This is an odd feeling, like I’m inviting people into my home for the first time. Welcome to my blog! My name is Kyra, in case that’s unclear somehow. I’m twenty-four years old, living in New Jersey suburbia, and I’ve been itching for a change for a while now.
When I was a teenager, I was always obsessed with characters like Carrie Bradshaw from Sex and the City, Andie Anderson in How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Jenna Rink in 13 Going on 30—the list goes on. I loved the idea of writing as a career, whether that be for a column, a magazine, fiction, or independently. I’ve been writing for as long as I can remember, ranging from random fictional shorts in my notes app or embarrassing adolescent One Direction fan fiction on WattPad (I will not elaborate!). Of course, things happen, circumstances change, and passion dwindles from a career aspiration to a lifeless side hobby that I could barely remind myself to nurture.
During my final semester at college, I finally had enough space in my schedule to take a creative writing course to fill an elective. My original thought was that it would be easy, low-stress, and fun, which would pair well with my overwhelming senioritis. In turn, I found myself internally cursing each day, wondering why this hadn’t been my major, or minor at the very least, for the previous four years. The course, and the wonderful professor, reignited that very same passion I had ignored in favor of choosing the more practical option of my aspirations, hence my Communications and Marketing degree. Oh well!
Now, two years post-grad, here I am, finally committing to my dream of becoming a writer. After countless rejections and redirections, uncertainty, and hesitation, I feel ready to take on a new challenge. Is blogging a dead art? I don’t know. And I don’t care! 2007 is back.
To be honest, I don’t know exactly what is in store for this blog. There are times when I want to write candidly, like I’m taking a page straight from my journal, or other times I have too many thoughts on a recent read with no one to share it with, so those thoughts may live here. Too much structure tends to make me feel confined, so bare with me if this space is as scattered as my brain. What I will say, though, is that you can expect monthly favorites, book reviews and recommendations, social commentary, fashion and beauty tidbits, and other slices of my personal life. Oh, and a million selfies, now that I have somewhere to store them.
Thank you for reading, if you’ve gotten this far. Cheers to change.
xoxo
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