When I was younger -- I brazenly announced to my mother that I wanted to be a writer. She looked me up and down and said "yes, I think you'd make a wonderful journalist." She was right, of course. I am a combination of "literary" and "hard-headed" so... perfect journalist fodder. But she was also wrong. I love playwriting and I write short stories as well. I have a bit of an inferiority complex around those things... a total holdover from my youth -- plus short story writing is HARD.
Thanks for sharing this, Jen! I find telling stories of others (kind of like journalism) so much easier to do than personal stories because the lens is on the other and not yourself. As soon as the stories are coming from inside you, it feels a lot more risky and the Resistance voice gets louder! Knowing what a great storyteller you are, I'm sure you are an amazing playwright and short story writer.
Love this and oh, yes I’m in a shadow career since I can remember 😂 what I wanted to do/be it didn’t exist back in the days and today I’m almost SIXTY and resistance is something that walks with me every day. I gave her a name: “Resy”. She is like Siri with a single answer:
Me: “Hey Resy, what do you think about this”
Resy: “nay”
End of the conversation.
I like to ask and wait for a hopefully different answer but I learned to hear it and do not listen.
When I was younger -- I brazenly announced to my mother that I wanted to be a writer. She looked me up and down and said "yes, I think you'd make a wonderful journalist." She was right, of course. I am a combination of "literary" and "hard-headed" so... perfect journalist fodder. But she was also wrong. I love playwriting and I write short stories as well. I have a bit of an inferiority complex around those things... a total holdover from my youth -- plus short story writing is HARD.
Thanks for sharing this, Jen! I find telling stories of others (kind of like journalism) so much easier to do than personal stories because the lens is on the other and not yourself. As soon as the stories are coming from inside you, it feels a lot more risky and the Resistance voice gets louder! Knowing what a great storyteller you are, I'm sure you are an amazing playwright and short story writer.
Love this and oh, yes I’m in a shadow career since I can remember 😂 what I wanted to do/be it didn’t exist back in the days and today I’m almost SIXTY and resistance is something that walks with me every day. I gave her a name: “Resy”. She is like Siri with a single answer:
Me: “Hey Resy, what do you think about this”
Resy: “nay”
End of the conversation.
I like to ask and wait for a hopefully different answer but I learned to hear it and do not listen.