Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween. I saw so many cute costumes on my way home, it almost made me wistful to live in town where I could actually get kids asking for candy shouting "Tick or treat!" Mine used to do that, and growing up in the small town in Florida we did too. My older brother used to dress up as Dracula with a big dark cape our mother made for him and his face done in white with red in all the right places and his hair slicked back with God knows what. He liked to ride around on his ten-speed and occasionally climb up on the car hood of some poor, unsuspecting mom who was watching her kids at the door of a house and not through her windshield. I heard one scream all the way down the block. I looked for her husband to take revenge on my brother for pulling that, but he never did. We knew everybody so he knew who he could scare like that. I was the Hunch Back one year - shredded pant legs and an oversized shirt with a pillow belted into the back. I had black eyeliner streaked on my arms and legs and face and my hair done up crazy. I don't think I scared anyone, but I had a lot of fun. A shame I had to grow up and out of that.

Still, as much as I miss the ghosts and goblins of Halloween that we very seldom get (three or four in thirteen years) I guess I'll stick with living out in the sticks in the peace and quiet. Everyone goes to town to trick-or-treat.

Welcome to My First Blog

This is my first blog and boy am I ever nervous! Welcome just the same. I am Eliza Lynn Taylor and I am a freelance writer, among other things. Visit my About Me page for more information please.

What you can expect from You Never Know...
Well, it is called You Never Know. Why? I am eclectic is the simplest answer. While I have a website with lots of information (http://www.elizalynntaylor.com) which has more information on me and my writing, including a subscription button to a newsletter I put out every month called Livin' in the Sticks where I write to a subscribers only e-mail list with either a full short story or a section of a serialized short story, I also want to get the word out to a broader audience that I am first and foremost professionally a writer. I may have an outside job, but my heart is in writing. I also have a farm and I may include stories (or rants) about farming on occasion.If you've ever been kicked by a cow, you'll know what I mean. I get on a roll once in a while about something in the news, for instance, and I will definitely tell you about it here. This is new to me and as I said, I am eclectic, so you never know what I'm likely to write about. I might include a short story once in a while and I will precede the story with a warning if it's not for children. I don't use strong profanity, but writers must break their own personal codes of language sometimes during literary pursuits. I promise not to use certain words though here that are, or should be, considered extremely offensive - no dropping of alphabet artillery here.

So, wish me luck with this new endeavor and if you don't mind, wish me luck, because writers work very hard at their craft, and pour their heart and soul into it, with selling my work as well.

I have work (articles and fiction) on Associated Content.com as well as posts of Gather.com, so you see, I have been busy!  

Sincerely,
Eliza Lynn Taylor