daapaint.blogg.se - Olympian Love by Andrya Bailey

I hadn’t been to Greece yet, even though it was a place I’d always dreamed of. When I started writing a romance trilogy, I knew that, since one character was Greek, the couple would eventually end up in Greece. Today she’s published by one of the 5th best publishing houses in Houston, and a press in Greece! Researching Location for Contemporary Fiction Books by Andrya Bailey However, she won by having a novel she later self-published! A poetry book followed, and so did short stories, anthologies, journals, more contests, and a romance trilogy. No, she didn’t win the actual competition. Years of writing later, she entered a manuscript contest. Since childhood, she yearned for the writing life. Today’s guest is award-winning contemporary romance writer Andrya Bailey. Of course, I accepted this one and am grateful for it. I get that apologies are difficult and messy. Don’t later contradict your apology in any way, shape, or form.Don’t get angry back if they get angry.Better yet, say you wish you’d never done it and you’ll never (I hope) do it again to them or anyone else.You can ask them if there’s something they’d like from you.Get to the point without the person having to dig for what you are referring to.Heed #1 above by listening to their response with an open heart and mind.Don’t bother if your mind is on simply assuaging your own guilt. Remember you’re apologizing to help (or should be) the person you wronged.Neither inflate your importance, nor imply the person is living a messed up life - that’s not apologizing, it’s condescending. Don’t tell them how terrible you feel for all the bad turns you assume resulted in their life from the bad thing you did. Not if you’re sincere about wanting to help the other person rather than merely unburden yourself.

Don’t ask if they’ve got time to talk and if they only have ten minutes, just sob and blow through it.

Don’t phone your victim… er hem person… to do it unless there’s plenty of time to converse.

Scant hours ago, right after I’d taken a shower, someone apologized for a terrible thing they did to me a long ago. The writing that follows (by the way, here’s about my novels-in-progress) won’t involve names or pertinent exposing facts - it’s just me trying to eek some good out of something upsetting. And please give it a follow.Īpologies in advance to you, dear reader, if this post’s intro is choppy with the rawness of my jangled nerves. Want to listen to a podcast/audio version of Happiness Between Tails? Click the Spotify podcast link above.