Why I Write
When I write, I draw on my experiences as a woman with a painful past, a rapturous wife and mother, a world traveler, and a spiritualist. For me, writing is an art form. Like an artist, the work becomes more than I imagined it would be. When I set out to write a story with a particular idea or character in mind, words I cannot claim as my own flow from a magical and mysterious place through me and onto paper. The work takes on a life of its own; it is living art. The process fascinates me, satiates me, and makes my life more meaningful.
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In 2011, my main focus will be on writing a novel. Since I'm a novice novelist, I've decided to come at the project from different angles, exploring the genre and experimenting with its elements. This blog and its offsite sister blog will be my journals where I attack novel-writing one day at a time.
As I was creating my BlogSpot page, the inspiration for the blog solidified in my mind. I named that blog "One Significant Moment at a Time." In essence, I want to use the format as a reminder to walk through my life with my author's eyes open, taking in the details, feeling the emotions of the day. As moments unfold and I feel their affects on me as a person, a woman, a mother, a sister, a member of the world community, I'll let the writer in me talk about it.
Creative Nonfiction is the genre most fitting to describe what I envision accomplishing here, moreso than blogging or journaling. The style is best suited, I feel, for my ambitions as a novelist.
In addition, Friday entries will not be written by me. Instead, I'll turn the keyboard over to one of the characters in my novel. He or she will relate the events of the day as s/he saw them, through the filter of his or her perception.
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October 5, 2009 at 4:21pm October 5, 2009 at 4:21pm
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It had been a while since I took the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator test, so I thought I'd take it again today. The MBTI is a psychometric questionnaire consisting of seventy-five yes/no questions. It was developed by Katharine Cook Briggs and her daughter, Isabel Briggs Myers, who based it on Carl Jung's theories on human personalities. They first published it in 1962.
I'd never heard of the test before I participated in a characterization workshop. I was so fascinated by the results when I took the test that I started talking about it with friends and family members. I was surprised to learn a couple of my friends had taken the test while interviewing for jobs or for screening with head hunters. Since then, I've used the explanations of the sixteen personality types to create characters for my stories.
When I took the test the first time, I found that I was catagorized as ENFJ, or Extraversion Intuitive Feeling Judgement. It wasn't until I read the synopsis of that personality type that my heart started to race. I felt like I was reading about myself -- it fit me to a tee! It was the coolest thing ever.
I re-took the test today. It's been about eighteen months since I've seen the test or read the seventy-five questions. I shouldn't be surprised...but I was catagorized the same way! ENFJ, baby!
If anyone is interested in taking the test, it only takes about five minutes. I promise that you will be VERY surprised at how accurately it'll peg you Once you know your Type, click around and read about it; it'll probably be like looking in the mirror. And, if nothing else, you may be inspired to create a new character!
http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp
I'd love to know how you did, if you want to share 
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