short stories? you got to be kidding me!

as any good writer knows, you have to be able to write in a lot of genres, and i thought that poetry would be my strong suit...boy, was i right wrong. i took a creative writing class in college, and the one thing my professor told us is, "everyone is good at one thing, i will make you great at anything"...yeah i believed her. one week class we had to write a short story and i am thinking, "dang, well there goes my straight a in this class"... i spent a whole week tweaking and rewriting till my hand ached. enough of that, i am turning it in as is and i'll take the grade i get...well that grade was an a-, talk about "whoa!!!" i've never been one to write stories, i write poems, this is not suppose to happen!...or is it? i've thought about writing more short stories, but i haven't had the motivation to think that deep anymore...the thing is, do i need something dramatic to happen to me, or do i need that immediate epiphany that you have in your sleep.

whomever said writing was easy, was certainly not a writer.

this blog today may not be as long today, because i have had a long day, but hey, the writing continues....

i was in the second grade and we had a student of the day every day, and i was so excited for my day to come, but i had already had my day...happy sad, i know. i wrote the best one page story of my life in second grade, the name, apple fritters. it was the story of two bears who had so many apples they didn't know what to do with them...so they made apple fritters for their bear community and everyone was happy. my teacher let me read it to the class, and once again, student of the day was mine! victory! i even got a special certificate that I still have, yeah, its in one of my albums....proudest day of my second grade life! writer in the making!

next blog...what do i want to do when i grow up?