Coming Down the Mountain

Hello, it's been a while.

I've been posting over at deviantART somewhat more regularly, although there's hardly anyone there who reads those posts.  These past few months have been rough, and it was easier to write more random and personal stuff over there.  It felt more appropriate, I suppose.  deviantART is very much a creative, be-yourself site, whereas I still haven't entirely figured out what this blog is supposed to feel like.  xD

Now that school's out, I'm hoping I can devote some extra time to those story sites that I've linked to up there in the navigation bar (Heavens' Crossroads, Velvel the Venturer, and Cloud in a Bubble), and I want to write a book too.  And make a video game, and make money...

I've been filling out job applications for three weeks and I'm sick of it. XD  hopefully it won't be much longer.

By the way... I've been considering making a scripture study blog.  That will be the sixth blog that I try to maintain (including the story sites and the webcomic), but it'll be fun, eh?  X3  Got any thoughts?

Putting Ideas into Pixels (Part 2)

I got back to Heavens' Crossroads like I said I would in my last post.  I'm thinking of not pushing myself to post there every week, since I do have other writing projects to work on.

The spring semester started last week, right along with the new year.  I made a goal for 2012 that involves doing a lot of writing, and then I'm also taking English 2010 this semester.  This particular English class focuses on critical thinking and persuasive writing.  I feel like I'm a moderately good writer -- good enough to get an A in a typical high school English class without learning much, but certainly not good enough to drift through this college class with a great grade.  By the end of the semester (mid-April) my blog posts might sound less like rambling and more like professional writing.  X3

Have you ever thought about how when you write, you're basically just putting a bunch of squiggles up for display and hoping they mean roughly the same thing to everyone else as they do to you?  Not only do we resort to these desperate measures, we spend years in school learning how to do it better.  Expressing ideas must be REALLY important to us.  Or most of us, at least.

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.