Back in the Saddle

I cannot remember the last time I wrote a post. Last summer, I started my Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Writing at Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD). So, I’m attending school full-time, teaching Yoga part-time, and writing for IBM full-time. My schedule is not as hectic as it sounds…well, yes it is. But I do tons of writing, and sometimes after writing for class and for work, I’ve got nothing left for my own writing. Well, I’m changing that!

Recently I did a presentation in one of my classes about blogging. I’m doing a teaching internship this summer, and the activity I planned for the class was about blogging. So, I pulled up this blog to show to them, and it rekindled my desire to share my musings, writing struggles, and epiphanies with fellow writers…or who ever wants to read.

So last quarter was wonderful. I took a visiting writer class and Elizabeth Kostova was our visiting writer for two weeks. It was wonderful. She is a talented writer and a gifted teacher. For that class, we read her book The Historian and several other gothic/mythical tales. Our assignment was to write a 40 to 60 page Novella that centered around some type of mythology or folklore or something that we had to research. Of the year that I’ve been at SCAD, this was my favorite class. The opportunity to write in my genre was so rewarding. My genre of course is Fantasy. And I did it up for that class. I wrote about the Sirens from Greek Mythology. I’m very excited about it.

Anyway, just wanted to catch you up and give you some highlights of my writing life thus far. Until next time….

Image by Debbie Ridpath Ohi

Happy Writing,

Trina