Brittany, My Yahoo Avatar

Introducing: Brittany

Brittany is my Yahoo Avatar.

Cute, huh?

Looks just like me!

She even has a pet dragon like mine.

Hey, I could have a lot of fun with this.

Do I Have Anything To Say?

All the boring GST is finished with - for this month anyway - and it's back to writing.

Did I mention that I hate all that financial stuff? Well, I do. But... if you run a business that's registered for GST, then a great proportion of your time must be devoted to it. I think I've said before, it's a monumental waste of a creative mind.

So, to get me in the mood, I'm blogging around.

Do I actually have anything to say, though?

Do I? Well... ask any writer if they have anything to say and see what happens.

Is it intelligent? Now, THAT'S the question.

I don't know about your house, but my book shelves are overflowing with novels from writers who've put together a story that speaks to me on an intelligent level, spiritual level, creative level, and on so many more levels. They're the memorable ones. The ones I can't part with even though there's no more room on the shelves.

I want to be like that.

I want to write novels that spirit the readers away to another time and space, into another reality. I want to reach right into their hearts and minds and create stories that people can't put down, can't throw away, can't forget.

That's what I call real writing. Real intelligence.

Listing numbers, figures, prices, columns of costs and GST percentages... that's not intelligent. It's mindless.

Some people love working with figures, though. They become lost in the search for logic, in the striving to help their customers or businesses become more astute in their monetary dealings, to squeeze the least little cent out of the tax system.

Not me.

I'd rather be lost in an alien landscape with alien animals and plants surrounding me. I'd rather be searching for the logic of why one race can't get along with another, why life itself is like it is.

Yeah! Give me those easy questions any day!