I’ve picked my next book. I’m following my new policy of picking a book from each bookshelf that I have that houses unread books. However, I’m skipping over two shelves and going with this book:
It’s been on my shelf for a few years. I keep meaning to read it around 9/11. Since this year is the 25th anniversary, I’m going for it. I remember standing in one spot at Barnes & Noble with this in my hand, flipping through it and being totally enthralled. I read a section where they interviewed one of the ticket agents at the airport that day. She had immense guilt because she knows she checked in one of the hijackers. It’s absolutely not her fault but I can only imagine how awful she felt. That really intrigued me becasue that’s something I hadn’t thought of before, just how much of an impact this had on everybody, even down to the ticket agent at the airport.
In other “literature” news, I finished the essay that was difficult to write. Since it could be between 1000 and 1200 words, I don’t have to cut much out. It’s currently 1253 words. I will, of course, go back and edit. I’ve gotten really good at that lately. I’ll probably submit it on Monday and then once I receive feedback, that class will be done. I’ll go over the list of publishers that the instructor sent and start getting ready to send these pieces out for consideration.
Just before I started this class, I really got discouraged with my book idea. I stopped transcribing my journals and sort of gave up on that idea, thinking, nobody is going to want to read this. But knowing what I know now about personal essays, I am reinvigorated with my original idea. I think I can use what I learned in this class to frame certain journal entries to tell my story. What I need to keep in mind is the question my instructor has emphasized that each of our essays need to answer…so what? I need to make sure I am crystal clear with the purpose of my book. But of course, I first must finish transcribing my entries. Which I’m excited to get back to.
Here’s to a word filled weekend…reading, writing, and listening to music that makes me think about the times I’m writing about. Cheers.
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