Comments on: Following Your Heroine Beyond the Hero’s Journey

By: Laurie Schnebly Campbell

Laurie Schnebly Campbell — Mon, 07 Sep 2020 21:04:56 +0000

In reply to Claire A Murray. Claire, what fun to come back a week later and find your comment -- and congratulations on your cross-country move to full-time writing! I'll bet your grandmother who wanted you to have an education and your parents who didn't view that as necessary for girls are ALL equally amazed by (and proud of) what you've achieved.

By: Claire A Murray

Claire A Murray — Mon, 31 Aug 2020 17:28:20 +0000

My hat's off to Irtrovi. I think I've been doing this all my life. The boys in my family were expected to go to college, but my maternal grandmother set aside a few hundred dollars for my tuition to community college (a long time ago!). I used the secretarial degree from that to find work at a university and earn my bachelors and masters degrees nights (working two full-time jobs in the last six months of that). I later returned to the university to teach in the same college from which I'd earned my night degree, while running my own consulting business. I returned to the 9-5 world when my parents and partner were ailing and needed more of me. This May, I packed up my car and drove across country (pandemic be damned) and am now living in Arizona, a part of the country where I'd always wanted to live, where I write fiction full time. It's been an incredible journey that is so different from the "world" my mother envisioned for me and tried to make me live.

By: Laurie Schnebly Campbell

Laurie Schnebly Campbell — Fri, 28 Aug 2020 21:43:41 +0000

In reply to Connie Roberts. Connie, you know what a rare thing lipstick is for me! That photo was for a magazine who hired a pro, and he even brought a makeup artist -- as soon as I went to work afterwards everyone said "Wow, you look great." So much for fantasizing nobody'd ever NOTICE if I didn't bother with makeup. :)

By: Connie Roberts

Connie Roberts — Fri, 28 Aug 2020 19:23:36 +0000

Laurie, I loved this blog. After wiping away my tears, I saw your beautiful smile with *lipstick*! I learned something simple that I will be able to incorporate into my video clips, coaching sessions and my new children's reading book with Deco the Dog. Thank you for being in my life.

By: Laurie Schnebly Campbell

Laurie Schnebly Campbell — Fri, 28 Aug 2020 02:19:34 +0000

Thanks to everybody who posted such fascinating material -- I love reading about how people triumph in everyday life!

After counting up virtual prize-drawing slips for Natalie, Judith, Paula, Terry, Michael, Glenda, Amanda, Carolyn, Christina, Ellen, Laurel, Patti, Charlotte, Marcia, Meg, Jackie, Jenny, Vanessa, Gina, Denise, Jayne, Jane, Heather, Nita, Margie and Julie, I fed random-dot-org #1-26 and they drew #10.

Congratulations to Ellen, and just email me (Book Laurie at gmail) so I'll know where to send your class invitation. 🙂

By: dholcomb1

dholcomb1 — Thu, 27 Aug 2020 19:13:52 +0000

In reply to Laurie Schnebly Campbell.

Laurie,

Thank you!

Denise

By: Jenny Hansen

Jenny Hansen — Thu, 27 Aug 2020 16:50:03 +0000

In reply to Nita Shoemaker. It absolutely is, Nita! We love challenges. :-)

By: Laurie Schnebly Campbell

Laurie Schnebly Campbell — Thu, 27 Aug 2020 11:06:48 +0000

In reply to Julie. Oh, Julie, you're an inspiration to me -- learning to do unfamiliar tasks on your own resonates, because my husband just went on hospice a few days ago and it's daunting to think of all the things I've never bothered to learn. But how encouraging that you're already seeing the gift of welcoming back your creative self...and I'm wishing you great joy in that as your journey continues!

By: Laurie Schnebly Campbell

Laurie Schnebly Campbell — Thu, 27 Aug 2020 11:02:52 +0000

In reply to Margie Hall. Margie, you're absolutely right about the tendency to undervalue our own gifts! Both those comments are so reflexive, so instinctive, because we really DO think the things we're naturally gifted at are easy -- and what's to be proud of about doing something easy? But even so, we deserve to take pride in USING those gifts rather than hiding our light, which is something too many of us tend to forget. (Show of hands, here? :) )

By: Laurie Schnebly Campbell

Laurie Schnebly Campbell — Thu, 27 Aug 2020 10:57:53 +0000

In reply to Nita Shoemaker. Nita, you're right about manna from heaven -- it seems like many a writer (or not-yet-a-writer young person with that interested/introverted personalty) spent the last few years of high school hearing "you'll come into your own in college because you'll meet more people like you." And isn't that a joy? Similar, in fact, to meeting other writers as an adult!