Recently I ran into an author/illustrator of books, Richard Torrey. I’ve been acquainted with him for years, ever since I had his daughter in my class. We got to talking about storytelling and writing. He was in the process of sending his second proof of a book he was working on to his publisher. I mentioned that I am still interested in becoming a published author some day, but haven’t worked much on any new stories (fiction wise) since my Dora and the Jade of Knowledge story. His comment to me was to just keep on writing. He mentioned that he had been at a writer’s conference recently where a famous author said it took almost 20 years to get published, so I shouldn’t get discouraged. He also mentioned another famous quote, I think attributed to Thomas Edison, stating that as long as I keep writing/inventing, even if most of my work is poor, I will eventually find some gems. Something like that.
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June 2008
About writing
The shopping mind
How do you shop? For me it depends on what I’m shopping for. There are those stores that I go to that I’m determined to be in and out as quick as possible. I go in get what I’m planning on getting and leave. This usually happens when I go by myself to purchase clothing or food. Some would say that is the male hunter instinct. This can be annoying to my wife when I go shopping for something like clothes and manage to find what I’m looking for right away. She’s more of the gatherer type so can’t understand, how I do it. She will shop and shop buying much more than she needs, knowing that after a fashion show at home she will choose to keep some of the articles purchased and will return the rest. It’s my understanding that that is also a stereotypical female trait. It works for her, so I don’t complain. Actually it helped me during my recent Mother’s day shopping excursion.
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