My Book Review #1

Hello Everyone,

A lot of things have happened since I published my first book Keeper of the Lesser Flame. To begin with I met new huge family of well-meaning authors, book bloggers, book reviewers, book interviewers and well-wishers. I doubt I will ever finish knowing this good people…

Keeper of the Lesser Flame Review by Jessica Thompson

The water deity curse affects Heather's standard of living, hopes and expectation.

But laying down her soul as a propitiatory to a witch turns around her situation, mortgaging the future.

 

     I received this book for reviewing from the author.  It in no way affected my review.  I wanted so much to give this book a high rating.  It is the authors first novel and in some ways it was very obvious. 
     I liked the idea of the book and in many respects it wasn't a bad book.  Keeper of the Lesser Flame has a really good storyline.  I have read many books and none had a feeling like this one.  It was like a thriller book with a happy ending.
     Unfortunately it was very flawed.  From editing and time jumps it is very obvious this is Damilola's first book.  I personally don't mind editing errors (though I do notice them) but I do mind time jumps without any way they got to the point that they are at.  For example *spoiler* Heather suddenly got married and had two kids when the last thing before that she didn't want anything to do with the guy.*spoiler end*
     I needed more visualization for me to enjoy the book more but even with the lower review I didn't hate it.  I give this book an Adult rating for strong sex scenes.

 

 

How sad, right? By the look of this review many beginner writers will back out or call Jessica names; say she doesn’t know what she is saying or that she doesn’t wish them well because she is also an author.

But wrong!  

Anyone who wants to get better in any field must take likely to criticism. Before Jessica published this review, she let me know how critically biting she was going to be with her review just like her blog title “Reviews that Bites” She asked my permission if she should go ahead and publish the review, but of course I told her to go ahead. Thanks to Jessica for this biting scrutiny. My next two books “TALES OF DEBORAH and THE ULTIMATE PRICE” that are going to be out in couple of months by God’s willing, will be close to being perfect. Many thanks to you Jessica, I’m deeply grateful.

As I’ve often said, I welcome from well-meaning book reviewers, authors constructive criticisms and advice that will lead to the improvement of this book for future update.

Are you beginner writer? Then, it’s because of you I summon courage to write this post.  Here is my advice, have your manuscripts reviewed by lots of people before you publish them. And then, when the feedback start coming in good or bad, please, don’t feel awful – never back out because of what someone says that you don’t like. With this organic process, you can be better and become a world celebrated author. Share this post; it will sure inspire someone to begin thinking differently.

 

 

Darmie Orem's Quotes #9

"High expectations I have. In hardness I labor that, fuller joy at the top I may partake. Nevertheless, in vain I toil. And then, friends and people's reproach I become, because of my drowning hopes that keeps me out of the circle of riches and honor. I'm the distance they keep like plague, because I have no physical wealth and glamor like them. But in all my stony falls and griefs, the word of restoration in the blood given to me upon the altar of salvation, I cling. For in the end, mercy will attend my situation and see to my hard labor with crown of great success that has no end.”
― Darmie Orem

Darmie Orem's Quotes #8

"They must have thought I'm moon. Therefore they made known to me their hopes and expectations that is beyond flesh and blood. I'm only the symbol of creativity within the ancient spirits of my great ancestors. All life that never dies in all stormy season. I'm the oak tree in the breath of the warlike hero.”
― Darmie Orem

Darmie Orem's Qoutes #7

“Discretion is the survival one needs around friends who admires you but hate your happiness and success, and would do anything so that you are not up to them or better than them.”
― Darmie Orem

Darmie' Orem's Quotes #6

“It doesn't matter what you don't worth now, but the courage and determination you maintain to achieve something special in your life is all that will count in the end.”
― Darmie Orem

Darmie Orem's Quotes #

"We are the wining fighters we are today because we are the products of rougher times that, didn't break 'self-respect' during tested periods.”
― Darmie Orem

Darmie Orem's Quotes #4

"The River of Baptism I met, my spiritual adoption confirmed. The changing dramas in my life I experienced. The Holy language preceded my salvation found tongue, candidate of heavenly power I'm made.”
― Darmie Orem

Darmie Orem's Quotes #3

"Now is not time to give up. Tomorrow will be different. Resurrect the strenght in the golden dreams that has brought you thus far. Every misery have its limit.”
― Darmie Orem

Darmie Orem's Quotes #2

"Someplace, somewhere, someone full of dreams is craving to be known.”
― Darmie Orem

Darmie Orem's Qoutes #1

“A person who doesn't know exactly what he wants out of life, jumps at everything that appears silver in his way and hold tight onto them to the point degradation.”
― Darmie Orem

Always Writing: How to blog

Always Writing: How to blog

‘The Price’ by Damilola Ogunremi

The Price

by Damilola Ogunremi

Observing a spear of summer grass outside my little cottage

The gentle blowing breeze leaned towards me

Brushing my aching cheeks with its feathery fingers

It peered into my heavy heart

Whispering Sunshine…

The solemn word of harvest…

The beginning of all that is fruitful and beautiful...

“Sunshine,” the word rang in my ears and strangely haunting.

The season of harvest has found me. I knew the excitement of it.

It was over hundred decades since it finished with me

And my every waking moment has been swirling sorrow.

“Sunshine!” I swayed a hand flying above my head to grip my hair in grief.

I should be joyous for this remembrance of freedom from pains

But my heart was with a shuddering heaviness.

For one brief moment, the breeze whispered to me again.

“Sunshine” I remember you well.

It hadn’t been a dreadful mistake for you to remember me.

