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PROMPTED TO POST | THE NAME GAME | KNOW & TELL
Meet Carolyn
Anatomy of Her Acronym
Thank you to Toni Greathouse for inviting me to be part of her ‘Name Game’ series at Everything Fun. I hope she doesn’t come to regret it! 😜
WHO does your acronym say you are?
C = Charismatic — haha, in my dreams!
A = Australian — fair dinkum
R = Ridiculously rich — now I’m really dreaming!
O = Officially — that is, genetically — an identical twin
L = Lemon tart lover like no other
Y = Yep, I’m a poet
N = Nope I didn’t know it — not until I joined Medium!
WHAT genres do you prefer? Or what do you write about?
As the ubiquitous, faceless ‘they’ would say, “Carolyn, go with the first idea that comes into your head.”
So here goes…
Licorice Allsorts
That’s my answer — in that I write an assortment of all kinds of genres and themes.
Well almost.
I don’t do erotica and I don’t do stuff I know nothing about — which, come to think of it, is quite a lot!
But give me a topic that I can get my teeth stuck into and I’ll give it a bloody good bite. It’s that bitey, hell-she-won’t-let-go quality that had a friend jokingly (I think he meant it) declare, “Carolyn, you know what? You remind me of a terrier!”
I prefer to call it enthusiasm! 😊
WHEN did you start writing?
I remember one day going crazy with paper and crayons at 4-year-old kindergarten. Page after page of scribble. Enthusiasm!
For decades I’ve written clinical reports and associated documentation in my role as a practicing speech pathologist. I started writing short fiction and nonfiction stories as therapy resources for the students I worked with. Bits of poetry…
