Letter to my Friends

So, having learned very little about me in these first few sessions of our writing class, I’m sure everyone would like to know more. It is true that most of my schooling up to this point has been very science oriented, but don’t let that throw you off; I am very much a writer. In the beginning of my Pima education I have always wanted to dive into this course, but unfortunately my scholarship restricted me to only certain classes that pertain to my major. Luckily for me, I decided to transfer to the U of A to continue my education and can now include this class on my transcripts. My love of writing started to show itself when I was in middle school. I always had a journal to write in, and although it was all cheesy girl stuff, it let my mind wonder and make up all sorts of situations and dialogues that I knew would probably never happen. From here I started to write poetry, and then eventually moved on to short story writing. Writing has always been a path that I wanted to take as a career, but the starving-artist lifestyle has never been appealing to me. I have always been praised, and very embarrassed, by teachers who would decide to read my stories out loud in class as an example to everyone else. Boastful, I know, but deep down inside I would always feel a sense of pride at how well I could write fiction. My other writing classes, though, were a different story. I could not write an analytical paper for history or English classes, but I could always make stuff up. I read a lot more back then, when I had the time, but I’ve moved very far from the reader and writer I used to be. I can’t really say that I didn’t have the time; I guess I kind of just got lazy. That, or maybe my writing was making me depressed, it seemed like all I would write about before I stopped writing was incredible heartbreak about stuff people should just never go through, decisions that should never have to be made, those kind of things sort of turned me away for awhile. I’m hoping that I can turn writing back into a positive experience, bring back my imagination and make my writing my favorite thing to do once more.