A new blog? Coming Soon!

I’m thinking of starting a new blog that will focus on my current hometown, Norwood, MA, inspired by several factors: my desire to learn more about my town, my desire to write real pieces, and my fascination with my friend Christine’s career path. Hi Christine! Yes, you’ve inspired me to "try on" journalism. It’s just so different from anything I’ve ever done that it truly fascinates me. I might be going to you for some advice on leads, how to approach subjects for interviews, etc. 🙂

The truth is that there is a repressed writer in me. When I was in 5th grade I decided I would go to college to study Literature (didn’t happen). I had been writing stories for years, and I had a very inspiring Literature teacher (who was also my home room teacher). She was tall, slender and had this 80’s Joan Jett haircut that nobody thought twice about back then. She was always nice to me when others weren’t, and it made me want to be like her. One day, a year or so later, I wrote a story and brought it to her classroom for her valuable feedback, but she wasn’t there. She was gone. I never knew where she went or why she wouldn’t say goodbye. But I still remember her fondly.

My inner-writer has been trying to come out for a few years now. I got a typewriter in 2005 because I used to think that writers only wrote in typewriters. Man, how many christmasses went by without Santa bringing me the one gift I wanted. I kept thinking of great endings to stories with no plot, but never really sat down and wrote them (my typewriter is collecting dust in my attic).

Then last year I started blogging when a story idea came to me (and I was on a 3-week break from school), so I started writing fiction. When school started back up I got busy and lost my inspiration.

Now I just use this blog to let my thoughts out. No commitment, no deadlines, no storyline to stick to. Just thoughts. It’s nice and relaxing, but not challenging in a serious-writer kind of way. I make no effort to put together organized sentences or paragraphs… or even follow grammatical laws. Yeah, my mind’s a mess 😛

Wow, that was the tangent of the century! In short: when I’m done with school in August I’ll start a new I ♥ Norwood blog 🙂 I’m so excited! Stay tuned for more!

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