Tough word on your crossword
First off: I should be doing laundry. But! Instead I'm typing a fairly pointless entry and watching movies and knitting. I'm about 2/3 of the way done with my scarf! I never thought it'd go this fast but if you watch the same movie for 4 hours (Across The Universe, then all the special features, then the movie again with commentary), it goes really fast. Sadly, I think I might now turn around and watch Man On Wire. And then I'll have watched basically all my movies and it'll be back to Casa Video for more! I'm ridiculous.
In other news: I'm feeling productive, but the real reason for that is that I'm typing really fast and I had a lot of caffiene today. I want to write something, and I want to start up another long story. The last one I did was summarily abandoned after I realised I was only writing it for one person, and I wasn't even friends with her anymore. It's strange: That story (it was called Summer City) was a constant in my life for almost 3 years...I started it in the summer before junior year, and only quit last fall. It's spanned 4 notebooks (written out) and when I look back through it I get embarrassed and proud at the same time. I can trace the motivations for every event in the storyline. It was the first major story that I thought I'd finish. And then I just quit, because I'd written past the point I was working toward, and there was still no end in sight. I don't know how I feel about it. I don't want to start writing it again, but I also feel like it represented my best shot at finishing something major, and the fact that I gave up means I'm not meant to write anything longer than 2 pages.
It's slightly stupid really. I don't need to write a novel. I don't think I have the gumption to write a novel actually. The job I want is to write short installments of a longer work. But I do miss having something to pull out and work on every time I feel creative. I miss a set of characters that I know.
I think if I start a longer work, it'll be about the end of humanity. I've always wanted to write something where most of the human beings in the world just...disappear. No explanation, and it's not the rapture, because I think someone already wrote that book and I don't care about the rapture. I started planning it a few years ago for a webcomic which of course never got made, and I'm gonna throw out all those plans anyways, because they're VERY dated and kind of infantile actually.
Although it's slightly ridiculous to be discussing it here because I probably won't post it here. I might try and do it during a summer month, NaNoWriMo style (I can never do the actual event because I always am really busy with school).
Anyway! To laundry? Perhaps.