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Heh. Good question. My first reaction was that's like asking why I have a telephone. Those are just means of staying in touch with people, updated for the electronic age.
But, I guess more accurately, it combines two big parts of my personality -- I'm pretty social, and I'm a writer. I have no desire to use Facebook to play Farmville or anything; I use it to interact with, to communicate with, friends. And take formspring, for example. I enjoy thinking about and coming up with responses to the questions, and I love that the site lets me involve friends in that. My blog is largely where I work through stuff that's on my mind, but do it in a way where it can be a conversation instead of just in my head. Twitter is purely me being neurotic -- I'm spoiled on being able to share what's on my mind, and when I don't have another outlet for that, I can broadcast it into the ether on Twitter. -
I don't. I'm a horrible procrastinator about writing. Forget making myself write, I can't even make myself do what I need to do to get inspired to do what I need to do. The deadlines of my newspaper days were very healthy for me, and I've actually taken steps at work to have some contrived deadlines created just to help with that. BUT -- when I actually do take the effort to get inspired to write, I write. If I'm having trouble getting passionate about something I should be working on, I work on something I WANT to be working on, even if it's just a complete throw-away project, in order to get the wheels turning. Then, once I've built up some inertia, I apply it to what I need to be doing. I actually co-wrote an entire throw-away novel while working on Homesteading. https://www.createspace.com/3348369
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To not have to worry about money. Enough to live comfortably with basically the lifestyle I do now, but just not to have to worry about it. Also, enough for a trip to the space station. To not have to worry about relationships. To be with the person that I look forward to coming home to, and for it to not fall apart. And for procrastinating to burn calories and build muscle.
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See, this is a bad question to ask a nerd, because my inclination is to way overthink things. Somebody argued once that Superman's various powers could all be attributed to control over inertia, so that would be tempting. Or possibly telekinesis -- moving objects with the power of my mind, since hypothetically that could also enable stuff like flight. The Force? Is the Force a choice? I'd take that in a heartbeat. ESP/telepathy would be interesting, but if anyone found out you had it, no one would want you around.
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I have no clue. I can remember starting to write a book as far back as middle school, but I was writing shorter stories even before that. To me, it's just innate; I feel like I was made with, if not an inborn desire to write, at least an inborn focus on story and narrative that manifests itself in writing. The irony is, despite the fact that I really enjoyed writing, I didn't consider it as a career until college. Even when I first got into newspapers in high school and into college, my plan was to be a graphic artist or designer. Becoming a professional writer? Purely an accident.
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This was one of the first ones I answered here, so I won't go through the long version again, but the short version -- God put us in this playground for a reason. He wants us to make the most of it. The meaning of life? Live! Enjoy the toys your Father has given you. Appreciate His gifts. Live a life that makes Him smile to see how much you enjoy and are grateful for what He's put there for you, from a first kiss to a fall day to an inspiring scripture to an old friend to a thunderstorm.
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I'm not. :-) That said, really, my list is kind of the anti-bucket list. A bucket list is stuff to do before you die. In other words, things you're going to do eventually. I've spent my entire life saying I was going to do things eventually. "Oh, yeah, that would be fun ... someday." My problem was, I never did anything now. There will always be a better time. I'll have more money. I'll have more vacation. I'll be less busy. My wife will feel better. I'll be married again. Whatever. And that perfect day doesn't come.
So the point of my list isn't about doing things eventually, it's about doing things now. What are the things that, ideal time or not, really, there's nothing actually stopping me from doing? Identify them, and start doing them, instead of waiting for the perfect time.
But there's no time limit. On my list, I say that I'm listing things I could do in the next five years, but that's not really about setting a deadline so much as looking at feasibility. If I couldn't realistically do it in the next five years, then it's a "someday" thing again, and that defeats the purpose.
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You're asking the wrong person. I've worn a tuxedo a total of two or three times in my life, and am in no hurry to do so again. Sure, I suppose you COULD wear one to shop at Target or go to a concert, and I recognize how that, theoretically, could be cool, but, for me, it's too much trouble. Sorry.
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It depends. I am, without question, loyal to a fault, but sometimes doing what's in someone's best interest isn't the same as doing what they would want you to do.
