Pure as the Driven Snow

Way back on the 18th of April DJ of Chez Aspie tagged me with the “Creative Writer Award”. To accept the award you have to tell six lies and one truth about yourself. Being a compulsive liar (aren’t all novelists when it comes down to it?) I told DJ I’d get on to it on the weekend. In fact it has had to wait until now.

So without further ado some porkies:

1. I have a very rigid routine. I have so much happening in my life the only way I can keep it all flowing is if I diarise absolutely everything.
2. During my surfie period in my youth I was waiting to catch a wave when suddenly a huge shark burst out of the wave next to me. I have never been so frightened.
3. When I was a toddler I lived in a house that had no less than 20 of the deadliest snakes in the world in residence. They didn’t frighten me because I was simply too young to understand the danger.
4. Again on the subject of houses, I have lived in a large number of places over the years. In fact the total number of houses I have now lived in is nearly 20.
5. Deb and I first met when I sat next to her in a lecture hall on our first day at university.
6. I was on a ship in the Suez Canal when the 1967 Arab-Israeli war broke out.
7. When I was 18 I wrote off (totalled) my first car by crashing it into a tree.
   

What do you think? How truthful have I been?

I chose to inflict this tendency to lying on Lisa at Lit and Life and

Myrna at Night Writer

A random photo from the archive.


Next (if I chose not to lie): I get tagged again.