A Writing Meme

Kari tagged me to write about me and my writing. Even though that topic comes up a lot on this blog, I can’t resist. So here goes…

I love the word write, writer, writing…pretty much any variation of it.

I wrote my first book when I was 7 using one of my dad’s yellow legal pads.

I’m happy with the pace at which I’ve built my writing career, but at times I still feel like an untapped resource.

You know that movie Searching for Bobby Fischer? And how the little boy Josh loved to play the fast-paced chess games in the city? But the adults wanted to keep him from it and instead prodded him to stick with “proper” training with a formal coach? And how he ended up doing both? And how in the end he won the tournament because of that? Well. I sort of see blogging as my “city chess” and writing offline (i.e., the articles that are eventually published in print mags) as my “proper training” and in the end I think they work together to bring the best out in my writing.

Once I looked at a list of all the blog posts I’ve written and realized I could’ve finished a book in the amount of time I’ve put into Roughly Speaking.

I tag Susan and Beth.