When I was in grade school, each September my teacher would assign us a writing project: What Did You Do This Summer? Possibly, this gave me my start as a writer, not because I wrote beautiful prose about exotic locales, but because I had to make things up. Most of my summers as a child were spent complaining to my mother that I was bored (“Bored? You’re bored? I can give you something to do…”), walking with my dog through the woods, and opening and closing the refrigerator to see if any good food had appeared since last time I checked (It hadn’t). So for that first-day-of-school assignment, I’d write about my trip to Disneyworld or the Grand Canyon. Paris.
For this blog, I’ll give you a choice: you can either write about your summer vacation, real or imagined, or you can write about your summer of writing (obviously, I’d prefer the latter). For either option, describe something new that you learned about yourself. Or about writing. Or about vacations. What did you learn and how did you learn it? What can you take with you into the rest of your life? What do you still not understand? In other words, write about yourself as a writer (or vacationer). Note: While we all enjoy praise, your response in the comment box below should be about you, not your wonderful creative writing professor. I’m not immune to a little blown smoke, but I’m more interested in you. Thank you all for sharing your wonderful stories with me! I am truly honored.
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