It’s a new year and my writing is suffering. So I decided to sign up again for the Post-a-Day 2012 which, of course, begins today. I really enjoyed the commitment I made in October 2011 to get ready for the NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), but I did not get my novel finished in one month so I lost the contest. Winning is finishing. I’m thinking that if I start now that by the time November rolls around finishing my novel should be a piece of cake….Ha!
My goal for this blog is to write about writing which is not as hard to do as one might think especially if you like to write like I do. I’m not an educated writer. I write from my heart and for the love of writing.
Let me tell you about something that came to me today. A fifth grade class at Brookside Elementary School in San Anselmo, CA is learning about geography and the regions of the United States. It is among the few public elementary schools in California to receive a distinguished GreatSchools Rating of 10 out of 10.
Each of the students in Mrs. Leader’s class has created a “traveling notebook.” After writing an opening page in the journal telling about the area where they live, they get it to someone who in turn gets it to another and so on. The last person to write about the area in which they live mails it back to the school by April 30, 2012. One of the students, Oliver, gave it to a friend of his father’s who lives in Phoenix. He wrote in the journal about Phoenix. And while my son and daughter-in-law were visiting family in Phoenix this same friend handed my daughter-in-law the journal who in turn wrote about the state of Georgia which is where she lives.
Since I lived the past 16 years in Tennessee and have been living just over the border in Georgia a very short time, she asked me to write about Tennessee and especially Chattanooga. I have lived in Mississippi, Louisiana, Missouri, Colorado, Washington, Texas, North Carolina, Tennessee and now Georgia. I have loved every state I’ve lived in and would be proud to write in Oliver’s Traveling Notebook.
Tomorrow I will post what I write.
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