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Reality Blog Award – Feb 2013
The very kind and supportive InionNMathair nominated me for a blog award. How exciting!!! It’s such a great feeling to open an email and see a fellow blogger that I respect say “we nominated you” 🙂 Thank you SO much InionNMathair!!!
You can read about Inionnmathair and their post on being nominated. They definitely deserve it! And if you haven’t been to their blog, this mother/daughter writing team is worth a visit. You’ll be glad you did!
What are the rules for the Reality Award?
- Go to the blog of the person that nominated you and give a nod on your post
- Answer the questions, then nominate up to twenty bloggers
- Visit their blog and let them know
- Cut and paste the award to your wall
The questions:
If you could change one thing, what would it be?
I would have taken my writing seriously when I was much, much younger! If I had, then maybe I would have written my “million words of crap” a long time ago and I’d be writing the good words, maybe even the published words, by now.
If you could repeat an age, what would it be?
When I was in my 20s I thought those were the best years of my life and if I happened to be turned into a vampire, that would be the age for it to happen (okay, so I was reading a LOT of Anne Rice during my 20s). Then I hit my 30s and I thought those were the best years. I have to say, now that I’m in my 40s, I am totally okay with where I am in life and with my age.
But if I had to pick an age to repeat … why not go way back to a time when life was carefree, summers lasted forever & I had just started writing poetry and loved it? I was around 13. Ooh … as soon as I write that age I think, oh no, why would I want to do that? How about 19 … oh no, college, studying, working, no money … what about 26? 30? Okay, this may be a cop-out, but I’m happy right where I am! 🙂
What one thing really scares you?
That I might give up on writing and give in to the doubts or feelings that creep in occasionally that tell me I’m probably wasting my time. Right now, there’s no way I’m going to do that. At least not today!
If you could be someone else for a day, who would it be?
Hmmm, several fictional characters go through my mind: Kitty Pryde (from Xmen/New Mutants), Lara Croft (Tomb Raider), Super Girl.
I think it’s because I can imagine having their powers or skills but still be me. I really can’t think of real person I’d want to be … boring, I know 😉
Nominations:
I’ll be visiting bloggers and letting them know I nominated them for the Reality Award. But let me say again, thanks InionNMathair!!!!! 🙂
Writing Pieces of Me 
Thank you for the nomination! This is a great award and I love the questions!
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Your welcome Julie! I liked the questions as well, they were different 🙂
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Congrats on the award! Well deserved. And I’m with you–I’m not so sure I’d like to go back and repeat any age. That being said, I loved my 30s. I think that’s a great decade for women. But I also love moving forward.
By the way, I just saw your Amazon review. Thank you so much for doing that! I really appreciate it. I know there are only so many minutes in the day, so I’m grateful you used some of them to leave me a review. Good luck with your own writing. It will happen. It’s just one day at a time though, isn’t it? Sigh…
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Thanks Carrie and your welcome for the review! I really did enjoy your book. As for my writing, sometimes I feel good about it, other times not so much. But I know I’m not the only (wanna-be) writer whose felt that way. As you say, ‘one day at a time.’
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Congratulations! Like you, I wish I would have started writing earlier. Then maybe I’d be through my million-word training period, too…. Since we can’t go back and change time, though, I’ll have to work on the here and now and enjoy it as much as I can. (When those awful self-doubts finally take a few naps. 😉 )
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I don’t know JM, your writing has me convinced that you’ve made it through your million words – good for you!! And yes, I agree about enjoying it as much as we can, because even if my writing goes no where, I have to admit I’ve really enjoyed recommitting to it again! 🙂
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Hi Arlene, thank you for the award! You left such a kind message on my awards page; I really appreciate it.
I did start writing at an early age, but I didn’t know how tough it would be to write a story that I could actually send out to query. So, I understand what you mean about the million words of crap, because for a long time, I really loved my crap. 🙂
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Congrats on the award! 🙂 I think I’d go back to college just enough responsibility and so much freedom. 😉
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So true Kourtney, those were some awesome years!! 🙂 and maybe if I went back there I could actually focus on writing, take it more seriously and be much further along now, but I guess it all works out how it’s supposed to 🙂 thanks for commenting!
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The road not taken. I wonder if I’d be as good a writer if I hadn’t done business school and worked in big companies. I gained mad organizational skills that I use constantly to keep my writing on schedule. 🙂
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