New Motivation

After doing the love letter exercise today in class, i felt much more motivated to start my second CNF. So I did. I'm pretty excited about it. I'm trying the new montage style and hoping it works out for me. I really liked the exercise we did in class today. Although I chose to write to my boyfriend, I feel like it sparked something in my mind to help me start my essay. I came right home from class and started typing and the words just spilled out onto the page. I have a good 500 word start and I'm very excited to continue working on it. I chose to write about my own personal distractions and although that might be cliche, I'm hoping someone will publish it. Class today was interesting as always, having to write our own love letters from a different point of view. It took me a while to really think about how to do this, but I definately tried. It was hard to write about personal experiences, but in the end I think i grasped the idea of writing from a different point of view. Here is my love letter :

You are stubborn and have a way of getting under my skin. You know how to push my buttons, every last one of them. You torture me by tickling me until I scream from laughing so hard. When we met, you had a persuasive side that was hard to turn down an opportunity to hang out, and that still gets to me even with the amount of school work I have. You can smile and say all the right things. Thats what always gets to me. Those blue eyes staring into mine while you smile and say "I'm sorry" or "I love you." You send flowers and cards to show you're thinking about me. You've shown me how to be myself and how to keep a positive outlook on life. You've taught me the value of love and although difficult at times, you've shown me how to love from a distance for the past four years.

It could definately use some work, but I think its interesting to write from a different point of view. I'm excited to see how things turn out with my CNF, but I'm definately inspired to try some new things in my writings. I'm so glad that class helped me figure some things out today. I also feel like the Brian Doyle story was interesting and helpful because it showed me that CNF doesn't always have to be in the essay form and I thought it was pretty cool to know about 215 Brian Doyles. I decided to look up Joanna Heston on switchboard.com, but it returned no results. I thought this was a little rude considering I'm still living!