Theme Week #1 - Second Person

Creative non-fiction writing. Creative, okay you can do creative right? You are creative everyday, using your imagination and creativity with everything from what to wear to what to make for dinner. Non-fiction? Well that just means that its real, you know real. Your whole life is real, real in a good way and real in the crazy, you-just-can't-make-that-stuff-up way. Writing, well that might be the stopper huh? Well, it's a class. You have a teacher to teach you the things you don't already know to make you better at what you need to do, right? So after this little pep talk you sit yourself down to begin your first assignment of the semester, nerves held firmly in check. First assignment, write a daily journal. Sweat begins to appear upon your brow as you wonder what surprise is lurking inside this innocuous task. Taking a deep breath, you plunge in, forgetting to be nervous, self conscious, and overly critical. Words flow from your fingertips, making you realize that perhaps this might not be so bad. Look at what you have done so far, and you didn't even really have to think about it. Finishing up your first posting, you pause. Do you look back at what you have written, rethinking and rewriting, or do you post and trust that what you think the first time around is always better than nit-picking over it after? Well they do say that you should think before you speak, or look before you leap, or was it caution is the better part of valor? Whatever it is, you decide that a quick once-over now will be better than the embarassement of looking like a moron later. A few quick adjustments later you are pleased enough to hit the submit button. With a sigh of relief you realize that it was okay, that maybe you could do this after all, as long as the teacher likes it, that is.