I swore I would never get a blog. First of all because who cares about my boring existence? Secondly because it just seemed impossible to write something honest that wouldn’t be incriminating or offensive or embarrassing if certain people read it. (I know that there are technically privacy settings on these things that let me control who can and can’t read this, but let me get all lawyery for a minute and explain that privacy settings can only block certain usernames. I don’t get to do something to, say, a potential employer’s eyeballs so that (s)he could never look over the shoulder of somebody who’s “allowed” to read my blog and also read it. It sounds paranoid, but it’s just to say that I consider whatever I post on the internet to be public.) Well if you’re still reading you probably care about my boring existence. And I’m hoping that it’ll soon become a lot less boring. Within the next two weeks I’m graduating from college, flying to Berlin for two job interviews, meeting my boyfriend in Brussels (I haven’t seen him since January!), and starting my job in a Belgian youth hostel named after Félicien Rops, a painter whose paintings—well let’s just say you shouldn’t do a google image search on him in a crowded library like I just did.
And my fear of embarrassing and offending other people with my writing is just something that I’ll have to get over because I still want to be a writer. I decided that when I read my first children’s book and was sure that I could do better. My ego has calmed down considerably since I was four but I’ve never given up. It may seem like I have these last four years but that’s just because I’ve been busting my butt to get a degree in French (yes, just French) and although I’ve never completely stopped writing, I stopped showing people what I wrote. I’d like to start finishing and sending my four novels to publishers a.s.a.p. cause I’m not getting any younger. I need some unbiased constructive criticism, ideally from people who have never met me. The more opinions I get the better. Maybe it will help me in my writing process. Maybe it won’t. So if you’re interested in reading this, I’m already happy! If you’re interested in reading this and want to spread the word about this page by posting a link or whatever, that’s even better.