Writing Is My Dream

I always wanted to see what Castle was about but I don't have cable or some fancy dish so I never tuned in. I do have Netflix and finally remembered to put it on my list.  Most nights my hubby and I watch an episode of something we get from Netflix before he goes to work and I go to bed. I know it is kind of a lame date but we enjoy it and we get to cuddle up next to each other most every night watching some exciting show.

I really enjoyed the show and so did my hubby who watched another episode with me this morning before he went to bed and I started my day. The thing is it really got to me because I have always wanted to be a writer. I went to school to be a social worker. Why? Because I chose a profession from the list of needed professionals for the area I got help paying for some of my college education. Once I started the program there were many things I liked and I stuck with it until graduation. I still want to work in the field I am going to a grant writing seminar this month to expand my writing and social work knowledge base.

I also want to start working on a short story or maybe get so crazy as to try my hand at novel writing. I am not looking to have a novel out next year but I am looking to set up small goals and keep them. I am going to have to spend some time at the library and work on learning how to write fiction. I have had a few college courses but I could use a lot more instruction. If I want to write I need to learn more and write more. I am always very critical of the fiction I write so I never get very far. So for this month I am going to set some times for just writing. I am going to type as many ideas as I can think of into one chaotic document and then review it in April. Then I can see if i have anything I feel like I can work with.

Lessons learned from Castle this week are everything is a story.  My first writing exercise will be to create a fictional story based on something I picked up with my interactions with people or my lack of interaction as I am home most of the time.

Writing goals for March

• Find a story in my daily life
• Write any and all ideas with no editing
• Schedule time for writing
• Go to the library and get books about fiction, grant, and article writing
• Go to grant workshop
• Brush up on punctuation and other grammar basics

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Wolf and Where Are You a few of my Poems

Here are a few poems I am working on. They never seem to be finished. I submitted some of them for my final portfolio in my creative writing class. My teacher was a very successful poet Rane Arroyo. I usually enjoyed his class but sometimes I felt like he spent a lot of time outline what was wrong with everyone's writing and not helping us figure out what good writing was. It may have been his strategy because that was the first half of the semester by the second half of the semester he spent more time showing us what was good but still helping us spot mistakes.

These poems have not been worked on recently and they are not complete I just wanted to share some of my work and didn't want to publish things I might submit for pay or just to be published. Please comment I love to hear what others think.



Wolf by Carrie Sund

Running fast, Running free, my nose burns from the cold
My eyes sting as I run faster still
But I am warm as the full moon beckons me
To the hunt
Frosty Evergreens sparkle in the wind
The dark forest opens before me, I claim it as mine
I answer to know one
I am Alpha


Where Are You by Carrie Sund

God where are you?
I believe in you, I know you are there, somewhere.
I want you to be real, but where do you hide….
When I need you most?
When I am lost so are you
When I am sad I still feel alone
Is this life a nasty prank?
Yes, I think it is
You created us to do you bidding
And abandon us when don’t know what to do
God where are you?
Today as I sit in pain, I call and hear no answer
Lord just tell me one thing
Why don’t You care?


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