Then I morphed into a college student who wanted to be a journalist. I found it hard to chase down stories and felt like I was totally invading people's privacy. I decided that news is for the most part depressing and so I stopped writing. The only writing I did was for the Ward or R.S. Newsletter or my journal. I found writing in my journal to be a great form of relief from stress and filled pages and pages with the minutia of each day in the life of Tara. What I enjoy most about journal writing is that you can see yourself progress in maturity. At the same time, when I see what kind of person I was years ago, I sometimes cringe at the things I thought and said and did.
Currently, I blog. What I like best about blogging is that people can comment on what you have written and then you have feedback on your ideas, sometimes instantly. I should be writing argument drafts for the Young Adult Fiction class I am taking at Bucknell, but instead I am blogging it up.
One thing I absolutely have never ever felt comfortable with is poetry. I have a hard time reading it and an even more difficult time writing it. Every creative writing class I have ever been in has required me to write at least one poem. Each time I got my pieces back, the teacher would comment that my poem would make a better short story. I think poetry just isn't my thing.
I would like to get back into writing, even just in my journal or better yet, some magazine articles. Hopefully, my involvement with this group will inspire me to do just that.
2 comments:
That is so cool about your retreat at Ernest Hemmingway's house. I will always remember reading "The Sun Also Rises" my freshman year in college. It's so interesting how good writing connects all people everywhere...even us people with boring lives can really identify with a story about an alcoholic bull fighter. So, maybe it's been too long since I've read that story, but I know there was alcohol and bulls in that book! :) LOL.
Anyway, writing is such a personal thing, so specific to each person. I'm sure you are a great writer...You just need to get back into the saddle or into the "ring" as it were! :) (Can you tell that I really like to link metaphors in my writing?)
I think you have the "write stuff." :) You are a very good writer--very polished. And, oh, how I love to write in my journal. I hear you there! Keep it up! That was fun to read.
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