I'm so happy to have found AW! I've been stalking various threads in the half-day between signing up and being approved to post and am excited to make my own post.
A little about myself:
I have lived in California since I was a toddler, but next week I am moving to Grenada in the West Indies. I am terrified. (Hopefully the new life experiences will be plenty of writing fodder??)
I've worked soulless office jobs for the last 4 years but realized soon into it that I consider my "real job" the hours of writing I diligently complete evenings and weekends, whether I feel "inspired" to do them or not. The whole Grenada move obviously throws off my 9-to-5, and with this shift I hope to go back to grad school and become an elementary school teacher when I'm back in the States.
I recently . . . finished something. I'm not sure how to put it. I want to say that it's a "first draft," but to be honest, I am one of those horrible editors who will go back and redo my writing paragraph by painstaking paragraph, so in some ways it is simultaneously a first draft and a millionth draft. Anyway, it's fairly long, I don't think it is publishable, and it's only now, after years of working on my own and being a "hobby writer" that I've burrowed out of my writing to look into writing communities, discussions on writing, writing workshops, etc.
I hope that AW inspires me to write more, helps me revise some more (I feel like it's an endless process that's enjoyable but also unsatisfying), and allows me to talk about my writing and writing in general, as I've always been a bit embarassed that I aspire to write at all. When people ask what I do for a living, I have to cite my office job. And when they go on to ask if I enjoy it, I usually say no, I actually want to be a teacher, and that's that. But the truth is that while I've always viewed writing as something I would do as a necessity, because I enjoy it, love it, all that, I WOULD love to be A Writer. As in someone who makes a buck or two and can see her name in print. If it's not my full-time, make-a-living day job that's fine, as I also love teaching and working with children, but it would be so wonderful to have the validation and . . . sense of self, I suppose. *I* view myself as a writer, but it feels like a secret identity because no one knows I write.
Sorry for the ramble. I guess I wouldn't be here if I didn't like words.
Hello AW! I would like to introduce myself and ramble
A little about myself:
I have lived in California since I was a toddler, but next week I am moving to Grenada in the West Indies. I am terrified. (Hopefully the new life experiences will be plenty of writing fodder??)
I've worked soulless office jobs for the last 4 years but realized soon into it that I consider my "real job" the hours of writing I diligently complete evenings and weekends, whether I feel "inspired" to do them or not. The whole Grenada move obviously throws off my 9-to-5, and with this shift I hope to go back to grad school and become an elementary school teacher when I'm back in the States.
I recently . . . finished something. I'm not sure how to put it. I want to say that it's a "first draft," but to be honest, I am one of those horrible editors who will go back and redo my writing paragraph by painstaking paragraph, so in some ways it is simultaneously a first draft and a millionth draft. Anyway, it's fairly long, I don't think it is publishable, and it's only now, after years of working on my own and being a "hobby writer" that I've burrowed out of my writing to look into writing communities, discussions on writing, writing workshops, etc.
I hope that AW inspires me to write more, helps me revise some more (I feel like it's an endless process that's enjoyable but also unsatisfying), and allows me to talk about my writing and writing in general, as I've always been a bit embarassed that I aspire to write at all. When people ask what I do for a living, I have to cite my office job. And when they go on to ask if I enjoy it, I usually say no, I actually want to be a teacher, and that's that. But the truth is that while I've always viewed writing as something I would do as a necessity, because I enjoy it, love it, all that, I WOULD love to be A Writer. As in someone who makes a buck or two and can see her name in print. If it's not my full-time, make-a-living day job that's fine, as I also love teaching and working with children, but it would be so wonderful to have the validation and . . . sense of self, I suppose. *I* view myself as a writer, but it feels like a secret identity because no one knows I write.
Sorry for the ramble. I guess I wouldn't be here if I didn't like words.
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