Nangie 101

The Nangie Experience...

We call it: Bein' Nangied...sort of like bein' Punked but without that annoying Ashton.

nangie 101

it's the Nangies!

Nancy Rue on the left, Angie Hunt on the right.

Nangie 101 was the brain child of Nancy Rue and Angela Hunt, both prolific authors that between the two of them have over 200 books in print!

Each year at the Colorado Christian Writers Conference they conduct individualized small group sessions to nurture and hone writer's skills.

Since they are only able to take a limited number of participants, the pacing and acceptance curve is grueling. (not really but it looks good in print)

First of all, the applications process is one that is a kin to entering the Special Forces for deployment to a hostile nation.

Then one has to submit your work to be reviewed. If that wasn't tough enough, "to sell your soul between the covers of a book" (a quote I stole from Judy Mikalonis); you have to realize that it will then be read and critiqued in class, in front of all the other Nangieites!

So, from deep inside your being, you summon the strength to eviscerate your soul and submit; then you wait.

The tension builds. The seconds become minutes transcending into hours which stretch into days that turn into a week or so. Finally... on that illustrious day with billowy white fluf balls in the sky and the sun's rays cascading off the freshly waxed Porsche, that your neighbor's driveway houses, the email arrives. You hear those three ever important words that have come to symbolize so much of a validation in your 2007 life:

You've Got Mail.

You gaze in awe at the subject line: Nangie 101 And it is all that you've been hoping for and so much more as everyday you trudged to your nine to five job and beat out a path in the urban jungle.

You wait with baited breath as you move the tip of your pointer toward the subject line only to perform the exercise that you have done countless times, thanks to Douglas Engelbart who in 1964 invented the computer mouse:

The double left click.

And the heavens sing and the angels weep as the body of the text springs to life:

Congratulations! You've been accepted to attend the Nangie 101 Experience!

But then, it's sort of like just finding out you've been elected President of the United States, you want to party but the real work begins...