In this blog post I would like to share my twitterive writing process with you. I must admit that writing my twitterive has been very difficult. The hardest part of the twitterive assignment so far was coming up with an idea for the project. I had so many ideas to write about, but everytime I tried writing about a topic I found myself stumped. It was very frustrating. First, I was going to write about my childhood, but I couldn't chose just one theme. Then I was going to write about training for the Broad Street Run. Then I realized that the actual marathon will take place after the twitterive assignment is due, and I found everything I was writing about my training was boring and repetitive.
It wasn't until one of our classes on a Tuesday night that I came up with my topic. We were discussing our twitterive's and I heard a lot of people sharing personal stories as their twitterive's. That's when my idea clicked in my head, I would write about my daughter's birth. I was going through different scenarios for my topic over and over in my head. In fact, I couldn't wait to go home and get to work on my topic.
Unfortunately, the writing didn't come to me as easy as I thought it would. During my daughter's NICU stay I kept a journal, it was my outlet for the roller coaster of emotions I was experiencing. The first thing I did was pull out the journal and read it from beginning to end. I never realized how difficult it would be for me to read, it brought back a lot of bad emotions and I couldn't write anything that first night. The next day, I read the journal again, taking notes of key ideas I wanted to include in my twitterive. I also highlighted some thoughts for tweets. I knew then that I wanted to share this experience as my twitterive.
My biggest challenge with my twitterive is where to go with my story. I want readers to feel like they are going through the experience with me. I want the readers to understand the rollercoaster of emotions I was experiencing during this time in my life. My biggest challenge now is figuring out a way to accomplish this without being corny or vague.
It wasn't until one of our classes on a Tuesday night that I came up with my topic. We were discussing our twitterive's and I heard a lot of people sharing personal stories as their twitterive's. That's when my idea clicked in my head, I would write about my daughter's birth. I was going through different scenarios for my topic over and over in my head. In fact, I couldn't wait to go home and get to work on my topic.
Unfortunately, the writing didn't come to me as easy as I thought it would. During my daughter's NICU stay I kept a journal, it was my outlet for the roller coaster of emotions I was experiencing. The first thing I did was pull out the journal and read it from beginning to end. I never realized how difficult it would be for me to read, it brought back a lot of bad emotions and I couldn't write anything that first night. The next day, I read the journal again, taking notes of key ideas I wanted to include in my twitterive. I also highlighted some thoughts for tweets. I knew then that I wanted to share this experience as my twitterive.
My biggest challenge with my twitterive is where to go with my story. I want readers to feel like they are going through the experience with me. I want the readers to understand the rollercoaster of emotions I was experiencing during this time in my life. My biggest challenge now is figuring out a way to accomplish this without being corny or vague.
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