Fiction, Here I Come!

After a five year hiatus from creative writing, I'm back having just completed the rough draft of my second paper for Baseball as a Road to God. (Yes, I eventually got in after being waitlisted.) This is my first piece of fiction since my 11^th grade creative writing class where I pulled an all-nighter at a friend's house to write a story of a student's travels in time. Let's just say that I'm happy I lost that one in the computer crash of '01.

It's amazing that after only one class, I've already read three books and written two papers, but the good news is that I've tentatively gotten permission for each of my papers to be a chapter of a story. This means that by the end of the class I will have at least 60 pages done and might be on the road to my first fiction book. It's funny how intentions become realized.

On a side note, our first class was great. President Sexton basically told stories for two hours as twenty-one of us (fourteen students and seven teaching assistants) smiled, laughed, enjoyed the show, and learned a lot too.