Anyway, it gave me pause. (Kind of like the mention of Hershey's Extra Creamy Milk Chocolate Toffee and Almond Nuggets just did.) And then I laughed. It reminded me of all those years ago when I had my very first ever item published in the newspaper. Because I could string a few words together in a somewhat coherent (and humorous, I hasten to add) manner and a newspaper was willing to publish it and pay me 10 bucks, suddenly I was an expert of sorts. Never mind that I didn't have another thing published for, like, forever. People just seemed to be impressed with even this one minor success.
They also seemed to think I knew the ins and outs of writing.
My son's 2nd grade teacher saw the article and asked if I would come once a week to teach Creative Writing to the class. And I was actually asked to judge an elementary school Reflections writing contest. I guess it turned out alright. No anarchy in the streets over the winners chosen.
No chocolate-covered bribery attempted either.
Darn it.
[this bit of nonsense is also appearing today at anwafounder.blogspot.com]
2 comments:
I was an editor at my High School newspaper, and despite publishing many of my own articles, no one has ever seemed incredibly inspired by that fact. ;o)
Re: pretending to be Anne Hathaway pretending to be Jane Austin, I think that's as good a thing to pretend as anything! I don't know if I could get into the real spirit of it typing on a laptop, though. ;o)
Good luck with your November BIAM!
I'm certainly impressed as I have never published anything. (Does a blog post count?)
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