Summer Update

I’ve been missing. And I’ve missed the blog. I’ve missed writing. I’ve missed sharing things with you. There are a couple of reasons I haven’t been writing, and I thought that I would take the time to share with you. (In list form because we all know that I really like lists.)

1. Lack of Inspiration: It sounds like a really bad reason, but I don’t think it is. I don’t think I should write if I don’t have anything to say. And it’s hard to write when I only have figments of ideas but no idea where they’re going. So, reason one.
2. I’ve been busy. The past couple of weeks I’ve been babysitting a lot and my brother’s had some end of the year school things that I’ve been at. And I’ve been trying to catch up with friends. So some nights and some days there just really hasn’t been time to blog.
3. And then over this past weekend I got sick. Strep throat. Probably courtesy of some of the babysitting I’d been doing. And as if it wasn’t bad enough to get strep, the antibiotics have been making me feel pretty awful. Lately I haven’t wanted to do much of anything. Tonight’s actually the first night in a while that I’ve had the energy to write.

All of that being said, I hope that things are going well with you, my readers. I hope that your summers are going well and that you have fun plans. Let me know.

BrittanyM

On Writing

Believe it or not I don’t think I’ve really written about my writing in a while. I’ve been busy writing, and busy doing other things, and working on transitioning back into living at home. But I haven’t blogged about writing for a while, and I thought that today would be a good day to do just that.

As I mentioned, I’ve been writing a lot lately. For a while now I’ve been working to write every day, and for the most part that’s working out pretty well. I miss a day here and there for various reasons, but overall I’ve been consistent. And lately I’ve been writing a lot of poetry. I mean, a lot. Really this is only worth noting because in the past I haven’t really written poetry at all. It just hasn’t been my thing. It’s never been something that’s clicked. So I’ve written a lot of lists and a lot of fiction and that’s been about it. And there hasn’t been anything wrong with that.

This past semester though, my last semester at UCONN, I had to write 10 poems for my Creative Writing II class. And I was really dreading it because, as previously mentioned, poetry isn’t really my thing. But then this wonderful thing happened. Writing the poems wasn’t hard. Not at all. Not even a little. I actually really enjoyed writing the poetry. It was fun. For the first time in a long time, if not the first time in forever, poetry wasn’t the enemy.

Once it was established that poetry wasn’t the enemy, I began writing a lot more of it. Like, a lot a lot more of it. I’ve kind of been on a poetry roll lately. And while I miss writing in prose, miss writing my dribbles and drabbles and whatnot, I’m really enjoying writing poetry. It’s actually right up my alley because poems capture a moment and I am all about capturing just a moment, or a series of loosely connected moments.

So to sum up this long rambley rant of mine, poetry has joined my repertoire of forms to write in. And life is good, writing is good, and I hope everything is good with all of you.

BrittanyM