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so_disarming_darling) wrote2011-02-01 10:08 pm
so_disarming_darling) wrote2011-02-01 10:08 pm
I am terrible at these sorts of posts.
I never know what to say and I always convince myself that the awkwardness I feel writing them is palpable through the screen. I usually just end up hoping that no one actually reads them. It sort of helps that I'm convinced that the only people (person) who will read already know(s) me.
Still, on the off chance someone stumbles across this, I'd better have the basics up somewhere. I'm Sami, 17, attending (in a very loose sense of the word) Somers High School. This is my official blog for my WISE project, for which I'm focusing on creative writing with the help of Mr. Murphy, my mentor. More specifically, I'm working on putting the finishing touches on and editing the first draft of a (very) long running project of mine, tentatively called Political Science.
I've been writing stories since I was six, and while I couldn't pull off being an English major in college (the problem would come the first time they wanted me to read the Brontes or Austen), writing will always be part of my life. There's always been something gratifying for me about setting pen to paper or, to a lesser extent, skin to keyboard. My not-so-secret ambition is to own a Remington typewriter and try writing on that, though I've been told it's not as fun as it sounds. It's exciting to be given a totally blank page and free reign to construct whatever kind of world you want. The flipside, of course, is that it's all on you and if it fails terribly, that failure's on you alone.
I think that's about it for this post; I've got a whole three months to cover, best not to waste it all here.
-S.
Still, on the off chance someone stumbles across this, I'd better have the basics up somewhere. I'm Sami, 17, attending (in a very loose sense of the word) Somers High School. This is my official blog for my WISE project, for which I'm focusing on creative writing with the help of Mr. Murphy, my mentor. More specifically, I'm working on putting the finishing touches on and editing the first draft of a (very) long running project of mine, tentatively called Political Science.
I've been writing stories since I was six, and while I couldn't pull off being an English major in college (the problem would come the first time they wanted me to read the Brontes or Austen), writing will always be part of my life. There's always been something gratifying for me about setting pen to paper or, to a lesser extent, skin to keyboard. My not-so-secret ambition is to own a Remington typewriter and try writing on that, though I've been told it's not as fun as it sounds. It's exciting to be given a totally blank page and free reign to construct whatever kind of world you want. The flipside, of course, is that it's all on you and if it fails terribly, that failure's on you alone.
I think that's about it for this post; I've got a whole three months to cover, best not to waste it all here.
-S.