What’s the worst advice you’ve ever been given?
Looking back, there’s one heck of a lot of bad advice in life – and that’s only counting the pieces of advice we don’t have quite enough sense (or enough self-confidence?) to ignore at the time. Not even talking about fortune cookies, here, or the bright ideas your Facebook friends can come up with for you to do. (more…)
If you haven’t already met Claudia through her crystal-wit comments scattered about on Domestik Goddess, you might want to do yourself the favour of going to Dragonfly Dreaming to meet her now.
Why?
Here’s why:
I am a wild hippie woman. Natural, loving, instinctual, endangered, untamed, playful, fierce, inquisitive, artistic, intellectual, spirited, nurturing, unconquerable, melodramatic, universal and just a little bit insane. ~ Claudia
The proof is in the writing.
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If you've ever been owned by a cat, you'll know what a charming pest a cat can be. Bored cats and the desks of busy people are (a) inevitably going…
Of all the various freelance writing jobs I do in real life, my all-time least favourite task is to write the little blurb for the back cover of a book. Succinct is not my forte. I am a natural-born babbler, as those who move through my life will know (to the detriment of their ears and patience).
Another thing I really strongly dislike is to impose (or attempt to impose) my will upon others. I say please a lot, and thank you even more — the way more forthright souls might sprinkle their conversation with colourful expletives.
Colour me pathetic.
So of course I am vaguely appalled (and yet, truly, flattered) whenever I am tagged for a meme — especially since they do, by definition, tend to require tagging someone else…
I dither.
I procrastinate.
And eventually I fall back on the tried-and-true:
I did it! It took me seven years of researching, writing, and expert procrastination, but I've finally finished writing that dratted book that's been hanging over my head for all…