Erratic Mess was kind enough to nominate Killing Time for the Shine On Blogger Award. I’m extremely grateful for the kindness and I encourage anyone who stumbles upon my site to check out her’s. She has an awesome page and I’m honored that she thought of me.
http://erraticmess.wordpress.com
The Shine On Award Rules:
- Link back to the blogger who nominated you.
- Post the badge on your blog.
- Answer the questions posed to you.
- Nominate five bloggers who shine a little light in your day and be sure to notify them.
- Issue some questions you’d like them to answer
My Answers:
01. If you could go anywhere, where would you go?
I’ve always wanted to see London. I’d love to go back in time and do college again. But, where I’d really want to go, where I’d love to live out my days, is in Tolkien’s Middle Earth. Hey, you didn’t specify temporal or fictional restrictions. I’m an outside-the-box thinker.
02. How have the books you have read influenced your own writing?
It’s a cliché that’s true: if you want to be a better writer, be a better reader. Books are a wonderful thing. They furnish the soul. John Kieran put it well when he said, “I am a part of all that I have read.” Every good thing I read challenges me to be a better writer. I don’t think emulation is of any use. The best writing is a true extension of the author. Write how you’d speak if you had the same command and recall that print affords and oral communication lacks. That’s the “voice” that gets dissected in English classes ad nauseam.
03. Where do you receive most of your inspiration?
I find that I’m an infinitely better writer after just having watched or read something that buzzed my brain. I get a contact endorphin high of sorts off of exposure to brilliant work. For example, I worship Aaron Sorkin’s teleplays and screenplays, so if I just watched a rerun of The West Wing or A Few Good Men, I find I have all these thoughts bouncing around my brain because what I’ve been concentrating on has raised and honed my thinking to a place where I want to express myself. Sorkin is my mind Gatorade.
04. What is your favorite season?
Autumn. Fall is a rather bleak word, whereas ‘autumn’ is elegant. I lived for six years in Southern California and one of the things I missed the most was the gradual change from summer to autumn; the leaves changing, the temperature leveling out at just right; the holidays and all the comes with them. Autumn is the best of all times.
05. Why do you blog?
I write because I have to write. If I go a day without writing, I feel like something’s gone terribly awry. It’s that itchy feeling in your head that you left something on, forgot to turn in an assignment or feed your fish. That’s how writing is with me. It’s a spigot I plop into my forehead so I can vent some of the oddness that builds up within.
My Questions:
01. What book (or film) has had the most influence on your writing?
02. What was the last movie you watched or book you read that moved you to
tears? Manly stoic mistiness does indeed count.
03. What event/motivation moved you to start your blog?
04. What is your favorite place on Earth (note: if you have visited other planets,
screw the first question and tell us about that)?
05. Superman vs. Batman: who wins? There IS a right answer.
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