Happy Thursday, everyone, and welcome to the Daily with Silstein on anchor. Today I am here to discuss the writer's devotional365 inspirational exercises, ideas, tips and motivations on writing. And this is by author Amy Peters. But we're going to start with week 27.
We're going to finish up where we left off last week. I think we left off with editing, but I want to start with the editing because I was a little, I think it was a little confusing when I was reading it and I want to redo that. And then going to Friday Biography, Saturday Books to Read, and Sunday Writing Prompt. I will say that if you hear background noise, my apologies, I do have children in the house and, and I'm hoping that you're not catching that.
It is summer, Summer's out, there's a lot going on. But I still wanted to go ahead and take care of the podcast. So thank you for joining me and welcome to the Daily with Still sky on anchor. So I'm going to start with that and then I'm going to go into the Week 26 writers on writing class or the writing class and the writing prompt.
I will share that with you and I hope you continue listening to the podcast, sharing it and I will have more on it. And on the wrap up, I have announcements. I, I want to talk about a giveaway and a lot of great things. So I hope that you will tune in.
And thank you again for joining me today. I'm going to start with Thursday editing. Now I'm going to start again with the Economist style guide on words now accepted as English use accents only when they make a crucial difference to pronunciation. So basically we're going to go over the different or different accents that you put in words that make it a little different.
So let me go more into that. Okay, gotta turn on the light. That would help. Give me a second.
And I hope everyone's having a happy, happy Thursday. Many languages rely heavily on the use of accents. Says if you are incorporating foreign terms into your work as either a proper name or descriptive word, use the accents as appropriate. You can choose from the following.
Now here it talks about the different accents and that's what I should have cleared up when I was reading it. Acute accent, it's called a etu. And the accent emphasizes in the first letter of the word they have a little mark on the e. Grave accent is called A.
And the accent emphasizes at the end of the word on the a. Then there's a circumflex, which is called a Maitre matri. And it's on the I that it accents the word. And then there's an umulat and the.
And it has two little dots and it's called a mules lee and it's in the middle. And then a, which is just soupcon. And this one doesn't seem to have an accent, it just has. It's almost like a two syllable word soup.
And then of course in Mexico we have the tilde which is called, which is emphasizes in the word manana, which means tomorrow. And it's on the end like a little, little curvy thing at the top. It's called a tilde. However, if a foreign word is now commonly used in the English language, you only need to include the accent if it makes a significant difference in the word's pronunciation.
For example, you should include accents on words like cafe, which is coffee, and cliche at the end of the e, but not with words like chateau or elite. American English is filled with many foreign words, some of which we simply assume have been English all along. Two of my favorites are the Icelandic in origin, geyser and berserk. And then there's raccoon, squash and moose.
All have native American origins. Cookie and stoop are Dutch, barbecue and stevedor are Spanish. So that, that's what I wanted to start with in the beginning of the show. And we'll be right back with part two and moving on to Friday biography.
And welcome back to the daily with Silstein on anger. And now we're going to part two, Friday biography. And this is. I'm going to read you a quote.
I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of. And this is by the shield Hammett, Samuel Dashiell Hammett, from. He was born in 1894 and died in 1961. Didn't see much future for himself in school and after dropping out at the age of 13, he thrust himself into the adult workforce, securing one menial job after another, from railroad laborer to stebador.
But it was a low paying stint as an operative at the Pinkerton national detective agency in San Francisco where Hammond struck gold, mining his experiences there into the hard boiled detective stories that would later gain him fame. Hammond enlisted in the U. S Army in 1918, but after contracting tuberculosis, he was unfit for duty and confined to an army hospital in Tacoma, Washington. He returned to San Francisco, but his help prevented him from going back to Pinkerton.
He decided to give writing a try. By 1922 he had published his first story in the Smart Set, a prominent literary magazine. But he soon realized that he that his hard scrabble style of writing was better suited to pulp magazines. In 1923, the popular magazine Black Mask published his first hard boiled crime story.
Continue to publish in that magazine for five years and at the same time began writing novels and screenplays for Hollywood. By 1930, Hammett had built a strong following for both his novels and his magazine stories. He decided to create a new character, the now famous Sam Spade. So if you have not checked out Samuel Dashiell Hammett, please check out his work.
And this was Friday Biography and we'll be right back with Saturday for Books to Read. And now we're back to the Daily with Silstein on anchor using the book by author Amy Pierce, the writer's devotional365 inspirational exercises, ideas, Tips and Motivations on Writing. And now we're moving on to Saturday Books to Read. We'll start with this the Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson.
