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As I mentioned in my comment to Tracy M, my draw literally dropped when I read my name. What's the big deal, you ask? I'm getting an award based on my writing. Not my niceness, nor my ability to say rude things on many a community site (I'm good at that, sadly); it's for writing. From Tracy M! Believe you me, I consider this a great honor.
Here is the description of the award:
"...ROAR Award for good writing. The rules for being A Roar for Powerful Words recipient are that I share three writing tips and pass the award on to three more bloggers worthy of recognition and esteem..."
My Rules? For writing? I really love Tracy's. Mine? I only have two:
- Re-read the post several times. Even after publishing it. Re-read it. Edit mistakes. I always have several!
- Don't be too extreme in every post. Too depressing, too happy, too petty, too angry, too boring. Occasional extremism is welcome. But in every post? That's a quick way to chase off readers.
- Write about anything. You can make the mundane sound brilliant, and the brilliant sound mundane. Just try. If you don't, then how can you get better?
I want to give this award to Summer at Summer's Nook, Kelly A. at Cookies and Milk and Yellow Balloons , and Cristy at The Mrs. Formerly Known As Mustard. Their writing inspires mine!
10 comments:
Congrats! You deserve it.
Cheryl- are you Carrie's niece??
Technically? No, but I married her nephew. So...yes, she's my aunt. :)
Brandon's (DH) mother is the oldest and Carrie is the youngest and was quite a surprise. Thus the similar ages.
Oh. My. Heck. I just read that I wrote "My DRAW literally dropped" instead of "jaw."
You may now ignore my first rule of writing, since I obviously don't know how to follow it myself. :)
Holy cow! And then I said I only had two rules and then wrote THREE!?! The writing gods are mocking me.
Or maybe my head is so stuffed and my body is so achy that I can't think straight.
P.S. And I commented three times, in a row, on my own blog. I need a nap!
Congrats! You deserve it!
Good for you! Your comments are cracking me up!
Cheryl- I understand the exteneded family ties all too well- my DH was a caboose baby, and his oldest brother already had children when he was born- thus he has a nephew the same age he is! And I'm younger than his nephew- and his mother has Great-grandchildren older than her grandchildren by us.
*no wonder we need a mountain to keep all this stuff in!*
Thank you so much Cheryl. I am so happy you thought of me for this award.
Congratulations to you! You have worked so hard on your writing lately, and are most deserving.
Thank you for the shout out, I haven't meant to let it go unnoticed. You are sweet!
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