July 21st 2008
July 21, 2008
When I was a senior in high school, I took creative writing. I enjoyed it, but I had no interest in submitting my work to be ‘judged.’ I wrote because I loved to write and create.
The high school I attended was located right around the corner from Texas Christian University. After I didn’t enter one of my short stories for another local contest, my creative writing teacher told me I had to enter TCU’s writing contest or he would lower my grade. There I was at 4:56 pm on the day of the deadline running up the massive campus sidewalk toward the building where the submission was due at five.
As I ran I thought about how mad I was at Mr. Reed. I didn’t want to enter this contest! He had no right to make me! I looked down at the paper that had pasted pieces of my story from our high school magazine. I didn’t even bother to re-type it to make it look nice. ‘I’ll show him!’ I thought.
A few months later, word came in a fairly plain envelope. No fanfare about what was inside that placed me as the first place winner of the high school writing contest… Just a copy of the entries from that year with my name at the top of the page.
This past weekend, I attended another writing workshop at TCU, and it’s funny how 23 years will help you ‘see’ what your creative writing teacher was trying to get you to see all along.
What I know about marketing and people who are marketing is that the client can see things you can’t see. Whatever it is you don’t want them to see you can bet they will.
Who can help you see what you can’t see?
Hugs-
Tina
P.S. We all have the ability to see things for others we can’t see for ourselves. How can you help other people see what they can’t see? Can you do this in a way that gently guides them to be better?
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