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And welcome to the Daily with Sillstein here on anchor. I am so pleased today to be able to go back to the writer's devotional, 365 inspirational exercises, ideas, tips, and motivations on writing for today's show. And we're going to open it up with, like I said, Monday's writers on writing, Tuesday motivation, Wednesday writing class. We're going to do those three segments and of course the wrap up, which I usually do.

But I want to start with the announcements and book authors' corner, book recommendations, and you know, a little recap of the shows we've done so far. So thank you for tuning in. Happy Monday, everyone. This is Sillstein from the Daily with Sillstein.

I'm so happy to be with you guys today as every day. And I'm so glad we got to do a few shows last week. And I'm really pleased with how the Daily is coming up again, being the Daily with Sillstein, not like it was before with so many interruptions and hyatheses and things that were happening. Of course, life happens, you know, I have family, my children.

They always come first and you have to take care of those things first. But I really, really am pleased to be back. And I'm so happy that I was able to have such great, wonderful people living their own insight about writing. I do appreciate them all.

I had author Alexander Ray leave a comment about writing. I had the great Sean Michael, Sean Stevens, who also has a podcast, which I've shared on my author page. He's a poet and he's a writer, he's a fellow coffee house writer. And you know, of course, Tree Shine Hinton, who is an SNHU alumni graduate, and she's also a great wonderful writer and editor for Coffee House Writers, an own writer in her own right.

And she left some great advice and tips for the show I hope to have her on to chat a little more. And the same thing for author Alexander Ray, who has visited us before to talk about his book, which is called the Captivated, sorry, let me see here, the Captivated Audience hoaxes solutions in the biblical earth. You can find that on Amazon and I believe on Barnes and Noble New Press. But for sure, I know it is available on Amazon, so be sure to check it out.

But I was also very pleased to have the amazing and talented Caitlin Haynes, who is, like I said, she's my boss at Coffee House Writers. She's one of the sheep operating officers along with the amazing Jessica or Jess Knappel and all the wonderful Alexander Palliate and all the wonderful writers over there at Coffee House Writers. And also Caitlin has a website and a blog and her website, you know, she reviews books. It's called Functionally Fiction.

And she was able to come on and share her insight and her about the way she writes and works on her drafts and share a lot of great insight for us. And I was really pleased to have her come talk to the show and so shout out to all of them. And also the awesome best-selling Amazon, best-selling author Shacity Gaines, who wrote Rekim of the Dead. If you have not checked out her book, please do.

And it is available through Amazon through Kindle Edition. And she was a number one best-seller. Check out her great book. Had a conversation with her and author interview and she also shared her insight about how she writes.

And she shared one of her poems. And it's a great, great book of poetry and all the things that poured out of her, you know, especially when grief, you lose someone you love, you know, it's really, really hard. Everyone deals with it in different ways. And we're so happy to have had Shacity share that with us a candid interview on the book and you know, where she's going from here and shout out to her as well.

So it was a very interesting week. And of course, I also had Laurie Fontenas share her own insight of the advice she gives on writing, but I would like to have her on. So I'll share that insight with you guys on the show probably tomorrow. But I'm going to try to have her come on and share her insight.

She's a great author. She has her solo books out, which is Ploset's a Phantom and the Closet. And I'm going to have her come and talk to you guys soon as she has a chance. So shout out to author Laurie Fontenas.

And like for today, the book I recommend for you guys is I'm going to recommend Rekim of the Dead by Shacity Games because it is a book that's out now. It is a book of poetry and it's a beautiful book. And it's like I said, it's very relatable for when you're dealing with tough losses and people that you love. And it's also a nice tribute to them and those that you love.

So hopefully you would check out the amazing book by best-selling Amazon author Shacity Games. And that's the book I recommend for today. And now we're going to move on to the book by author Amy Peters, the writer's devotional 365 inspiration or exercises, ideas, tips, and motivation on writing. Now, as I've spoken about this book before, and those of you that have listened to the show before, this book, she wrote, it says on the book on the back of it, is to hone your writing skills.

It says, whether you're writing fiction or nonfiction, composing screenplays or poetry, or simply trying to keep a more compelling journal or blog, this invaluable volume will get your creative juices blown. Here are 365 inspiring recommendations, quotations by authors from the distant past as well as the recent best-sellers list, exercises and more intended to help you develop your own singular voice, gain confidence, and keep writing. Each day of the week focuses on a different aspect of the writing life, from the business of writing to the, says, business of writing to the nuts and bolts of editing to tips and tricks for getting past writer's block. Read on, it says, read on at the start of your work day.