I think there are few if any descriptive passages in the English language that are in that are any finer than the opening lines of the Haunting of Hill House by Stephen King. So let's read more about what Amy Peters says that Stephen King says that about Shirley Jackson's book the Haunting of Hill house. Shirley Jackson's 1959 thriller the Haunting of Hill House opens with his chilling lines no live. No live.
Sorry, no live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality. Even larks and cattydids are supposed by some to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills holding darkness within. It stood for 80 years and might stand for 80 more.
Jackson's terrifying ghost story focuses on the Hill house and its four occupants as it is explored by Dr. John Montague, an investigator of the supernatural. One of the occupants is Eleanor, and as the novel progresses, she becomes increasingly affected by the supernatural events occurring in the house. Or does she?
Jackson's writing has an eerie quality that has influenced the masterworks of Stephen King, Neil Gaiman and a host of other thriller writers. The reader is glued to the page with her subtle hand. It is impossible for us to know, impossible for us to know until the very end whether the supernatural has taken hold of Eleanor or if she is descend descending into madness. So this is a book to read.
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson for Books to Read. And this is from the book by author Amy Peters, the writer's devotional365 inspirational exercises, ideas, Tips and motivations on writing. This is from week 27 Saturday books to read. And we'll be back.
And now we move on to Sunday writing prompt. And this is Sylvia from the Daily with Silstein on anchor. Thank you for joining us. Happy Thursday.
Everyone needs help. Sometime can you recount a time when you either needed help or unselfishly lent a hand to someone in need? The story shared on the NBC Nightly News featured making a difference in our daily reminder of just how many people in our world continue to need help and can offer and can offer you a little inspiration as you take on this prompt. You can also look to literature.
A Tale of Two Cities Two Cities by Charles Dickens. It's one of the best loved and classic stories about choosing to help others in it's Sydney Carton, who spends most of the novel indulging in a life of sloth and apathy, chooses to make the ultimate altruistic act to save his friends and to help save friends, you can use this prompt to write about a small act of kindness or a large act of kindness such as Carton's courageous act. And I really like this prompt because I think kindness goes a long way and I think, you know, more people are doing it, but we need to spread more kindness now that we're in this topic, you know, and tying it to the Tale of Two Cities is perfect to discuss this because making a difference is important. Whether you watch it in a news story or in an article you read, there's many, many, many random acts of kindness that you can do for others.
And this is really, really important. And I hope that when you write about it for a writing prompt, you can really get yourself in that moment and try to think of something that made you happy, that brought you joy. I, I am a part of a group and I need to be better about it because lately I've been kind of slacking off because I've been so busy with so many things that we are the the World Blog Fest and they are an organ, a group of people that decided to communicate about positivity in the world, writing about, blogging about stories and sharing them with others and that you can see them on Facebook and different parts of the social media, Twitter and, and the group is really positive. We focus on stories that you would have never heard of because you hear so much negativity in the news, so much of it.
And it's good to focus on, you know, different acts of kindness that people do for one another and, and sharing those and spreading that is so so important. So I hope you'll work on this wonderful writing prompt because everybody needs help sometimes. And, and I love that they mentioned this and this book by Amy Peters, the writer's devotional365 inspirational exercises, ideas, Tips and Motivations on Writing. And we'll be right back.
I'm going to add now week 26 where I'm going to read a paragraph of writing class for writing a true crime story about a recent murder in your state and then try to do a little bit of the writing prompt where weather can affect my life. And we'll be right back. And thank you for joining me here on anchor on the Daily with Silstein. Happy Thursday.
And now we're going to call this part 5 for the Daily Wisil Stein on anchor covering the book by by author Amy Peters, the writer's devotional365 inspirational exercises, ideas, Tips and Motivations on writing. I'm gonna go back to week 26. I had asked everyone to work on a true crime story about a recent murder in your state. And the idea was to do some research on it coming through local and state newspapers, listening to newscasts, take notes and interview if you could, and try to find the thrill of the true crime story.
You know, I kind of read you about Shirley Jackson, a little piece of books recommend, you know, that you recommend. And you know, because she's really, really, really good at writing crime stories. And if you have not read the Haunting of Hill House, please do so. There's also Agatha Christie.
She is, you know, a master writer of crime stories. There's Paula Hawkings, the Girl on the Train. There's Gillian Flynn, of course, there's Stephen King. There's many.
But and also while we're talking about authors that really take you somewhere on the journey, especially when it comes to, you know, stories that they create that their dialogue is so flowing. Please check out author A.J. brown and his book Beautiful Minds. It is a.
