I'm back in the blogging saddle again! Getting back at it is not like riding a bike, and I’ll tell you why. For starters, there are no pedals on saddles - I've looked. (Pause for dramatic effect.) And anyway, I wouldn’t call my previous blog posts “successful bike rides”. (Why do I keep using metaphors; first a train, then a horse, and now a wobbly bike? Possibly it’s because I view my blog as a journey, so I figure, who the heck wants to just walk though it? Not me.) Anywho, like I said, I’m back, and in the words of Tim Gunn, I’m going to “make it work.”
For future posts, I’d like to vary things up. Share my photography; share a thought here and there, rather than a whole essay – although, I will do those from time to time. This is the future of this blog.
So, what have I been doing these last couple of months? Well, thank you for asking. I’ve been a busy girl. I completed my very first short story, and submitted it in the CBC Literary Contest. The whole process was eye-opening for me. In my naivety, I hadn’t realized how hard it would be to express my thoughts and ideas on paper, and it embarrassed me to discover the level at which I wrote. But as it turns out, hard work really does pay off, and time spent improving was never a waste. Not to insinuate that I think my story is at a prize-winning level, but simply that I worked and reworked it to a place that I felt good about.
Completing this story is a personal milestone. The last time I tried writing one, it had left me with the conclusion that I could never be a writer. Mind you, I was only 12 years old at the time, but the feeling had stuck with me all these years nonetheless.
In the process, I also found that no matter how frustrated or stuck I got, I continued to feel passionate and excited about writing. This combination of feeling passionate and frustrated is new for me – and I rather quite like it.
What else have I been doing? I’ve been working on an essay for my writing course. Since we were given the freedom to choose our own topic, I decided to write about the "Tortured Artist". Let's just say, I’ve been feeling tortured myself having to find evidence to support my thesis. Academic papers are not my forte, but luckily I have an informative and supportive teacher.
I think I’ve rambled and shared enough for one day. I hope you keep coming back, checking out my blog, and hopefully I can keep you entertained from time to time.
TTFN, ta ta for now!
