I was thinking the other day about my favorite professor from college, Nicole Sheets. Particularly about my senior year taking her Advanced Writing Workshop. It was located in the new science building rather than any of the regular English buildings. One day in class she was struggling to keep her hair out of her face and picked up a pair of safety glasses off of the desk and used them as a headband. "Well," she said after a minute, "it is Paris fashion week." The memory makes me laugh.
The other thing I remember about that class is that she told us, just like she told us in her creative nonfiction class, that to be good writers we needed to find the things we were obsessed with and learn everything we could about them. It would make us better and more interesting writers.
So, as I have been trying to continue to challenge myself as a writer I have been thinking about that and about what I am obsessed with, at least passionate about, and how I can become an expert on it and use it as a writer. I've landed on photography, for now. I have really loved learning about film and photography over the past year and a half. Like I've said a million times before, my Instax is one of my favorite things. So I have decided, now that my year of poetry is complete, to write about that.
I've been really trying to challenge myself to be a better writer and I am very excited about this one. I hope you are excited as well and you are welcome to join me on the challenge below. Can't wait.
Below I have the challenge that I selected for 52 photos on my Instax that I will also try to write essays about. Feel free to write along, if you want.
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