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    Excerpt from my ebook...

    I hope you enjoy this excerpt from my soon-to-be released eBook, "You Can Get Here From Anywhere".

    What Brought Me to “Here”     (Subtitled: How in the world did I get here from wherever it was I was at?!)

    I graduated from high school and went straight into the workforce. I never attended college and wouldn’t know what an SAT exam resembled. To be quite honest, I’m sorry I didn’t attend college, but only from the standpoint that I hate the look on people’s faces and the way most shudder when they learn that small detail about me. (Much like the way you probably did when you just read it.) It’s as if people feel duped that I’ve had the nerve, the audacity, the gumption to speak with them on their terms, and have a hypothesis—simply because I didn’t attend college.

    And to those people I say, “Get over yourselves.” Most of those same college grads are the very ones I’ve had to follow behind all of my professional life, placing an apostrophe here, a verb there, adding quotation marks, starting a new paragraph, completely revising an entire paragraph while developing an entirely new structure because their concepts simply don’t make sense…all in the efforts of making them look good. Ok, that’s the extent of my venting. For now. (Yes, I’ve got hostility issues, but I’m working on those.)

    Anyway, thanks much to Mrs. Pigeon, my fourth grade teacher, I LOVE writing. I wrote my first poem in her class. [Shameless plug: To read my ode to Mrs. Pigeon, log onto: www.divinecaroline.com] From that moment, I’ve had what I can only explain as an irritable itch, not quite like a hemorrhoid, but the kind of itch you get way back in the dark recesses of your mouth, the type that only your tongue can scratch, without ever fully relieving you.

    So what did I do to fulfill my heart’s desire of becoming a writer? I went through a series of interests. (Keep in mind I was only ten when I realized what my niche would be.) I’d already played the flute and tired of it, so I started playing classical piano. Loved it. Then I went into theater, which exposed me to all types of musicals, dramas and dance steps. Had a ball through it all. And right now you’re thinking, What’s this got to do with writing? I’ll tell you: it has everything to do with writing. I didn’t realize it at the time, but everything I’d done up until the point that I actually begun to write was fodder for my creativity. It was all there when I needed a story to tell, or something to compare or reference, when getting a point across, or simply putting words on paper. I’ve got stuff in my head that only I have—and it’s just begging to come out. And now that I’m a writer, I can do just that. But my point to you is this: EVERYTHING you’ve done, imagined, said, or heard lies in your mind’s databank—and the beauty of the program is this: only YOU have it! Think of your mind as the ultimate computer. And from this moment on suck it in, pull it up, write it down, and expend yourself.

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