You can read on at the start of your work day as you whirlwind when you're done, unwind when you're done. Sorry. A little off today, reading. My glasses were a little fogged up, so my apologies.

Read an entry at the start of your work day as you unwind when you're done, or wherever you need, whenever you need motivation, featuring a year's worth of daily readings, the writer's devotional will inspire you to move forward with your goals. The reason I went over all of that is because some of you have not, maybe have not listened to all the segments of the writer's devotional that I've shared. Please go back and share those episodes. They are in the podcast here on The Daily Whistlestein on Anchor.

You'll find that I divide them up in different days, and I go over them, and then I try to get feedback from you guys, and hopefully I'll hear soon that you can leave a message, especially because we're also, we have also dealt with how to write our own draft, and I'm still taking requests for that, if you want to call in about that. This also helps with that. But I also wanted to read this part that Amy Peters wrote in her acknowledgments. She says, this book would not have been possible without the help of many people.

I'd like to thank Pamela Lifflander for her invaluable assistance in helping to make this book a reality. I would also like to thank the good folks at Sterling, Carlo DeVito for fostering such a great project, and Iris, Blossie, and Joe Rhettigan for picking up the ball, and really running with it. We make a great team. Lastly, I would like to acknowledge my husband, Peter, and two sons, Max, and Chet, for their boundless patience and support.

So I wanted to read that book, her acknowledgments, because I think this is a great book, and I hope one day I get to hear from Amy Peters, if she's not too busy, because I would love to get more of her insight as to, of course, we know why she wrote this book, but how it all got started. I would really love to be able to find out about that, and hopefully we can make that happen. So hopefully, if you're listening, Amy Peters, author Amy Peters, please feel free to come to the Daily Whistlestein to speak about your wonderful book, because like I said, for me, it's been a godsend. I really, really have been able to work these exercises and been able to capture more in what I want to say.

So I really, really, really appreciate this a lot. So anyway, we'll be right back. I hope everyone, like I said, happy Monday. We'll be right back with part two, and we're going to start on Monday, Writers on Writing, and we'll be right back.

Thank you. And welcome back to the Daily Whistlestein here on Anchor. We already did the introduction. Now we're moving on to Writers on Writing.

We're going to start on week 26 of the Writers Devotional, 365 Inspirational Exercises Ideas, Tips and Motivations on Writing by author Amy Peters. And this is another book I recommend for books, recommendations, since we're covering a book on writing. This would be a great book. So I hope you'll check it out.

And I may have already covered week 26 before in the other shows, but I'm going to start back at it on this one Monday, Writers on Writing. If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. And the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, we'll have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer has had stated them. A writer who omit things because he does not know them only makes, makes hollow places in his writing.

This quote was taken by a very famous author Ernest Hemingway. Okay, we'll continue now. As the American author Ernest Hemingway explains, travelers on a cruise ship in the Northern Pacific Ocean can imagine the immensity of the icebergs. They pass, although only a small fraction of each iceberg peeks out from the water, although not visible, people are aware of the icebergs lurking just below the ocean's surface.

Good writing follows the same idea. If the author genuinely knows of what he writes, then almost by telepathy, it will be telegraphed to the readers. As English master, as an English master gardener who writes a mystery about a murder taking place at the Gardens of Buckingham Palace, needn't and shouldn't describe every scientific part of the flower or how the irrigation system works, give me one moment here, unless of course it affects the outcome of the case. All of this detail would make for floating reading.

Instead, as Hemingway suggests, a reader will intuit this information. Will intuit this information. The catch, you can't fake the knowledge. Don't write about deep sea fish and if you've never said foot on a boat, know well what you write.

Avoid hollow writing. So the advice that Ernest Hemingway gives here, do not write about something you know nothing about. Avoid hollow writing. Be sure of what you're writing about because it'll make the reader understand you more.

This way you can omit a lot of what the details you want to say because they'll be able to read it from you as they're reading the passage. So that's a very that's very good advice there by Ernest Hemingway. And now we move on to Tuesday motivation. The quote is do back exercises.

Pain is distracting. And this is by author Margaret Atwood. And you know, right now I think one of our most famous books is The Handmaid Tale, The Handmaid Tale. And she also has it now it's a show on Hulu.

