Quick Life Update: 2/7/24
- Bair Klos
- Feb 7, 2024
- 3 min read
Hello world!
I know at this point I don't have many followers on this blog or website but I wanted to come on here to share some thoughts anyways. I guess this blog will also serve as a mild, personal diary that I can reflect back onto in the future to come.
Anyways, at this moment in time, I'm on the path to earning my Creative Writing Associates Degree, which I'm excited about. One of the classes I'm taking this semester is a creative writing fiction class with a professor I had last semester and I am absolutely loving it!
It has reminded me how in love and passionate I am about writing. I have also discovered I especially love helping others with their writing and educating and sharing all of my advice with them. I guess this is my way to remember the reason I started this blog in the first place.
This class has helped to set afire under my butt, given wind to my wings, and re-inspired me to my projects and to this blog. So I hope to keep momentum going. I hope one blog inspires another, not just in me, but in you, the reader.
I hope that this encourages me to keep writing. To continue to be passionate. I look forward to improving my writing, to sharing it. I want to get better and so I must be brave and share it.
Not only have I been inspired to write more for this blog and write creatively, I'm also in the process to trying to get into poetry; to try and better understand it, enjoy it, appreciate it, and write it. In my early journey of poetry, I've come up with a new way of writing poetry that I really enjoy and I have now dubbed it "Matryoshka Poetry." It's where you tell two stories in one poem. There is an "outside" story and "inner" story. The outside story cannot be fully understood without the inner story, but the inner story can be fully understood by itself. That said, the outside story gives the inner story context and therefore grounds it and gives it deeper meaning. This has been a fun challenge to come up with for myself and tell more stories through poetry. I encourage you to try it for yourself. I plan to write a future blog that goes more into my process of how I structure, breakdown, and write a Matryoshka poem since it can be a challenging process.
Anyways, that's all I really wanted to say and to you who read this, I send you positive and good vibes. I hope you accomplish your writing goals, and know you've got someone in your corner cheering you on.
I'll leave this update with a quote:
“Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are like dancers, like athletes. Without that exercise, the muscles seize up.” — Jane Yolen
See you in the next blog,
—Bair✍︎
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