By: Jessica Connelly

Youth
Romantic
Writing in Lines
Like Maillais’ grammar-impaired Ophelia
Drowning in flowers

School
Rigid
Author’s Title Concerns summary
Thesis man versus nature
Three reasons why
Thus thrust upon us

College
Self-Sabotage
Took too much time to learn
How to build on structure
Not to be crushed by it
Learned well
Thrived in scaffolding

Post
Guideless
Job secured
Writing desire remained, rekindled
No Pepys, daily diarist
Hard to start, hard to structure, hard to finish
Writing for myself
Looking for answers

Graduate
Technical
A different style
Adverbs, adjectives, deep analysis shed
Factual description
Precise boolean operators
Professional

Vocation
Eclectic
Reading and Writing
A galaxy of genres
Explosion of creative output
Life changing collaborations
Forging self with soft qwerty pressed fingers

New phase
Superable
Type A now pit against HIM
Paths unclear and sharp
Fight him with books
Fight by his side with mythology
Save him with literature
Write our own myths

Upon Writing
Life-Preserver
Never a writer, poet author
Always a writer, poet, author
The hard won skills
the authentic intelligence of the writing process
Integral to self
Infinite!