Why, after all these years, should I create a new page on this blog?
I’ve never sought to have one million likes or more. In the words of a student who did a fun video for next year’s parent-teacher night where I’d asked students:
Why isn’t Mrs. Bridges on TikTok or Snap Chat?
The student said in her video that: “Mrs. Bridges is too cool to care about likes.”
Perhaps.
- Why create a new page?
- How is it different from your “Published Works” page?
why?
For any author or artist, it’s good to have a published page where you show your work. I’m a traditionalist in the sense I’m not in a hurry to publish this great book, so I go through the more conventional routes of literary and online journals for my writing.
(Not that I’m opposed to self-publishing. You have to do what is right for you.)
My children, Corrie and Hayes, inspire much of my writing. This is the reason I changed my blog from a purely writing blog to Season of Corrie. They are the most important force behind what I write, and the work published.
I created: “Current Works in Progress” about the three manuscripts on which I’ve worked or am working. They’re all connected to Corrie and my son, Hayes.
Inspiration
I was finally inspired to write a memoir that tells the entire story of my family from January 2020 to May 2021. When I was upset about a situation, I started writing in my journal. One line stood out to me
Am I teaching Hayes to try and try when all that is in the relationship is a small drop of watery ketchup that comes out of the quarter packets?
from my 2021 journal
I’m not saying it’s a great line, and the relationship mentioned is private. The idea of a relationship being like “a small drop of watery ketchup that comes out of the quarter packets” made me believe I could write this memoir, I simply call Book.
I was proud of another line, which describes Corrie with the full weight of her personality in the beginning:
“The five going on fifteen-year-old felt with the certainty of a president-elect, who’d won by a major majority, her fashion sense did not require approval or suggestions.”
from “book” a memoir of a family in a tornado, a teacher during covid, and the loss of corrie by rebecca t. dickinson
Corrie's Season 