I must confess, I Never thought I’d be involved with blogging: not following any, nor especially having one.

I started my blog after listening to Nina Amir speak on “How to Blog a Book” at the 2013 Write on the Sound writers’ conference (another surprise from following the spirit of my dog down this writing trail).  This trail is full of new experiences and literary adventures, most completely unforeseen to me, so I’m just going with it.

To back up a little, I always dreaded writing in school (hated might be more accurate).  For my twenty-year – two-year college degree I took Writing 101 – last.  From this class came something that I wrote called “What Happens”.  Afterward I didn’t write much of anything until I needed something, something to help me while dealing with the loss of my dog dying.  So I began what I call “Sharing Gifts with Sarrah”.  This led me to taking classes, attending seminars, writing workshops and then blogging.  I’m not sure about blogging etiquette or rules (which is just as well since I’d probably ignore them anyway), which leads to my motivation for this confession.  I go back and edit parts of what I’ve posted about “Sharing Gifts with Sarrah”, mostly small tweaks, but edits all the same (I recently started tagging those significantly changed “Amended”).  Blogging bits and chunks of the story actually forces me to make them better.  I find that small improvements are needed to make a portion float on its own, rather than fall short.  I also don’t Reblog.  Certainly these edits go largely unnoticed, which is fine with me or at least has been until now.

I recently joined a Memoir Writing class, a group of writers (some of which are former classmates from the Hugo House) taught by Tara Hardy.  The point you are looking for is that I turned in the chapter “FUgly” for the class to read and workshop in the next class on June 17th (Sarrah’s birthday).  It is a difficult chapter that needs writing improvement.  I reworked again it over a few days (and edited my post) prior to turning it in for critique.  Certainly their feedback will lead me to many more improvements and yes more edits.  Which makes me wonder if I’ll then repost it or perhaps make it be a new Version 2 (actually more like Version 5 or 7) for comparison.  Who knows…

The true confession is that I don’t really know what I’m doing or maybe even Why, but I like it.