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The Writer's Lantern
a light guiding the way back to my creativity.
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Created on 2012-05-10 17:51:48 (#1618804), last updated 2026-03-10 (1 week ago)
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| Name: | smitsp |
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| Location: | Cincinnati, Ohio, United States |
Hello from a recovering creative!
I was once a romance writer. Nothing published, but I wrote a lot and generated a lot of ideas for so many stories and had a lot of fun. I made the "mistake" -- it's a mistake depending on my mood -- back in 2014 of returning to college to finally finish my degree. I mean, it made sense. I was stuck in a dead end job as an office temp, doing nothing but data entry.
Fast forward six years later: I graduated in 2019 with a degree that recently landed me a job that pays $16/hour (I am not bragging), and I have writer's drought to the point that I hate writing, and that if I never wrote fiction again? I'd be fine with it. (Which is a lie. Because I'm not fiction-writing. At all. And I'm pretty miserable. I literally can not function like this much longer.)
It's my hope that this journal can be a safe space of sorts as I work to regain my creativity. Expect a lot of word spew. There'll probably be a lot of whining and bitching and first world problem woes. But I also hope I can start eventually playing around with story ideas and drabbles here like how I used to do over on LiveJournal.
Some entries may be locked or friends-only when I need the privacy.
Thank you so much for coming along on my journey! Even if you never comment, I do appreciate you being on my friends list and letting me be on yours. :)
I was once a romance writer. Nothing published, but I wrote a lot and generated a lot of ideas for so many stories and had a lot of fun. I made the "mistake" -- it's a mistake depending on my mood -- back in 2014 of returning to college to finally finish my degree. I mean, it made sense. I was stuck in a dead end job as an office temp, doing nothing but data entry.
Fast forward six years later: I graduated in 2019 with a degree that recently landed me a job that pays $16/hour (I am not bragging), and I have writer's drought to the point that I hate writing, and that if I never wrote fiction again? I'd be fine with it. (Which is a lie. Because I'm not fiction-writing. At all. And I'm pretty miserable. I literally can not function like this much longer.)
It's my hope that this journal can be a safe space of sorts as I work to regain my creativity. Expect a lot of word spew. There'll probably be a lot of whining and bitching and first world problem woes. But I also hope I can start eventually playing around with story ideas and drabbles here like how I used to do over on LiveJournal.
Some entries may be locked or friends-only when I need the privacy.
Thank you so much for coming along on my journey! Even if you never comment, I do appreciate you being on my friends list and letting me be on yours. :)
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