Lauren’s First Blog Post!
Hello Beacon Crew,
This is the first . I’m your captain Lauren speaking and welcoming you aboard this vessel to set sail and start this blog’s journey. I don't have a vast nautical background but I will bring the puns and wordplay when I can, Ahoy mateys we’re in for some smooth sailing. I think an interesting way to start this blog is with the topic of writing. I’ve loved writing since I was little and it all started with being read to as a toddler by my grandma and my mom. I carried that love for reading and broke it down into loving a story with a meaning and the words in which are chosen to tell them. I have always been a creative person so all i had to do is sit down and let my thoughts lead me to a story i wanted to tell. When I was around seven years old I wrote a story on loose pieces of printer paper called, The Growing Rose. It was a story about a mother planting a rose when pregnant and that rose growing with the daughter as she aged. The story concluded with the flower wilting with the daughter dying but not without the flower sprouting an offspring to look after the daughter the main character had. The flaw in my short story was the illustrations depicting the flower as the same height of the daughter at all stages of life, can you imagine a five foot flower? Just a reminder I was seven. I never stopped writing and wrote consistently up until I was in seventh grade. Writing at the time was to me as Jessie was to Emily in Toy Story 2, a love I lost due to growing up and changing. I loved writing papers for classes and sometimes when i needed an outlet for my feelings because putting thoughts and ideas onto paper can be therapeutic for an ever racing mind like mine. All of that leads us to here and now of me writing this and you as a reading this and I'm very excited to share my writing with you on this blog. Also as a bonus I want to open this blog up for the Beacon Crew to share your stories and thoughts with readers. More on that to come and more blog posts on the horizon. Stay safe and well and with that a bid you adieu and I will see you soon.
