Charles Bohannan

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Now that I have your attention, allow me to tell you a little bit about myself and why I blog. Then I promise I’ll get to the contest.

I’m Charles Bohannan and I live and raise my family in Hawaii. You may think it’s round-the-clock surfing and mai tais here, but it’s not (too bad, I know).

Paradise comes with a price. In other words, it’s very hard to thrive in Hawaii–pretty much anywhere these days–on an average income in an average job as an average employee. I tried to be average for years and never really got that far.

My challenge and quest to be someone remarkable led me to start this blog in October 2008. My intention here at Wordful is to [Read more...]

A Little History on Wordful

Since for now I’m enjoying this loose, free flow writing, which is clearly not authoritative, I’d like to go into how Wordful evolved.

Writing is my predilection, but I tried for years to avoid that calling out of insecurity and job security. I figured that writers were important but highly undervalued people. And once I started a family, the hopes of making it big as a writer were quickly replaced by the need to make money. It happens to a lot of us.

In college I got an English degree with a 4.0 GPA, but also pursued “the holy grail” of careers at the time: the web industry trade. The internet was blowing up and I wanted a piece of it.

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A Little History on Wordful