Day 2. Straw-Ber-Rita's and Natural Supplements

My morning started around 10:26 AM, with a Coffee, a water, a Straw-Ber-Rita, and a little of natural supplements to keep me healthy.

Then it's right into the writing process at 10:45.  I start and stop a few times trying to get the momentum of the moment.  The feel of my voice going to the pages so that when I'm writing, I'm coming across in such a way that it feels like I'm talking.

A lot of things I love in one picture

If I can first accomplish this, then I can go on to tell my story, whatever it might be.  This process actually can take a while and it's a part that I feel many writers and journalists can struggle with.
Anyway...on to today's subject: me!

Because you're probably Facebook friends with me, you probably know at least the basic tenants of my personality.  I'm mostly polite.  I'm tall and athletic (sometimes I may not look it lol).  I graduated from Penn State. I was able to "walk-on" to the PSU football team my freshman year.  I also left of my own volition within that year. I graduated with a degree in Communications with an emphasis on Journalism with a minor in English.

Now, I work as a bartender and relief manager at the Hotel State College, where I write on the side and oh yeah, I'm getting married.  I think most of my immediate audience probably knows all of this, thanks mostly to the advent of social media.

BUT I think the real me, is the me that gets behind this computer and writes about myself and the world as I perceive it with honesty and hopefully a sense of style.

See, I love stories, whether they be in the forms of news articles, books, or television, video games or movies.  Often I find the best stories to come from athletics.  They tell of underdogs, of love, of passion, of defeat.  There are so many metaphors with sports that they become an endless boon for this media age.  In fact, sports are covered with more veracity than pretty much any other subject.

Other than Sports stories, I love the Spice of Life stories.  The stories of people who don't take life as seriously and try to enjoy its splendor. Stories of late night shenanigans with a

Because, why not.

rock band, or an escapade with a group of friends in Atlantic City or Las Vegas.  Even the simplicity of a family vacation to Michigan or San Francisco could have its own unique tale.

My other favorite form to write about, or in, is poetry.  I think of my love of music, and a lot of it deals with the lyrics and how a writer will build a story around rhymes and rhythm.  So you'll probably see a few of those over the next few weeks.

Over the next 38 days, I hope to write articles that will grab your bored social media browsing attention and give you a form of entertainment.  At the very least I hope to get into the groove of writing regularly again for my own benefit.




Up Next.  Day 3.  The First Real Article.