3 posts tagged “me”

41 Things You Never Think to Ask

I got this from a friend and decided to answer the questions.......

 

41 Things You Never Think to Ask

1. Have you ever been searched by the cops?
No never, unless you count the time, while coming home from Germany, when everyone on the plane had their luggage searched on the tarmac.....

2. Do you close your eyes on roller coasters?
No way. I love the rush of the roller coaster.

3. When's the last time you've been sledding?
A few years ago, I hate snow, but sledding is fun....

4. Would you rather sleep with someone else, or alone?
With someone, it is nice to share that pleasure.

5. Do you believe in ghosts?
Maybe, not suI have learned to keep an open mind......

6. Do you consider yourself creative?
Yes

7. Do you think O.J. killed his wife?
Yes

8. Jennifer Aniston or Angelina Jolie?
Angelina

9. Do you stay friends with your ex's?
If it feels right to stay friends, sure

10. Do you know how to play poker?
no

11. Have you ever been awake for 48 hours straight?
No

12. What's your favorite commercial?
I watch so litle TV, that I haven't got one
13. What are you allergic to?
Dairy products, corn, wheat & rhy

14. If you're driving in the middle of the night, and no one is around do you run red lights?
No, I would wait

15. Do you have a secret that no one knows but you?

More than likely, or one that I share with only one person

16. Boston Red Sox or New York Yankees?
Doesn't matter to me

17. Have you ever been Ice Skating?
Yes

18. How often do you remember your dreams?
Rarely. Now I try to write them down. My novel is based on a dream I had.

19. When was the last time you laughed so hard you cried?
Three weeks ago

20. Can you name 5 songs by The Beatles?
Dear Prudence, Hey Jude, All you need is Love, When I'm 64, & Lonely hearts Club Band

21. What's the one thing on your mind now?
Getting all the trival stuff done, so that I can write

22. Do you believe in love at first sight?
AGain, I like to keep an open mind.

23. Do you know who Ghetto-ass barbie is?
No

24. Do you always wear your seat belt?
Always

25 what cell service do you use?
Verizon

26. Do you like Sushi?
I love sushi

27. Have you ever narrowly avoided a fatal accident?
Yes

28. What do you wear to bed?
something soft or something sexy

29. Been caught stealing?
No

30. what shoe size do you have?
8.5 or 9

31. Do you truly hate anyone?
no,  hate things about them maybe, but hate gets you now where..

32. Classic Rock or Rap?
Classic Rock

33. If you could sleep with one famous person, who would it be?
I am undecided here.....

wheres 34?
Obviously someone didn't feel comfortable answering it and deleted it.

35. Have you ever sang in front of the mirror?
I just do not sing - it is not pretty

36. What food do you find disgusting?
Well, not disgusting, but eating Twislers recently caused a major case of hives (the wheat and corn syrup....)

37. Do you sing in the shower?
see 35

38. Did you ever play, "I'll show you mine, if you show me yours"?
no

39. Have you ever made fun of your friends behind their back?
Is that somethng you should do to a friend?

40. Have you ever stood up for someone you hardly knew?
yes

41 is missing too.....

My generous reader wrote this:

"Writing is an unusual activity in that it is possible to get it right.  Most things in life, you get one shot; blow it and you're down.  Writing, you have every opportunity to edit, and re-write, and re-edit, and re-re-write.  You have to subject every word, every comma to the most withering attention you can bring to bear.  Any word that isn't carrying its weight gets the chop."

I have to say that it is right on the money. I had not thought of it in that way, but so true. In what other art form, do you get to go back and keep making changes. Painters, I guess can to a certain point, but only to a certain point. It, at some point, becomes an issue of starting over or being happy with the canvas you have created. Sculptors, I think really only get one shot. You cannot put cut stone back, once you have chipped it off, there is no going back. I guess if you are molding clay, maybe you can fix a mistake.

So writing is a rather unique. You can change your mind, you can edit and re-edit. Word choice is crucial. The most subtle change in words and you have a different story. I like to play with point of view. Sometimes I write something in the first person and then go ahead and change it to the third. It changes the feeling of the story, but none the less it is a great exercise.

I also like to write poetry. This I have done one and off since I was young. I am getting back to it. It is very freeing, poetry. You are not stuck with all the grammar rules. You can really play with the language.

I also speak another language. (German) I cannot write it nearly as well as I can speak and read it. Writing in German has always been very hard for me. Which is so strange, because writing in English has always been something I enjoyed and was reasonable good at doing.

I have always liked words. Word choice is a big deal for me. I remeber in middle school, we had do do these weekly worksheets, looking up a list of "big" words in the dictionary and then use them in a sentence. I loved this assignment, frankly I think I am the only one who liked it. It was so much fun. I have been toying with doing that here. Picking a word and then writing a killer sentence with it.

So once again, thanks generous reader. You have given me much food for thought and that is what this blog is all about. Practice, feedback, practice, feedback. The only way my art will get better, is to keep working towards perfection, not sure I will ever get there, but that is the point. To make the journey, to try and use language to the very best of my ability to make a point, to entertain, to enrich others, to bring them pleasure.

In college I often heard that a person will have 5 to 7 "careers" before they retire. I never believed this. Well I am onto to number 3 (well technically 4 I guess if we are keeping a really strict count.) After college I worked briefly as a waitress, then I spent ten years working at a major financial services firm, then 2 years as being a full time mom and now I am working on being a professional writer. (I am still a mom - so that is point of indecision as to whether this is my 3rd or 4th exactly.)

So right now I am getting paid to write newsletter copy, website content, and some business documents from time to time. This is my efforts to actually make writing pay. That said, what I really want to do is write fiction.

My passion is fiction. So, that is mostly what this blog will be about. My quest at writing good fiction. I like all kinds of fiction. I love a good mystery. I like romantic suspense. I like a bit of the paranormal stuff, I am learning to like some chick-lit. I really like a well written and well plotted erotic romance.

So - that said I will try to keep you all posted on my progress. I currently have a short story in the works. (Two finished, but unpublished.) One short story in the works. Three novels plotted and one in the works. I also must report that I have my first rejection under my belt. It stung a bit. But it was my first stab at fiction and my first story written in a long time.

So now I can say I survived rejection and I am moving on! (Yeah me!)

I also like to write what I have termed mind candy - which I will treat you to a bit at a time...maybe later in the week.

I welcome comments, suggestions, questions - the whole deal.