10 Stories From Agnes Laurens

These are the stories I have chosen.

Writing for ILLUMINATION has exposed my stats in the last few months. Not that much, but a little. Every little help, right?! I think it does. Dr Mehmet Yildiz challenged us to show our 10 stories we think are worth sharing.

How can I choose from all the stories I wrote? They are so many and how can I not love one of them? I have written those stories anyway, right?!

1. This story tells my feelings about how it is to be in your 30s. It is — at least for me — weird when I became 30, two years ago, because I was excited and I heard a lot of great stories about being in your 30s. I also had high expectations of being in your 30s: I had to be serious and joking was not in any dictionary anymore. But that is totally nonsense.
2. I still can’t believe we’re living in a world full of hate. This is what I wrote after the murder of George Floyd. It still feels so sad and I get angry all the time there is another murder, there is another person hurt.
3. This story is about website HubPages. Another tool for writers for earning money. I love it and I’m still discovering it. I want you to know about this website, so you can discover it too! It means a lot to me because it was the first article I wrote for Better Marketing. I got in very easily, I never wrote for a publication of that volume, and I got curated in Money, Freelancing, Marketing, and Writing.
4. I highly believe writing nonsense once in a while — published or not published — will improve your writing. Even your ideas will also come alive.
5. This was my very first poem here on Medium. Trying another genre is always good for you.
6. Who says writing letters is for children and teenagers? I did, but when I do sometimes to myself or my parents, then I love it the utmost. With writing letters as adults, your writing work will improve too. You will think better about how to write better sentences and how to say what you want to say.
7. Since the outbreak of the Coronavirus, we had to stay home, we had to homeschool our children, and work from home, then also thinking about the distance from everyone you love. I had to change within 24 hours very fast. I had to think about a lot of things suddenly.
8. If you follow my writing for a long time, then you’ll know I play the violin and I have a very deep affection for classical music. I listen to classical music every day, even when I am writing.
9. Since the death of George Floyd, I’m also thinking “Am I a racist?”, and the conclusion is in the middle I think. I am aware, but the practice is minimum, only since I have been bullied by brown people (are they black too?), I think deep down I have the experience of neglecting them. I AM SO SORRY BLACK PEOPLE.
10. Top of all I think we should write more positive articles, even if it will be difficult in these times. I believe, we can do that!

These were my top 10 stories I wrote, although, I couldn’t choose. It was a little bit difficult. I hope you liked it.