Writings of Emily Boswell
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Hello again readers! This is the second (rambling) blog in what I hope to be many more. I'm a day late in writing it, which goes along perfectly with this blogs theme. Motivation. I've been struggling to stay motivated the last few days, and I've been feeling sorry for myself for it. It's only 12:30 on a Tuesday and it already feels like this week has been a month long. I'm feeding bad habits, and I hate it. I'm not resisting the snooze button, I've taken advantage of working from home and wake up with only a few minutes before I need to begin my day, I'm not eating good breakfasts, and it's not benefiting me in any way. It makes me feel like a bum. So why do I keep doing it? Because it's easy. Now it's time to stop feeling sorry for myself. Wanting to do better, wanting to change, wanting to be a brilliant productive writer, isn't enough. I need to actually do it. There's been mornings where I got up early, I grabbed some coffee, and laid in my bed with my laptop and just wrote. It was wonderful. It changed my whole perspective on the rest of my day. I felt accomplished, and confident. Why did I stop? Because crawling back into bed and hitting that snooze button is so much easier. Being productive and motivated feels great, but it's the harder choice. There will always be off days, but if I could make those days the exception, instead of my norm, I think I would be happier. So here's to making the harder choices. Here's to feeling better about myself. Here's to not just talking about wanting to do more, but actually doing it. And I know I can do it, and if you're struggling with the same things, I know you can do it too.
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Hello readers, My name is Emily and I've decided it's time for a change. But first, a little background on me. I'm a 26 year old woman living in Michigan with my husband, mother, and two pet rats Pepper and Petunia. We moved back home after I graduated college and we were struggling to make ends meet. Thankfully for my gracious mom, my husband, Charles Boswell (check out his website here: https://boswellarted.weebly.com/) will be able to finish his last two semesters at Grand Valley where he's studying to become an art teacher! We're not sure where we'll end up after that, but we hope it's somewhere sunny and warm. I like video games, binging sessions on Netflix, reading and feeling guilty for not reading enough, and I've been falling back in love with writing short stories. Someday in the near future I hope to be enrolled in a Master of Fine Arts program in Fiction so I can begin working towards a career as a professor of creative writing. Now what about this website? This is my new writers portfolio, and also a new blog. I tried my hand at this blogging thing in high-school once, and it was full of strange, teenagery, probably trying too hard to be cool, stuff. For this blog, I'll try to keep it more honest and coherent. My plans are for a sort of writers diary that is open to the public. It took me about two years after graduating college with a degree in writing to write anything new. I went back and edited old stories, I even submitted an application to the University of Michigan's MFA program. (I didn't get in.) But I hadn't written anything new. Looking back, I'm relieved I wasn't accepted. I needed more time to find my passion in writing again. I was rushing into submitting a portfolio because I felt like I was losing a race to adulthood. Also, Ann Arbor is crazy expensive and there's no way we could have afforded that anyways. It took me some time, but I started writing a new short story inspired by my time working at a sub shop. I went back to basics with pen and paper. Progress was slow, but eventually I had a finished draft. Several months later I'm finally working on a draft that I will feel confident enough to share for feedback. There's much more I could say here, but I'm going to stop the ramblings there and save more thoughts and stories for later. My goal is weekly blog posts, so if you thought this was interesting tune in next week! |
AuthorEmily Boswell is a Michigan writer and digital marketing manager. She enjoys writing short stories and flash, and is currently working on her debut novel. Archives
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