“This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.”
― Neil Gaiman

Okay so every author/writer's best month is here, for this is the opportunity to push your skills to the limit. I myself, I am happy and let me say I am ready for my first NaNoWriMo. For those wondering what is NaNoWriMo, in full it is National Novel Writing Month (which happens annually in November) where writers both fictional and non-fictional aim to write a minimum of 50,000 words within 30 days...this is the version of fasting to writers where you have to do all you can to beat the figure. So basically I am to write  1,667 per day for me to accomplish this, I hope I will manage. Unlike others, first I am not doing this to win any prize and second, I am not going to be writing from the NaNoWriMo website but on my MS Word...it gives the freedom that I need, and it helps me draw full attention to my work. I know most writers are already up on it while the lazy me hasn't even yet started :D ...I will be working or let me say with the November rush, i am not going to pick up a new book to work on, but my first one that I have been working on for quite sometime called The Diary: Chronicles of Neill which I am actually starting Chapter Ten today (Hooray to me!!)...and hoping to be done with everything by early next year. So I will be blogging a bit about this novel this month so that you can get acquainted with it and the life that I live everyday through ink. Cheers and Happy NaNoWriMo to all writers out there bold enough to write their path and to all readers out their brave enough to be engulfed in the magic of our inks.
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So today marks my dad's birthday and i wanted to take time and thank God and for the prize of dad He gave me and since today is my dad's birthday and i could not afford to buy him a plasma TV or a car i wrote him a poem to show my appreciation and love...not to brag but i think i have the best and i would not mind to brag about that neither, for he managed to play a role that most fathers have failed. It is because of him that i have become a man and a son i am today.





Four-to-Nine Steps
From the primary thought that you needed me
For nine months you ensured my safety in mom
Patiently waited to see your likeness in your arms
And you rejoiced when you heard my first cry at last

You watched me peel like a bud to a flower
Like a farmer you cultivated me with patience and hope
Though weak, you held me strong when drought threatened
Gave me all of the least that you called yours

Every weekend you’d always take me on long walks
Sometimes I wished I could tell you I was tired
But I was just a kid and never understood why
You knew I’d grow away and you wanted to be with your son

I still remember I used to weep while you went away
I was scared of who would protect me
And when you stayed I’d want to be next to you
For it is by you that I felt safe and loved

You taught me how to forge my strength in life
And not to forget my humanity lest I die alone
I never had a mom like all of my friends
But you played the role better than I could ask for

The world finally robbed me off your arms
But you did not fight nor fear of what I may come
You trusted me to handle whatever thrown at me
And for your faith in me I thank you dad

Now I have grown into a man you smile with
When I look in the mirror it is you I see
And in my heart’s place I can feel it’s yours beating
Wherever I end up dad I still treasure you the most

From a distance it may look like now it’s your sun set
But instead brace yourself to watch your son rise
As you turn forty-nine today HAPPY BIRTHDAY
For I smile ‘cause you’re my father, my dad and my home.
 © g!o.inked

...we all are scared of being alone. One thing we miss to understand is that loneliness in us is created when we ignore finding time for ourselves. We wake up each morning with the thought of being happy around others, being happy with others and being happy because of others. WRONG. Learn to be content with just being yourself without attracting the vibe of happiness from others. We only become lonely when we cant stand sight of being on our own.

Don't be too scared of losing those in your life to the point you become scared of yourself. Those who matter most in your life they'll always be there and just because someone walks out of you it don't mean that you are bad or unable of maintaining friends, nope. God brings the right people in your life at the right time and so does He also take away people out of your life at a certain time for reasons best known to Him. Use the lonely time to grow and know yourself, cease bungee jumping in relationships. Sometimes it is good to fall and remain on the ground; it helps you to see the view from below.

You are what and where you are for a reason. Nothing is a coincidence and ALWAYS, ALWAYS remember you are never alone for God is with you. Well view it this way. When we were young, our parents always yearned to spend time with us and at times they'd take us away from our friends just so that they can be with us, so does God...He wants us for Him too, thus comes moments that He is forced to drive us to solitude so that we can be with Him too. It's as simple as that but we are always blinded and deceived that it is at that time that God has forsaken us.

Don't also forget that the enemy will also always bring the wrong people at the right time in our lives to keep us from what is meant for us.

Use solitude/loneliness to grow...~ ♥ GG