Spring Semester 2013

Wow, I'm writing a blog post.  It's been forever.

I'm taking some interesting classes this semester.  (Except for Calc II.  As good as I am at math, I'm feeling ready to be done with math classes.  Forever.  :P)  I have three honors classes:

• "Adventures in Mathematics".  Easy A and I get physical science credit (because I'm one science credit short!).  This is kind of a broad overview of the history and application of a bunch of different areas of math.  It's just high-school level math here.  *yawn*
• "Why Creativity Matters".  I guess the purpose of this class is to study and develop creativity?  and learn how to draw?  I enjoy it.  
• "Great Ideas of the West in the Classical and Medieval Eras: The Meanings of Life".  That's a mouthful.  We're reading and discussing literature all the way from Mesopotamia (earliest history) to the 1500s, focusing on what people thought the meaning of life was-- which is an absurdly ambiguous pursuit.  I love this class, though.  We get into deep philosophical discussion like what we had in my Socratic Seminar class at Maeser Preparatory Academy.  I missed that class so much.  ^^

And then I'm also taking Intro to Short Fiction.  I'm enjoying that class too.  ^^

Goodness, I have big ambitions.  I want to be producing content relatively frequently in several different places (here, deviantART, Facebook, Cloud in a Bubble, Heavens' Crossroads, Google+...) while working on other stories that might be publishable (like, as in physical novels, with paper  o__0) and making cosplays and going to college and creating video games.  Is this possible?  o.0  I'm going to find out.

well, that's all for now.  Good night, sleep tight, and don't get eaten by flying spaghetti monsters!

Putting Ideas into Pixels

I am going to talk about writing today.

It seems as if I'm never going to write anything unless I sit down and make myself write, because I don't normally have things I itch to write about.  It's not that I have a shortage of things to write about; almost everything under the sun is fair game and I'm not one to be paralyzed by lack of guidelines.  It's that the very part of my personality which allows me to thrive in such an open land is the same part that has me doing a lot more dreaming than doing.  That's one of the biggest challenges I'm faced with in life.  Dreams* are awesome, and they are essential to guide your actions, but without actions, they're just not worth as much.  Even if your dreams are of fantasy worlds that can't be made into reality, they're still worth more if you write them down and share them.  It's just a matter of doing it.  I'm not in the habit of doing it, so I'm not going to feel like doing it no matter how much I want to.  Heavens' Crossroads is a good example of this.  I made that site and then I posted faithfully every week for four weeks, and then I stopped for some reason and now it's been three months since I've done anything there.  I even have page five mostly written out.  I just need to go back and push it into my habits again.

So what causes the difference between actually doing something, and never doing it even though you know you should?  I'm sure someone has figured that out, but it seems like most people never do, and I haven't yet.

I'll come back and talk more next week--or maybe later this week-- after I get back to Heavens' Crossroads.

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*I'm talking about daydreams, not the kind of dreams you have when you're asleep.