Wednesday, March 10, 2010

I'm not a liar - I'm a fantabulist!


I received this award yesterday! Ann from Inkpots N'Quills gave it to me. Thanks Ann!It's for being a good liar or a creative writer depending on how you look at it. I say that writers see endless possibilities and permutations which allow us to take very long flights of the fanciful sort. And I'm sticking to it. I practised my writing skills as a child and teenager with credible stories for my parents and teachers on why I had failed to do something I was given to do - like get home on time. This also allowed me to bear the infinite boredom of being a disenfranchised human being of a short kind because I had to spin tales in my mind thus filling up all those boring chunks of time between fun stuff! I am honoured, therefore, to receive this award and I beg your indulgence when I change the rules slightly! I hear a roar of approval from the crowd. Good - I will proceed.

I am going to play this game the way I learned it - six truths and a lie. You guys get to pick the lie except my family and those who know but hey maybe I just think they know.

1. I swept an elephant with a broom once.
2. I shook hands with Jimi Hendrix.
3. I was a high-lead logger in British Columbia.
4. I streaked through a university pub wearing nothing but a shamrock.
5. I was snorkeling in Cuba and came face to face with a (smallish) shark.
6. I fell into the bottomless pit at Carlesbad Caverns and was saved by my dad grabbing my Mary Maxim sweater (thanks Dad! Thanks Aunt Beth for knitting with steel fibre!)
7. I carried a teapot onto a stage for Allen Ginsberg.

OK - you're all on. And let's see - I pass this award onto
Galen at Imagineering Fiction
Elizabeth S-C at Mystery Writing is Murder
Elspeth at It's a Mystery
Patricia Stoltley
Hart at Watery Tart
Faith Pray at Sacred Dirt
Stacy Post at A Writer's Point of View
Natasha at Coffee Rings Everywhere
Elizabeth Bradley

I'm sure that is more than I'm supposed to but ...and if you already have it please ignore this!

Also - please go to my 300th post of yesterday if you haven't and comment!

10 comments:

Ann said...

Hi Jan, I haven't a notion which one of these fab experiences is the untruth. But I think i will go with the bottomless pit. Sounds true that's why I am picking it.

L. Diane Wolfe said...

I'm going with the streaking one.

Elspeth Futcher said...

I'm hoping they're all true! However, if I have to, I vote for the lie being #1, simply because I think you'd have to sweep an elephant more than once. They're big.

Elizabeth Spann Craig said...

Thanks so much, Jan!

Ohhhh....writers make such good liars. I'd love it if they were all true. :) Um...I'll go with snorkeling with the sharks!

Elizabeth

Jane Kennedy Sutton said...

My track record on guessing people's lies has not been very good, but I guess I am going with the high-lead logger simply because I don't really know what that is.

Jan Morrison said...

Hi fab women! I cannot tell you anything because I want to leave this open a few more days! I can't even say if one of you is onto the lie or not. Jeesh. I might be a liar but I have a hard time keeping my big mouth shut!
Soon. Check back!

Jemi Fraser said...

All right - I stink at guessing these - I'm going to say the teapot is the truth!

Patricia Stoltey said...

Well, I finally made it over here -- I spent most of my day computer-wrestling, but I think I'm winning.

Congratulations on your award, and thanks for thinking of me as you passed it on. I'm going to guess the lie is the one about streaking through a pub (unless, of course, it was a very large shamrock that covered a lot of territory).

Helen Ginger said...

I'm going to say the Carlsbad Caverns is a lie, but the streaking is the total truth!

Helen
Straight From Hel

Stacy Post said...

Thanks for the award, Jan!

I'm guessing the high-lead logger. Only because I'm not quite sure what that is! :) You've had some interesting experiences to say the least!