Hello, blog friends. It's been a while, yeah?
When it comes to creative writing, response writing, professional writing, and assigned writing, I am a genius. I just got my first ever "B" on a writing assignment last week and I was devastated...but I digress. Becoming an English major with a writing emphasis changed blogging into its own animal entirely. I now feel some personal responsibility to you as my reader to entertain you, teach you, captivate you, interest you, and make you think, all while not being overly political or pushy. As one professor put it, "Nobody cares about you as a writer, just make your reader happy and you'll still get a paycheck on Friday!"
Thank you, higher education, for almost ruining my soulful blogging style.
E. E. Cummings once said, "To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight. Never stop fighting."
He's right. As a professional, I will have a personal responsibility to you as readers, but this is my blog. Down the road, it will be my column, my article, and my book. If I haven't developed my own style and prose, it could be just like any other column you read, article you glance at, or book you pick up off the shelf. I have no desire to write like the icons and legends before me, because I want to write like Lindsay (freaking awesome) Lee. If nobody ever reads my material, then that's okay, because I'll still love writing regardless, but people will read my material. It will be new, fun, original, and sometimes even a little mouthy or vocal, and people will love it.
When I'm famous and I'm holding my own book signings, the fans will ask how I got started and I'll be happy to tell them it was a small beginning on blogspot. It'll be like icing on the cake of a life spent happily every after!
