This is Me
I’ve always had odd scenarios like movies flowing though my head, which tend to turn into poems or story ideas. I swear sometimes my head is all explody. I know, not quite a word but I’m sure you get the idea. I’m a divorced single parent who went back to school to get an A.A. in Journalism but not sure how to impliment that skill into an income to support myself and my three amazing daughters.
I mean who knew they had to be fed more than once a day when not in school. There is no handbook when you become a parent. I can only draw from my own experiences. Not exactly sure I’m the best role model but I do try my best. I also remember some of the things I felt growing up when I was told to think, what to wear, how I feel, etc.
I am also interested in true crime stories and cold cases. So just before I graduate, I added two certificates in Administration of Justice to the mix. However alot of the scenarios in my head play like stories from my favorite TV shows. Such as B.J. and the Bear, anybody remember that one. Bear was a chimpanzee that rode around with Greg Evigan, who played trucker B.J. McCay . I loved Bear, and B.J. was easy on the eyes.
I started seeing true crime novels and TV shows pop up and thought it would be a great idea to get the stories out there. Reawaken some cold cases to share the voice of victims long forgotten. One story imparticular stuck with me after reading about it in the newspaper. Dotty’s story was told in five separate parts with one editorial written to explain why they decided to tell her story. Dotty disappeared in 1985 never to be seen again, her story was told in the mid 2000s or so. I have the stories printed out and plan on writing her story.
However when I read the book “The Lovely Bones” by Alice Sebold and then about Alice herself. I found that she herself had been raped as a young woman. In her memoir Alice, stated she realized in order to write the main character’s horrendous rape and death scene, she would have to tell her own story.
This brings me back to TV shows I watch. I have been hooked on the CBS networks procedural dramas like NCIS since they started. I’ve also loved Ghost Whisperer with Jennifer Love Hewitt. In the opening credits as a picture of her seems to pull itself apart down the middle Melinda Gordan says, “In order for me to tell you my story, I have to tell you theirs.” I often hear it the other way around since reading about Alice Sebold.
Now before I sit down to write I hear Melinda Gordon’s voice. But how much of myself do I bring forth in my stories? I have several poems I wrote that easily convey the emotional state I was in at the time. In fact I am utilizing two of them when I participate in Relay for Life of the Delta in June. I have blog ideas surrounding some of my own sayins as well as movie quotes. When should I start those? Where do I write those. Sorry for rambling on my first post. I guess I’m a little nervous.
