Jen's Writing Journey

I got a wonderful comment on Monday’s blog post from Rebecca Emerich, whose blog Living a Life of Writing has been featured in my weekly Writing Roundup quite a few times. Rebecca is a prolific blogger who maintains three distinct blogs and posts on her writing blog daily–even on the weekends. And she has two children and a non-fiction work in progress.

Rebecca selected this blog and six others to receive the Kreativ Blogger Award.

I was thrilled that Rebecca holds my blog in such high esteem. Thank you very much, Rebecca!

Here are the rules for the award:
1. Thank the person who nominated you for this award.
2. Copy the logo and place it on your blog.
3. Link to the person who nominated you for this award.
4. Name 7 things about yourself that people might find interesting. (see below)
5. Nominate 7 Kreativ Bloggers.
6. Post links to the 7 blogs you nominate.
7. Leave a comment on each of the blogs letting them know they have been nominated.

1) I am obsessed with the show Friends. Nearly every thing that happens in my life leads me to think, “That reminds me of the episode where…” I have learned only to think that statement, not say it out loud

2) I have a veritable menagerie in my home: a Greater Swiss Mountain Dog, a Bernese Mountain Dog, a Miniature Dachshund, four cats, a couple tropical fish, a husband, a mother, and a brother-in-law. You are free to make your own judgments about who is the hardest to care for.

3) I learned to read when I was three. My parents sent to a Montessori school that was run in a woman’s garage, and I learned at my own pace in the three years I was there. By the time I was five, Mrs. Rose was making monthly trips to the bookstore to buy me new books to read.

4) I quit reading in college. I felt guilty every time I read something that wasn’t for school, so I read only in the summer and on spring break. Like most habits, once you stop reading for pleasure, it is hard to start again. Thankfully, a friend got me back on the path of novel worship a couple years ago, and the books she loaned me to read were the ones that sparked my desire to write fiction.

5) I have season tickets for UO Ducks football. I never liked football until I had been dating my husband for a few years. And I really only tolerated it until we started attending Fan Day and meeting the football players. They are charming, shy, and goofy, almost as if they are real people who just happen to have preternatural athletic abilities. That human connection is what I needed to help me begin to enjoy the game–that and tailgating.

6) I dream of being even half as funny as my comedy idol, Janeane Garofalo. I will watch almost any TV show or movie she is in, just to see her sardonic delivery of her lines. Seriously, I even watched part of Larger Than Life to see her.

7) I don’t understand women who are afraid of stating their age. Age is only a number, and really isn’t getting older better than the alternative? Now I’m 36, so I might feel differently when I get a few more years under my belt.

Here are my seven Kreativ Blog nominees, in no particular order:

• Kristine Meldrum-Denholm: Stories of Life: One Writer-Mom’s Odyssey
• Multiple Writers: Rose City Romance Writers Blog
• Camy Tang: Story Sensei
• L.J. Sellers: Write First, Clean Later
• Multiple Writers: Pop Culture Divas
• Marta Acosta: Vampire Wire
• Julie Steed: Emerging Author

It was ridiculously hard to narrow it down, and I wish I could have nominated 8 or 9 or 10… Anyway, what are your favorite blogs?

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