What Did You Want to Be?
What did you want to be when you "grew up"? Or, what do you want to be? I love this question, either version. It says something about a person, don't you think? In fact, I sometimes ask my characters, as I'm getting to know them, what they want to be—in case you were wondering.
Anyway. . .
At a recent gathering, a few friends and yours-truly started talking about what we once wanted to be and how things turned out. Some talked about what they still want to be when they grow up (probably...
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Steven
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Jan 27, 2010 07:47PM
Lets see, first I wanted to be a pro baseball player, then an anthropologist, then a pro basketball player, then maybe, but just maybe, a writer. It turned out that anthropology was just a whim, that the best I could be was a semi-pro athlete -- so, with nothing but a BA (never took a writing course)I tried and somehow became a writer! Go figure.
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Wow, Steven, semi-pro! Impressive! I'm just guessing, but I bet you have done a bit of writing about sports. No? : )
It's ironic but I've never written anything about sports. Don't exactly know why. I've been sitting on some ideas for same for a while --- so, one day I know I will. When it comes it comes.Steve
