The Blog of Personality

The Artists

The gentle and compassionate type. They are especially attuned their inner values and what other people need. They are not friends of many words and tend to take the worries of the world on their shoulders. They tend to follow the path of least resistance and have to look out not to be taken advantage of.

They often prefer working quietly, behind the scene as a part of a team. They tend to value their friends and family above what they do for a living.

I think that's a pretty good description of me. I do worry a lot. I don't talk much. I prefer to do let my fingers do the talking on the keyboard. =)

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Honest Scrap Award

I've received a gift from jiggins @ con·tin·u·um for my blog "Ink in My Sweet Tea: The NaNoWriMo Journal of a Southern Writer". I'd seen blog awards on other blogs and wondered if I would ever be the recipient of such an honor. This is my first blogging award to be given to me by one of my peers in the blogging community. Thank you so much, Jiggins. You have been such an inspiration to me. Even though I've never "met" you, I count you among my friends, and I'm blessed to have you in my life. :)

Here's the guidelines as I received them from Jiggins:
1. List 10 honest things about yourself (make it interesting, even if you have to dig deep!)
2. Pass the award on to 7 bloggers (I hope I don't pass it to someone who already has it!)

Ten Truths About Me:
1. I will never get married again. Three times is enough. Done. Finished. Out of the game.

2. I wish my sister and I had some kind of relationship.

3. I wanted to be a singer before I wanted to be a writer.

4. I didn't submit my writing for twenty years because I didn't think it was good enough. To me good enough had to be perfect.

5. I have realized that perfection will never be attained in my lifetime, but good enough is totally possible.

6. I used to be a chameleon. I could adapt to any situation, any time, any place. Now I'm just me, take me or leave me. I'll still be me.

7. I can let people be where they are, how they are.

8. I can only change me. I am powerless over everyone else.

9. I believe happiness is a choice.

10. I am a person who is motivated by pain. When I get tired of hurting, I will make the necessary changes. Unfortunately it's usually not until I'm in a lot of emotional pain that I'm willing to change.

I pass this award on to those bloggers who have the courage to write and tell their stories with the scrap of honesty it takes to get down to the absolute, unadulterated truth. Such are the writers I admire most. This list is not complete, just a tip of the iceberg of the list of blogs I read on a daily basis. I wish I could pass out more than seven!
Thanks again. See you soon!

1. Shon Bacon @ All the Blog's a Page.

2. Carolyn Townes @ Becoming a Woman of Purpose.

3. Kim Smith @ Writing Space.

4. Lea Schizas @ The Writing Jungle.

5.Lyndsey @ Open Up Your Folding Chair.

6. Holly Lisle @ Pocket Full of Words.

7. Clesha Staten.

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2009 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award

Amazon and CreateSpace are hosting the 2009 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Contest. I think I will enter my NaNo novel. So we know what that means. December is for finishing, and January is for editing. This change in plans means long hours at the keyboard and a lot of hard work in a very short time. But, hey, $25,000 for 3 months work is pretty darn good for a writer. And that's the Grand Prize.

If I don't win, I'm still a winner. It will be the first time in my life I've actually submitted my work so I'll be a winner either way.

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Post-Nano Depression

So I finally came out of the post-NaNoWriMo depression, and wrote 500 words on a new project yesterday. I can tell I haven't written in almost two weeks because those few words had me aching all the way up past my shoulders. I'm considering changing over to the Colemak keyboard. I would use the Dvorak, but the cut and paste shortcuts get lost with it and not with the Colemak.

Right now I'm working on NaNoPubYe, National Novel Publishing Year, to try to get my novel ready for submitting.

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My Pics from NaNoWriMo 2008

This is my inspiration mirror. I wrote different affirmations on it during November to help me get through NaNoWriMo. My favorite one was: Do you really want to experience the feelings you will have if you don't win? Write! You can do it!
I think it worked!





The other image is my NaNo Author page with my verified winning word count! I was so happy when it changed to purple and the big picture of the Viking ship came on the screen and said, "You Won!"
Now I know why NaNoers say, "December is for sleeping." I feel exhausted, and also feel really strange today. I feel like I should still be working on the novel. It's kind of like my best friends moved away, and I don't quite know what to do with myself.
Maybe I need to start working on a new project?

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