I'm working on like a hundred different things right now. I hope I can get everything done. It's Monday and I can't wait until this week is over.

 

Jumbled heart

Jumbled head

Well my plans to be more diligent in my blog writing clearly fell through. I have been so ill the past week. I haven't gotten anything done. I am so behind in everything. I'm not sure how I am going to catch up. I feel a little better today so I am hoping to get some work done tonight and tomorrow morning. so overwhelmed. I don't have any pictures for today's post. I don't feel good enough to scroll through my thousands of pictures on my computer. I don't think anyone will care anyways.

I FINISHED MY SCRIPT!!! I have never written a script before so this was an entirely new experience for me. I have to say I am incredibly proud of my script and I really enjoyed writing it! (Watch me get a bad grade on the one thing I'm proud of...) Funny story about it, the main character is someone who walked into my work the other day. He was such an unusual character that while I was talking to him I was thinking he acts like he just came out of a really bizarre movie. BAM. My inspiration. Thank you strange cowboy psychic who walked into my life and gave me something to write about. Haha. I haven't been so good about writing on my blog every day. I'm hoping to improve on that as the ending of the class nears. (oops) Okay, its 3am and I have LOADS of other stuff to do (meaning loads of laundry) so enjoy this picture of me riding my bike downtown.

    No words for today. It was too awful of a day. Enjoy the picture of a baby bird I took last spring.

     I went to Shakespeare in the park yesterday and it was wonderful! If you haven't gone already, I highly recommend it! They are performing Cleopatra and Antony the 18th of this month. Everything about the performance is lovely. The location is also just so fantastic! I plan on going to many more in the future!
     I got my grade back for my short story and I have to say I have never been so relieved to have an assignment over! This assignment gave me so much anxiety, I have been have panic attacks in the middle of the night because of it. I truly wish to never think of it again. Now the poem is due tonight. I've been toying around with a few things but nothing ever seems to fit just right. Whatever I write always seems to be incredibly cheesy or it comes out really dark and depressing. There seems to be no middle ground with me. Either it is rainbows and unicorns or darkness and demons. I wish I was better at all of this.

My brain is slowly turning to mush. I have a like a hundred more words to write for my short story but I just can't seem to come up with anything. I'm bored with my story. I wish I would have picked something more interesting. Too late now. I'm pretty sure it's going to end up a cliff hanger for a couple of reasons. 1)I'm quickly approaching my word limit. 2) my brain hurts, I need this to end. 3) I love reading cliff hangers! I like picking my own ending for stories that I read. 4) I don't actually have an ending planned for this story. When I came up with the idea, I wasn't sure how to end it.

Enjoy this random collection of pictures of my fish, Hamlet.
-Christine

      I’m not a creative person, not at all, which makes me wonder why I thought it would be a good idea to take a creative writing class. Maybe I was hoping it would bring out some creativity I had hidden within me. Clearly there is none to be unburied. I like taking pictures because I don’t have to create anything. The beauty is already there ready for me to capture and claim as my own. I wish I was creative ,everyone I know who is artistic is much happier than I. I took the above picture at Martin Park Nature Center in case anyone was wondering.

-Christine

 

     I have nothing to say today. I have been staring at blank piece of paper for awhile now and still nothing. My brain is so empty.

I got stuck in Kansas yesterday hence no post but I figure it was a holiday and it is allowed. I have a small idea about what I want to write my short story about. I was agonizing over it on the drive to and back from Kansas. I have been reading Shakespeare for another class and am quite sleepy but I'm still planning to start writing my short story tonight before I loose any small amount of inspiration I have. I always write better in the late hours of the night anyways. I guess because I am always just too tired to care what anyone thinks about my writing. I have a feeling that most of my writing for this class will have to be written late at night or I will never be able to turn anything in. Maybe tomorrow I will have more to say (doubtful).
-Christine

I've been going through all my old notebooks trying to find some inspiration, anything to spark an idea. My room is full of notebooks full of crappy stories, poems, songs, journal entrees. I cringe reading them now. I wonder if I made a rather large bonfire in my backyard and burned them all if that would give me any inspiration... I haven't done anything artistic since I was eighteen. I got my heart broken and everything just stopped. It is seeming to be somewhat difficult to turn the creative switch back on. The picture above is of my dog Sam. I take more pictures of him than anything else. Little behind the scenes information...he ate the butterfly after I took those pictures. That is all for today.
-Christine

      Let me start by saying, I have no idea what I am doing. I have never had a blog and I'm not good with the internet world. Blogging has never been on my mind because I have this slightly huge fear of people reading what I write. I am all for writing just so long as no one sees what I have written. This class might be a challenge for me in so many different ways. I'm suppose to write on here every day but I can not imagine that what I will have to say on a daily basis will be anything interesting. I'm also suppose to be working on a short story but I completely blanked on what to write about as soon as I read the assignment on the syllabus. Where do I even start? I was thinking it could being about animals, like a children's book kind of writing. That seems like something I would enjoy writing about but then it would have to have a strong underlying message and once again where do I even start? I suppose I should start coming up with something fast though. By the way, I took the odd close up picture of the moth above. I though that maybe if I added some pictures maybe everyone would be slightly less bored with what I have to say. Anyways, there I wrote for the day.

-Christine