Letters of a Voyage

Hi, remember me. My name is Georgie, I had this Dreamwidth journal once. And then I stopped writing in November and completely dropped off the face of the internet-planet. Yep, that's me.

It's becoming painfully obvious that online journalling isn't really for me. I over-think the things  I write, I write infrequently, and I don't really have the time and energy to invest in an online community. (I never comment, I know, I'm sorry. It's not personal I promise.) Which sucks, because despite my limited experience with online communities, it seems like Dreamwidth has got something really special.

Since I am having a significantly less busy summer than I had hoped for, I am trying to develop a writing discipline: to write longer more developed versions of the essay-type work I put up here, more frequently. Also, I have started writing poetry. This may be a dangerous thing. At the moment, I have no aspirations of publication, but have found myself trapped in academic-style writing, which is good and valuable for his purposes. But I think it would be all around beneficial (not to mention enjoyable) to hone my skills of articulation in other forms.

Also, since my degrees (to come in two years) will be in almost totally useless subjects (or mostly I intend to do largely unemployable things with them), having a larger body of writing work to use as samples and maybe send to the odd magazine or so, can't be a bad thing. Yes, that translates as: the backup plan for my theater career is writing poetry.

So the goal for summer is a poem and an essay once a week. (This will change during the school year, but hopefully I will develop a somewhat maintainable habit.) This week, since I was still working out the kinks, there is just a poem (there may be two essays this week to compensate). I am using the Big Tent Poetry weekly prompts for my poems. My essay prompts will probably come from me. I am hoping that it will encourage me to listen more closely to , and think more deeply about, the world around me. I have ideas, I just need a discipline to get them written. 

That being said, I completely understand if watching the train wreck that is a college student trying to turn herself into a writer is not your cup of tea. Please feel free to unsubscribe at will, there will be no hard feelings. I will keep my reading list, because although we seem to have precious little interaction, I find the things that you all write fascinating and I have learned so much from all of you. Seriously, you have no idea. But I completely understand access/subscription changes.

But, I would love it if you choose to stick around, comment as you wish. I completely welcome criticisms and pointers, I know I have some brilliant writers out there on my reading list and am not so attached to my words that I can't learn from what you have to say. (I may whimper a little, but it's good for me.)

Thanks for bearing with me.

I remain,
Georgie