First Blog

I've never really blogged before so this should be fairly interesting. I woke up a few minutes ago and realized that I had forgot to contribute and then I spent the next 15 minutes trying to figure out how to actually post something. I have always enjoyed creative writing ever since I was in middle school. I remember always getting essays assigned about history or book reports and even into high school always being assigned research papers and analytical essays etc. I hated them; I would groan the loudest out of the entire class and procrastinate as much as possible thinking that putting it off might actually make it go away. But there was always that one assignment where the teacher let you write about whatever you wanted. "It's a free-essay. Write about what ever you feel." That's when I smiled and rushed home to write an essay. To put me on the page has always been a fun thing to do; much more fun than analyzing Willa Cather's "My Antonia." During class when we do the exercises in the textbook I get lost in time. Something just takes over and I write and continue to write. Writing creatively is the only activity that can completely capture my attention; I never watch a full t.v. show, lectures tend to bore me, and I have a difficult time paying attention for longer than an hour but when writing creatively I can get lost and keep writing.