Encouragement Turns on Full Force of Creativity

Encouragement Full Force: I absolutely love this book.  It is interesting and well written, I hope to see more books in this series.  I am going to purchase more books from the same author.

When my publisher sent me an email with this review from someone who had read Moonlight Can Be Murder, my heart soared. What an encouragement! It was especially welcome because the sequel to Moonlight, By the Fright of the Silvery Moon, is due to be released in a few months.

I thought about that review for a while. I thank the woman who wrote it because it brightened my day and gave impetus to my thoughts for launching Fright.

Encouragement does so much more than criticism. For some odd reason, when I think of criticism, the picture of a woman springs to mind. This is not someone I’ve seen in the past. She may be an imaginary shrew borne of reading books that had a mean, sharp-tongued person lurking within its pages, or perhaps she is a relic of an unpleasant childhood experience, or just my own wicked imagination. Could be she’s a combination of these things. Anyway, this poor woman is skinny, long-nosed and bitter-tongued, and she always has one bony finger pointed in my direction, telling me all the virtues and skills that I lack. Criticism. She sort of makes me want to crawl back into bed, pull the covers over my head and agree that my books and I will never amount to much.

However, encouragement! Ah, the elixir of life. It is funny that encouragement brings on a sudden desire to want to do better, to do more, to polish and shine until my literary offering is the best I can make it. That’s just the way of human beings. We like to be acknowledged as someone worthwhile, somebody unique and worthy of being noticed.

Children thrive on encouragement; it is like vitamins to a child’s emotional growth. But, guess what? We never outgrow that need. The road of life has its share of potholes, unexpected turns, and rocky places, but nothing smooths out the way in front of us more than encouragement. Each individual is unique and talented in some way or in many ways; everyone has a characteristic that is praise-worthy. Encouragement is like a polishing cloth on silver–it really brings out the shine.