.com

www.chapter1zone.com

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Join Me Today on blogtalkradio at 2

I'm doing an interview on blogtalkradio.com today at 2 PM. Listen in HERE.

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Mistakes We Make #11 & Vicki Talks Writing on TV Tonight

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Note: Vicki will be appearing on WSRE (PBS) tonight at 7 PM talking about writing.

Part 1: Mistakes We Make

This is Part 1 of 8.

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Memorial

On October 15th, my beloved mother-in-law, Leona Hinze, was diagnosed with terminal cancer. She has now passed.

She was a courageous woman to the very end, and one who experienced many changes in her ninety-one years. For 68 of those years, she played the organ for her church, St. John’s Lutheran. In my 34 years with her, she often said when she reached playing for a hundred weddings, she was going to retire, but then someone would ask her to play for their wedding and she always did. At the time of her death, she had played 127 weddings and over 300 funerals.

Music was her ministry and her passion, and I, along with many others, were privileged to hear her express her heartfelt passion often and for a long time.

Once, when I thought I was dying, I told her I had been blessed. I’d had a life of being well loved and of loving well. In real life, that’s about the best it gets. A few days before her death, she told me that she’d thought about loving and being loved and she’d been blessed with a wonderful life. Now and forever all of us treasure those words from her and we’re comforted by them.

In lieu of flowers, the family has requested contributions to the Leona Hinze Memorial Fund at St. John’s Lutheran Church. The address is 3316 Hummingbird Lane at Hwy 77, Robstown, Tx 78380. This memorial fund is dedicated to a new organ for the church.

Blessings,

Vicki

A Message from Vicki Hinze

Vicki's website: www.vickihinze.com

WHEN YOUR EMOTIONS ARE IN RIOT. . .

EMOTION EXPLOSION ©2000-2008, Vicki Hinze

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Between a contentious election, the economic crisis and all of the additional challenges triggered by both, emotions are running high.

Doubt it?

Philadephia wins the World Series, and fans and supporters react by rocking cars, doing damage to a news van and setting fires in the street. This is not normal “we’re happy about this” behavior.

This morning, a San Francisco WGO radio talk show host called for the death of Joe the Plumber. A citizen whose only crime was to ask a question that some don’t like the way their candidate responded. This is not normal “we’re upset with our candidate’s answer” or “we wish you would never have asked” behavior.

A young woman “gets in the face” of a seventy-year-old woman because she didn’t like her political button. This behavior was urged by the candidate. “Get in their faces and....” This is not appropriate conduct, or being respectful for anyone’s freedom of choice. It was wrong for the confrontational woman. It was wrong for the candidate.

This morning, we’re waking up to news that one of the candidates’ plans, if implemented, will bankrupt the coal industry and for everyone energy costs will skyrocket. (The candidate’s words, not mine.) That’s got a lot of people erupting in an emotion explosion.

Everywhere we look, people are acting as if they’ve lost it, saying and doing things they would normally never do. It’s a time of hyper-stress. Hyper-emotion.

Characters endure times of hyper-stress and emotion, too. But I would be judicious in having a protagonist act in the unacceptable conduct ways that the individuals referenced above behaved. Why?
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Dealing With Stress

WARNING:  This is a no-edit zone...

In the last week, every email that I’ve gotten from those who read this blog has related to crisis and stress.  Understandable, considering. 

Stress either builds slowly over time or comes on like a gangbuster and body slams you.  Either way, we know that stress kills.   Many try to ignore what has them stressed.  They deny, rationalize, ignore, suppress, or otherwise attempt to hide from the stress factors that are burdening them.

It doesn’t work.  And the impairments that come with it impact you emotionally, spiritually and physically.  There is no calm, peace, serenity and the physical body rebels against all those things.  You see headaches, body aches even nausea and colon challenges.  The entire body can be impacted and tossed into turmoil.

What does work?

Dealing with the stress.

How do you do that?

Get physical. 
     Exercise releases endorphins that counter the chemical imbalance stress brings on.

Get rested.
     Weariness and exhaustion destroys our ability to make calm, rational decisions or to set our course of actions.

Get smart.
     Whether your worries are personal, your private business, your professional business, the nation’s business--get informed.  It’s impossible to make wise choices when you don’t know the details.  When you understand the challenge, then you can focus on the solution. 

Making that shift--from the challenge to the solution is paramount in lowering your stress level.  Why?  Because command of the matter gives you confidence that the decisions you make will be good ones, seated in wisdom.

These are stressful times and they’re going to get worse before they get better.  Every generation has its challenges, and this one is no exception.  That isn’t always a bad thing.  It’s not pleasant, but challenges have value.  If we elect not to ignore but to deal with these challenges, we often discover what we stand for, what we will not stand for.  We discover our strengths, our character.  

We discover ourselves . . .

Blessings,

Vicki

Vicki Hinze
www.vickihinze.com