Oh, my gosh. I, I don't want to ruin it. I am writing a review without spoiling it. But Please check out A.J.
brown, author of Stitchbound Publications and his book Beautiful Minds. But he's just a great author. Please check out his book because it is very thrilling. So I hope you'll check that out.
But now I'm gonna go to week 26. I wrote a paragraph and I'm going to discuss a little bit not too further into. But basically there was a case of a young girl last year who was kidnapped. Her name was Hania Aguilar.
And basically what was found out about this case. Which makes it more disturbing that when she got kidnapped, if DNA reports had acted on this suspect that that ended and ended up killing Hania, this girl may still be alive today. And basically the man charged, it was, his name was. He's a 34 year old man who was charged and he's in police custody and he was the one charged in her murder.
And this young woman would have still been alive today had it not been for. According to WRAL.com which is the news, the local news here in, in North Carolina, two deputies failed to see that and they were suspended without pay because they basically the. The. Because there was a rape case that is now linked to this man charged in the kidnapping and killing of 13 year old Hania Aguilar.
So there was a lot and there's a lot to be discussed and done and it's just sad and I want to bring more pain to, to their, to her family, which is. You hear about these cases every day. You never think you're, you know, there's so many. But I wanted to focus on the story of, of the, the, you know, the, of this writing class assignment which is very hard to do because you have to, you know, you got to look at cases, different ones and different, you know, for some it, you know, it hits home and it's still very, very, very, very disturbing.
So I wanted to just write a paragraph of what I wrote. And this, this happens in the county of Robeson county and which is. This is where the little girl, young woman, disappeared and she was only 13 years old, which makes it even sadder. But I wrote this about in a fictional way.
I wrote this. Detective Scalia sat very, very quietly as she went over and over the details of the heinous crime that had been committed. It didn't get any easier. But the fact remains that a lot was missed in this case and nothing was done about it.
She tried to keep it together. Even though the haunting of the mother's cries, the father's cries and the young woman's families echoed through her ears. She could hear it. She could see it in her eyes every time she closed them.
She couldn't get that young woman's face out of her mind. Even after getting the call, which she hoped would be hopeful, even after hearing of so many cases where this happens, it did not make things easier. Scalia struggled this morning to get up to get it together, but she had to, she had to go on and try to be strong for the future cases that would come and hopefully There would be a different outcome. And I wrote it.
I still need a lot of work, but it was just something that I wanted to write to kind of share with you guys today for writing class. So I, I hope you know it still needs a lot of work and I'll probably have a better one next time. But I wanted to just kind of share it for the writing class assignment. So we'll be right back with, with the writing prompt, which is the next assignment that I had given for week 26.
And hopefully you'll also like that example again. Thank you. And this is all copyright 2019 by author Sylvia Stein, which is me. And it was a paragraph into the writing class write a true crime story about a recent murder in your state.
I did a paragraph going back to that horrible crime against Hania Aguilar which occurred. And prayers for all the people and victims that have to go through this. And anyone in the world that's going through something so difficult, it never gets easier. Not that I would know.
I can't even imagine. But I wanted to just work on a paragraph to kind of share for the true crime story about a recent murder in my state. And this was one that occurred last year. And I was just bringing it to light for the purpose of this assignment.
And we'll be right back for the writing prompt. And we're back. And now I'm going to share a writing prompt where weather can affect my life. And I also wrote a very brief paragraph about it.
It was. The assignment was to write about weather and its consequences. That can make for a riveting story. I shared the example of the novel and I read an excerpt of the book by the Perfect Storm, a true story of Men against the Sea by Sebastian Junger.
And I went into into it and shared a brief excerpt. I also. There's also a movie about that. And in the writing class I also shared a excerpt of the best selling author Julie Garwood and her book Card Breaker.
So I didn't want to forget to mention that. But now I'm going to read you a paragraph and then I'll tell you what that was about. It was a day like any other in 1988. I remember being excited about being downtown with my family in downtown Bronzeville.
It was pretty exciting that day. Except my mother did say that the rain was particularly looking not very good that morning. Or the weather. The rain came like cats and dogs were pouring all over us.
I know you hear that term a lot, but it was so heavy, the rain and the, and the winds were Very chilling. As you got closer to any area in the downtown area, it didn't take long. Long. It was in a couple of minutes that you saw inches of rain.
