I realized why I love getting on here and writing each and every day.
I used to write...
I mean really write. A. LOT.
If I had a pen in my hand, there wasnt a disposable flat surface that was safe. Napkins, folders, paper, notebooks, gum wrappers. I'd write anywhere...
While other girls were doodling "I love so and so" on their folders in middle school and high school, I was writing whole poems about my feelings.
While other kids wrote "Math sucks" or "Science bites", I wrote articles about the percentage of likelihood of ever using half the stuff I learned in school.
I wrote a congressional bill for a club I was in, science fiction stories, short stories and poems.
I just loved to write. I dont think it was ever something I thought about, just something I did. My freshman year I had an English teacher who convinced me I had talent and could actually hack it as a writer.
Then, my first semester at community college, I got a C in English Comp and my confidence was shaken. I kept at it my second year though and eventually changed my major to Psych, but even there wrote tons of research papers and findings of surveys and things we were doing.
When I became a mom, I just sort of stopped. I didnt have time or the desire. I really feel like I lost so much of myself after I had Liv and went through everything with her dad.
In the last year of being a single mom (from Sept 05 to October of 06) I started writing in a journal. Mostly what I was reading in the Bible and how it made me feel. But, sometimes there were poems or articles. I blogged on my Myspace too, and really enjoyed it.
I know that what I post here isnt great literature. Its mostly just whats going on in my life, but I feel like I lost track of some part of me that was really important to me and defined me and now Ive found it again.
I dont know that I will ever be a "writer" or sell anything, but at least Ive realized how much I like to write and have found a place where I can.
Thank you to those of you who read what I put here.
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
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6 comments:
This is exactly why I blog too!!!
I wholeheartedly agree. I was the one everyone thought would write the "great American novel." I don't think I'll ever come up with something so amazing, but my love of writing comes out in this place, where it's appreciated by others who feel the same way. We love you S!
I totally feel you, and you made me realize something about the difference between me and some of my RLFs... I have always loved to write. There is a handful of my friends who totaaly do not get this blogging thing and it is almost akward, and confuses me. But you kinda made me understand it all. They were writing "I love yous: and I was writing stories and poems. Thanks... this is why I love coming here and readind your thoughts!
I love to read your writing! Not only is it refreshing because you are such a neat individual, but it is therapeutic. You have an amazing outlook on life that is encouraging!
This post was sooo me. Blogging is my way to indulge my muse who is otherwise totally neglected.
This describes me perfectly. I love writing and always have. My blog is an excellent place to get it out of my head.
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