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I am brand new to this and am doing a half-marathon. \u00a0I have always loved writing, I wrote short stories when I was younger and kept detailed journals. \u00a0I abandoned writing after college, a combination of “real world” distractions and laziness. \u00a0But writing was always in the back of my mind. \u00a0About five years ago, a friend suggested\/challenged me to start writing again, but this time to try poetry. \u00a0This was at a point in my life when I was temporarily unemployed and spending my days wandering around NYC. \u00a0I had never considered poetry before, always deeming it “not my thing” or too technical. \u00a0I started a notebook which I called ‘Maria’s Big Book of Bad Poetry” as a joke to keep my expectations low. \u00a0As it turns out, not only did I start to like poetry (and learned that my assumptions of “form” and “technicality” were just that–assumptions), I realized that poems gave me a freedom I didn’t feel with short stories. \u00a0But I struggle with finding time to write, and I am hoping the half-marathon will be the challenge I need to get started again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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