Changes
So, I officially moved into my dorm room today. I'm an English major with an emphasis on creative writing, starting my junior year of college. I went to a community college before this and got my Associate's Degree, but this is the first time I've ever been to what I consider 'real college.'
It's a scary transition. But, it's also pretty awesome.
I keep thinking of my life in book metaphors these days. I left my hometown, the house I grew up in, and my family. That's the end of that book. The beginning of my college adventure has just begun. I've started a new book with all the hopes and dreams that I could imagine finding inside my own story. A lot of people tend to think of their life more as chapters in a book, whereas I tend to consider the different parts as their own separate books - their own separate stories. Perhaps it's because I spend my time writing books.
In books that I read and write, the story is predominantly about one time in the protagonist's life. The girly teen novels are about the events leading up to prom or their first date. The stories rarely span more than a year. That's how I think of my life. I closed the book on childhoods spent in the backyard. I shut the back cover on high school. Most recently, I watched the ink dry on the last page of community college. Now, here I am, opening the front cover on life at university. I want this book to be different for me than the others.
Looking back, I realized that I spent a lot of time playing the best friend role in my own story. I want this new book to be about me. I want to be the leading lady - the protagonist who overcomes all the obstacles. I want to take charge, get out there, have adventures like the characters in my books do. I want to make my fiction become reality. I want to be able to write nonfiction stories about my own adventures.
So, that's the plan. Wish me luck. :D
It's a scary transition. But, it's also pretty awesome.
I keep thinking of my life in book metaphors these days. I left my hometown, the house I grew up in, and my family. That's the end of that book. The beginning of my college adventure has just begun. I've started a new book with all the hopes and dreams that I could imagine finding inside my own story. A lot of people tend to think of their life more as chapters in a book, whereas I tend to consider the different parts as their own separate books - their own separate stories. Perhaps it's because I spend my time writing books.
In books that I read and write, the story is predominantly about one time in the protagonist's life. The girly teen novels are about the events leading up to prom or their first date. The stories rarely span more than a year. That's how I think of my life. I closed the book on childhoods spent in the backyard. I shut the back cover on high school. Most recently, I watched the ink dry on the last page of community college. Now, here I am, opening the front cover on life at university. I want this book to be different for me than the others.
Looking back, I realized that I spent a lot of time playing the best friend role in my own story. I want this new book to be about me. I want to be the leading lady - the protagonist who overcomes all the obstacles. I want to take charge, get out there, have adventures like the characters in my books do. I want to make my fiction become reality. I want to be able to write nonfiction stories about my own adventures.
So, that's the plan. Wish me luck. :D
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