Over on LiveJournal, I’ve posted five posts about my undergraduate course of study.
Part 1 covers my Freshman year.
Part 2 goes into my Sophomore year.
Part 3 gets into a tumultulous Junior year.
Part 4 winds up my Senior year.
The Reflections discuss some of the things I realized in looking back.
Later, I commented on FaceBook about writing over 8,000 words of this in two days, and compared the posts to the length of chapters of two novels I’m working on. Some friends there suggested writing a memoir. At first I was dismissive – I don’t think the whole of my life is necessarily that interesting. Besides, I’m not done with it yet.
But as I thought over the purpose of the LJ posts, I started thinking again. My intention had been to write about how I got to where I am now, the classes and discussions that contributed to various aspects of my present writing, both fiction and The Scribbler’s Guide to the Land of Myth. Of course, there was a lot from those years that didn’t get into the posts, because I was trying to limit it to the classes. So, I’ve vaguely decided that I will follow through on the memoir suggestion – at least to the extent in how the events of my life led toward my being a writer. Reflecting back on that thread in my life does interest me. And I’ve decided to call it Making Everything Count: the Education of a Writer. But when I’ll get to it, I don’t know.
SIDE MATTER
I’ve gotten matters with the new message board are straightened out now, so do stop by and talk to me there.
