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Something I encountered on Charlotte’s Web looked like fun. The idea (originating on a blog called Dipping Into The Waterbutt) is that, for the benefit of writers developing or researching characters, bloggers share five different facts or facets of themselves:
“…to help writers either find inspiration for new stories, help develop new characters or point them in the right direction when they need somebody to help them with research.”
So what the hell? Five things the three or four people who check this blog out now and then didn’t know and probably weren’t really curious about:
- I practice kyudo, a form of Japanese archery
- I read tarot cards. But not all the time.
- I really, really, really hate wasps. But I feel guilty about it.
- I’ve got one post-graduate degree (in IT) and am working on a second in the social sciences. I see no contradiction between this and an on-off relationship with the Tarot. So I suppose by definition, my relationship with scientific truth is a more than a little post-modern in orientation.
- When I was eleven, I saw a picture of a huddle of tiny dome tents under a sky full of stars on a planet in another star-system, far, far away. It pierced me in some way, left a splinter of ice in my heart. I wanted to stand there, on that alien world hundreds of light-years from earth, and to know what it was like to be utterly elsewhere with no way home. I still feel that way. But dudelet and supermum would have to want to come too.
Well, No. 5 was unexpected. I wonder what other people have put down?
Late addition – apparently I should have included this. Oops!
PLEASE LEAVE THE FOLLOWING IN ALL ‘PEOPLE COLLECTION’ POSTS
Remember that it isn’t always the sensational stuff that writers are looking for, it can just as easily be something that you take for granted like having raised twins or knowing how to grow beetroot. Mind you, if you know how to fly a helicopter or have worked as a film extra, do feel free to let the rest of us know about it
I’m also supposed to ‘tag’ someone but that’s way too forward for someone like me.
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Hmmm, very interesting. I like that “splinter of ice”, as if the picture inspired both fear and fascination. I wouldn’t feel too guilty about detesting wasps. They probably don’t hold it against you …
Hey…Possibly that’s the most scary thing about them…
So cool! You joined in too! I can relate to no.5 very strongly. When I was a teenager I used to pray I’d be kidnapped by aliens so that I could go to a completely new world and never come back.
I’m terrified of wasps too. I’m scared one will fly down my throat and sting me, make my throat swell up and then I’ll die. Everyone says this is illogical and so I feel foolish.
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