In continuing with sharing a little more about myself in each blog, I hereby share my greatest, irrational fear with you all. It is not failure. It is not heights. It is not public speaking. It is snakes. I’m scared-to- death, completely, ridiculously scared of snakes. I remember each and every time I have seen a snake since I was ten or eleven. I remember each location I saw them and how loud I screamed. So when I saw three (yes, three) snakes on my bicycle ride home last night, I began to rethink my method of transportation. There has been teasing from the family, talk of ways to break my fear, utter panic whenever I go to a zoo or park. Honestly,...
Reinvention and Originality
“We may only have a smidgen of God’s creativity, but what are you doing with that smidgen?” – Clint Kelly at the OCW One-Day Conference, Saturday, October 15th, 2011. Clint Kelly (who has to be one of the most entertaining speakers I’ve seen to date) spoke several simple messages throughout his keynote and two workshops on Saturday. Create – do what God has called you to do and be creative. I’m now realizing the true difference between those who simply create without attempting to be original, and those truly out-of-the-box creative ones. So where do I fit in? Have I continually pushed myself to be original and provide a unique...
An interview with…myself (part 2!)
Last week, I started a four-part interview series with the most interesting subject I’ve ever hosted on this blog. Myself. (Kidding, kidding.) This week, the questions get a little deeper, and sometimes I wonder what this crazy interviewer was thinking. 🙂 11. When did you get your first doll? Doll? More like horse…I collected a lot of horses (both the small, toy versions and the larger, more expensive kind) over the years. 12. When did you learn there was no Santa Claus? One Christmas I caught my parents shuffling around downstairs and I got out of bed to investigate. By then, I had already put the pieces together. I don’t even remember...
Rules. Rules. Rules.
This discussion (argument) comes up every so often among the writer folks. The “rules” of writing. Do this…don’t do this…you’ll never get published if you do this… Well – let this post put it all to rest – it is a post by Wendy Lawton of Books and Such from a while back. But she says it all. Let the story rule.
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An interview with…Me! Part One
Remember those old chain emails that went around and you’d share your favorite color, all those other fun tidbits? Well, I’m going to do a bit of that here. But I found this list of questions to do a good profile interview, and I thought, “Wow, I bet I couldn’t even answer some of those questions.” So, I’ll give it a shot. Going to do this in four parts, though. The list is long. And I’m a trifle on the boring side. 1. What is your earliest memory? My earliest memory is of my backyard swing set at our home in Seattle. I remember playing in the kiddie pool with...