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From Choreographer to Film Director to Author: Telling a Story through the Arts

3/19/2014

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PictureMoxie Sullivan, the inspiration behind Luna Tidwell














I've been telling stories ever since I was ten years old.  It's something innate in me, this need to make up stories.  Writers and story tellers run strong on the Abel side of my family. My great-granddad was a Methodist preacher and wrote sermons. My dad and his sisters were all proficient storytellers who could hold a body spellbound with their tales of Southern ghosts and growing up during the Great Depression.  One of my cousins has a journalism degree and has been an editor at various publications. Another has a degree in Accounting with a minor in English.  My grandmother Abel was a school teacher and taught English. You could say this urge to tell stories is in my blood.

The first medium I chose for storytelling was dance.  I began choreographing original dances and baton twirling routines when I was in the 5th grade.  My choreography wasn't just about putting steps to music, but telling a story through dance and movement. 

When the parents told me they wouldn't fund a college education in Dance, I turned my sights to the movies.  I wanted to go to film school and become a film director.  My senior year in high school I went to the movies every chance I got.  I even wrote, directed, and starred in an 8mm short film--a comedic who-done-it--titled The Black and White Panther that riffed on the popular Pink Panther movies starring Peter Sellers.  However, the parents again declined to fund a college education in Film. 

They wanted me to become an engineer, so I attended Auburn University thinking I'd major in Computer Science and do CGI for the movies.  But I'm not an engineer.  I might have done well in math, but I do not have the heart or brain of an engineer.  Around this time, I started writing fiction, something I've kept at off and on since college. 

Two years ago all that persistence paid off and I signed with a publisher and am now an author of four books with more on the way.

So, it was with great pleasure that I had the opportunity to pick my dream cast for my recent book The Weredog Whisperer for Heidi Ruby Miller's Cast Your Characters.  You can check it out here: http://heidirubymiller.blogspot.com/2014/03/cast-your-characters-weredog-whisperer.html

If you've read Weredog Whisperer, I'd love to hear your thoughts on my casting choices and/or who you'd pick to play the different roles. 











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