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I have lost perspective can someone offer hope?

  • Posted on November 9, 2010 at 7:22 pm

I’m a middle aged woman with a severely disabled husband (due to doctor and pharmaceutical negligence). My 21 year old daughter is shooting heroin and abusing and neglecting her 2 year old son. I have fought child protective services for a year and a half to protect my grandson and his case has been closed and re-opened six times. The caseworkers have changed 5 times. I have had to fight lazy, apathetic law enforcement and child protection agencies. The mantra is always “we are underfunded and understaffed”. I have been fighting insurance companies that don’t want to honor our claims and are trying to exhaust us through appeal processes. My husband has been to so many specialists in the last three years and his condition has only declined. The doctors keep putting him on large pharma cocktails and he has been hospitalized three times for ADR (adverse drug reactions) in a one month period. Doctors don’t cure people nowadays and agencies that were initially put in place to care for the sick and helpless just don’t give a damn anymore. Our country is falling apart before our eyes and our government is not responding properly. Everywhere I look I see greed, apathy, hostility, and false pride. I believe in God but I’m not quite sure what I’m supposed to be learning from all of this, if anything.
Thank all of you so much! I was pleasantly surprised at the love you have shown for another. My faith is already being restored by your thoughtfulness. It has brought me to tears. Good tears.

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Cliched or not – what are you views on these following events? Can you also offer me some?

  • Posted on October 23, 2010 at 4:23 pm

There’s a story I’m working on as a gift for my sister (she’s 14) and I’ve been doing a lot of brainstorming for arcs or events that could happen in the tale.Most of my inspiration, especially the setting and scene of the story comes from the beautiful islands in Monkey Island Three (actually most of the story was inspired by the beauty of backdrops).

Well at any rate I want to work on a very special and unique gift for my sister, and since she’s always been a fan of my tales I wanted to write a story just for her. She’s a fan of fantasy, humor, sometimes intense drama (provided it’s not cheesy or cliche) and adventure so it’s a fun project to work on. She also isn’t a fan cliches so I’d like your thoughts on the following events I’ve come up with. I’d like to know if I should keep them, change them or ditch them. If I should ditch them could you help me by offering your own ideas? I want to give her something she’ll really love and enjoy reading.

The story is about a girl who gets her hands on a talisman that can transport her to a beautiful city where adventure is on every corner. Her dull and ordinary life (which she perfectly likes) goes head over heels when she finds herself knee deep in a bunch of events in the other world that puts her in a bunch of situations that is out of her comfort zone.

Some events that happen in the story:
1. The heroine is forced to masquerade as a man (a very convincing act as she has participated in a lot of plays) who courts a rich man’s daughter (a very foolish and naive girl) who has fallen for the heroine’s charms. She’s put in a very uncomfortable situation especially when the crew decide that she can get info they can use to blackmail her father with.
**At the same time her alter ego ends up being rivals with the town’s tomcat who is also after the rich girl. I was thinking this would lead her to be the victim of plenty of pranks, public humilation feats and one day a duel to prove who is more worthy for the girl’s affections.

2. The heroine ends up catching the attention of a young Duke, who is meant to be vying for the affections of an equally young Queen (her mother forces the responsibility upon her while on her deathbed). However neither one have any interest in the other; the Queen is in love with her childhood friend while the Duke is a man of knowledge, intelligence, charm and has a true joie de vivre. He has no interest in love or politics but understand that the importance of this union. He throws all of his promises out the window though when the heroine unintentionally charms him with her sarcasm, her sense of humour and her knack for being with kids. They don’t end up together though; he ends up dying, ironically enough, when he has the courage and confidence to profess his feelings for her as he is so certain nothing can go wrong. She is saddened by his death but not heartbroken.

3. The wealthy man is eager to accumulate more wealth and power so he hears of this new and wonderous drug in the form of chocolate. One small piece is all it takes to drive a person to throes of ecstasy, so it is something much sought after. I was thinking that the chocolate starts causing some problems in town which would culminate eventually into all out anarchy on the streets. It sounds a bit far-fetched though, but that’s because I have writer’s block.

I’d like some more ideas to make the story go and to keep it interesting since my sister mainly likes the action and plot parts of books (it’s what she ever really focuses on and says she can never get enough of).

Does anyone have any more ideas please?
Thanks for the tip mossface. I’m pretty undecided about the third part myself but I’m just stuck.

I need ideas, good or bad. Any ideas of your own you can share?

Thanks so much for your kind words. I really hope my sister loves it!
Thanks heaps Daniel! I was thinking of having a rival set out to destroy the duke and that seems like a nice twist to it.

Hidden: so what would be your suggestions then? What could I do to make it sounds less cliche as you say since I’m looking for ideas :)

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My 3 yrs old daughter is not drinking much. do you offer your kids drink with meal, after meal or both?

  • Posted on January 8, 2010 at 2:32 am

I do both but not sure when she is expected to drink more – during meal (say dinner) or after dinner (meaning drinking less while eating is normal)?
THANKS.

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