Welp, I wanna go ahead and get this out of the way so I can start playing video games without guilt! Not that I usually feel that guilty about playing video games, but my conscience will weigh on me if I know I still haven't gotten this done. I know I'll get wrapped up in something or another and put this off and maybe even skip it even though that's never happened. Some of these entries have been extremely late, but so far (knock on wood) I've made sure that every single entry gets done for 190 days. This is the 191st day and that's pretty impressive! Even though some of the entries are a bit halfassed, I'm pretty proud of what I've done here.
If you go back to the first week of this exercise you'll see some entries that are pretty puny. I didn't have a great start at all. At least one entry within the first week was pretty much just one short paragraph, ironically about the fact that I'd like to write fiction more often. Fortunately, that's just what I did. I've written something like 50 pages of fiction, as inconsistent as it might be. But it's about more than just that. This blog contains a lot of rambling about games, music, eSports, and also some reflection my personal life. Some of the entries are stream-of-consciousness while others are carefully planned. This whole exercise has really helped me get in touch with who I am. And it prevents me from losing myself.
Things may not be so great for me right now, but I'm glad that I have this huge body of work to look back on to remind me of good times in the past--and hopefully it will continue to document good times in the future. For the bad times and the mediocre times, I still have a lot to say. My imagination is boundless and my hobbies numerous. If I have the will, I'll never run out of things to write about. Occasionally it'll seem like a chore to write these entries, but that's only because sometimes my mind is blocked. If I can figure out how to open it up (and believe me, this is easier than ever before), then I'll think of something.
One thing I wish I would really get back to is Terakiel's story. I've written so much already and I have a lot of material to draw on--and honestly, I still have a lot of ideas I haven't even begun to implement. The problem is that I feel like I've sort of run my characters into a brick wall and I don't know how to let them escape. I guess that's the amateurish level of my writing showing, but the fact remains that I'm a bit stuck. The easy thing to do would be to skip over some details and move on to other ideas--but that seems lazy to me. I'd like to think up an honest way for the situation to develop, but as of right now I'm just not sure.
I also have a lot of ideas for the other story about the bearded man, but I feel as if I need to be in a certain mindset to write those excerpts. They can be very fun to do, though!
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