Writing & Blogging

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I’ve been writing since I could put pen to paper (almost). I have my earliest diaries, and although I cringe & want to burn them all, I don’t — because they’re evidence that all the way back then I’ve written in some form or another. As a kid I would draw silly comics with a hedgehog and an elephant spy, make up crazy stories to go with them, write plays for my cousins & I to perform for our all-too-enthusiastic parents (and charged them admission!). Not only that, I was then and still am a voracious reader. At age 10 I would  climb up to our library nook and read the encyclopedias starting at A and working my way through Z and starting over, then move on to my father’s old college textbooks. These days it’s not uncommon for me to have 4-5 books in progress from fantasy to psychology to quantum physics.

Later I wrote bad poetry as most teens do, tried my hand at some fiction which desperately needed work, and devoured any writing assignment my English teachers handed me.

And my collection of journals grew. In college, the Internet was just coming into its own as a self-publishing tool and I began my own blog with my poetry, observations and banalities of life as a college student. This was before all the fancy content management and blog software we have today. Since then my longest-running blog has been my personal blog with posts from 2002 when I was using Blogger as my platform.

I finally took the plunge and began writing professionally October 2007 when I was brought on to eHow.com’s staff of Expert how-to writers. Since then I’ve written for Collective Creatives, a site for women in creative business, and started my own blogs for my art business at I Make ARRRT! and one to explore my Renaissance Soul tendencies at The Alternating Current. I’m also in charge of the local arts league website and blog.

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