A Writer Writes.

A writer writes. If you want to be a writer, write.
- Regina Brett

I work at Boston Pizza. Low pay, and even lower appreciation and recognition. Unfortunately, once you add on my tip pool every two weeks, it becomes quite difficult to find anything else that will pay more after presenting them a resumé with very little to read under the "Education" section. Of course, chances are that anywhere else I might work would probably recognize and reward hard work, so the potential money could be higher... But I just don't have that kind of energy to dump into dead-end jobs.

So it was at this particular dead-end job, that I was cut early from my shift and was sitting at the break table waiting for my fiancé to finish at her job and come pick me up. While perusing through non-fiction best-sellers on my Blackberry, I came across a particular work that intrigued me.

It was called God Never Blinks: 50 Lessons for Life's Little Detours, by Regina Brett. It's written by this woman who I guess (still haven't read the thing, this was yesterday for Christ's sake...) has been through an unfair amount of hardships in her life, and compiled a list of life lesson's based on her experiences. It started as an online, email-forward type of deal, but became so popular that she decided to expand on every lesson in a published book.

So late last night I decided to look up this list, and see what I could take away from it. It is interesting, and can really get your cogs turnin', but for the most part the lessons are vague; as you would expect any "life lesson" to be. These are things that are meant to affect the way people live, they can't speak specifically to one situation in your life. So her lesson's were more "Smile about something every single day." and less "Don't forget to let the dog in.".

But there was one particular lesson, lesson #18, that made me look twice. Because not only did it seem out of place amongst the other lessons, but it seemed to speak directly to me. Lesson #18: 'A writer writes. If you want to be a writer, write.' So simple, so straightforward, so logical.

I want to be a writer. But I don't write anymore. This blog as been sitting here, set up, ready to go, EMPTY, for months now. I've always been too concerned with pre-meditating what exactly I would write about, and who the hell would want to read it, instead of just doing what a writer does; write.

I'm going back to school August 31st. I was accepting into the Creative Communications course at Red River College, which I'm told is not only a hard course to get into, but an even harder course to complete. At this point, I'm probably equal amounts of excited and nervous. With a dash of anxious. I'm hoping that's a recipe for success by the way...

So I guess you could call this the introduction to my blog? The backstory on what inspired me to actually start writing. The prologue before the chapters. I have no idea what the first chapter will be about, I would be wise to at least mention wrestling though... So to those who read this blog, thank you, and to those who don't well... You just won't be one of the ones who can say "I read Jordan Thompson's very first blog."

-JT