tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4234448699298977391.post620750358877934242..comments2015-01-16T05:23:00.008-08:00Comments on the red dress club:: Why I WriteCherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14025221975648580117noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4234448699298977391.post-30214281904903480502010-07-15T12:43:39.691-07:002010-07-15T12:43:39.691-07:00Me too, Kirsten. Me too!Me too, Kirsten. Me too!Cherylhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14025221975648580117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4234448699298977391.post-13228678366774377722010-07-15T11:55:48.849-07:002010-07-15T11:55:48.849-07:00Cheryl sorry I'm such a slacker with the comme...Cheryl sorry I'm such a slacker with the comments, but this is amazing, as are you. Love what you write. <br /><br />I was journaller extraordinaire, but never EVER trusted myself to try fiction. Even in my MAJOR in COLLEGE when we had to write fiction, I had to resort to drinking to write what had to be submitted for passing. And no, there weren't even any grades, I was just that anxious about it anyway.<br /><br />So this Club of yours is going to be my FIRST OFFICIAL EFFORT. Can promise there won't be any angst.kirstenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17833274360880170296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4234448699298977391.post-23395879134898230442010-07-13T19:35:31.514-07:002010-07-13T19:35:31.514-07:00Adelle - Glad you're back from vacay and can j...Adelle - Glad you're back from vacay and can join us! Sorry about stealing your stuff ;)<br /><br />Swati - I sense we may be kindred spirits!Cherylhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14025221975648580117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4234448699298977391.post-50050733740767032552010-07-13T18:40:10.824-07:002010-07-13T18:40:10.824-07:00Hi Cheryl:
a) Nothing beats the original BG serie...Hi Cheryl:<br /><br />a) Nothing beats the original BG series, nothing<br />b) I was at home too...not to be kissed until I was 18!!! And then it may have been an accident!<br />c) I remember being about 12 or 13 dreaming about the future...when it all seemed so tantalizing...especially when I lay on the hill at the side of our house looking up at the clouds...and I agree some of those days were so delicious, it would be wonderful to go back.<br /><br />Lovely post - <br />SwatiThe Single Mothers Chronicleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03741991951693505652noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4234448699298977391.post-49325814088314923952010-07-13T16:37:37.638-07:002010-07-13T16:37:37.638-07:00I love this! I love this! You practically plageriz...I love this! I love this! You practically plagerized (j/k) my About Me page (except for the fiction part - fiction terrifies me. And the bit about nursing. Flunked that job.) <br /><br />What a fabulous idea. I wish I had been in town when this all started, but I'm here now. I want to play, too!Adellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02514702407736792897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4234448699298977391.post-33706849058459870162010-07-13T16:15:23.355-07:002010-07-13T16:15:23.355-07:00Lisa - you poor lonely shamrock! ;)
Michele - gla...Lisa - you poor lonely shamrock! ;)<br /><br />Michele - glad you are finally coming out of the closet here! Wait, that didn't quite come out right.. ;)Cherylhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14025221975648580117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4234448699298977391.post-84089629251670653912010-07-13T11:48:19.502-07:002010-07-13T11:48:19.502-07:00This is such a great post. I still remember the f...This is such a great post. I still remember the first story I ever wrote. I called it "The Lonely Shamrock," and it was about a little shamrock who lost his family and wandered the forest feeling sad until he found a whole colony of other shamrocks. <br /><br />Hmmm...I suspect I was the shamrock...lolLisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05553485625575303233noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4234448699298977391.post-35599196758054498202010-07-12T21:55:16.495-07:002010-07-12T21:55:16.495-07:00Paula and I had a lot of fun doing it way back whe...Paula and I had a lot of fun doing it way back when..Cherylhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14025221975648580117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4234448699298977391.post-75762776869406962602010-07-12T20:04:31.265-07:002010-07-12T20:04:31.265-07:00Great post! I also had a "Paula", she wa...Great post! I also had a "Paula", she was my sister, ugh!! You do need to bring that story back out.Jenniferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18417004075934315410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4234448699298977391.post-5240452269246724652010-07-12T18:41:55.376-07:002010-07-12T18:41:55.376-07:00I totally wish I could see my story! Interesting t...I totally wish I could see my story! Interesting that you were home schooled, btw. I never knew anyone who was. I mean, NOW I do, but I don't know any adults.Cherylhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14025221975648580117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4234448699298977391.post-1569421576263007812010-07-12T17:18:34.690-07:002010-07-12T17:18:34.690-07:00I wrote all sorts of stories... I was homeschooled...I wrote all sorts of stories... I was homeschooled through 8th grade, and would imagine what it was like to go to school, be in the "in" crowds"... I wish I still had the stories (though I'm sure they're painfully embarrassing!!) but like you, I keep coming back to writing. It's a good thing :)Corinne Cunninghamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07604810312185816792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4234448699298977391.post-55336165503847332772010-07-12T14:17:34.555-07:002010-07-12T14:17:34.555-07:00Jess - nope, you were totally NOT the only one!Jess - nope, you were totally NOT the only one!Cherylhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14025221975648580117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4234448699298977391.post-26599409496044213452010-07-12T13:50:38.967-07:002010-07-12T13:50:38.967-07:00I thought I was the only one who wrote collaborati...I thought I was the only one who wrote collaboratively in notebooks with their best friends. We would pass the notebook between each other and add to it, each in our own handwriting, but mine was always the longest sections...Jess S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/07538075531295272306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4234448699298977391.post-18510294636898701842010-07-12T13:40:56.271-07:002010-07-12T13:40:56.271-07:00Empress: You ARE a writer. It's like me with r...Empress: You ARE a writer. It's like me with running. I ran a freaking marathon and still could not bring myself to call myself a Runner. Oh no - a RUNNER is someone who is fast, who's good, who's got that whip-thin build. Me? I was just someone who runs. I had to get over it because I AM a runner! There. I said it. Felt pretty good!