Jordan, ‘10

No, this will not be a post about submission to the tyrannical rule of a dictator or to college fraternities or to some idea of what I should be in this modern age, which is actually the first image/idea that snuck into my mind when I thought of my title.  Instead, this post is dedicated to my journey as a writer. 

As such, with the raw, but still romantic, ideal of an independent writer emblazoned like a flashing neon light inside my psyche and soul I open myself up to the toughest and make-or-break part of any writer’s struggle to be recognized and get work–rejection.  Or approval and a contract and a movie.  Or something.  I submitted a script to a competition last week.  I took the plunge.  Okay, really I just submitted a screenplay to the competition where I sent the last one.  But still, it’s a step.  And all it’ll take is one step after the other to get where I want/need to be.  One step at a time–I can do that.  I’m willing to do that.

 This spring break was particularly intense because I traveled around four states to meet a large number of my boyfriend’s relatives–parents, sisters, one sister’s husband and the other’s fiancé, grandparents, etc.  However, I came away with–would you know it?–a stronger desire to write and write and write.  In the next few weeks I’m going after internships with some publications for this summer.  I will be visiting my grandparents in Spain and the Canary Islands and while there I want to write a series of travel articles and, of course, publish them.

Otherwise, this week has been a little hectic because I became the online features editor for The Collegian–UR’s newspaper, visit thecollegianur.com and look at my movie reviews and movies!!!

 In fact, here is the link to my reviews/movies:

http://www.thecollegianur.com/index.php?s=jordan+trippeer

 In the position, I am in charge of posting feature articles, writing reviews, creating an arts section, updating the event calendar, and making movies.  Woohoo!  What fun!

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I submitted, now give me an agent ,

Jordan

Patrick Burns and I made this painting, which is untitled.

Quote of the week:

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.  ~E.L. Doctorow

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise.  The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.  ~Sylvia Plath

The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.  ~Vladimir Nabakov

A writer and nothing else:  a man alone in a room with the English language, trying to get human feelings right.  ~John K. Hutchens, New York Herald Tribune, 10 September 1961

Be obscure clearly.  ~E.B. White