words of wisdom about writing

[chicaintcheap]

I thought that this was really interesting. It's a long speech, but this one part in particular caught my attention and I keep coming back to it and thinking about it.

On the one hand was my mother, a well-educated, secular, modern, westernized, Turkish woman. On the other hand was my grandmother, who also took care of me and was more spiritual,

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[chicaintcheap]

:D Yeah, I was linked to the video by my sister and I was like "...this is bad for my attention span :|" but wow, she is a very dynamic and captivating speaker and I wished that her speech could have gone on.

You're very welcome, and thank you for taking the time to watch the whole thing :)

[musique_style]

OMG, girl, you're like.... my intellectual soulmate. Where have you been all my life?? <33333333

[chicaintcheap]

haha! The important thing is I'm here now ;)

Yeah, I really liked that point too. I think it's an important thing to think about, especially in this day and age when the groups we cluster around ourselves are more and more like us.

Man, now I feel like doing that too. We can be nerds together!

np <3 I'm glad it interested you!

[steinsgrrl]

Wow, I love that. I feel like it's something I'm going to find myself thinking about for a good while. Thank you so much for sharing! <3

[chicaintcheap]

No problem <3

[chicaintcheap]

I feel ya. I've watched the video so many times that I've nearly memorized it. The way she speaks is so eloquent and mesmerizing and poetic. I'ma be ordering some of her books asap.

[chicaintcheap]

That was my reaction exactly! The 20 minutes just went by so fast and I found myself wanting more ._. Hence why I hit up amazon for her novels :D

No problem! Thank you for taking the time to watch it :)