Posts Tagged ‘writing’

Having Fun with Seven Things

April 6th, 2010

A little while back my buddy Jess over at Half of Jess gave me a blog award called the Beautiful Blogger Award.  I think I can safely say I’ve never been called beautiful (ruggedly handsome maybe) ;-) but not beautiful.  However, I’ll take any award I can get!

This award comes with a few conditions, in that I’m supposed to:

1.   Thank and link to the person that presented me the award.
2.   Pass this award on to 15 fantastic bloggers.
3.   Contact said bloggers and let them know they’ve won.
4.   State 7 things about myself.

Number one – check.  Number four – the fun part, and the reason I’m finally getting around to this – see the next paragraph.  Numbers two and three – well, they’re hard.  I read way more than 15 blogs – and if I take the time to subscribe to and read a blog, I think it’s fantastic.  So I really am not going to try to choose.  Just check out anyone listed in my Health and Wellness Blogs over to the right, and you’ll have a good read.  I think they’re all pretty amazing.

So back to the 7 things about myself.  I love reading these about other people, and I always feel like mine are probably terribly boring, but who knows?  Maybe you’ll learn something about me that’s fun, funny, or shocking!  Here they are: » Read more: Having Fun with Seven Things

Creative Process

March 11th, 2010

I just nearly shot a white chocolate orange bliss latte out of my nose, and I blame the Subourbon Wife.  (You can rib me about my girly choice of drink in the comments, but her post on an unexpected chat she had to have with her daughter this morning about modesty really cracked me up).  The Subourbon Wife is one of my new friends from a couple of Shocking Real Life writing workshops I’ve been taking from author Hollis Gillespie here in Atlanta over the past couple of months, and I’ve loved every minute of them.  I’ve always thought it would be great to be talented creatively.  I tried my hand at playing an instrument.  I sucked.  I tried my hand at painting.  I sucked.  I tried my hand at drawing.  I sucked (though I do have a rather nice sketch of the key to the Jeep I drove in college that I drew when I was going through a phase of wishing I had artistic talent and practicing sketching between classes).

I never considered my writing to be creative, because 1) it’s something I’ve always done, and as such is just something I’ve always thought of as a part of me, and 2) I’ve always been a non-fiction writer, so I wasn’t creating some fantastical alternate reality.  Thus, writing never struck me as creative, but just as something I had to do.  Idiot.  I know. » Read more: Creative Process

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