For the moment the air chattered “Sunshine,” like women in the market

I closed my eyes to blot out the memories of shame and failure

That has plagued and trapped me for decades of heavy wetness.

I bit my lip and screamed the word

“Tears_”

The severe sacrifice; the price I paid for Sunshine to find me.

The price we all sometimes pay

The ancient water that left its streaks of wet print on my face

Images that masked the beauty of my youth

And kept me out of the circle of mental and spiritual forms of love

Though the sorrow may last for a night,

It is supplanted with joy in the morning …

A true tale…

That was my consoling song of then and my testimony of now.

My only pain in these past years, of failure, grief and stagnancy, was the rape of time.

The price I paid.

I gave a quick hug to the breeze of good news.

“Sunshine,” how nice it was!

I swallowed hard, tears of joy prickling dangerously in my eyes.

I would no longer Pay The Price of Painful Tears.

African Calabash Fruit Heals All Kinds of Cancers

In Nigeria, this tree fruits is called Igba because of its multipurpose usefulness to make a lot of household items. By cutting in two this Calabash Fruit and cleaning out the inside, letting it dry till it has a blond or coffee brown color, you have made two bowls for (food) to be precise, pounded yam and vegetable soup in the Yoruba Dark Age times. You can use the lid of this calabash Fruit to collect water when bathing or doing laundry at the stream which was where most chores that had to do with water were done in those days. In some part of Nigeria up till date, some still use this Calabash Fruit bowls to drink palm wine and make the musical instrument called Shekere with beads adorning its body.

Now with this Calabash Fruit that contains the most miraculous healing properties you can ever imagine, you can make a juice which is not too hard to do. Open this fruit and scrape out all the inside material, chop it into small pieces and then squash it.  Once it is well squashed into a mush, you then boil it for thirty minutes before draining the juice through a cloth to remove the juice and leave the unwanted matter for disposal as nothing will eat this waste product. Once it cools, put it into bottles and refrigerate it, then drink it and heal no matter your ailment!

Go to this site http://liveinthephilippines.com/content/the-many-uses-of-the-calabash-tree/ and scroll to the comments to see the testimonies of people of white color. Read what they are saying about this wonderful healing fruit that has its root from Africa.

Also click on this site to see what Stephanie Rose Bird has written about this healing tree in her book entitled A Healing Grove  http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/healing-grove-stephanie-rose-bird/1111912879 

I went to an office so I could see an uncle for a job. I was filling the plastic cup with water from the dispenser when he walked in introduced a fine looking lady to me. She looked at me with lots of admiration she was the talking type with a lot of sense. So I said to myself this is a lady I could relate to. We got talking from fashion, to what a woman should do to support herself, husband and children, if things goes bad financially in a marriage etc; then, she brought up a woman’s case that lives in London suffering cancer. According to her, this woman would pass away December this year.

Then, I told her about the Calabash Fruit. It took like thirty minutes before this lady was convinced that this calabash fruit would work for this cancer patient who has been written off! It is sad that many countries like Nigeria blessed with nature don’t value it. I gave this lady description on how the woman in London could purchase the calabash fruit over there in London. If she did it, I wouldn’t know. She was more about making money, saying that if the calabash fruit works then, she is into the money making business.

How many must die before you help someone? Won’t your unbelief send you to your early grave? I thought about a lot of things this morning before I put this article together. And not that it was easy for me to sit down and write this article when I have loads of productive write-ups to do. But who knows, how many lives I would by saving through this article?  CANCER MUST DESIST FROM HER MIDST. And we would explore every means we know to make it go away.

  

I would be writing about this in my novel Seconds Wish Forever a Curse to bring more awareness on the several healing of the Calabash Fruit.

Do you know that this Calabash Fruit Juice also cures low ejaculation? If you have anything bothering you that you can’t say here in the public, don’t hesitate to ask for my email address and we’ll talk about it. If you have any question as to how many cups you should take a day as a cancer patient, please feel free to ask.

More posts to come on natural healing fruits.

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Thank you!

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Film Blog: Screenplay / Genre #2

Genre groups movies by like kind and classifies audience expectation. Audiences know the principles and peculiarity of their favorite stories, so they will instantly know if you are out of touch with the genre. Truly special movies, nevertheless, not only meet audience expectation, they transcend it. In other words, they go beyond what’s been done before.

The Godfather, Saving Private Ryan, and Alien were landmark films because they transcended audience expectation in their individual genres (Gangster, war, and horror). To write a screenplay, short story or a novel on this level, you must master the genre you specialized on or that you are working on.

There are has been much written on the topic of genre, however the best way to master a genre is to watch movies, read novels and read scripts. This applies to movies, books bad and good, old and new. By doing this you will know a particular genre is placed in its group. It also helps to visit cinemas and interview people to find out what they look for in a particular genre. 

Another way to get familiar with different genres is to go online and download scripts. Script daily  http://www.dailyscript.com/ is a good site that has readily available scripts for your study.

The following lists are some of the popular genres.

Action Adventure – stories about quests, survival, and rescue

Animation – stories with cartoon characters, puppets or computer 

Buddy – stories about friendship 

Coming of Age – stories about maturation 

Crime – stories about private eyes and detectives 

Cop – variation on crime genre where the focus is the world cops

Mystery – a variation on crime genre where the opponent is unknown for much of the story (a “who done it”)

Horror – stories about the occult, supernatural and monsters

If you want to know more about this I will suggest you go to film school or a college among others.  Priezo Film and Media Schools is a good one coming your way soon. With them you can sit at home anywhere in the world and do your studies. And you can either do a certificate course with them or just enroll for knowledge gaining‘s sake.

I will be coming your way next with genre in novel writing before we discuss “Concept.”