Carma Dillon has an unusual background. Born in Los Angeles, raised in Utah, the fifth of eight children in a poor, uneducated, LDS
(Mormon) family, she was the only child that it did not stick to. At age 15, she joined the "Jesus freaks" of Shiloh Youth Revival Center
and left that groupthink behind after three years. She participated in the controversial 'est' training and several graduate programs, and
left that. Today, she calls herself a wonderer who enjoys the company of positive people who love to ponder questions rather than divide
and hate over presumptuous answers. She prefers to respect and appreciate all cultures and individuals.
Carma gained political, economic and philosophical perspectives working as an executive assistant with high tech engineers and software
developers, cosmetics sales executives, environmental project managers, insurance advisors, political activists, church leaders, and
fascinating individuals from all walks of life in Boston, Houston, and Los Angeles. Everywhere she went, all kinds of people recommended
a variety of books and she explored ideas that way. She is a natural born philosopher, told by friends as a teenager that she thinks too
much. She likes to say, "If you believe in a God-given brain, believe in using it."
Having only a G.E.D., she is mainly self-taught and home-schooled her son through 5th grade because he was born three months
premature. Her son is fully recovered from his at-risk beginning and is now heading toward college. Recognized by her early teachers
as having a gift for creative writing, she enrolled in screenwriting classes at UCLA and met Professor Richard Walter, who became the
professional story consultant on her first screenplay and gave her a personal letter of recommendation in 2009. She has been
nominated and won awards for Best Screenplay.
Carma has completed five original screenplays, two ebooks, and published a beautiful paperback novel, the first volume of the Saardu
Adventure Series. Volume 2 of the series is being published as an ebook, chapter by chapter, weekly at Smashwords.
(Mormon) family, she was the only child that it did not stick to. At age 15, she joined the "Jesus freaks" of Shiloh Youth Revival Center
and left that groupthink behind after three years. She participated in the controversial 'est' training and several graduate programs, and
left that. Today, she calls herself a wonderer who enjoys the company of positive people who love to ponder questions rather than divide
and hate over presumptuous answers. She prefers to respect and appreciate all cultures and individuals.
Carma gained political, economic and philosophical perspectives working as an executive assistant with high tech engineers and software
developers, cosmetics sales executives, environmental project managers, insurance advisors, political activists, church leaders, and
fascinating individuals from all walks of life in Boston, Houston, and Los Angeles. Everywhere she went, all kinds of people recommended
a variety of books and she explored ideas that way. She is a natural born philosopher, told by friends as a teenager that she thinks too
much. She likes to say, "If you believe in a God-given brain, believe in using it."
Having only a G.E.D., she is mainly self-taught and home-schooled her son through 5th grade because he was born three months
premature. Her son is fully recovered from his at-risk beginning and is now heading toward college. Recognized by her early teachers
as having a gift for creative writing, she enrolled in screenwriting classes at UCLA and met Professor Richard Walter, who became the
professional story consultant on her first screenplay and gave her a personal letter of recommendation in 2009. She has been
nominated and won awards for Best Screenplay.
Carma has completed five original screenplays, two ebooks, and published a beautiful paperback novel, the first volume of the Saardu
Adventure Series. Volume 2 of the series is being published as an ebook, chapter by chapter, weekly at Smashwords.
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A collection of some favorite quotes:
Nothing encourages creativity like the chance to fall flat on one's face. ~James D. Finley
My alphabet starts with this letter called yuzz. It's the letter I use to spell yuzz-a-ma-tuzz. You'll be sort of surprised what there is
to be found once you go beyond 'Z' and start poking around! ~Dr. Seuss
The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average
person. ~Frank Barron
You can't wait for inspiration. You must go after it with a club. ~Jack London
They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. ~Edgar Allan Poe
Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training. ~Anna Freud
I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see. ~Duane Michals
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. ~Buckminster Fuller
Live with integrity, respect the rights of other people, and follow your own bliss. ~ Nathaniel Branden
Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. ~F.D. Roosevelt
Anyone can dabble, but once you've made that commitment, your blood has that particular thing in it, and it's very hard for
people to stop you. ~Bill Cosby
Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor
and attacked a hot fudge sundae. ~Kurt Vonnegut
Stuff your eyes with wonder ... live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made
or paid for in factories. ~Ray Bradbury
A morning glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. ~Walt Whitman
Never do things others can do and will do, if there are things others cannot do or will not do. ~Amelia Earhart
We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow
partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us
backward, forward, or fix us in the present . We are made up of layers, cells, constellations. ~Anais Nin
Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.
We have become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. ~Jimmy Carter
more
Nothing encourages creativity like the chance to fall flat on one's face. ~James D. Finley
My alphabet starts with this letter called yuzz. It's the letter I use to spell yuzz-a-ma-tuzz. You'll be sort of surprised what there is
to be found once you go beyond 'Z' and start poking around! ~Dr. Seuss
The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average
person. ~Frank Barron
You can't wait for inspiration. You must go after it with a club. ~Jack London
They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. ~Edgar Allan Poe
Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training. ~Anna Freud
I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see. ~Duane Michals
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. ~Buckminster Fuller
Live with integrity, respect the rights of other people, and follow your own bliss. ~ Nathaniel Branden
Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. ~F.D. Roosevelt
Anyone can dabble, but once you've made that commitment, your blood has that particular thing in it, and it's very hard for
people to stop you. ~Bill Cosby
Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor
and attacked a hot fudge sundae. ~Kurt Vonnegut
Stuff your eyes with wonder ... live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made
or paid for in factories. ~Ray Bradbury
A morning glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. ~Walt Whitman
Never do things others can do and will do, if there are things others cannot do or will not do. ~Amelia Earhart
We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow
partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us
backward, forward, or fix us in the present . We are made up of layers, cells, constellations. ~Anais Nin
Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.
We have become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. ~Jimmy Carter
more
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