Trailing Thoughts
Staying up late is fun… it’s actually very odd, I get most of my chores and work done when it’s past 1am. In fact, not only did I finish up packing all my stuff and hanging up all my posters, but I also wrote seventeen pages of a new story I’ve been drafting in my mind. It’s odd, it came out a lot differently than I thought… but I do like it so far. Seventeen pages is when the prelude ends and the world can start to bud. I really don’t want to get into it because like every other story project I start, I’ll never ever finish it.
Well, it doesn’t matter, it probably would suck anyways. I think everyone needs to see my shoe box full of crap stories that I’ll never finish. Heh, I guess everyone has one of those, though. Wow… I should try to get some motivation. You know what’s odd? That story that I made… the one I posted here? You know, the one I never finished? Yeah, it’ll probably stay unfinished forever. Sad thing is I had a great ending lined up for it. And no… the ending isn’t: “And then I woke up,” anyone who ends a story like that needs to die. Unless it’s Cormac McCarthy and he’s trying to be funny. Yeah, you know what book I’m talking about right? *cough* No Country for Old Men *cough*
You know that story that I said I made in math class that I’d post on Edublogs at some point? Yeah, that’s not going to happen any time soon. You know why? Because I lack the motivation to put it on here. I’d say someone else could put it up here… but my handwriting is atrocious. If you can read my writing, you get a gold star. I want a gold star. Someone sent me a gold star!
Wow… this post is ending up like every other post I’ve ever made… with me trailing off into some random thoughts and never finishing my main point… actually that was my main point. Go me! Goodbye.
“I hear it’s amazing when the famous purple stuffed worm in flap-jaw space with the tuning fork does a raw blink on Hara-Kiri Rock. I need scissors! 61!”
July 7th, 2008 at 1:23 am
sorry I haven’t been posting/commenting … I’ve been preoccupied with some other things. But, I can completely agree with the starting and never finishing stories… M.O.T.P. Ha Ha.
Anyway well how is life in the new house ?
July 8th, 2008 at 8:14 am
Yes, I’m a night owl, too. My wife has been shocked to wake up and realize the laundry is folded or the dishes are done. But mostly, I’m doing what you did: writing.
As for your draft not turning out the way you expected it to, that is one of the most appealing things about writing. It changes as we change, it is never what we expect it to be. Sometimes it’s worse, but if we’re lucky (which I’m sure you were) it’s better than we expect.
Keep it up. Thanks for commenting on my posts.
July 8th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
No problem. Actually, an editor found my blog and he wants to show it to his publisher… that’s cool isn’t it?