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Oh, goodness. Like I've said, I don't do favorites in general. It depends on where I am, and what I need. To everything there is a season. But, since I try to give AN answer to all of these, right now, I might say Psalms. I've been kind of hung up on David for about a year or so, and there is beauty in the honesty of Psalms.
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Wow! Weird to think how different this question looks than it did, say, 15 years ago. In honor of the spirit of the question, I'll stick with my initial reaction of picking the Bible as one of them, even though I had the thought, really, I could just look at it online. Is the government doing this to limit access to information, in which case you can't do that, or is this about literal physical hard copies of books for some reason? You can have all you want, but only in electronic form? Eh, either way, I'll stick with the Bible as one. Either way, I'll stick with Homesteading Space as one, of course. And, for the third, Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary, though I might review that depending on which scenario this is.
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Hmmm ... that assumes I know the difference. I don't know that I've ever really feared anything that I thought at the time was irrational; whether it's heights or rejection, it all seemed perfectly rooted in reality at the time, no matter how distorted that view of reality might be. Today, I really don't know. Improv, just surviving life, and the fact that I'm utterly expendable at the moment have sort of combined to strip away a lot of fear. But, to avoid avoiding the question -- Rationally, hurting other people. Irrationally, the robot armageddon. (I may have those backwards.)
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I'm going to assume it would be cheating to ditch only my current life and not past ones also -- I could ditch my current career and connections and still walk back into Indianola pretty comfortably. But that's probably cheating. (And I don't know that I would do that anyway.)
I don't know. That's a good question. I know what I would do given enough resources to really start over, but that's not the question here.
Part of the problem is, really, I'm not very marketable. I have a limited skill set, and there's not much demand for it. I am EXTREMELY blessed to have the job I do, which is why I'm still here after far longer than I've worked anywhere else. So, while it's a total cop-out answer, it's the truth -- I would go where I could find something to do. And, frankly, I'm happier that way -- I would rather end up somewhere unanticipated because it's where I needed to be than try to shoehorn myself into a place because it's where I think I want to be. -
Interesting fact about me -- I have a very stunted sense of smell. It's not completely absent, and I am capable of liking or not liking smells, but I sometimes have trouble differentiating them. As I've mentioned before, I'm not big on favorites in general, but I really don't even have the capacity for them when it comes to smells.
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Heh. Don't know how much the answer to this one is common knowledge, may be "outing" myself here. Oh well. Assumptions could be made from being a lifelong Southern Baptist; assumptions could be made from the fact I go to church in a brewery. Truth is, either side would probably be disappointed. Yeah, I do, but not often, and largely socially. Never been drunk, don't know that I've been really tipsy. For a long time, it was very very very rare for me to drink at all, so I'm still kinda feeling my way around what I like and don't. Not a big beer drinker, just don't care for it. Pretty comfortable with a whatever-and-Coke. Beyond that, I'll defer to people's recommendations or the situation.
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Full disclosure: I read this, and tons of corollary questions pop into my mind: Do they then spend the day as me? Do we assume I have the knowledge to get through a normal day for them? Do I have to do this now, or can I bank it? That said, my knee-jerk, not over-thinking reaction is cosmonaut Oleg Kotov, purely because it would mean getting to spend the day on the International Space Station, which would be kind of fun.
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Kiri-kin-tha posited as a First Law of Metaphysics that "Nothing unreal exists." This supposed "law" was later discredited as an absolute by a DVD made by Caleb McPherson of some of my improv work, which documented that while, clearly my mad improv awesomeness is unreal, it does, in fact, exist.
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There's a lot of stuff I'm less keen on than others, but the two best answers to that are jazz and classical, because not only do I not care for them, it irks me that I don't like them. I've sort of made peace with not liking classical; I'm obviously a very, very word-based person, and a huge part of my enjoyment of music comes from the lyrics.
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Ten years ago, I was living in Indianola, Miss., the state where I figured I would spend the rest of my career. I was working at The Enterprise-Tocsin newspaper, and trying to figure out the best road back into being an editor again or a publisher. I was a newlywed of a couple of weeks, looking forward to spending my life with the woman I loved. And if you can read all that, and think I'm even going to pretend I know where I'll be in 10 years, you're sadly mistaken. God is far more creative than I.
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David Hitt’s Bio
I'm a writer.
