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| Age: 46 |
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| What is your current occupation? |
| Writer and Web site consultant |
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| What are you studying at AWAI (travel writing,
photography, import/export, or all three)? |
| Travel Writing and Photography |
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| What was your first successful article or photo about
and where did it appear? |
| "Running with Sheep," about my experiences as a runner in West Kerry (where runners are few and sheep are many), was published in Kerry InView, August 2006. |
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| What are you working on now? |
| Finding time to write again, as the web work has taken over. But I have a piece on the Glencree Centre for Reconcilation I'm shopping around, and on the JCB Dancing Diggers (curious, aren't you?). Also have a piece in mind about people who live on Skellig Michael in the summer, as I know two of them. |
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| What has been your proudest writing, photography, or
import/export moment? |
| It was my first sale, which was not actually my first article published (my first sale was an article on Irish cursing, still not published, as the publication that bought it folded). Getting paid for writing a feature piece--wow. |
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| Please give us an example of how your life has
changed since becoming a travel writer, photographer, or
import-exporter. |
| Er, I'm not a full-time travel writer yet, but I love the way I can pursue whatever I'm interested in and write about it. And read magazines and think "oh, I've got an article idea for these folks." The variety is great. |
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| What success tip would you like to share with your
fellow AWAI members? |
| Persevere. Learn from rejection. Keep going. |
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| When did you realize you were living the writer’s or
photographer’s life? |
| When I interviewed a bunch of very interesting people at Glencree because I had an idea. I came in there as a writer. So suddenly I was a writer. |
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