Updates About Editing and Writing Projects of Stacy Duplease and Stories by Stacy

Vacation/Time Off First of all, I'm going to be gone the week of 07 September-13 September 2009. I'll be back on Monday 14 September 2009. My mom's coming to visit and we're going to play and see the sights of Omaha, Nebraska.

Blogging
It looks like I'm a madwoman thinking I can do 8 blogs. Time is a very precious commodity and I enjoy spending time with my husband and getting writing done. (Call me silly.) We shall see. For now, my main blogs are:

http://www.storiesbystacy.blogspot.com/
http://www.sacredstoriesbystacy.blogspot.com/

The sacred one is my Christian-based blog.

I'll blog about the other stuff: journaling, writing, mom stuff, marriage stuff, patriotic stuff, and spec lit stuff in both of the above. When I can, I'll add to the other blogs, but I need to be realistic. I don't want to kill myself or you.

Updates About Editing Projects
I am still editing "Cammi's Story" and "Demarcations" and will put them both on this blog when I am able to again. Then, once I am done editing, I'll publish them. My guess is two more months.

Updates About Writing Projects
Forget all the other stuff I've said I was working on the past. They all got moved to the backburner for now. I need my ideas to stew and simmer sometimes. (Okay, a lot of times.) These are my present projects:

"An Easy Faith: A 50-Day Study Guide" from the series: Putting God in the Every Day Series. It's a Bible study. Hence, is non-fiction.

My fiction project is: "The Best of Darci Thompson: Saying I Do to the Best Man." It's about a woman who gives up on men and decides to marry God and she blogs about it. I tell her tale.

Website
Also, don't forget to check out my new website at:

http://www.storiesbystacy.com/

By Stacy Duplease
of Stories by Stacy & Publishing by Stacy

Feeling Weary, Tired, or Stuck? By Stacy Duplease of Stories by Stacy

Do you ever feel weary, tired, stuck, off, or not quite right? Do you feel that way internally? Externally?

Right now, I'm in the process of leaving the only home I've ever known. I'm a third generation Colorado native and all my family are friends here. (Excluding the new friends I've made on Twitter.) However, it's moving on to start a new life in the chapter of my husband's and my life together. With packing, I'm living in massive clutter. I'm in flux. I'm in-between lives. I'm in transition. Never mind my two new businesses I'm setting up and the five books I want to publish right away.

Hence, my interior life is weary. I'm tired. I'm Stuck. I'm off. I'm not quite right. I know my life is colorful, but the flux and transition tend to steal some of the color.

What do we do when our lives are stuck?
For each of us, there are smaller nuances that set us apart and are individualistic. However, I think that each of us has one major way in common that keeps us from getting stuck and helps us heal when we are weary.

I will use several different synonyms here, but will combine them into one term: the sacred.

The sacred can be defined as: color, hope, love, faith, beauty, the Creator, God, Christ, and the Bible.

In my opinion, the only answer is God, but not everyone is a Christian. I try to keep my religion and politics out of this blog as much as I can because I want it to be more about life, reading, and writing. This blog is supposed to be about stories.

However, there are times we have to admit that the story is about the sacred. It is all about the sacred. The sacred (God) is very influential in every single part of our lives. We are connected to the sacred. We cannot deny it. When we do, this is why we're weary, stuck, off, and tired. If we're stuck, it's because we have not devoted ourselves to the sacred (God) as we should.

Last night, I spent three hours on Bible study, getting into the Bible, and prayer. I took time to connect with Christ as much as I could. I do not believe that God requires acts from me. He requires faith. However, for my faith to increase, I need to pray and get into the Word. It helped me feel better immediately. Is this common? Sometimes. Did I do it to get closer with the Lord? Absolutely. Did I do it so I could feel better? No. It was because I realize I wandered off a little bit and needed to focus more on the sacred, and on Him, once again. When I wander, I need to lean more on Him, and the Word, again. I'm nothing without Him.

Are you stuck?
Why don't you try to turn again to the sacred (God)? If you already are, try it a little more. I bet you'll feel more whole, less weary, and more put together again shortly. The more stuck we feel, the more we need to seek the sacred (God).

Stacy Duplease of Stories by Stacy and Publishing by Stacy

Blog Queen (Or Blog Nut, depending on how you look at it.)

I am now finished adding blogs. I hope not to add any more because this is more than a full-time job keeping up with each of these. I want to touch on the topics most important to me, though, and help people to see life from a fresh perspective--and let people know they aren't the only one who... (You fill in the blank.)

Please check out whatever blog tickles your fancy.

My main blog is and will always be:

www.storiesbystacy.blogspot.com/

My daily blogs are:
www.storiesbystacy.blogspot.com/
www.speclitstoriesbystacy.blogspot.com/

Mondays, Wednesdays, and Friday Blogs:
www.sacredstoriesbystacy.blogspot.com/
www.writingstoriesbystacy.blogspot.com/

Mondays and Wednesdays Blog:
www.momstoriesbystacy.blogspot.com/

Tuesdays and Thursdays Blogs:
www.journalstoriesbystacy.blogspot.com/
www.marriagestoriesbystacy.blogspot.com/
www.usastoriesbystacy.blogspot.com/

From the Crazy Writer and Blogger,
Stacy Duplease