Who is your favorite historical figure?
In trying to think of a favorite historical figure, I keep drawing a blank. Plenty of historical figures from which to pick. A favorite? What would make one a favorite? I know that Buffy the Vampire Slayer is one of my favorite television shows, as well as Gilmore Girls and Battlestar Galactica (the remake). I had weekly connections to those shows. Actually, I can still stream them.
A historical finger lingers deep in my subconscious only to be called up when a major event or observation is occurring. Now, if you ask for significant figures, I can readily rattle off a few such as Abraham Lincoln, Adolf Hitler, and Albert Einstein to nane just three. Hundreds are on such a list.
I suppose Thomas Edison can be on both lists, considering that his many inventions changed the world and are in some way the great grandad of my various electronics that rule my everyday life.
Let’s also acknowledge the influencers who put us on a right path. Let’s forever put those who set us on a wrong path to the side.
Categories: Culture, current events, History, identity
psychologistmimi 
SMiLes i Don’t really Have
Any Favorite Historical
Figures When All is Said
And Done It’s
An All Hands
And Feet Effort
And As Far As Negative
Influences in Life Some
of the Most Difficult People
Who Seemingly Put me on a Wrong
Path of Life in Challenge Brought Circumstances
Beyond Imagination Then
True For the Good in my
Life i Couldn’t Possibly
iMagine in the Past
i Don’t Really See Any
Adversaries in Life Only
Opportunities NeW NoW in Challenge
With SMiLes Dear Miriam of Another Step Up…
Yet of Course The Fact i Don’t Have to Work for
Anyone For Pay Colors All of This the Way i See Life Now..
Life iS A Whole Lot Different When Ya Don’t Feel Under A ‘Gun’..:)
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If living a good life is sorting out the pieces you want to keep from what is offered to you, this is a good strategy: read widely, remember what you liked.
Maybe it’s time to forgive the unhelpful ‘mentoring’ (he wrote books on how to write, I read them, tried to do it his way, failed miserably – then learned his way is called pantsing (writing by the seat of your pants) and that it makes me itch not to plan things in advance (those people in stories aren’t REAL, you know).
Especially since it has led to my ‘the one piece of advice you would give a beginning novelist’ being to find out where you are on the ‘no-plotting’ (pantsing) to ‘knowing almost everything in advice but the actual words’ (extreme plotting) spectrum, and select mentors who teach you with classes or books from the ones whose advice you would trust because they are ‘like’ you.
I’ve always felt I’ve wasted those early years of teaching myself to write – because, by not knowing my place on that spectrum, I was trusting someone I could never emulate.
I forgive myself; I’ve milked that enough. I’ll reserve the final exposition for if I ever write my own book ‘On writing my way – with a damaged brain.’
I must have learned SOMETHING from doing it wrong, even if it really is DON’T PANTS BECAUSE YOU AREN’T SUITED TO IT.
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