Write more

It seems like only a year ago I was posting this exact same post here on 43thin…oh wait… ;P

to be hapy & pleased with myself!

So, it wasn’t really my intention to get published, but at my school were publishing a magazine and I’ve decided to be a writer for it. Well, that wasn’t so much a decision I made as it was made for me. I wanted to be an editor, and the editor-in-chief decided that all editors should write for the magazine. He wants it to be intelligent and preferably community oriented. Any ideas?!

Also I’m writing a profile on an artist and will have to interview them first. I do that next week.. scary!!!

I bought a note book that is specifically for on-the-go purposes.
I’m writing something almost every night, well untill the last two nights when I fell asleep super early.

I am taking a writing course as part of my program at school. I have been writing a lot of assignments for it and it’s been such a great experience. I found out you should only put one space after punctuation marks, including periods, so that’s going to take a while to get used to.

I’m really excited about our class assignments because they’re based in real life. I feel much more comfortable writing non-fiction than writing fiction. For my next assignment I will interview a street youth involved in an arts program. How cool!

This time on the merits of ecofeminism. I don’t entirely agree with it, but interesting stuff. In other exciting news, the article got picked up by the Women’s Earth Alliance. The poem below is what I finished with – it encapsulates ecofeminism for me.

The women are speaking. Those who were identified as
having nothing to say, as sweet silence or monkey chatterers,
those who were identified with Nature, which listens, as
against Man who speaks, those people are speaking. They
speak for themselves and for the other people, the others who
have been silent, or silenced, or unheard, the animals, the
trees, the rivers, the rocks. And what they say is: We are
Sacred.
Ursula Le Guinn “Women/Wildness

Embarrassed, slinking jealousy.
Feed off me.
Vulture.

I used to write for my college newspaper. I had my own column, and had felt like I had something to show for myself. People would come up to me and compliment my weekly article. What an incredible feeling it is to feel like you are actually doing something that is at least cool enough for people to notice. Not only that, but it was so much fun too!

But those are times of the past. I dropped out of school so a career as a journalist is out the window. I could go back but I don’t think it is worth it for me. I want to write, and I only want to write about what I want to. I have always wanted to write fiction, and now is the time for me to start doing that. I have tried before, but I always get discouraged because I don’t think what I end up with is any good. I’m hoping that if I read enough, maybe it will give me a better eye, and I can feel more confident in what I get on paper.

Hoping to write more in my blog :) Hoping!

I miss writing soo much..With life it’s so hard to find the time to just relax and let the mind do its work. I miss it!! I want to be able to write again and discover cool ways of doing so.