Something has clicked lately, and I'm finally taking the advice of so many creative writing professors. "Write," they say, and I am. And to even my surprise, most of my recent work and interest lies within a shocking genre; poetry.
In high school, my poetry was atrocious. I thought it had to rhyme, I thought it had to have an obnoxious rhythm, and just be corny as all hell. Luckily, coming to college has shown me otherwise, and I've actually become so inspired that I'm working on revising some poems that date back to my senior year of high school. Is it wrong, though, that I have this guilt trip that I haven't written a real piece of fiction in almost two years, when I used to seem so dedicated to it? I guess things change.
So the purpose of this blog; to finally share of my writing. Some people sound surprised when I express my love for writing, and after a lot of hard work, I want to show people what I'm really capable of. I know I'm no Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, or even a Stephen King, but I have become content and sometimes downright happy with my work, and I want to put myself out there. I want the people who know me to see a different side of me, and to know that this really is one of my passions.
What I'm asking is for any feedback on anything I decide to post here. If you read something, please comment on it and tell me what you think. Constructive criticism helps me more than you'll ever know. I just hope one day my fiction and poems will be reaching a much bigger group of readers, and I can walk into Barnes & Noble and see my name on the binding of a brand-new, uncreased paperback.
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