Judy's earliest memories are of listening to her grandfather play guitar and spin stories on the front porch of the family farm. And so, a writer was born. Ms. Ferrell, a lonely child, taught herself to read early and began to write. She found a love of words and how they sounded. She asks her fans to join her in each new discovery as she continues her fascination with words and how they can change the world. With many books of poetry, short stories and a series written, and hundreds of reviews done, Ms. Ferrell hopes that she can in some way help other indie authors achieve their goals. Her one life goal is to be recognized in her home state as the poet and author she is. |
I have been writing all my life but never really did anything with it till about three years ago. I found lots of encouragement on Twitter when I started doing what I called the lightning verse writing. Several people encouraged me to write a book of poetry.
It took a bit of time and a lot of hand-holding by Barry Brunswick and DB Carter to get it done but I did it. That was the beginning of a lifelong dream.
At that time, I decided to try to help others. I was already helping some. I was doing reviews as quickly as I could. I found I loved doing them. I met many fabulous people and made many friends. They were so much fun and lifted me so high. I was elated.
But here’s something I found. When you try to give out help there will always be someone being a problem. The more I tried to help there was always someone there to try and tear me down. It seems there always is.
I found it a problem I never understand. I guess I don’t want to. Why would you get joy out of making a person feel bad about anything? It doesn’t make you really feel better. It seems to me it just makes the world darker. I can’t find the sense in it.
Anyway, I guess this will be a rambling blog. Hope you don’t mind. I just need some words to be said.
Now to the books I have been writing. I have been writing a lot lately. I can’t seem to stop. I can’t even seem to pick a genre. I don’t even mind. How do I come up with a book? Some stupid character wakes me up and a new book is born. At this point, I have a few in construction. And I have found that Cora Lee Bennett has a family that is going to drive me batty. They all seem to be investigators, and all want their own books. And boy are there a bunch of them!! Then there’s the poetry that I haven’t really played with in a bit. I might hit that soon. I usually do that when I want to get away from where I am. As far as the short stories, well they just pop up as they want. They seem to come about with a word or a phrase that set me off. |
That’s how I work. And I seem to work better now that I moved my office to the living room. I work all hours of the day and night. Whenever the notion strikes I am up to work. Since I am more often sleeping on the recliner it seems not to matter. I have written more since I moved my office, and I am happier with what I have written. Anyway, to get back on a little track. Let’s say you have a friend who is having a hard time and needs a little help, hold out a hand and help. You will feel better about yourself if you do, and your Karma will be better. I will always encourage people to lift each other up. The world would be better if we all did. Let’s all do away with hate and deal with love. Remember all lives matter. And just help each other. I don’t really care if the people are writers or not, I just think they need to be lifted and helped. Now let me tell you about my pet peeves before I go. |
I have been reviewing as fast as I can. I have been having health issues and still I am trying. And everyone on Twitter knows because I have ranted about it. Yet it still continues. I closed my direct messages so they couldn’t bug me. And still it continues. I am so close to stopping the reviews. I have found that it upsets me badly that people feel they have the right to be mean to me. I want you all to understand that if I do that it will be a direct result of someone going too far and driving me out. Be assured that I will continue to try to lift up people if I can. But I will not be used and abused by people who are getting free services from me.
All right, enough, I’m getting off my high horse. So that’s me. I’m through rambling. I wanted to just speak my piece and Stewart was kind enough to let me. I hope you all enjoy the blog and maybe take away something.
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