First of all, let’s address the name of the blog. If you’re wondering how we came up with that name you probably haven’t read the book Freakin’ Fabulous: How to Dress, Speak, Behave, Eat, Drink, Entertain, Decorate, and Generally Be Better than Everyone Else by Clinton Kelly.

And, if you haven’t read it you should. It will make you and your 75 year-old Filipino father-in-law pee your pants from laughing so hard.

Still, you’re probably wondering if we actually think we are better than everyone else.

We don’t. Of course. We’re terribly flawed. But we’re trying to be awesome. And we suspect you want to do the same.

This blog is about writing, everything having to do with writing and the creative process in general.

It’s also an experiment.

We’ve both been writers in some form or fashion for the better part of 10 years but it’s always been our “also ran”. We’ve always done other things to supplement our income while giving lip service to the idea that one day all we will do is write and that will be enough. We don’t totally buy that dream – we aren’t that naive – but late last year we committed to making 2012 the year of writing. The year of talking less and writing more.

Not just a little bit more.

A lot more.

365 days worth of more writing.

Not that you will see it all here, but we will be writing every single day for 365 days.

Melani Ward

I’m fascinated by why people do what they do, the idea that there is no such thing as talent and why change is so difficult. If I had it to do over again I’d get my shit together a lot earlier.

Moving my body brings me joy. Writing brings me even more. I will take a private lesson on anything just to get someone’s undivided expertise.  I think owning only 38 possessions would be really cool…as would be living in a Tiny House.

I am obsessed with swimming pools.

When I’m not writing here I’m knee deep in my third graduate program working toward my M.S. in Instructional Design – studying how people learn and what makes information stick, trying to keep my clients happy or telling people that we’ll be patching together our documentary by this time next year.

I live in sunny Colorado with my un-husband, our 5 year-old daughter and a blue-heeler mix named Tally.

Sandy Grason

I am fascinated by what happens at the intersection of art and commerce and am always wondering how each influences the other. If I had it to do over again I’d be Madonna.

I will take a private lesson on anything just to get someone’s undivided attention.  I think owning only 38 possessions would be absolutely awful…as would be living in a Tiny House. I mean Mojo would take up at least 1/2 of the square footage!

When I’m not writing here, I’m taking pictures of my shoes here, working on my first full-length screenplay, skiing down or hiking up some beautiful mountain and telling people that I’m going to win an Academy Award one day.

I live in Boulder, Colorado with my husband, 2 teenage daughters and 2 dogs named Mojo and Lily Madonna.