Practicum Writing Seminar Prompt: “Write about you as a writer”
As a writer, I often catch myself in a daydream where I’m both prolific and confident. I’m surrounded by a throng of fans at a booksigning. I’m sitting in a lonely log cabin in the middle of a snowstorm, thinking existential thoughts. I’m lounging on a beach watching surfers and drinking mimosas because I’m rich and can do these types of things. I have free time. Then my daydream shuts down, as if it ran out of battery power. I find myself back in a climate controlled room thinking about how nervous I am about being successful at anything I attempt to do. I look to my left and see the nose of a book poking out of my backpack. The title asks, “Does it Matter?” I’ve only read a page of it’s strangely dense philosophy, but I try to use book cover as a reminder to put my anxieties back into perspective. This might influence my own writing, or at least my attitude towards writing, by forcing me to surrender to the will of what needs to be written. Or maybe it’s the other way around; I force my paper to surrender to my will.
Nerd alert.