Sitting in a chair bent over your writing can mean trouble for your back. And for that matter, aches and pains for other parts of your body. Some of every writer's routine should include exercise both to alleviate pain and to encourage the creative process. Research shows that virtually every type of thinking improves with 30 minutes of exercise.

This includes creative thinking. Further, the effects of your half hour exercise last four hours. The type of exercise doesn't matter. Take your dog for a brisk walk.

You'll be happier. And so will your pooch. You have if you have access to a pool and swimming laps is a wonderful way to keep mind and body fit. Writing a stationary bike is another good choice.

Some writers choose to break their solitary routines by working out at a gym or taking a group pilates class. Writers often turn to yoga as their exercise of choice. Yoga helps its practitioners find inner peace. Tap into their creative energy and to persevere.

This last attribute being a particular importance when you are faced with writer's block. Yoga also trains its practitioners to visualize positive outcomes and essential tool for successful writers. So the quote is by Margaret Atwood. Do back exercise pain is distracting but the advice, the motivation is true.

It does help to get up and exercise and work on that because it does, I feel it also helps with your creative thinking. So that's one way of looking at the Tuesday motivation in this book that she has picked up the different quotes and the different authors. We got writers on writing and motivation, Tuesday on motivation and now we're moving on to writing class Wednesday and this will be something interesting. So let's go ahead and read this.

It says, write a true crime story about a recent murder in your state. Now this is a very hard topic to write about and there's many different places that murders unfortunately have happened or you've heard of them happen. Now in this case, I'll mention a case that was mentioned in 2015 and it involved a young woman and her mother. I think it was Didi Blanchard and her daughter Gypsy Rose Blanchard and it happened in Minnesota and I believe that the mother was murdered by the boyfriend of that girl.

But the details surrounding what happened there is very, very complicated. It's very gruesome. There's a lot of things that were said. You check out the documentary on HBO, it shows the type of person that she was and what her daughter went through and the things that transpired into what became a show also on Hulu.

I think the show's called The Act. It also talks about that case. But if you want to know the real story, check out the documentary on HBO but in any case I'm getting off track. So you start, it says here on the book, do your research by coming through your local and state newspapers, listening to newscasts, take notes on these and by interviewing your own friends about their thoughts on the case, draw your reader in by calling the newspaper to find lesser known facts about the case or begin with a quote from one of your friends offering a new perspective.

The thrill of true crime is in the details. So make sure you include everything that you've been able to uncover. The more gruesome and strange, the better. So you know, this is just a prompt to write about, you don't necessarily have to do it, but you like to write one and send it in or share it about a case that you heard, you're more than you're more than welcome to do it.

But this is just kind of by gathering the details of whatever murder case happened or occurred in your state that was very relevant and that you can share about, this is just for writing class as the assignment, write about a true crime about a recent murder that occurred. And it's unfortunate all these things that happen of course, you never want to hear about that. That's one way of a topic that doesn't mean you have to share that particular topic, but I'm just giving you the writing prompt that was on week 26. So I hope that it's very interesting and diving into it, but research is important in any situation that you're working on, the type of book you're working on.

For example, I'm writing a fictional story, but it is a thriller and it deals with some very hard topics and I had to do a lot of research for that because you can't just write just anything on the topic of mental illness or trauma or things that have occurred. You have to be very, very careful of the subject matter that you're dealing with and then you need to back it up with facts and make sure it's accurate because you don't want to disrespect anyone's perspective also. So I hope that you all will work on that, I will try to work on a paragraph on this and share it. But like I said, if you're living the Missouri area and I'm sure you're familiar with the DD, Blanchard, and Gypsy Rose case that occurred I think around 2015 and I think there was another case, but I don't remember what state it was in, but I know that there was a gentleman that got injured because I think a girlfriend of his had told him to do something and they found all of that in the text messages and I think she had to end up serving some time for her part in what she's done.

So all of these things, you can gather up in different things that have happened or you can make up a fictional story of what you're working on that's related to a true crime story. It's just an idea of things that have occurred in the news or make it with twisting your own like as far as your own idea that you want to write about or work on. It's like I said, it's just a writing prompt and it kind of wants for you to get facts of exactly what occurred or what didn't occur during whatever year that you're investigating the research of why that case happened and the person that got injured and share your own thoughts about that with your writing. But in any case, I really have enjoyed talking to you about the writer's devotional 365 inspirational exercises, ideas, tips and motivations on writing and we'll be right back with the wrap up.

