Finally! My Name Is Brittany... Blog One

Hello everyone. My name is Brittany and I am a writer. Wow, that is weird for me to say. I have never thought of myself as a writer until recently. I came to Kennesaw State to learn how to write plays, but I soon found out that there is so much more to writing than just professors teaching me techniques and tricks. I have found that you must believe you are a writer before you can write.

I have to continually tell myself that, “yes I am a writer…I can write.” There has been many times over my course of study that I have asked myself, “Brittany, what are you doing, you don’t know how to use a comma and you can’t even spell…How are you going to be a writer?” Most of the time the temptation to give up comes when I am staring at the computer with a story to tell, but I can’t figure out where to begin. Or when I have begun the story, but I don’t know where to go in the middle. Or when I have done the beginning and the middle, but don’t know how to end it. I often feel like I am always in the process, and I never have a finished product.

I am currently working on a project that has to be finished, because it is my Capstone. I am writing a play. I chose a play, because theatre is all I have ever wanted to do. Whether it is acting, directing, or playwriting, I want to be involved in it. My play is set in the Civil Rights Movement Era. The plot centers on an interracial couple and their struggles hiding their love. I have the idea in my head and I know how I hope it goes. Now I just have to give it a beginning…and a middle…and an ending. Wait am I sure that I want to be a writer?