Monday, July 14, 2008

Post #70!! I heart Beth Lisick

(Wow, I just realized I've got a lot of postings here!)

The book I've been reading recently is "Helping Me Help Myself" by Beth Lisick. She is awesome and my new hero(ine?). This book is a documentary of her 12 months of self-help guru work. Each month she picked one area of her life to improve upon and enlisted the help of an "expert" in the field to get some advice from. Of course, she is very sarcastic about a lot of it because at first she is skeptical that this will work. But as the year goes on you can tell there was a change in her; she seems more accepting of just about everything, and definitely relaxes her uptight feelings about a lot of things. She has what the mainstream calls an "irreverent attitude" - my favorite kind of writing. Caustic and bitter, which is funny.

I heard her speak at the WNBA event in SF about six weeks ago, and she was hilarious. She had a great speech about waiting for the "right time" to start writing, if you have a block. There is no right time, and whatever is going on with you, write about it. Someone will appreciate good work eventually. It doesn't hurt to network too. If she needs another career (but it sounds like she doesn't from her book) she could be a stand-up comedian. I went to her website and lo and behold she does voice-over work, poetry slams, avant garde indie films with friends and performance art too. www.bethlisick.com Visit her site, buy her books!! You will not be disappointed.

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