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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. Please read my stories! If you would like to offer me feedback on my work, please click here and sign up for a free membership: https://heftynicki.Writing.com I hope to see you there!
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*Star*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 6, 2009 at 5:54pm
October 6, 2009 at 5:54pm
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If you missed the kick-off show of Oprah Winfrey's 24th season of the Oprah Show -- here's your chance to see it! I was sipping my afternoon coffee with a neighbor friend when we heard the show begin. "I've Gotta Feeling" is one of my current favorite songs (it's my ringtone *Laugh*) so Tonya and I moved from the kitchen to the couch and settled in to watch the Black Eye Peas perform.

I was surprised that no one was dancing as the opening bars began. I would have been going crazy -- like the one woman in the front row. When the group of people around that woman started dancing, I thought it was some dance everyone under thirty probably knew (like the Electric Slide in the 90s). When the number of dancers kept growing to eventually included the entire crowd of 20,000+, I was confused and enthralled. Oprah's reaction was priceless -- it was clear she was as surprised as the viewing audience.

After the commercial break, we learned they had pulled off a flash mob, which is a large group of people performing unusual things in public. They claim it was the largest flash mob on record. Apparently, a director and choreographer taught the dance to twenty professional dancers. After a "casting call" over FaceBook and Twitter, 800 ordinary people showed up the day before the performance and learned the dance. The next day, those 800 people were scattered throughout the audience and taught the dance to the crowd. The flash mob was organized as a surprise for Oprah, who clearly loved it!

Interestingly, I have been watching the audition shows of So You Think You Can Dance, and I KNOW I saw the woman in the blue shirt (the very first one dancing during the Black Eye Peas performance) audition. She got her ticket to Las Vegas!

So, here's the video. Enjoy!!





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