Daily Reflection: My Writing Evolution

I tend to write only when I have to. I have an abundance of ideas and snapshots that play in my head like a filmstrip. I am a daydreamer and a constant thinker. My mind goes all day...one moment I am in Mexico sunning myself in the thick heat of the sun, the next happily married with children and dogs running free in my fenced backyard and sometimes I leave everything I love behind in search of everything I don't already have. But the ideas go unnoticed and untold since I do not capture them on paper. I do not take the time to record all the thoughts that run through my mind. In reality, I should even write some of the stuff I think down? Would it be dangerous to write everything down? Among all of my daydreams I have picture book ideas, movie and sitcom ideas. I have ideas that can make you laugh and can make you cry. Since my personal life seems like a constant sitcom, it is the perfect situation for gathering ideas and stories. I can see that my memories need to be recorded. They need to be captured for my sake of getting it out there and so that others can enjoy the craziness I call life. I personally enjoy reading or seeing a movie or a show where the characters go through personal battles that I myself have gone through or am currently going through. It makes me feel better to know I am not the only person having that same crisis! I want to know I am not the only person who needs a break, wants to run away from responsibility, who cries when I am alone, who wants to love freely but mostly wants to be understood in all my quirkiness. So my challenge is to begin to write. As you can see I have started the process through this class. But it is only because I have been told to write. After all this is a writing class. I need to get this into my routine so that I will make the time to jot down my free flowing snapshots. Maybe I have been afraid to take the time, afraid of failure, afraid nobody will get me. Maybe I am like my students, scared I will misspell a word or scared you will hate my stories. The only way to get them from thought to paper is to practice writing. So here I go...watch me write. I will be practicing and writing daily, we will see together whether or not I get better and if practice truly does make perfect.