Deb Lund ad lib

Barbara Walters, who is not usually the interviewee, was asked how she got people to share the intimate details of their lives. In her earlier days, she said she’d ask them probing questions and get evasive answers. Now she gets results with her favorite question — “What is the biggest misconception about you?”

Me first? Okay…

I know how to juggle. I can keep the balls up in the air quite awhile before they fall and roll off. Just like my life. People marvel at my calm exterior, and think that’s me. My biggest misconception is that the cover on my life’s book matches equally bucolic pages inside. Not so, but I carry off the deception without really trying (or please let me think it’s really so). It’s a gift and curse of growing up in unsettling chaos. Been there? Then you know. You over-function, and sometimes only appear to function. And as I cut and revise, what happens to my Story? Well, there are several scenes left to go before I get to The End, but unlike the novel I’m working on, this one becomes less of a page-turner with each completed chapter.

wishful words on a writing room wall…

What’s the biggest misconception about you?
What’s the biggest misconception about your character(s)?
See any similarities? Ahhh…