By Patricia Zick @PCZick

This week my blog Writing Tips, Thoughts, and Whims was nominated twice for the Versatile Blogger award by two bloggers I greatly admire. Thank you, So Much To Write, So Little Time and 365 Things to Wrote About. If you don’t follow them already, visit their site. I think you’ll be as impressed as I am with their informative and inspiring blogs.

My other blog, Living Lightly Upon this Earth, has received several awards since I started it in March. However, this is the first award for my writing blog, and I’m delighted.

As a requirement for accepting this award, I’m supposed to provide seven random things about myself and tag 15 other blogs I admire. I hope you’ll visit the other sites. While I follow quite a few blogs, I’m going to stick to ones strictly about writing. We writers must stick together. I truly believe when one of us succeeds, we only move a step forward.

Random things about me:

1. I begin most of my drafts on a legal pad with a very sharp pencil. I might only write a paragraph this way, but it’s the way I start all major works.
2. I like peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with a wedge of sharp cheddar cheese and a cold glass of milk for lunch.
3. I suffer from directional dyslexia (my term). I have a tough time distinguishing left from right, front from back, etc. I have a letter I wrote to Santa when I was eight asking for my “two back teeth.”
4. Numbers and I do not get along. We’ve been at war since junior high school.
5. Words are my friends.
6. I believe algebra should be outlawed because it just isn’t right to create formulas using letters, numbers, and punctuation as if it was a real sentence!
7. I have a weird sense of humor. My best friends are the ones who laugh at anything I say even if they don’t understand what I mean.

Tagging those favorite blogs now. Stop by and leave them a comment – we all need comments!

1. The Neophyte Writer
2. Kana’s Chronicles
3. Hazy Shades of Me
4. Kate Brauning
5. Katie Jennings
6. Jodi Ambrose’s blog
7. Novel Girl
8. The Stobe
9. headywriting
10. Staci Troilo
11. Kristen Lamb’s Blog
12. lifeintheblueridges
13. Rosalie Squires
14. Charrion’s Chatter
15. 3rd Rock in the Sun

There are so many other inspiring blogs out there; I know I’ve left some of my favorites out. Congratulations to you all for doing what you can to expand and explore our craft.