publish something

I love words, I am more passionate about words and about writing than I am about anything else. Love ‘em!

My therapist recently suggested that, as someone struggling with intense suicidal thoughts and behaviors, perhaps, since I have nothing to lose, I should just do things I like to do… If I’m ready to sign it all away, why not enjoy it while I’m here?

And I’m starting to think she’s got a point!

-Carrie.

When I was younger, I wanted to be a writer. I don’t anymore, but it bugs me that I never published anything. I want there to be one less thing that I’ve given up on.

I think this one may take some time – although I really need to do it asap. The R&J thing deadline is coming up. I don’t like my proposal really. Need to think on that one…

Hopefully I can make this happen before I earn my graduate degree. This goal is not to far fetched being that I’ve been told I’m a pretty good writer and I think so too. I write a ton of papers each semester, one is bound to be good enough to be published. If not, I’ll definitely get the ol’ thesis published…all that work for nothing, I don’t think so!

I had a haiku published in Teen Speak magazine when I was high school, but I want to publish a better poem or an article or something else and I want to publish somewhere that lots of people will see. A poem in The New Yorker or an article in a main newspaper.

Scientific journal articles, altough I’d be happier publishing a novel or kids book

I’m not thinking a book or anything, or anything that I do for work, but something that I’ve constructed for the sole purpose of sharing with others…most likely an eHow entry or something similar.

I want to publish a children’s book with my mother. She always told the greatest children’s stories and I’d love to have some of them in book form. I have a friend who can illustrate, and my mom and I can write the stories down. I have no idea how to go about publishing a book, but I guess I’ll find out! At least we have the idea now. Just have to get started.

But I’m giving this goal up for now, as I’m not really working on it and I’m cleaning up my list :)

I was just selected to be published in Creative Communication’s Young Poet’s Contest for my poem entitled “Thin”
It goes like so:

Thin

If you weren’t my deadliest sin
Then maybe this could work
Or bend in you favor in any case
But how it happens you never
I never knew
When one day you posed to me
An apple
As crimson as the sun at 7:00
Even more perilous
Than a pear
More of a prince, calling that area below my heart stone pitted
As a gargoyle
Hunger never felt like this
Water
Water
Quench my thirst
Hunger
Hunger
Till I burst

I posted this because I never really thought it could happen and I’m really proud I didn’t just lay it by the way side. Completeling one goal means I can do all of them and that’s just what I intend to do.