And we're back. Bailey was still staying on anchor and now it's time for the wrap up. I really have appreciated you guys being here and being able to do another writer's devotional for today and tomorrow I will also be continuing Thursday editing, Friday biography and Saturday books to read, followed by Sunday writing prompt. So we kind of had a writing prompt today.

It was writing class and then the other one is the writing prompt. So for writing class, it's more about the research that you're doing or as I said, write a true crime story about a recent murder in your state. Make sure you do the research, work on a paragraph. I will try to work on mine and share it.

And of course, I'm really happy to have done this short podcast for the Daily Whistlestein on Anchor covering this book, but also the books I recommend today were, of course, I said author Chastity Gaines and her book Requiem of the Dead and also best-selling author Chastity Gaines for Amazon and also the book by Amy Peters, the writer's devotional 365 inspirational exercises, ideas, tips and motivations on writing. So I'm really happy that I was able to do this show and I'll bring you more author news about my books soon, but I hope everyone's having a fantastic, fantastic Monday. Have a great week and remember next Monday is Memorial Day, so a lot of you will be off. I hope you all have a great, great, great week and thank you all for listening to the Daily Whistlestein on Anchor.

Thank you. Good afternoon and welcome to the Daily Whistlestein on Anchor. I am Sylvia Stein or Silstein and welcome to the Daily. As I said yesterday, we resume back with the book, the writer's devotional 365 inspirational exercises, ideas, tips and motivations on writing, and we covered Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

Monday we had writers on writing, Tuesday motivation, Wednesday writing class, but writing class, the assignment was to write a true crime story about a recent murder in your state and basically you're supposed to do your research by coming through your local and state newspapers, listening on newscasts, take notes on all of that or the interviews and I think that's the best way to do it. Now, because I just assigned it yesterday, I'm going to probably resume back next week on this topic of the writing class. I'm going to be working on a case covered in here in North Carolina, in the city of Raleigh, North Carolina, because I live in the town of Uquavarina, but it's located in the Raleigh area, the Raleigh Durham area, about a carnival worker who confessed to killing three women. It started in a totally different, supposed innocent way where they thought he was the one injured and then it turned into a very bad, they began to look back and they noticed that he had actually killed three women.

So I'm going to be writing the story, I will mention the story one side, you know, work on my fictional side, but I will talk about it more for the writing class and this is just for the purpose of your assignment, if you want to work on it, it's just part of a writing a true crime story about a recent crime or murder in your area or if you feel more comfortable just reporting a report on a crime that has occurred, you know, that's fine too, just do your research and make sure that you work on it, it's like a writing prompt but this is for writing class anyway, but I'm going to be doing that research and writing more about that and then on Thursday, for today I'm going to begin with editing, so that's what we're going to start with, the first part will be, actually I'm going to talk about, give some announcements first, then I'm going to do the second part will be about the Thursday editing Sunday, sorry, Friday biography, Saturday books to read and Sunday writing prompt, so you'll have to, the writing class, the writing prompt, so I hope you'll enjoy and this is the intro and for today I just want to say, I hope everyone's having a great Tuesday, I know I'm excited about the shows we've been doing so far and as I said before, you know, the Daily Whistlestein is a podcast that I created mostly for writing tips, writing advice on editing, publishing your book, books to recommend reviews, book reviews, things that have to do with the writing community authors in general and hopefully have some authors come in, we've had a few and hopefully we'll get more and that's the goal. Now I'm going to be having more authors and writers come in speakers and coffee house writers, SNHU alumni authors that I know in different areas of states and countries, so hopefully we'll have all that happen. Sorry to the background noise, I am in my house and if you do happen to hear that, that would be the laundry machine, so I have to do it all, all at once. But anyway, I think Whitney Houston's song's name is all at once, but anyway, I'm getting off topic again, but anyway, so now we're getting, this is the introduction, we're doing this first of all, we did the intro and I hope everyone's having a great day, we're going to start off now with the second part which we'll cover Thursday, Friday and Saturday and then at the end when I do give the wrap up, I will give a recap of the show.

So we'll be right back and I hope you'll keep tuning in to the Daily Whistlestein on anchor. Thank you and happy Tuesday.