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Readings and Rewritings
So, here’s the thing. I’m a writer. I’m also a teacher/actor/singer/dance. You would think that the last four would mean that I don’t get that heart pounding, stomach churning panic before I go up to read my work, right? You’d be wrong. For some reason, I can get up in front of 45 kids, hundreds of audience members, even over 1, 000 people and all I get is a little speed up of heartbeat. For some reason though, when I read my own words it’s totally panic inducing. On the last day of January, Laurie asked me about reading. The conversation went something like this:“So, Christina, you’ll read next week,…
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On being a child of the Devil…
First, sorry I haven’t written in a while. I’ve been sick. Like 102 fever sick for the past 10 days or so and before that I was organizing holiday stuff for people. This is something I thought I would share though, cuz it will make you laugh dear reader, oh yes, it will make you laugh. I have been dubbed a Child of the Devil. No human sacrifice or Satanic rituals needed apparently for earning that title. No. What one must do is be writing a fantasy/sci-fi series. Let me explain. I was waiting for my class to start a few weeks ago and was outside working on my laptop.…