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12 years ago
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"I will go out with my friends and have a good time. I will get back to writing. I will get my life back on the right road."
Words I spoke one year ago. Typed, rather. A vow, that I made to myself. How well did I do?
I'd say half.
I didn't do all that much writing, or at the very least, I have little to show for it. But... the embers are still there... pathetic though they are. More on that later.
Go out with my friends and have a good time... My ace of spades. I have lived life in bars and in basements, had fun, drunk beer to borderline excess, and have new stories to share!
Am I back on the right track? Perhaps... Post Secondary Education is still a distant prospect, but it remains. I can still take up the pen as Alexander once took up the sword. Or Spear... or whatever they called it. Xyston? Cavalry Lance? Muh. I advanced at my work place, and I enjoy my work at the Grocery store, but is that my fate? Surely I can move beyond it and out of the house I was raised in.
Above all else, dark thoughts were minimised this 'year'. Still present, but, perhaps I can fight the darkness now, knowing that I have brave companions at my back, and only the future in front of me.
Got through the book 'Summerhill'. Dude, that's a trippy read, awesome and thought provoking. Truly an adventure, of sorts. A tad hard to follow at points, due to the... shall we say, decentralised (gnhihihihi) nature of the book and it's tale, and it ends on a nice... not cliff hanger... more like, they got to the bottom of the cliff, and there is only wide plain ahead of the heroes. Still though, where will that plain take them? How many more rivers need they cross 'till they are granted peace? A good read. Part way through 'Flight of the Godkin Griffin'... and it has a trippiness all it's own... written in the first person... I don't see that too much these days, it's kind of refreshing!
I need to stop whinning about writing and actually get down to business. I look upon the literary works of others, some of them quite impressive, and see nit pickers picking away, it's almost kind of depressing. Then I remind myself that that will always happen, and that people write on anyways, and others still enjoy it all the same. Not like anyone is expecting a masterwork from an unknown... nice though that might be. I'm supposed to write about things I know.... God in Heaven, I've only experienced childbirth once! (Not counting muh Japanese Anime), how do I write about that? I can be as book-smart as I want, but will that allow me to do anything with it? Will that make it believeable? If I haven't experienced it, how can I relate the experience? How...
...One second while I giggle at all the 'RolePlay funsies' that happen on Second Life without anyone having an ounce of non-virginity... Gnihihihi.
That, and all the good ideas seem to be taken. Do I want to take the effort to create a world of my own? Or do I go the fan fiction route and piggyback off of someone else's hard work? Well hoss, you've gotta start somewhere... Maybe I'll take a leaf out of the book of SummerHill... and quote a once great dragon that was reduced to low-tier raid boss. "...The rules of your cherished reality do not apply!" I fail biology forever and do happy fantasy magicy stuff...
Bah, I'm digressing.
I'm renewing my lease on life. Vows:
1: I will work out more, go to the gym AT LEAST ONCE per week, even if I just flop in the pool. Cannot into swimming...
2: I will approach my univirsity, or even the nearby college, and make overtures towards getting into class, by at LEAST the next school year/cycle, if not snagging a December course or something.
3: I. Will. Bloody. Write. Something.
The world turns. The fates still spin the webs of men's lives.... and my tapestry is no where near finished!
Words I spoke one year ago. Typed, rather. A vow, that I made to myself. How well did I do?
I'd say half.
I didn't do all that much writing, or at the very least, I have little to show for it. But... the embers are still there... pathetic though they are. More on that later.
Go out with my friends and have a good time... My ace of spades. I have lived life in bars and in basements, had fun, drunk beer to borderline excess, and have new stories to share!
Am I back on the right track? Perhaps... Post Secondary Education is still a distant prospect, but it remains. I can still take up the pen as Alexander once took up the sword. Or Spear... or whatever they called it. Xyston? Cavalry Lance? Muh. I advanced at my work place, and I enjoy my work at the Grocery store, but is that my fate? Surely I can move beyond it and out of the house I was raised in.
Above all else, dark thoughts were minimised this 'year'. Still present, but, perhaps I can fight the darkness now, knowing that I have brave companions at my back, and only the future in front of me.
Got through the book 'Summerhill'. Dude, that's a trippy read, awesome and thought provoking. Truly an adventure, of sorts. A tad hard to follow at points, due to the... shall we say, decentralised (gnhihihihi) nature of the book and it's tale, and it ends on a nice... not cliff hanger... more like, they got to the bottom of the cliff, and there is only wide plain ahead of the heroes. Still though, where will that plain take them? How many more rivers need they cross 'till they are granted peace? A good read. Part way through 'Flight of the Godkin Griffin'... and it has a trippiness all it's own... written in the first person... I don't see that too much these days, it's kind of refreshing!
I need to stop whinning about writing and actually get down to business. I look upon the literary works of others, some of them quite impressive, and see nit pickers picking away, it's almost kind of depressing. Then I remind myself that that will always happen, and that people write on anyways, and others still enjoy it all the same. Not like anyone is expecting a masterwork from an unknown... nice though that might be. I'm supposed to write about things I know.... God in Heaven, I've only experienced childbirth once! (Not counting muh Japanese Anime), how do I write about that? I can be as book-smart as I want, but will that allow me to do anything with it? Will that make it believeable? If I haven't experienced it, how can I relate the experience? How...
...One second while I giggle at all the 'RolePlay funsies' that happen on Second Life without anyone having an ounce of non-virginity... Gnihihihi.
That, and all the good ideas seem to be taken. Do I want to take the effort to create a world of my own? Or do I go the fan fiction route and piggyback off of someone else's hard work? Well hoss, you've gotta start somewhere... Maybe I'll take a leaf out of the book of SummerHill... and quote a once great dragon that was reduced to low-tier raid boss. "...The rules of your cherished reality do not apply!" I fail biology forever and do happy fantasy magicy stuff...
Bah, I'm digressing.
I'm renewing my lease on life. Vows:
1: I will work out more, go to the gym AT LEAST ONCE per week, even if I just flop in the pool. Cannot into swimming...
2: I will approach my univirsity, or even the nearby college, and make overtures towards getting into class, by at LEAST the next school year/cycle, if not snagging a December course or something.
3: I. Will. Bloody. Write. Something.
The world turns. The fates still spin the webs of men's lives.... and my tapestry is no where near finished!
