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Day 02- The meaning behind your Tumblr name  

Right, I think I’m gonna explain my username/url and the title of my blog.

So, “jomarch”:

Little Women has just about always been one of my favorite books, not least because of how strong and wonderful Jo March is.  I think I can safely credit her as one of my main inspirations for wanting to be a writer.  Like Louisa May Alcott, who wrote Little Women, Jo fought for her art and used it to support her family, and generally did not let anything get in her way, despite the limitations that restricted opportunities for women during and post the (American) Civil War.  She has her faults, but I have always identified with her and wanted to be like her.

Here are some caps of Jo and her work from the lovely 1994 movie, where Jo is portrayed by Winona Ryder:

My blog title, “Climactic Splashes”:

So, I do consider myself a writer, though I could use with a LOT more discipline and therefore don’t have a ton of work to show for myself.  However, I have a particular soft spot for a story I wrote for an assignment in the Creative Writing class I took my freshman spring, about two years ago.

The prompt was to be a “style thief”: we were to read at least two collections of stories by an author, and then write a story emulating that author’s style.  I (wisely) chose Alice Munro. (GO READ HER NOW, SHE IS AMAZING.)  Her stories tend to be about women and the changes in their lives, either in their circumstances or their relationships, and she often ends her stories with an extended piece of description and metaphor.  The end of the story I wrote can be found at the end of my description/info, but here it is again:

“…she stopped paying close attention to his words and when at red lights, examined the rain drops spattering on the windshield so intently that she almost stared right through them. Each drop seemed stuck on the glass, until another drop landed on it and they rolled down the window together, ending in a climactic splash.”

And there you have it: climactic splashes.

Now you know more than you ever wanted to know about my blog! 

misterstibbons:

a-game-of-tumblr:

missyaggravation:

queerfeminist:

bronwenstumblrthing:

halleyboballey:

bizarrothatty:

fussyfangs:

ohcorny:

tailor

taylor literally means tailor

sigh

Erik derives from a Norse name that means either “ever-ruler” or,…

First name: princess (Hebrew)

Middle name: grace and beauty (French)

Last name: white (Spanish)

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