I try not to be jealous of other people. I try not to covet. Really.

But this chick sorta blows me away. And I wish that there was some kind of magic serum she produced that I could drink, or rub on my scalp, or pour into my bathwater that would give me just a portion of her talent. (Hmm, that last sentence may have sounded slightly weird and stalker-ish.)

But anyway, wow.

She’s just finished writing her fourth book. I’ve read two of them, and plan to read the other two. Also, she’s artistic… with both paintings and doodling. And I don’t mean doodling like how I do it: drawing a stick figure and putting horizontal lines behind him to make him look like he’s running fast. Nay, I mean absent-minded freehand Sharpie to your Fender guitar while you watch Harry Potter kind of doodling. And music? Oh yeah, she does that, too. Bagpipes, harp, tin flute, guitar, piano, and probably a few others that I can’t think of or have never heard of.

Ridiculous!

She put all of this talent to work and made a trailer for her newest book. So: she wrote the book. Then she wrote a score for it, playing many of the instruments. Then she did all kinds of paper cut-out stop animation to make a cool trailer.

Again, ridiculous.

Maggie Stiefvater’s “Linger”, ladies and gentlemen:

And now excuse me… I have 500 words to eek out today and a really fast running stick figure to draw on the phonebook cover while I sort through medical bills.

We all have our own talents.

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1. Your determination to use your talents makes me feel about you as you feel about her.

   Comment by Nerak — May 10, 2010 @ 2:26 pm

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