I have a lot of stories started, but I'm mostly finishing stories for creative writing- which I will definitely post after I finish rewriting them. I might ask, first, if it's okay to put them online while having plans of publishing them. Would that make things complicated? I don't know.

Creative writing is really helping me to get a feel for the 'reading audience' and turning slow steps into long leaps with my re-writing. I think if any of you who enjoy a good, short read should check out any of the next shorts I post. I've written to impress my class, and that's really helped, too. I believe it has something to do with there being other writers in the class and Hearing their opinions.

I'm ending this journal with one of my many views on writing:

Writing is like raising a child, reworking the progress and being very careful as the infant grows bigger and more complex. Amateur writers over-protect and conceal some of their 'babies', and the oblivious parents think they're little 'darling' has the promise of the world and sends it into a world full of very critical people with driven standards.

It's helpful to be bothersome mother figure and grab your work by the arm and tell it "Don't forget your scarf before you go into the cold world." Also, it helps to have father's rigid standards like "Don't take no guff from nobody, and when you say a word like 'Fuck', you better mean it."