...A Very Good Place To Start!

Hiyah! This is Norah here, better known by my close friends as Nor Nor. I live in Weston, Connecticut; tucked back in the woods near a stream. I'm not a fan of the area. Its impossible to get anywhere without a car, and nearly all the 'lifer' residents have too much money and seemingly not enough to spend it on. There's even a Tiffany's in the next town; Westport! However, it is the place I know best.

I'm a junior whose majoring in English with a concentration in Theater, with plans to be a noteworthy Stage Manager. Although it's a career that won't bring me money or appreciation, it's the thing I understand best. I have a natural talent, I suppose, for coordinating and problem-solving all the various facets of this art. The end result, the nights with the audience, are probably the most boring ones. Until then, there're rehearsals to be scheduled, props to collect and maintain, lines to be memorized, and set to be constructed. Then I have to train myself and any backstage hands on how and where to move the set in less than ten minutes in a quiet organized manner. Things always go wrong with something or someone. Money is chronically short, but that is the universal challenge that keeps all artists creative, right?

Other than theater, I like to follow international conflicts and relations. I also write poetry like its a sickness; my mind forcing my hand to record strange, tripping, pairs and cliques of words. I adore conversations and people who are interested in learning something about everything. I think that everyone should strive to achieve the highest possible level of knowledge about the world.

I had the good fortune to go to high school in London, so I studied mostly British war poets and authors such as Doris Lessing. After fifteen years in school, I don't have the slightest respectable handle on American literature. This is also a class that will help my global understanding of literatures' influence on culture and subsequently dramatic literature. I've read articles of DuBois' in Sociology and am very excited to read more of his writing. I'd also like to learn new styles and approaches to poetry so that I can keep experimenting and maturing my own work.

I think that good writing not only catches the readers attention by communicating a recognizable emotion and episode of life but also does so in unique language that shows and doesn't tell. Writing is a craft that has evolved with the development of society, and will continue to do so. Just as 'good' is difficult to define, sincere writing can be difficult to apply a value to due to its infinitely subjective nature.

"What will be remembered is not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

Until next time,
Norah