The rough draft of my first essay is due for peer workshopping in my writing class early next week. Yeah. The essay I haven't yet written a single word of. That essay. I don't know what to write! So far, there've been essays presented on someone's divorce, someone's struggle with spiritual belief, and someone else wrote about having surgery for a brain tumor. I've agonized and brainstormed, but I'm just not sure I have anything very interesting or compelling hiding in my personal bag of anecdotes. I was thinking of writing about leaving Pennsylvania for Florida when I was seven, but I don't have enough clear memories of that. Maybe I'll write about the time I tried to "rescue" a clutch of duck eggs and attempted to hatch them in my closet. Or I can write about some of my experiences working in television retail sales. Whatever, I guess I had better choose. Soon.
Tonight, promptly at midnight, the NYCMidnight Short Story Challenge begins. I'll be sent a prompt, and given a week to produce a short story based on whatever I'm given. If I move on to subsequent rounds, the timeframes will become shorter, and the pool of contributors gets whittled down, until the finalists have just 24 hours to produce a story. No pressure, there. Nope.
And, finally I want to contribute to the current F3 cycle that is due on Wednesday. I love the idea for the prompt. Although I should really just start writing and posting more here, just to be writing. I'm also looking for other forums to contribute to (free is fine, but eventually I'd really like to work up to occassional paid submissions...yeah, wouldn't everybody!), so if any of ya'll have any ideas, please pass them along my way!
1 comment:
I'm proud that you're buried in various writing activities. you'er submerging yourself and thats the best way to do it (imo). you have a ton of interesting stories, your son is one of them, your birth family another.
I look forward to reading the submissions you make to this blog.
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