I hate country music. I love clubbing. I have a 4-year-old kid. My hero is thierry henry. My wife works at home depot. I coach football at the local school. I used to play professional football. I got a stanford degree in history . I loved to write at Stanford. I write Historical stories. I think happy and sad endings are outdated. I think a twist is a better ending.
I love country music. I live in missouri. I teach middle school math. I love teaching. I write short fiction stories. I'm nervous about submitting my articles for publication. My dad and my son both worked at home depot. I'm struggling with the plot of my story. I want my story to reflect what happens in reality. I don't know whether to give my story a happy or sad ending. I struggle with ambiguity but I'd like to write a follow up story.
I just found some of my old stories from my Stanford days if you would like to read them? Yes, I'd love to read them.  Did you write them for a class or just for your own enjoyment? Most for my own enjoyment. It was in taking a creative writing class there that I learned how much I love to write. I'd love some honest feedback, if you don't mind. Sure, I'd be happy to give you my feedback, although you're probably a better writer than me anyway. Are you ready to let me read anything you've written? It could help ease your way into sending something to a publisher. That's true, and a good idea.  I think I'd like to finish the story I'm working on first.  Then maybe we can have a system where you give me something of yours to critique, and then I send you something of mine.  How about that? Sounds good! It is a strange feeling putting your writing out there. It feels so personal. But it's worth it, I think. Yes, there's no way around the fact that at some point I'm going to have to let other people see it and hear their feelings on it.  I'd feel better about it if I could write a story that really turned out the way I wanted it to.  But I suppose nothing will ever be perfect enough to feel zero reluctance to share it. That's true! I read about someone once who celebrated every time she got a rejection letter because it meant she had been brave. That's a great way to look at it.  What's the saying from Thomas Edison?  He didn't fail with the 9999 light bulbs that didn't work, just learned 9999 ways how not to invent a light bulb.  Hopefully I can be more efficient than that, though. Ha! Me too! What is your latest story about? Well, I've changed the one I was working on.  I had been writing it from the perspective of the woman who'd been missing.  But now I'm writing it from the perspective of the people in her life who've lost her and don't know where she went.  I'm thinking that could be more interesting.