<br /><br />Paula - How you remember that..and WHY we picked that name - I'll ever know.<br /><br />Deborah - You threw them out? ACK!<br /><br />Jessica - Yay for scratching that itch! I think my parents liked that I was a writer. Then again, any career that paid my own rent and bills they were likely to support ;)Cherylhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14025221975648580117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4234448699298977391.post-5904932493829945692010-07-12T13:03:54.473-07:002010-07-12T13:03:54.473-07:00I loved this! I think as writers we all have had ...I loved this! I think as writers we all have had the need to write and make up stories since we were little. I always loved writing in school. In my house writing wasn't considered a serious job that you could actually support yourself doing. So I got a serious job instead of pursuing writing. That writing itch never left though. It's time to scratch it. :)Jessica Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11331090466541120750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4234448699298977391.post-89481214669958824762010-07-12T11:46:01.521-07:002010-07-12T11:46:01.521-07:00I was also that daydreaming girl in my room making...I was also that daydreaming girl in my room making up my own happy endings. I put many of my stores down on paper, but never had the confidence that anything would come of them - so when the story was done, it went out with the trash. Gasp. I'e since learned not to do that!<br /><br />Definitely pull out those paragraphsm those snippets of imagination - and revisit them. You never know where an idea may lead until you write it.<br /><br />Thanks for the stroll down memory lane.Deborahttp://www.deboradennis.com/blognoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4234448699298977391.post-1565621549018785232010-07-12T10:41:15.627-07:002010-07-12T10:41:15.627-07:00Heh. Nina Poole!Heh. Nina Poole!Paulahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13012777824807580267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4234448699298977391.post-80088262712085613822010-07-12T09:19:10.094-07:002010-07-12T09:19:10.094-07:00I agree. I have so many things I want to say, they...I agree. I have so many things I want to say, they keep me up at night. I want to say "I am a writer," but what stops me? I write, that should be enough, shouldn't it?Alexandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00609629888008025050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4234448699298977391.post-28481239524025004942010-07-12T07:42:12.523-07:002010-07-12T07:42:12.523-07:00Ratz - You can be a writer - today!Ratz - You can be a writer - today!Cherylhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14025221975648580117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4234448699298977391.post-16166277684034600722010-07-12T07:41:01.541-07:002010-07-12T07:41:01.541-07:00Mommy's Sippy Cup - I know what you mean about...Mommy's Sippy Cup - I know what you mean about starting, and then...starting again.<br /><br />Ericka - DORK! ;)<br /><br />Gina - There's still time to be those things!<br /><br />Pamela - I have NO idea where that story is now. It probably got thrown away when my parents sold the house. It was not great literature. Trust me.<br /><br />Lindsay - Ah, voice. That will definitely be a post topic in the future.Cherylhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14025221975648580117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4234448699298977391.post-76519598359599987812010-07-12T07:40:06.990-07:002010-07-12T07:40:06.990-07:00Oh!!! I know that story... it is so close to my he...Oh!!! I know that story... it is so close to my heart... I went through the same phase maybe a bit different.... but nonetheless the same... No body ever told me that i wrote well... that i could become a writer someday....and today things have become so on the contrary... i guess life gives chances to live those missed opportunities all over againRathihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10575572965786947205noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4234448699298977391.post-46989823899654723452010-07-12T07:30:15.724-07:002010-07-12T07:30:15.724-07:00I was a journalist too, and the first creative wri...I was a journalist too, and the first creative writing class I took was also memoir. I was so overwhelmed. MDQ? Protagonist? Story arc? What the hell is all this? <br /><br />Writing was kind of always there, I wrote stories as a kid, have kept journals since I was 12, but it didn't really click until I was in my early twenties that I should make it a career. I think it was a full-on aha! moment. I just woke up one day and realized I should pursue it. It took a lot longer for the confidence to come. And longer still to find my own voice.Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07031805236259531142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4234448699298977391.post-17806713012074947772010-07-12T06:46:23.140-07:002010-07-12T06:46:23.140-07:00Pull that story out, dust it off and make it happe...Pull that story out, dust it off and make it happen now!Pamela Goldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03828671725848167955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4234448699298977391.post-48116757379210168922010-07-12T06:45:02.831-07:002010-07-12T06:45:02.831-07:00I remember those days - except I did have that bla...I remember those days - except I did have that black&white notebook. I always thought I would be a famous writer or artist one day. Ah, to be 12 again!Ginahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05190236280134389968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4234448699298977391.post-80430587174430590432010-07-12T06:41:57.857-07:002010-07-12T06:41:57.857-07:00i was that dork too. i even threaten to back to c...i was that dork too. i even threaten to back to college just so i can buy school supplies.<br /><br />great post cheryl!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com