Fresh off the happy news of my One Lovely Blog award, I have been nominated for the 7×7 award. I’m very excited (and grateful) for the nomination by Limebird Writers (I believe Limebird Beth was the originator). Please check out their blog – it’s one of my favorites.
As a 7×7 nominee, I am supposed to post 7 general things about myself, list 7 of my posts, and nominate 7 other bloggers. So, without further ado (I have always wanted a reason to say that)…
7 Things About Me
- I have been inside the lion’s enclosure of the St. Louis Zoo (no lions in there at the time)
- I like dogs and cats
- I really like stores that sell fancy stationary, pens, and paper (although I hardly ever use them)
- From what I can tell, I have unusually good memories of my early life (age 2ish)
- I dislike wearing socks, but I also don’t like sandals.
- I still don’t understand twitter, even though I have an account
7 Posts -
- The Wiggles Prove You Can Be a Writer – It helps me keep perspective, I think it’s funny, and I almost always get a visit from somebody doing a web search for something Wiggles-related.
- Smarter Than Your Average Cell Phone – Because I think the way people behave is interesting.
- Would You PLEASE Stop Posting??? – Because I never realized how big the internet really was (or I stick my head in the sand, whichever)
- Not What You Expected – Because search engines are weird.
- The World of Word-Craft – Every writer should have some favorite words, and enjoy the richness some of them have.
- Beating Writer’s Block – one category at a time – If only I would take my own advice.
- Creating a Fantasy World – I’m proud of my map, but the nicer one is on my Art page.
7 Blogs - I’ve only been up and running (and reading blogs myself) for a little while. I’m going to exclude Limebird Writers (since they nominated me). Even in my short time in the blogosphere I’ve found lots of great sites, so it’s hard to choose just seven. So, I’m going to go for some of the blogs that first caught my eye and I’ve enjoyed since, including those with totally different subject matter than mine.
Kudos on your award, Shannon, and thank you so much for nominating The Artist’s Road as one of your seven winners!
You’re welcome! I enjoy your blog.
Thanks for the nomination and for thinking of my blog.
This is award season, three TODAY!
You got THREE in one DAY? I’m impressed, but not shocked. You’ve got a nice blog.
Honestly, I am so new I didn’t know there WERE blog awards until this week!
I know what you mean. They are a bit chain lettery but they do help introduce you to other people’s blogs, go searching for blogs to nominate etc so they don’t do any harm. Thanks again.
Thanks for listing Stories I Read, Stories I Tell among your seven!! Kudos!
You’re welcome.
Thanks so much for the nominations! They made my day!
There’s another blog I think you might enjoy – http://myotherbookisatolstoy.wordpress.com/ by Louise Jaques. She’s got some good thoughts on writing and the life of someone who enjoys reading, and her post on the rampant misuse of grammar is hysterical!
Glad I made your day. Your blog was actually the first I visited (when actually *trying* to visit blogs that is) and it left a very good impression.
Thank you so much! I really appreciate the nomination!
You’re welcome. I enjoy your site or I wouldn’t have nominated you.
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Hey, you got another award last week! Blimey, that’s good going, congratulations!
Thank you, Sally.
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I’ve finally posted my acceptance of your generous award. It took me a while but better late than never!
Thanks again.
You’re welcome. I fully understand why it takes awhile sometimes.