One of the best things about participating in the Slice of Life Challenge last year was how it made me start to say, possibly for the first time, "I should totally write about this!" Whatever "this" was on any given day wasn't really the takeaway for me, and I certainly don't think the craft of my writing was much to write home about (ha ha, get it?) but rather, that I had begun to view the world around me as opportunities for writing (and sharing). So this year, for the last couple of months I've started jotting ideas down in my Notes app. Not all the time, mind you, just when I would think something might be fun to write about later. It might be something I saw, or thought, or that had happened. But when I look back at these prompts now, some of them don't make any sense and I'm not even sure why I even wrote certain things or what they mean. I get the impression that my past self thought these ideas were quite witty, but my current self doesn't have enough context to be in on the joke. I'm going to be honest, I don't think this helped, like, at all, but I'm still glad to be seeing the world in a way that relates to writing. Glad to be back, everyone!
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Natalie Dunne
3/2/2017 09:54:59 am
Love your blog. Can't wait to read it throughout the month. And the last note, LMAO.
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AUTHORReese: Elementary Music Teacher in Chicagoland. Clarinetist and Trumpeter.
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