And although it was only two, that was enough to cause a lot of damage. I remember being a bit nervous, and I saw the crowds of people as they gathered and they tried to run away from the storm. The storm winds chilled the people or the citizens of Brownsville, Texas, but none more so than a little corner store where many people were used to going. All of a sudden, it sounded like an explosion had come.
Little did we know that in a few seconds, the roof of a very old store had collapsed. I was in disarray. I couldn't understand. It was so chilling to hear the roaring and the cries echoing behind me.
My mother called out to me and my sister because we were the ones with her that day. I ran into my old school friend who was crying as her mother held her. Little did we know the damage this storm had caused, but the rain acted like a savage beast, plastering all over the town. And that was my interpretation of the weather.
I know it needs work, a lot of editing, but this was describing the feeling that I had when a building collapsed in Bronzeville, Texas. It was called Atienda Amigo. And basically on 2016 was the 28th anniversary of this horrific accident. And basically I had a friend who was in the store not that long before her mother and her had left it.
And she lost a friend that was in there. And my family, my grandfather lost relatives that had been in that store. A niece and her mother. We lost two relatives.
And it was like a feeling like no other. We were. It. It was on July 7th.
So this July 7th, it was in 2016. It was 28 years. So I think it is coming down to the 31st, 30, 31 years. It was 30 years last July.
And this July will be 31 years of this horrific, horrific storm. It just collapsed. The rain was. The flooding in Bronzeville, Texas.
Where I'm from, where I grew up is very. It causes a lot of damage anytime it heavily rains, but especially this day. The store, who had been standing there for so long, was at the corner of Elizabeth on 13th Street. It was a rainstorm like no other.
Hello, everyone, this is Sylvia from the Daily with Silstein on anger. My apologies. Anytime the phone ring, it rings. It does cut off my.
My recording. So my apologies. As I was saying, the weather was very horrific on that day. And I can remember it because it happened and it was something like no other I was, I remember 1988, I believe I was a junior in high school and I remember it like it was yesterday.
It was a very horrific scene and it was not. It was, it was like nothing like no other. And, and I don't think anyone ever recovers from that. Of course, when I did the story, I did fictionalize it, you know, somewhat in the sense that, you know, I described us being right near the scene.
We were around the scene, but we weren't in the scene. But I took it from these stories that I heard. But we were in the downtown area and it was very rainy and it was just so overwhelming. And it's just very sad that this happened.
But I wanted to share the writing prompt and, and what, you know, of a weather of a day. The weather did affect me and there's been many more, but that's the one I can really recall because it did affect like no other. And we had never had anything like that happen in Bronzeville, Texas. And that rain caused a lot of it.
And it was just three days of firefighters and rescue people trying to. Trying to find people who had perished under the rubble. And basically the store collapsed. 14 people died, 47 others were injured.
There was a lot of tragedy in this. And if you ever want to learn more about it, look up on Latienda, which is a store amigo, and it collapsed in 1988. And it'll be now going on 31 years. It was 30 years last July.
It happened on July 7th. So. And I have friends that have were literally in the store minutes before it collapsed. So it's something very, very horrific.
I used it as a writing prompt. So today was pretty heavy writing about the crime story and also the writing prompt for this example for the writer's devotional 365 inspirational exercise ideas, Tips and Motivations on Writing by author Amy Peters. And we'll be right back with a wrap up. Something more light please.
And we'll be back. And now it's time for the wrap up with the Daily with Sil Stein on anchor. I was so happy that we could go over the writer's devotional365 inspirational exercises, ideas, Tips and Motivations on Writing by by author Amy Peters. Covering the complete week 27 and then going back and covering week 26.
Even though it was very hard to describe because anytime you go into these type of cases, even though I am a writer, it's. And it's therapeutic to write about it, but it's also emotional and it's very. It got very emotional there with these cases are recalling them and having to hear about them. So I hope that it did help with the writing prompt and the writing class.
And I hope that if you have not checked out this book, you will because it is meant to hone your writing skills and it's divided into weeks and it's just so exciting for everyone to get to know a lot about this book. So I hope you will do that and take a listen to it. But. But I'm really happy that I was able to do the podcast today.
I'm so. I do apologize. Sorry. I'm so sorry about the background noise.
If you heard any of that. My children are home, so I hope that that you all will still be able to listen to the podcast in peace. I did find my living room area a little bit more quiet, so I hope it didn't echo too much. And if you did have to hear that background noise, my apologies.
But now moving on, I wanted to say Happy Thursday, everyone. I wanted to tell you all about a giveaway that I'm doing. The giveaway is basically I'm going to put all the details today. I shared that on Instagram.
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