Insane Random Ramblings

I made writing one of my resolutions last year. However both of my classes in the Spring were intensive writing courses. I didn’t expect it to be that much writing when I made my resolutions. After I did all of my school work, I wasn’t in the mood to write anything else. I got discouraged once the semester was over since I hadn’t made any progress in any of my personal writing.

Maybe I’ll start writing again this year. I haven’t decided yet but I do know that I won’t put the same pressure on myself that I did last year.

I have written anything in ages and I don’t really want to do that anyway. I’ve tried to write and it just isn’t holding my interest. I don’t have school to distract me anymore which seemed to be my biggest pitfall the last time I tried to write. I really don’t have anything in particular that I want to do either.

I do know that I need something to occupy my time.  

It’s one of the new writing assignments that I’ve given myself. I have a few criteria that I’ve established for myself. I have a specific word count and subject range that I want to use. I want to show people how to find the best acne treatment, how to find the best deals for vacation and on flights. There is a website that I’ll send them to that people use to search for information. I’ll help them out by providing information, and I’ll help myself by sticking to a writing schedule and practicing my writing skills.

I hope to have at least 3 done within the next week. They’re small articles so they shouldn’t take much time and I should be able to stick to my schedule.

I’ve had off a complete week from school. No exams, no studying or reading. Nothing. And it felt good. Now that I’ve had a chance to relax, it’s time for me to start writing again. I plan on just putting down ideas on paper and see where it goes.

I’m also looking into taking a class this summer. I’m not sure if I want to take the film type of class or just a creative writing class. So far, I’m not impressed with the summer selection. I’m hoping that they add some additional classes for me to choose from. If not I’ll wait until the fall and see what’s available.

Either way I plan on getting started now.

It didn’t take as long as I expected it to either. It only took about 1 1/2 hours to write. I was pretty surprised. Then again, I did wait until the last minute so it wasn’t like I had the luxury of taking a long time.

Now I’ll have to revise either this paper that I just did or the last paper that I did. Ill probably choose to revise the last paper. I think this one was much better and will be a little harder to change. The last one left off some major points and I didn’t devote enough time to one aspect of the paper at all.

I still have an additional 8-10 page paper that will be due in this class. I’ve had to do a lot of writing this semester. It’s almost over though.

I’ve been writing a small amout lately. Now I’ve been writing poetry as well. I don’t want to say what kind because it’s very specific but I think I have something with it. I need to get cracking because I have a limited window but I’m almost there. I only need about 5-7 poems and I already have 2 complete. I also have a 3rd that’s nearly competed so I have a pretty good jump.

I guess I’ll be pretty busy for the next few weeks.

And just guess which things got left off of my list? Of all of the things to leave off, it was my writing and my spa day! I really need to get both done too. I have some ideas that I really need to write down. I don’t know why I keep procrastinating either. The longer I wait, the more diluted the ideas will be. I need to write them down while they’re fresh in my mind. I know this yet I still don’t do it. Hopefully I’ll get some writing done this week.

I don’t even know why I skipped my spa day. I really do need to exfoliate my skin and that seems like a nice relaxing way to spend the day. I’ll probably do it this weekend. Who knows, I have off on Thursday and I don’t have any plans. Maybe I’ll do it then.

NaNoWriMo that is. I just can’t do it this year. I had plans on trying to do half of it since I missed the beginning of the month. Then I went to class yesterday and my professor decided that we weren’t going to have a final exam. Yeah great news. Except….he decided to replace it with a 8-10 page research paper.

Considering the paper is 35% of my grade and my writing was just for fun, I guess you know which one is getting cut out. Maybe next year I’ll try again. At least I won’t be in school.

I haven’t been able to write at all. First I had a mid-term that was on the 3rd. I figured I would catch up during the rest of the week. Then I found out my Mom was sick and I couldn’t concentrate to write at all. Today is the 11th and I haven’t written a thing.

I could wait until next year and try again but I think I have a solution for me. November is 30 days long. I’ll wait until the 15th and start writing for the last 15 days of the month. Instead of the 50,000 word goal, I’ll strive for 25,000 words. I like to talk and I’m long-winded so the word count shouldn’t be a problem. But I often write 2 or more stories at one time so focusing on just one story might be a little hard for me.

I plan on trying it and seeing where I end up.

I’ve started my short stories again. It’s really hard to get started again though. I have all of these ideas but they come faster than I can write or type them down. I’m especially frustrated because I lost a ton of work that I had already done. When my computer crashed, I lost 3 partially completed stories. 1 was 1/4 of the way done and the other 2 were coming along nicely.

You can best believe I’m saving everything on my flash drive this time.