...i read marta writes

Please welcome Marta!
Your name: marta dansie
Your blog: marta writes the dear diary stories

What are 3 of your favorite blog posts?
here are my favorite posts simply because the words tumbled out.. that is when you know whatever it is you wrote should be written.
a brand new feeling
love takes flight
when i'm a mom..

Please introducing yourself.
hello world, i'm marta. a little bit about me: i blog, i design, i am a new mama, i like making crafts with my two hands, i love a good bubble bath, i photograph my food, i enjoy glossy magazines, i pretend to pick out furniture for my future dream house, i like winning at checkers, i collect pretty stationery, i wish i could paint, and i love to travel.

How did you arrive on the blogosphere?
i decided to give it a go because all the cool kids were doing it. i knew i'd like blogging because i love writing and i love designing. working with online design is a new format for me. i would love to learn more computer code and behind the scenes stuff. blogging is the best way to keep in touch with family and friends and just say whatever is on your mind. i think documentation is a very good thing. i was here. i saw this. i heard that. i lived a good life.

As a big fan of your blog, I know that you love to write and are very good at it. You have a writing style that is uniquely your own. Do you have any advice for those of us who want to improve our writing skills and find out unique "voice?"
wow. that's so nice of you. thanks. i have been writing ever since i was little. i would make little stapled diaries when we went on vacation. i remember a page from one that featured a drawing of me on the Matterhorn ride at Disneyland. i am a stick figure, screaming. i love to write and hope to improve my skills. i hope to write a book someday. my advice on finding your own voice is to write like you talk. anything that is 'ingenuine' comes across as fake. be yourself. start writing in a notebook. be loose. let it flow. just let the words spill. read words, passages, novels, and poetry from writers you admire. their words will influence you. aim high and write a lot. allow yourself a lot of mess ups. with practice, you will find your own individual writing voice without even realizing it. because it's an extension of yourself. be original. be natural. (like when we play checkers. i tell dan, don't think too hard. you'll win the game if you just go.) do that. just go. just write.


You are a very sweet mother, I can tell from the way you write about your son. What do you love most about motherhood?
what a truly nice compliment. thank you. i really do love motherhood. more than i could've imagined. it's so fulfilling and wonderful to hold your own sweet babe. i get all cliche when i talk about being a mama. but it really is the greatest achievement of my life. i love everything about that little boy. like his squiggly ears and those tiny edible toes. i just love that he's this whole little person. with a really important purpose. i heard a quote once that says, 'you were cut out to be somebody special.' i like that. i remember this when i'm around him. his soul is just so unique, sweet and perfect. you can feel that, about every baby. the thing that surprised me about motherhood is how much i've learned about who i am and who i want to become just from watching him these seven months. some say it's boring with a newborn. but i find it's not boring at all, it's fascinating. i change as he changes. we are both growing. you don't have to know how to be a mom before you become one. you grow into one.

Do you have a life motto?
u be u. i'll be me.
Thank you so much, Marta, for your beautiful blog and inspiring words! I am going to take your writing advise to heart.