Cheryl Rainfield's Blog, page 11
May 3, 2019
May 2, 2019
I am editing another chapter drawn on trauma I endured –
and just ate too much chocolate to get through it. I want my books to always be deep, real, honest, and in the end, healing…. And this manuscript – it has so much of my trauma and healing in it.
I don’t usually eat while I edit or write – but sometimes I just need that extra push to get through… I did not take a pic of all the chocolate wrappers. Heh. I also used other techniques to get through – getting up and doing a menial task for a few minutes while my brain and heart worked through what I needed to, and moments of positive distraction. After I finish this chapter I’m taking a break.
I so hope this book will speak to others and help them. #amwriting #amediting
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May 1, 2019
You are brave. You are strong. You are loved.
I hope you take those words in. Hope you believe them, because they are true.
I love this Hallmark greeting card so much that I bought two – one for me and one for a friend. (Thankfully I found it at the dollar store!) The message just speaks to me.
Do you ever do that – buy yourself a greeting card?
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April 28, 2019
A poem to my abusers
A poem to my abusers:
You made me afraid
to trust others
to trust myself.
You made me expect
everyone would hate abuse
rape torture me
the way you did.
I fought hard to trust
sometimes trusting too easily –
to believe in the good
in people
but I found it and keep
finding it.
I heal and keep healing.
You lose. -Cheryl Rainfield, author of SCARS, STAINED, HUNTED.
I’ve been editing my new manuscript and enjoying it, but there are really intense scenes and chapters that are drawn from my abuse and trauma experience. Sometimes I need to take a break from it, and other times I just need to get it out a bit like this poem.
Talking about our abuse and trauma experience can be healing-especially when we are heard and met with compassion- and so can reading about or hearing about others, knowing that we are not alone. And then other times we just need to escape it. I think both are healthy as long as we’re not doing one or the other constantly. What do you think?
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Petal wanted some sun
so even though it’s chilly we sat out. She has pancreatitis again – it’s chronic – and the knee that was operated on is hurting her. But she’s still the sweetest, gentlest girl. (She’s on two pain meds; a low fat, low protein diet; digestive enzymes; a fermented probiotic; and a few natural and homeopathic remedies we’re trying out. I wish I could take away her pain. But she still wants to be with me all the time, still plays and loves people and treats. Lots of sleepless nights, but we’re getting through together.)
April 25, 2019
When I get really deep, insightful editorial feedback
that I can see will make my #manuscript even stronger and more gripping, I get excited to edit. That’s what I got from my fab agent Jennifer Wills at Seymour. She has such a great eye for story! (beaming) I have been editing crazily since Friday!
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