Experience Galore

There’s nothing quite like an adventurous, wildly varied and somewhat long life to inform one’s creativity and fluency with people. There is also a difference between a copywriter who can make a living stringing sentences together, and a writer who couldn’t do anything else but write. Put these elements together and big things can happen.

I wrote a story that became a book, that then became a major motion picture. Then I worked on the film crew during the shooting of that movie. I wrote for the Boston Phoenix Style section. I was a single mother, which may sound common, but is nonetheless an education in behavior. Jodie Foster asked me to contribute copy to her cook book. My work on the Rolling Stones Tour in 1990 took me to twenty-six European cities in just four months.

My urge to communicate has attracted some interesting situations to me, and given me plenty to say. It’s fluency. Read all about some real-life situations peppered with fiction and played for laughs.