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blog through may: life story in <250 words
May. 1st, 2013 05:46 pmI feel like this icon accurately depicts how I've been feeling the past week or two.
I've decided to do the Blog Every Day In May challenge, because I think it will be a good exercise in discipline as well as in writing.
The first prompt is: Give us your life story in 250 words or less. The following is exactly 250 words:
Zero: born, Long Island
One: New Paltz, lived in my dad’s childhood home with my grandparents downstairs
Two: received sister
Three: moved to the suburbs
Four: acquired crippling social anxiety
Five: didn’t know how to play “telephone”
Six: first crush on a girl (Jenna); first crush on a boy (Tony)
Seven: started gymnastics; brief stint as a ballerina
Eight: learned to crochet, received brother, first mutual best friend
Nine: joined accelerated English class, rejoiced
Ten: played Moriarty in school play opposite first serious crush (Melissa)
Eleven: refused to wear a bra; no more best friend
Twelve: joined accelerated math class; received 99% in English
Thirteen: tragic year of MySpace and social isolation
Fourteen: started writing to cope with crippling loneliness; first therapist
Fifteen: first serious crush (Russell); two-week backpacking trip resulted in permanent damage to knees; left public school for Catholic school; questioned gender
Sixteen: increased self-esteem; solidified first real group of friends; met future first girlfriend on online writing forum (Inge); rejected by first serious crush
Seventeen: college visits and applications; entered love triangle; two declarations of love from classmates; depression resulting in alienation of friends and diagnosis of bipolar disorder type II
Eighteen: partial reparation of friendships; three declarations of love from classmates; graduation; broke up with first girlfriend; came out and went to college
Nineteen: lost first group of college friends, got top surgery; started HRT and fanfiction; 4.0 GPA; social isolation
Twenty: moved in with new friends; started anxiety medication and social drinking; wrote magical realism
I've decided to do the Blog Every Day In May challenge, because I think it will be a good exercise in discipline as well as in writing.
The first prompt is: Give us your life story in 250 words or less. The following is exactly 250 words:
Zero: born, Long Island
One: New Paltz, lived in my dad’s childhood home with my grandparents downstairs
Two: received sister
Three: moved to the suburbs
Four: acquired crippling social anxiety
Five: didn’t know how to play “telephone”
Six: first crush on a girl (Jenna); first crush on a boy (Tony)
Seven: started gymnastics; brief stint as a ballerina
Eight: learned to crochet, received brother, first mutual best friend
Nine: joined accelerated English class, rejoiced
Ten: played Moriarty in school play opposite first serious crush (Melissa)
Eleven: refused to wear a bra; no more best friend
Twelve: joined accelerated math class; received 99% in English
Thirteen: tragic year of MySpace and social isolation
Fourteen: started writing to cope with crippling loneliness; first therapist
Fifteen: first serious crush (Russell); two-week backpacking trip resulted in permanent damage to knees; left public school for Catholic school; questioned gender
Sixteen: increased self-esteem; solidified first real group of friends; met future first girlfriend on online writing forum (Inge); rejected by first serious crush
Seventeen: college visits and applications; entered love triangle; two declarations of love from classmates; depression resulting in alienation of friends and diagnosis of bipolar disorder type II
Eighteen: partial reparation of friendships; three declarations of love from classmates; graduation; broke up with first girlfriend; came out and went to college
Nineteen: lost first group of college friends, got top surgery; started HRT and fanfiction; 4.0 GPA; social isolation
Twenty: moved in with new friends; started anxiety medication and social drinking; wrote magical realism
