What Does It Really Mean To Get Nothing From Everyone

YES! I wrote 956 words today! I wasn't really sure where this scene was going and just started plugging away and the characters pretty much wrote it themselves. It's nice when you have developed characters enough that you can almost depend on them to act on their own in a situation and you can just write down what they did instead of trying to think up every word of dialogue on your own.

 Also, yes I know this sounds crazy. I am just writing down what made up people in my head are saying. That way lies insanity. But I think every good writer is a least a little crazy or unhinged. You have to be to do what we do. Pitting your future against the willingness or, as the case may be, non-willingness of random people to buy their crazy stories. Pushaash.

Oh I signed up for Pinterest! Most addicting social network yet! Facebook and Twitter have their places but friggin Pinterest... it's so... INFINITE. You can get lost in the eternity of peoples creativity and willingness to share their lives. Man. After I signed up I just started browsing for a few minutes and was then going to write until I looked at the clock and realized it had been a bloody HOUR AND A HALF!!! Man how the life flies by.

I could look at stuff like this all bloody day. And probably would if I didn't have to eat. And go to work. And sleep.

Question

Does anyone know of writing groups in the Utah area that meet IN PERSON and are accepting new members. I would really like to be able to talk to other local writers. Let me know.

Back On Track

I've started writing again finally! I was taking a break because I was in training for a new job and it was taking the majority of my mental capacity. Between studying and being at work for eight hours, my brain was fried when I got home. Just wanted to veg out on the couch when I got home. But I've been exercising a lot and writing again. I even designed a writing schedule in Excel that's working pretty well.

I haven't been able to keep up with my previous word length standards but today I exceeded them goal wise.

My life has the potential to change immensely soon. A slim chance of it but I'm holding onto whatever threads I can grasp. Pretty excited for it but trying to prepare myself for the disappointment if it doesn't work out. It's a fine line between optimism and irrationality or naivety. And I'm walkin it!!!

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I deleted my writing blog today. Saved all the stuff on there (thankfully it was on there as it wasn't anywhere else) and got rid of it. Extremely low readership and I might want to do something commercially with that stuff someday and don't want it up for free. So. It's gone.

I'm Still Alive

Been working for awhile. Not my favorite job. How I'm getting by? Everyday I just tell myself "I'm still alive."

I think about people in Africa or South America or China or India or I just just name your not first world country of choice. A lot of people in these countries work insane hours in terrible jobs for what amounts to, in America, practically nothing. And they do it seven days a week.

When you look at it that way, my 40 hours a week in a cushy chair doesn't seem so bad.

But when that doesn't help I just remind myself of a character in a book I'm reading, Logan Ninefingers. No matter what happens; stabbed, thrown of a cliff, friends and family murdered, to even the small things like stubbing his toe, lost in a foreign city where he doesn't know anyone... no matter what happens he always says, "I'm still alive."

So... A bit dramatic I suppose but sometimes that's just what you need to get you by.

And now, something light hearted:
















The internet is such a weird place.