I just finished putting all my writing pieces from this semester into one writing journal. It feels good to finally be organized. I'm taking a class this semester entitled Seminar in Teaching Writing. It is far from what I expected when people were telling me about it. I feel like I'm entitled to write, not just teach writing. I'm learning things about being a writer that I never knew before. I'm beginning to see myself as a writer -- a thought that led me to creating this blog.
It's great to go back and look at past work that I've done. It's also nice to be able to have all my writing in one spot so that I can go back and see what topics I've written about a lot and where my focus is -- see from where I've come. I have a bad habit of starting a journal, writing one page in it or one entry, and then never picking it up again. I thought it would be interesting to have for this semester one journal for class and one for pleasure. Well, I'm finding that the two are intermingling much more than anticipated. So I decided to combine the two ... for now. I still have all my original pieces in my hobby one and photocopies in the one for school. I'm sure I'll come back to the one for free time in the future ... I can't resist blank pages =].
Writing is such a joy to me -- another reason why I started blogging. To feel like I can get my thoughts out of my head and down on paper, it helps to clear my head a bit, and it's fun to create and combine words together in patterns never seen before. God gives each of us joys and gifts and one of mine is definitely writing. It's a way to relax, a way to unwind, a way to just be me. Time is precious; I count it such a blessing when I have a time to write! =]
No comments:
Post a Comment