The CAMPUS Kids and I are so happy to be contributing to a fantastic new website for tweens and teens, girls in particular. It’s called Young Chicagonista. It had it’s official launch party last night, and I wrote a special song in honor of the celebration. In my household Natasha Bedingfield’s “Unwritten” has been sort of an anthem for me and the girls. Which is why it was the first song that came to mind when I was searching for a tune to use for the event. Keeping in mind what the young writers go through in the pursuit of posts, I wrote “Unpublished,” and performed it for the first time at the party at Chicago’s Comedy Sportz Theatre. I hope you are inspired by it too.
SMILE On!
ML
Miss Lori can be found Musing from her Minivan at MissLori.TV , Wearetherealdeal.com , YoungChicagonista , and ChicagoMomsBlog. She is also the new Chicago Family Entertainment Blogger for Examiner.com and a Discussion Leader for MomsLikeMeChicago. You can also see her Activating to Be Great at Miss Lori’s CAMPUS on Youtube, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
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“Unpublished”
Lyrics by Miss Lori (Lori Holton Nash)
Performed to the music, and in the style of Natasha Bedingfield’s “Unwritten”
February 27, 2010
I am unpublished, can’t read my mind I’m undefined
I’m just a young one, tagging through life, category strife.
Staring at the blank screen before me
Open up the word press window
Let dashboard point me to the posts that I cannot find
Reaching for something in the distance
So close I can almost draft it
Release my inner Nista
Feel words come from within
No one else can write it for you
Only you can get it done
No one else, No one else
Can speak the words from your tongue
Drench your heart in thoughts unspoken
Live your life with mind wide open
Today is when your post begins
The rest is still unpublished.
I break tradition my word counts run low Miss Nancy might blow
I’ve been conditioned to not make mistakes, but I can’t type that way
Staring at the blank screen before me
Open up the word press window
Let dashboard point me to the posts that I cannot find
Reaching for something in the distance
So close I can almost draft it
Release my inner Nista
Feel words come from within
No one else can write it for you
Only you can get it done
No one else, No one else,
Can speak the words from your tongue
Drench your heart in thoughts unspoken
Live your life with mind wide open
Today is when your post begins
Feel words come from within
No one else can write it for you
Only you can get it done
No one else, No one else,
Can speak the words from your tongue
Drench your heart in thoughts unspoken
Live your life with mind wide open
Today is when your post begins
The rest is still unpublished
Staring at the blank screen before me
Open up the word press window
Let dashboard point me to the posts that I cannot find
Reaching for something in the distance
So close I can almost draft it
Release my inner Nista
Feel words come from within
No one else can write it for you
Only you can get it done
No one else, No one else,
Can speak the words from your tongue
Drench your heart in thoughts unspoken
Live your life with mind wide open
Today is when your post begins
Feel words come from within
No one else can write it for you
Only you can get it done
No one else, No one else,
Can speak the words from your tongue
Drench your heart in thoughts unspoken
Live your life with mind wide open
Today is when your post begins
The rest is still unpublished
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