After reading all her posts Ann thought that it was kind of pointless to continue blogging. She considered putting her energy into something else, like curating instagram stories or pinterest boards. The whole point of blogging, to Ann, was that she got to post a block of text that looked appealing to read later. Now she is wishing she was more organized with her journalling, google doc story, and blog posting. The problem with blogging is that it revolves around the "I," which becomes quite tedious to continuously read, because who wants to read about a random person's thoughts, with no consequence to themselves?
Ann imagined herself as a famous writer known for her "prolific stories about the present and past" but when it came to imagining the author's bio on the back flap of her books (published in hardcover, of course) her mind couldn't conjure up anything. That's probably because people with science backgrounds don't really publish much unless it was either extremely literary or extremely scientific. This fact may also be confounded by the fact that Ann doesn't really see herself fitting into any role anymore, unlike Ann from high school who was certain that she wanted to be an artist. She wants to know what to label someone such as herself, who enjoys doing a variety of creative acts, from painting to drawing to photography to writing. She has been wondering this exact question for a long time. It has been "in the back of her mind" and tends to pop up when she is feeling introspective. She does want to write a memoir now that she has read Trip by Tao Lin, because it was the type of writing that spoke to her, especially the end where Tao wrote about himself in the third person.
She opened up Grammarly while writing this blog post. The tone detector detected confident, informal, and optimistic tones from her writing. She thought this was ironic.