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- At 6:12am on January 16, 2009,
Jennifer Helen said…
- I just came across your profile in this network. I would like to extend an invitation to join Allvoices.com. It’s a citizen journalist site. We discuss, debate and write about everything under the sun here. Allvoices also has an incentive program for writers and they can earn up to $10,000 cash. Register at http://www.allvoices.com/journalism and start contributing.
- At 10:14am on September 22, 2008,
Moses Clark said… - Upland is very beautiful, possibly the best place to live in Southern California. In the winter time, you can see the clear air-that streams over the northern mountains. That's cool you're a Cali native, and I could always use a pair of eyes in this turbulent industry.
Check out my blogger of synopsis'
http://universalscreenwriter.blogspot.com
Much Respect,
Moses
- At 9:54am on September 22, 2008,
Moses Clark said…
- Very inspiring stuff Kim...you sound like a determined person. "No one can take the pride away from someone who is determined, for it is easier to take the gun out of the hands of a criminal, then to take the pride away from someone who is determined." -Moses
You will find your voice...
- At 9:06am on July 11, 2008,
David Eide said… - Hi Kimberlee,
That's a compelling profile and one that runs very true for most writers. I think the key is writing exactly what you wish to write on every day, even if it's for two minutes. Writing a little bit a day adds up and it's astonishing how much you can build in a year of little writing moments. The key is having some outline or plan that can guide you as all this other life keeps interferring, as it does and as it will. I like to believe a writer can build little temples and shrines to their writing life and enter into them on a moments notice and viola! bring back the whole mystery and deep satisfaction that brought them to the writing life to begin with.
- At 4:25pm on July 9, 2008,
David Eide said…
- Hi Kimberlee,
Welcome to Sunoasis Writers Network! Make yourself at home and have some fun.
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- About Me:
- I have always loved books since I was a very small child, such a quiet and solitary practice. I was an only child for five years and also suffered a hearing loss. I think reading was my escape. Later writing would serve the same purpose. I found a lot of solace and friendship in writing during high school. Maybe every teen does but I had excellent teachers at Santa Monica High. They really inspired, motivated me to follow my bliss so to speak and not only tell the story but be clever and use language to benefit the work. From Santa Monica, I went onto Mills College, specifically for their Creative Writing department. I must say my time there was a challenge and also a time of discovery. I don't think anything can prepare you for that first time away from home but what added to the challenge was my mother's cancer and her usual "don't quit your day job" mentality. She couldn't see a future as a novelist, probably she was right but I was a dreamer, I still am or I wouldn't be here. I went on to intern on a Children's Television mini series in Scotland. It never made it past pre-production. Later after graduation, I went back home and found a job in what was being termed back then, gorilla film-making. Spent some time working for basically nothing until that whole "day job" thing got in the way of true creativity. I am still searching for some balance. I think survival mode took over for a number of years really. I was living alone in Studio City and working at NBC in the Compliance department when I just needed a change. Either was I going back to school or changing industries. And boy did I ever. I worked for Countrywide Home Loans for years, back when the bubble was still being blown. They paid for an MBA, I graduated with honors but my foray up their ladder ended abruptly when they wouldn't promote me despite the MBA. Made no sense so this all happened to coincide with my then boyfriend needing to return to his hometown in upstate New York to help out with the family business. We moved to the Capital Region area which is really perfect for us in a lot of ways. I have been mainly working as a business writer for the last four years but have since really found that I can't ignore wanting more from my writing for me and not the client. I want to discover a path toward my life long ambition, to be a novelist and that means having to just change my way of working. I have many stories to tell and the talent to tell them, I just need to find my voice. That's where I'm at right now.
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