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Google: "By Na Hoang CanWest" and read some of my stuff.
As a child, I think I was writing the great American novel. Hehe
Today I have no classes to teach so I decided to start my morning off ever so narcissistically. I googled my "byline" to see what stories I had written last summer when I had my internship with CanWest News Service. A giant media conglomerate in Canada with newspapers throughout the provinces.
It was really thrilling to see my name in print, under professional newspaper banners, and I had forgotten most of the stories I had written so it felt good reading through them again. I love writing. The written word and me will have a never ending love affair, I just know it. But writing is so intimate. It takes from you experiences in your most vulnerable moments and makes you interpret it and then display it for the world to see. I love it. It makes me understand myself, the world around me, and the people I know.
I am writing fiction. I jot ideas down in my book and look at it printed across the page until the idea forms into a concept, and the concept flourishes into something I can work with. Then I write the first sentence and hope that it will grow into something good, something I can be proud of.
When I write real news stories based on fact I am confident in my writing. I'm the fucking shit. (Just kidding). But its when I have to invent characters and storylines, give made up people feelings and thoughts and real dialogue, that is when all my confidence sits on a swing before me rocking back and forth, a pendulum, a balancing act with one end saying "Im the shit" and the other whispering "you're just another hopeless idiot, what makes you think you can make it in the world of writing."
I think I've lost my point again.
Writing and me, I guess we're like most love-hate couples, we have ups and downs and I am willing to make it work. So I will continue to try harder.
Anyways, please let me know what you think about my "byline" stories and these blogs and the fiction I will put up as soon as I muster up the courage to do so.
I need feedback.
I'm quite needy.
