My experiment

I had my first ever employee review on Wednesday. It was very, very good, except a comment about my writing.

I've always prided myself on being a good writer, but apparently I'm much better at getting people to blab to me, my editor said. So I've undertaken a new project that will (hopefully) help me improve the quality of my writing.

It's a new blog. I'm going to try to write 800 words a day about my life. The inspiration comes from a book by William Zinsser, fittingly called "Writing About Your Life."

It's not going to be in chronological order. It'll be a lot of short stories about growing up and becoming who I am. It may be good, it may be crap. But I'm hoping that over the long run, I will become a better writer.

Whether that transfers well into stories about school budgets and spelling bees ... well ... we'll see.

http://landerneau.blogspot.com/


I am still going to keep writing in this blog, with rants and observations that have little to do with my life story. At least, not yet.