Just your average grad student who is almost done with school and has a habit of making the worst choices in dating. After a particularly bad break-up at the beginning of July, 2011, I decided to channel everything I was feeling and thinking and focus on it here. Having exhausted some of my friends (sorry BFF), I thought this would be a good substitute for when I need to vent.
Writing and music have always been good therapy for me. I love writing with a passion and have been writing fiction since I was in 6th grade. I had an amazing English teacher who encouraged me along the way to get better and to just keep writing. I connect with songs on a deeper level than most people do. I think it's because my writing has always been fiction; poetry is difficult for me, I just don't understand how people can make it work so easily, and that's exactly what lyrics are - though sometimes pop music is lacking (rhyming the same word twice in one verse drives me bananas!) I guess that is why I value lyrics so much, because I myself can't put my thoughts into such concise phrases. As you'll see if you have not yet discovered, sometimes I can ramble on and on.
I started this blog for two reasons. The first is to get back to writing every day. Though fiction is usually my preference, non-fiction works just as well. Secondly, it is to organize my thoughts and feelings, to collect the thoughts and ideas and suggestions of others, to get better and be myself again. I spent almost an entire year going out of my way for another person and now I have to learn how to do that for myself again.
So, if you'd like, come along for the journey. Share your own suggestions, agree or disagree with me, start a conversation whatever I've said that you can relate to. Or share your own experiences on how you dealt with similar situations, (and honestly, who doesn't love comments on their blog?), whatever works for you!
Sarah
