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| Age: 54 |
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| What is your current occupation? |
| Tennis Resort Manager |
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| What are you studying at AWAI (travel writing,
photography, import/export, or all three)? |
| Travel Writing |
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| What was your first successful article or photo about
and where did it appear? |
I had my final paper from my China trip published along with 2 photos. It was about my experience getting electrical accupuncture and traveling with a tour group on the Yantze River. I sold it even before I got my feedback from AWAI. It was published in the International Living's Lifetime Society Communique. See it at:
www.internationalliving.com/lifetime/pdfs/lifetime_may_05.pdf |
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| What are you working on now? |
| I am working on an article on the 8 Tuff Miles Road Race I competed in on St John USVI. I am also writing all the narratives for our resort web page, and am working on an article for the USTA SW online newsletter promoting our tennis resort as a end destination. |
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| What has been your proudest writing, photography, or
import/export moment? |
| My proudest writing/photos? My final that appeared in Lifetime Society Communique. |
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| Please give us an example of how your life has
changed since becoming a travel writer, photographer, or
import-exporter. |
| It's given me the confidence to travel to exotic, sometimes scary places, and identify myself as a travel writer, and proceed to ask all kinds of questions. I am incorporated as an S corporation, so I get to write off ALL my travel expenses, and I've been tutoring my husband in photography so we can also write off his expenses as well. We now travel 6-8 weeks per year. I'm using my writing skills to promote rentals at our resort...including our condo. |
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| What success tip would you like to share with your
fellow AWAI members? |
| Become business and tax savy. S corporations don't ever have to show a profit. Also, be yourself and share yourself with the locals. Go native....use talents that you have to connect with the locals. I have played my harmonicas all over the world including in a communist official's home in China, a Muslin wedding tent, and a West Indian church. I have line danced playing a drum in a Chinese village and run in the 8 Tuff Miles Road Race on St. John. That earned me much local goodwill. |
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| When did you realize you were living the writer’s or
photographer’s life? |
| I realized I was bit with the writing bug when I would stay up every night in China writing in my journal no matter how exhausted I was. Then, in 95 degrees, laid on my back on the asphalt in Thailand to get a picture of my husband framed by a banyan tree. I realized I'd made the "big time" when a video of me playing the harmonica went out over National Chinese TV on a news broadcast. I was thrilled when I caught my wahoo...(free fishing trip in the USVI). |
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