Editing and Organizing

Today I really need to go through and edit and organize my writing that I have done thus far. This primarily applies to my creative writing pieces--poetry, short stories, memoir pieces, etc. I probably will not get all of the editing done today, but I want to get a good start on it. My hope is to have it complete before the semester starts, at least of all my writings up to this point. I think it will be helpful to me to have all my work in a portfolio type setup so that I can read them on actual paper and not just a computer screen.

This will also come in handy when I take my writing capstone in the Spring semester and I need to make my final protfolio in order to graduate. Wow! I didn't even think about how close I am really getting to graduating and how much work it is going to take in Spring semester to accomplish my goals.

I think this is all still a shock to me after this past semester because of dealing with my gastric-bypass recovery, PTSD, depression, my mom's diagnosis of lung cancer...I didn't really have a desire to write. In fact, I thought that I was a horrible writer and that I should just quit because I would never make a good writer anyway. I am sure that I am not the first writer to experience this, and I am positive that I will not be the last.

I really hate that I doubt myself as a writer. I want to be confident enough to know that I am worth my degree, however I don't want to be overly confident or conceited. We will see how this last year at MSU goes..and how my editing and organizing goes over the next week before the semester starts.

Hey! It gives m something to do while I sit at the Cancer Center with my mom while she gets her chemo therapy treatments.