Hello, Dear Reader. Blog Stumbler. Internet Wanderer.
If you poke into what I've been doing here, you know I started Project Once Upon a Time as a challenge to write the beginning of a story every single day for a year. It took me longer than a year, but I persevered to 365 starts and was proud, but I didn't want to stop! It was really a lot of fun to start all these stories; yes, sometimes a brain-wracker, but fun to push myself.
My second challenge to myself was to go through the giant list of beauty pageant questions I had for my Public Speaking class students. The first bunch were from ones I'd use in class, and the next, larger bunch were from the list of any question I found but deemed too difficult (or inappropriate) for my class.
Well, I finished that list with my previous post: "What motivates you?" So, now what?
I think I ought to finish (or, at least, continue) some of these stories. When I chose my major in college, I wanted to be a writer. I pictured wallpapering a room with all my rejection letters. I pictured getting piles of magazines in lieu of pay for published stories. I pictured Being a Writer!
You see how that worked out. I'm a college professor who wishes I wasn't. I am an improvisational comedian who wishes I could play for a complete living (it's a partial living right now.) I am a closet writer. This blog has been my peek out of the closet. As of today, four people subscribe to my blog. Three of them I know personally and one dear girl is apparently just a very nice person.
Blogs are vanity. I know. But the public nature of this blog has, at least, motivated me thus far. I'm hoping it will motivate me to continue, finish, and, perhaps, even dare to try for some rejection letters. I am not sure the format I will use to continue some of these stories, and I may mix some other story-starts in, too, but this is where I will begin.
Thank you, whoever you are, for reading. As always, if you have comments or questions, please interact. I'm around.
Karen
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