Hello, I’m Phuong. I’m a recent college graduate aspiring to
be a writer. This blog is… well it’s a lot of things. You see I’d like to write
a novel one day and I hope that one day will be soon. It’s not a simple thing
to achieve but it’s something I’ve always wanted to do, and there’s no time
like now to begin it. It sounds a little crazy even to myself, figuring I’ve
never written anything longer than 50 pages but I hope to change that. This
blog is a way for me to discipline myself to write. And to prove it, I’ve
promised myself to write every day; whenever I don’t feel like working on my
novel, I’ll blog and whenever I do feel like working on it, well I’ll update my
progress here. Everyday, it’s a promise to myself and most importantly to my
blog. And maybe a few of you who’d like to follow me on this journey.
This blog is also a reminder of why I enjoy writing (my love
for storytelling, the exciting flow of creativity traveling from my brain to
fingertips) and inadvertently, a reminder of why I hate writing (frustration,
agony, the fear of being worthless, words that all come to mind when I’m stuck
in the process of writing). Which reminds me that writing a story has never
simply been the process of putting pen to paper, or in this day and age, finger
to key. Ask any writer and they’ll tell you there is so much more to writing
than just telling the story; its how you tell it, why you tell it, what you
think you’ll get from telling it and a million other reason a writer is
compelled to tell the story in the first place. Which comes back to the fact
that for me, it isn’t so much about “do you have a good enough story to tell” but
“how do you tell a good story?”
Hopefully, I’ll find out.
