Mary Vettel
  • WELCOME
  • INTERVIEWS
  • UPDATES!!!
  • ABOUT ME
  • MY WRITING
  • THE BLOGERAGE
  • LINKS
  • HEADS UP!! (CONTEST WINNER)
  • CHADMAN BREACH
  • A VISIT FROM FATHER GUIDO SARDUCCI
  • MORE SHORT STORIES
  • HAMMOND HOUSE
  • BOXO & EMMA
  • CHILDREN'S PICTURE BOOKS & SONGS
  • MORE CHILDREN'S PICTURE BOOKS
  • HOMAGE TO EDDIE IZZARD
  • MR. JINGLES
  • HADASSAH JONES
  • SOME OF MY FAVORITE THINGS
  • GALLERY 1 - IRELAND
  • GALLERY 2 - LONDON
  • THE KNOTTED GUN
  • GREETINGS FROM HELL!
  • MY WRITING
  • HEADS UP!! (CONTEST WINNER)
  • DEATH AT THE DRIVE-IN
  • CHADMAN BREACH
  • CHILDREN'S PICTURE BOOKS & SONGS
  • MORE CHILDREN'S PICTURE BOOKS
  • NOOKS & GRANNIES
  • THIS AIN'T NO COWBOY MOVIE
  • BROGWIN FRAYNEY AND HOW HE NEARLY SAVED A KINGDOM
  • GATSBY DELANEY - 7TH GRADE IMPRESSARIO
  • DEAD SERIOUS
  • HEAD'S UP
  • JAMAICA MOON
  • A SCOUNDREL'S TALE
  • MOTORCYCLE BABIES
  • TUT'S HICCUPS & GLITCHES/ UNDAY RUNCH/ ARISTOTLE
  • UNDAY RUNCH
  • PINKIE
 

FACING OBLIVION

10/22/2010

3 Comments

 
Writers are like extreme sport athletes.  We are the sedentary mountain climbers, hang gliders, and BMX bikers.  While we may do it from the comfort and relative safety of our chairs, we share the danger enthusiasts’ desire for that brush with excitement and peril.  All for the coveted adrenaline rush associated with risk and pushing ourselves further than we’ve gone before.  Because it’s there.  The blank page or screen.  Daring us, seducing us, with promises of increased confidence, stamina, and determination.  That if we practice and train, and time it just so, and the gods look kindly upon us, there’s a good chance we’ll get on a roll and feel our blood throbbing in our ears as we chug along nicely.  We push on, always honing our skills and abilities in the hopes of attaining our goals.

 

As a mountain climber pauses at the summit to gaze down upon their starting point so far below, and the hang glider, now back on terra firma, shields their eyes to glance up to the sky where they’d just been soaring, and as the BMXer stands filthy, breathless, and sweaty at the finish line and looks back beyond the hills and hollows of the hazardous terrain they’ve just bested, writers, too stare at the formerly blank page or screen and think, “I did it.”  Accomplishment and success are such heady fuels that keep the extreme sport enthusiasts and writers going, sure that we will triumph, winners all in our quest for getting it right.

3 Comments
Miranda
10/22/2010 12:19:05 pm

Wonderful! So (seemingly) effortlessly visual!

Reply
Sky
10/22/2010 12:31:59 pm

I like the correlation there. And agreed, very visual. What I like more is the positive overtone implied, keep going!

Reply
Karenann Pica
10/24/2010 10:33:20 am

Mary, you never cease to amaze me. Your website is beautiful ... needless to say, your way with words is to writing as chocolate is to dessert ... delicious !!!

Reply



Leave a Reply.

    Picture

    Wordsmith

    I write, therefore, I am.

    Archives

    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    June 2013
    December 2012
    November 2012
    July 2012
    June 2012
    November 2011
    October 2011
    September 2011
    August 2011
    July 2011
    June 2011
    March 2011
    February 2011
    January 2011
    October 2010

    RSS Feed

    View my profile on LinkedIn

    Categories

    All
    14th Century
    Accepting
    Accomplishment
    Amish
    Baby Boomers
    Background
    Balloon Sculptures
    Barn Building
    Bastille Day
    Beetlejuice
    Billy Joel
    Bit Parts
    Blog
    Bronco
    Bungie Cords
    Cameos
    Cankles
    Car Bras
    Cary Grant
    Cats
    Cerebration
    Cgi
    Chinese Philosophy
    Clark Gable
    Clown College
    Clowns
    Colin Firth
    Commercials
    Constitution
    Contest
    Customers
    Dictionary
    Electronic Reading Devices
    Evil
    Extras
    Facebook
    Fan Base
    Feng Shui
    Gettysburg Address
    Gone With The Wind
    Howdy-Doody
    Imagination
    Invisibility
    Johnny Depp
    Kardashian
    Key Light
    Khrushchev
    Lady Wood
    Literary Agents
    Lorne Michaels
    Madonna
    Martin Short
    Medieval Times
    Metaphorical
    Michael Keaton
    Minstrels
    Money Bags
    Murder Myster Dinner Theatre
    Muse
    No Backsies
    Observing
    Paddy Chayefsky
    Peter Finch
    Poodle Skirt
    Possession
    Preamble
    Prequels
    Psychic
    Publishers
    Remakes
    Rodeo
    Sarkozy
    Sequels
    Shakespeare
    Slapshoes
    Slow Burn
    Snl
    Social Media
    Splinter Group
    Stupid Phrases
    Success
    Terry Gilliam
    Thongs
    Thurber
    Time Bandits
    Tramp Stamp
    Triumph
    Troubadours
    Twitter
    Vocabulary
    Walk-ons
    Warts And All
    Westside Story
    Writer
    Zeitgeist

    Categories

    All
    14th Century
    Accepting
    Accomplishment
    Amish
    Baby Boomers
    Background
    Balloon Sculptures
    Barn Building
    Bastille Day
    Beetlejuice
    Billy Joel
    Bit Parts
    Blog
    Bronco
    Bungie Cords
    Cameos
    Cankles
    Car Bras
    Cary Grant
    Cats
    Cerebration
    Cgi
    Chinese Philosophy
    Clark Gable
    Clown College
    Clowns
    Colin Firth
    Commercials
    Constitution
    Contest
    Customers
    Dictionary
    Electronic Reading Devices
    Evil
    Extras
    Facebook
    Fan Base
    Feng Shui
    Gettysburg Address
    Gone With The Wind
    Howdy-Doody
    Imagination
    Invisibility
    Johnny Depp
    Kardashian
    Key Light
    Khrushchev
    Lady Wood
    Literary Agents
    Lorne Michaels
    Madonna
    Martin Short
    Medieval Times
    Metaphorical
    Michael Keaton
    Minstrels
    Money Bags
    Murder Myster Dinner Theatre
    Muse
    No Backsies
    Observing
    Paddy Chayefsky
    Peter Finch
    Poodle Skirt
    Possession
    Preamble
    Prequels
    Psychic
    Publishers
    Remakes
    Rodeo
    Sarkozy
    Sequels
    Shakespeare
    Slapshoes
    Slow Burn
    Snl
    Social Media
    Splinter Group
    Stupid Phrases
    Success
    Terry Gilliam
    Thongs
    Thurber
    Time Bandits
    Tramp Stamp
    Triumph
    Troubadours
    Twitter
    Vocabulary
    Walk-ons
    Warts And All
    Westside Story
    Writer
    Zeitgeist

 
Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.