Strengths

Nita, a friend online and off, tagged me with a meme she had been given.  The aim is to list five of your strengths as a writer/artist.  You must not mention any weaknesses.  Once you have completed it, tag four others.

1. Lifetime Student – I am ever-curious, ever wanting to know more about something.  Around people, I rein that in so as not to appear too much of a super nerd (description per my mother, but it is appropriate).  Writing something I know little about allows me to exercise and even sate some of the curiousity.
2. Creativity – I am a creative person and it has taken me a long time to admit this.  Creativity provides fuel for the writing engine.  I doubt I could do much of what I have done without it.
3. Persistence – This is, admittedly, the same as Nita’s “perseverance.”  Still, I have to list it.  Very little would get done without it.
4. Curiosity – I mentioned this already in the first strength, but it deserves a listing of its own.  I think a person can like the activity of learning without being innately curious.  Ther are things people want to know about.  The difference I see is I want to know as much as I possibly can about something, not just enough to satisfy the momentary curiosity impulse.
5. Procrastination – Used in this sense, procrastination is a strength although it can easily be a weakness (and often is).  There is such a thing as necessary procrastination.  Those are the times when you’re too close to whatever it is you are working on.  You need to put off working on it for a while, be it a day, a week, or a month, in order to gain some distance from it and be able to approaching it with a fresh mind.  (This is especially true in editing/revisions.)

I’ve been thinking about who to tag.  I think I’m going to go with plaidearthworm, Jenn, Tirgana, and Jeni.

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