Ten Things You Don’t Know About Me!
I was tested to do a test.
Any individual who realizes me knows this.
I never back down from a test. Along these lines, I acknowledge the demand.
Much obliged to you to
Jerikho Jordan
for welcoming me to this test and giving me somewhat more viewpoint on who I am and my life. I composed only a couple of days prior about how I am searching for numbers on this stage, yet collaborations and speculation. This is important for that progression.
The test is to compose 10 things you have close to zero insight into me. I've been open all of the time. Thus, I'll tell you more about who Cliff Hightower is.
It will be entertaining.
I'm an Already Established Writer
I'm as of now very honored in my life. A many individuals get on this stage and are looking for ways they can compose professionally.
I have proactively composed professionally.
For over 20 years, I've had the fortune to have the option to go to work consistently and put words to paper. I have been a writer, composing for a portion of the top distributions in the southeastern United States. I've been a wrongdoing correspondent, a political columnist, and, essentially, a journalist that covers everything under the sun.
During my profession, I have won various honors for my composition and take care of a few incredible things and extraordinary individuals. I awaken consistently happily.
I'm fortunate. I as of now make every moment count.
I Was a Bullrider Once in my Life
Better believe it, I rode bulls at a certain point. I was in the U.S. Armed force at that point and I was positioned in West Texas and southern New Mexico. I'm an adrenaline terrible, so I thought, why for heaven's sake not?
I observed where you could ride bulls, so I bounced on top of one.
One proviso. I never said I was great. I just rode them.
I Wrote a Novel
In addition to the fact that i am a columnist, yet I am likewise a distributed creator. My book, "Canaan Mountain," is accessible on Amazon. Investigate it. It's a repulsiveness novel set in western North Carolina and it's about a spooky nursing home.
It's independently published. In any case, it's a beginning.
I'm Newly Married
I'm a love bird. I just wedded my second spouse in October and we drove the Blue Ridge Parkway, seeing fall tones. We met somewhat more than two quite a while back, and she's my perfect partner. She upholds my composition and keeps me alert and awake. She's my greatest team promoter and my greatest love.
I'm fortunate for a lady like her.
I'm a Wanted Man in El Paso, Texas
Essentially I think I am. I got discovered traveling very nearly 100 miles each hour on the highway in El Paso, Texas in an old Ford pickup truck when I was 20 years of age. The story was I was positioned there while in the assistance and I figured out my dad had a cardiovascular failure.
I was driving like a crazy person to get to the air terminal and catch the plane, with tears spilling from my eyes.
The cop let me know the adjudicator would toss it out assuming that he heard my story. I never went to court since I moved to Georgia in a month.
I suppose there's a warrant for my capture drifting around there.
I've Published a larger number of Poems than Stories
I never viewed myself as a "artist." For quite a while, I considered myself a fiction essayist. However, all through my composing vocation, I have distributed more verse than fiction.
It's all around great. From that point forward, I've dropped marks.
I'm an essayist. That is all I am. I simply have various ways of speaking with you.
I've Been in Three Bands
Check out at the bread on Brad. I've played guitar for over thirty years, practically about the time I initially began composing, and have played in three musical crews.
I'm simply an innovative buddy, Nothing more needs to be said. The groups never went anyplace, yet at the same it's cool.
I once played a show before 1,000 individuals. Who can say crap like that?
This person.
I'm an Adrenaline Junky
I'm an adrenaline horrible, insane or moronic. Not certain which.
I've leaped out of planes in the Army, rode bulls, rappelled off 100-foot precipices, and played rugby not long before I turned 40 as a poops and snickers second to do it before I went downhill.
I've climbed in snow up to my knees. Tubed down whitewater and rappelled into caves.
I'm an insane man, man.
My Great Grandparents were Moonshiners
Thus, I come from the mountains and a mountain family. I learned about a year prior that I have an incredible granddad who kept individuals in the holler where he resided upbeat.
He did it by making spirits.
He was a prestigious home brew producer from what I comprehend. Discussing home brew, I likewise had an uncle who ran home brew. For the individuals who might be outside the southern states or the U.S., in the past alcohol was unlawful and furthermore must be burdened.
Local people around here tried not to cover charges and the "revenuers" by making their own and selling their own.
That is the way we got NASCAR. Furthermore, my family taken part in that.
Assuming you like NASCAR, you can express gratitude toward me for it. In the event that you could do without NASCAR, you can say thanks to me for it.
I've Got a Second Book I'm Attempting to customarily Publish
I let you know I had an independently published book. Indeed, I have composed a second book that I'm endeavoring to track down a specialist for and distribute generally.
This is important for the excursion I desire to share here and furthermore assist with teaching the people who are wanting to do likewise. My fantasy is to some time or another be a full-time fiction essayist.