I decided to start a blog because, well, I’m a writer. Ever since I was able to talk and hold a pencil I’ve been writing. I typically wrote short stories or poems until I learned of new techniques and as time went on my writing reflected that. That's why I was excited to take a Creative Writing class. This class,(which is my all-time favorite class!) is helping me explore different areas of writing. It started out with play writing. At first I was like,” How do you write a play?!” I had never written one before so I was skeptical about starting this unit. My first play, to be honest, was terrible. It was about two guys who got stuck in an elevator and hated each other. It was extremely lame, but as the class progressed, so did my writing. Eventually I started to really enjoy writing plays and started to incorporate that into my own personal writing. I have a new technique to explore, which I am all about as a writer.
Poetry was another part of the class. The only catch? No rhyming. Once again, I thought to myself, “How do you write a poem that doesn’t rhyme?!” All this time I thought poems needed to rhyme in order to be completely awesome because that was all I had been exposed to when writing poetry. Of course I started out with something that I hated, but that’s what will happen with everything. Whenever you start something new it will be terrible at first, and unless you stick with it and keep working it will never get better. Now, I love writing poetry that doesn’t rhyme. The next unit is prose unit, which I am completely comfortable with already. I’m waiting for the catch, but I’m willing to work with it.
So, why did I decide to start a blog? To explore a new writing opportunity. I want to be able to get my words out into the world and let them travel out of the comfort zone of my journals. If I ever publish something someday, they need have been exposed to the world so they won't be completely lost and scared. So on that note, the journey begins.
