The Social Prose was created out of a passion for writing that began long ago in an elementary school as bad poetry.  That bad poetry ultimately led to obsessions with American literature, the theater, creative writing and the need to liberate my mind from an over-productive imagination. 

I wrote countless thesis papers in college as an English major with a minor in theater.  I managed to find an outlet to get all of these scenarios out of my head and onto paper, while developing a deeper exploration of the thoughts and stories that kept swirling around in my head.  The only problem was these papers were all required to be 30 pages long. 

I loved performing but I hated writing, but in order to train in theater, I had to become an English major.  I had no idea that I would fall in love with literature, especially early American literature, or would even want to write for a living.  

I remember dreading the whole process of a forced structure of writing because that wasn’t how I wrote.  I hated the idea of an outline and honestly, I just didn’t understand them and they hindered my creativity.  I always managed to write a good enough term paper, but my organization was usually questioned. 

It was only when one of my professors told me that I could write however I needed, and turn in the end product as requested, however it gets to that point.  And then the craziest thing happened…I just did the outline after I wrote the entire paper, and no one ever questioned it.  It was magic. 

I learned to write better and more fluid without a structure and on my terms and no one had to know about it, as long as they got what they wanted.  It was my little secret that I use to this day.  As long as you get what you want, does it really matter how it happens?   

My seventh-grade teacher was a real stickler for the rules of writing and I hated rules.  He told me that even though I was a decent writer for a seventh grader, I had to learn the rules before I could break them. 

And once I did, I understood the freeing significance that came from starting a sentence with “And” because although it was grammatically improper, I at least knew that now.  It then became a style rather than just poor grammar.

I write all this because I love to write, I love to create, and I love to tell my story.  And because details are important, especially when telling someone else’s story.  Eventually I switched to a Marketing major and married my love for creative writing with writing for small businesses, managing their social media and helping others to create copy that tells their story, in prose.