It’s getting kind of late and I’m just sitting in the kitchen with a little lamp on, blogging, facebooking, reading a writing magazine, and…writing. Well not writing yet but blogging warms me up.
         I’m reading a special edition magazine Writer’s Digest puts out quarterly. It’s called ‘Writing Basics’. It has some pretty good articles in it.
         I’ve been writing for about five years now. When I first started writing, it was rather diligently. I wrote consistently, pretty much every day and submitted articles and stories all the time. Rejection after rejection. I didn’t really get disappointed as much as just bored. It gets tiring to feel like you are just floating around in a giant puddle and don’t have anywhere to go. My path in life took my interest away from writing for a while but now I see it as an outlet. When my mind gets to full there’s nothing more satisfying than throwing it down on paper in whatever format seems fitting at the time.
        Everyone gets up to their forehead in things at least every once in a while, some more than others. I encourage you, put it down on paper. Anything and everything. What you did that day. Capture little moments. Write down what’s on your mind. I am always jotting down little phrases and rhymes that pop into my head. You never know if they might turn into something.
         I’ve always been a reader, but as with writing, my other goals and interests in life steered me away and I lost time. However, I have made it a point to pick it back up again. Right now I am focusing on classics solely. I picked The Catcher in the Rye as my first title. I believe that (as with most books) you can learn a lot from classics. So I don’t want to just read these books so I can say I have, I want to research the authors and learn the different viewpoints of what symbolic meaning the writer might have been trying to get across.
        I’m thinking about starting a book club focused on classics. Let me know if you are interested!!!!!!
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