{"id":3493,"date":"2018-09-23T08:33:08","date_gmt":"2018-09-23T13:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lyndalambert.com\/?p=3493"},"modified":"2018-09-23T15:11:58","modified_gmt":"2018-09-23T20:11:58","slug":"reinvent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/reinvent\/","title":{"rendered":"Have You Lost It? Reinvent"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Post #203<\/div>\n
Walking by Inner Vision Blog<\/div>\n
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Sunday Morning Musing<\/span><\/h1>\n

Have you Lost it? <\/em><\/h3>\n

Reinvent.<\/em><\/h3>\n
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I have\u00a0 a story from yesterday morning to share with YINZ.<\/span><\/div>\n
(FYI: Western PA people say YINZ, instead of “you” or “you all,” when speaking with each other. I feel like we are friends, so I’ll relax and call yinz,\u00a0 YINZ.)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Saturday Mornings usually begin around 3 a.m. when\u00a0 I get up to finalize the <\/span><\/div>\n

Saturday is for Sharing – feature.<\/span><\/h3>\n
This is my weekly Guest Author post on my blog,\u00a0SCAN BLOG – Read it here!<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
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Typically, I have the feature outlined and photos with it and just about ready to publish. I go over the story for typos (I am super great at missing typos!). Yep, everything looked perfect\u00a0 yesterday morning. That first hour, I completed one blog article for “Walking by Inner Vision” – published it and was now working on article #2 for SCAN.\u00a0 Rolling right along.\u00a0 Feeling good. I’d be done working when the sun comes up,\u00a0 I thought. Optimistic. That’s me. Always looking UP.<\/span><\/div>\n
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I hit the PUBLISH button. <\/span><\/div>\n
Next, I pressed\u00a0 the VIEW POST button.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Title?\u00a0 Looks good.\u00a0 Check!<\/span><\/div>\n
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But, WHOA, there is no STORY here!.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Instead of PUBLISH I must have hit DELETE.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Yep. NOTHING but empty space\u00a0instead of the nice story for Mike Bayles, a Minnesota poet and author. It was now 5 a.m. when I made this discovery. I was not smiling now! Optimistic me was feeling a bit scattered. Confused. Now what?<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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NOT only was the blog post EMPTY – OMG – I soon discovered I had LOST all of the text from my interviews with him. Mike and I had worked back and forth several times for about 2 months.<\/span><\/div>\n
Now, it was gone.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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A quick check into Mike’s file revealed I had not saved the texts there. What???<\/span><\/div>\n
All that was in his file were some scans from his book. After a frantic search through other files and folders, I realized I had nothing more on Mike.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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What to do? Today was the scheduled day for Mike’s article to appear on SCAN.<\/div>\n
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I mean, it must have gone to the depths of hell, or, on the other side, into outer space –<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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It was that sort of GONE. Vanished!<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I had NO BACKUP. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I know. I know. I know.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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How STUPID that is, eh?<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

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I have 2 Options:<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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#1_ sit down and cry<\/span><\/h4>\n

#2_ reinvent the story<\/span><\/h4>\n
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Crying is not my style. I don’t have time for crying. I’m a tough cookie, I’ve been told.<\/span><\/div>\n
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I remembered that Mike and I had exchanged a number of e-mails because I was asking him questions about his writing life. Fortunately, I found a couple of letters and began to work from them in developing an entirely new story for Mike.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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Because Mike discusses his writing method<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\u00a0 as akin to\u00a0 creating <\/strong><\/h3>\n

– a\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>COLLAGE –\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n

I decided to make Mike’s Story<\/strong><\/h3>\n

a Literary Work of Art<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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I created his feature article as a<\/div>\n

Literary Collage<\/h3>\n
That means, I used fragments and slivers, little pieces of a variety of texts, links, and scans.<\/div>\n
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How can YOU do this?<\/h3>\n

Shift them about into various places in the story.<\/h3>\n

Do NOT think about creating a LINEAR timeline or telling the story in a step-by-step way.<\/p>\n

Past – Present-Future – You can move them around and intertwine them into a beautiful new picture.<\/p>\n

Try to be more\u00a0 CREATIVE with your story.<\/p>\n

Turn\u00a0 YOUR STORY into a LITERARY WORK OF ART.<\/p>\n

The SECRET IS:\u00a0 There are no rules.<\/p>\n

Give it a try? I think you will be delighted with the “breath of life”\u00a0 you can bring to a story by working in this way.<\/p>\n

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I am a Visual Artist – CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING comes NATURAL for me!<\/div>\n
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It WORKS like MAGIC.<\/div>\n
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Mike’s Guest Author feature turned out great and he was happy. He remarked that he really liked the way I worked his “words” around in and out of information about his book. I even included a scan from the Amazon dot com advertisement for his book. And, I used his stunning\u00a0 book cover for the Featured Photo for the article.<\/div>\n
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The\u00a0 story turned out fascinating because of Mike’s unique writing and his thoughts, but it has a really nice VISUAL dimension to it as well. It reads well, and it looks interesting on the page. I like it much better than what I originally wrote. This was a wake-up call for me – don’t settle for “ordinary.”<\/div>\n
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What more could we want?<\/div>\n
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Have you ever lost a piece you worked on and had to begin all over again?<\/div>\n
It does not feel good when this happens but we can turn that train wreck\u00a0 into a “HAPPY ACCIDENT” by changing how we THINK\u00a0 the second time around.<\/div>\n

REINVENT your STORY<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Read Mike’s Guest Author Story <\/a><\/p>\n

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This article is the property of Pennsylvania author, Lynda McKinney Lambert. Copyright September 23, 2018. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n

You are welcome to SHARE this article on Social Media but please remember to include the copyright information when you re-blog or cut and paste this to your site.<\/p>\n

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Leave a comment for me.<\/h2>\n

I LOVE you for that!<\/p>\n

E-mail:\u00a0 llambert@zoominternet.net<\/a><\/p>\n

Blog and website at:\u00a0 www.lyndalambert.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Author\u2019s Page: http:\/\/www.dldbookslcom\/lyndalaambert<\/a><\/p>\n

My books on Amazon:<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Walking by Inner Vision: Stories & Poems<\/em>:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>See my newest book..click here.<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00a0Our truest life is when we are in our dreams \u2013 awake. Henry David Thoreau<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Instead of PUBLISH I must have hit DELETE.
\n\u00a0
\nYep. NOTHING but empty space\u00a0instead of the nice story for Mike Bayles, a Minnesota poet and author. It was now 5 a.m. when I made this discovery. I was not smiling now!
\n\u00a0
\nNOT only was the blog post EMPTY – OMG – I soon discovered I had LOST all of the text from my interviews with him. 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