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Thanksgiving meme
Nov. 27th, 2008 02:24 pmI was tagged by Fandoria and Shaelise.
1. What Thanksgiving food do you most want to describe? Please do so.
We didn't have it this year because my parents (both recovering heart surgery patients) were here and they can't eat it--and we had too much, anyway--but sometimes we have this sweet potato dish we discovered in Charleston. Sweet potato puree with eggs and butter--so kind of like pumpkin pie--with pecans on top. Yeah, it's pretty deadly.
2. Name three writers you are thankful for both existing and having written marvelous things?
Rowling, L'Engle, and C.S. Lewis, for writing many of the books that have filled me.
3. What makes you thankful for writing right now?
What with all the moving and all of the taking-care-of-other-people's-schedules, it's the one part of my life that I have control over! (But I would write even if I didn't have all that--I need to put words down and explain things and bring to life fictional people who want to come out.)
4. Whose encouragement/advice/criticism has helped you with your writing that you’d like to commemorate?
My family, my fourth grade teacher Mrs. Brackett, my crit group, my LJ friends (plus sarah_create who can't use LJ right now), Verla's Blueboards (if anyone deserves to feel good about children's publishing, it's Verla--I hope she knows just how many books she's influenced!), and the agents who took time they didn't have to make a few constructive comments. They'll never read my blog--but thank you, all the same.
5. Being a writer changes how you see the world. What specifically do you like about the way you see the world?
Thinking about the world in writing terms means being able to see more than one side in a disagreement, which is always useful. Also, I seem to notice more weird things around me than I did before I was writing seriously, which makes like entertaining. It does sometimes affect my book reading or movie viewing, though. :)
6. Are you a pumpkin pie or an apple pie person?
Pumpkin!
7. If you had to choose one picture (preferably funny) to represent Thanksgiving, what would it be?
I don't have a funny picture in mind, but I did find the scene of my son's school play about the first Thanksgiving--in which he sang a solo--ironic, because I was the only one from my second grade class who wasn't allowed to be in chorus. For a real picture, I'd have to go with Norman Rockwell.
8. If you had to choose one verb which captures Thanksgiving, what would it be?
Gorge
I tag whoever is passing out after too much turkey and has time to do this meme.
1. What Thanksgiving food do you most want to describe? Please do so.
We didn't have it this year because my parents (both recovering heart surgery patients) were here and they can't eat it--and we had too much, anyway--but sometimes we have this sweet potato dish we discovered in Charleston. Sweet potato puree with eggs and butter--so kind of like pumpkin pie--with pecans on top. Yeah, it's pretty deadly.
2. Name three writers you are thankful for both existing and having written marvelous things?
Rowling, L'Engle, and C.S. Lewis, for writing many of the books that have filled me.
3. What makes you thankful for writing right now?
What with all the moving and all of the taking-care-of-other-people's-schedules, it's the one part of my life that I have control over! (But I would write even if I didn't have all that--I need to put words down and explain things and bring to life fictional people who want to come out.)
4. Whose encouragement/advice/criticism has helped you with your writing that you’d like to commemorate?
My family, my fourth grade teacher Mrs. Brackett, my crit group, my LJ friends (plus sarah_create who can't use LJ right now), Verla's Blueboards (if anyone deserves to feel good about children's publishing, it's Verla--I hope she knows just how many books she's influenced!), and the agents who took time they didn't have to make a few constructive comments. They'll never read my blog--but thank you, all the same.
5. Being a writer changes how you see the world. What specifically do you like about the way you see the world?
Thinking about the world in writing terms means being able to see more than one side in a disagreement, which is always useful. Also, I seem to notice more weird things around me than I did before I was writing seriously, which makes like entertaining. It does sometimes affect my book reading or movie viewing, though. :)
6. Are you a pumpkin pie or an apple pie person?
Pumpkin!
7. If you had to choose one picture (preferably funny) to represent Thanksgiving, what would it be?
I don't have a funny picture in mind, but I did find the scene of my son's school play about the first Thanksgiving--in which he sang a solo--ironic, because I was the only one from my second grade class who wasn't allowed to be in chorus. For a real picture, I'd have to go with Norman Rockwell.
8. If you had to choose one verb which captures Thanksgiving, what would it be?
Gorge
I tag whoever is passing out after too much turkey and has time to do this meme.
