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1. Destroyed my journal today. It got wet; the ink ran. (All the nice green ink, at least. Curse you, Liquid Stylist!) It only ruined words along the spine of the journal, but it bugged me. So I tried pulling out the pages that were ruined...and ruined the entire journal in the process. Sigh. On to the next disaster!
2. Speaking of my story (ow), I have realized what my problem is: I cannot write endings. At least, that's my problem at the moment. I have great ideas. I have beginnings. I even have middles sometimes! But no endings, so I just wander, with no idea where the story is going or what it's trying to say.
With my current story, I don't even know what the main character's Horrible Crimes are. He might have killed his wife, though I don't know if this is intentional or if it has anything to do with his latent ability to read minds. Or maybe both. And if he did kill his wife, do I really want to write his story? (I blame waking up in the middle of the night with this story idea blooming in my head...) All right, so I apparently know more than I think I know. I'm just not sure why we're following this character at this moment in time...
3. Trying to tune down my job-related anxiety. Everything's going fine...but everyone else is stressed, and I know that it's going to take me a while to get up to the knowledge/skill level of the person I'm replacing. And, in the mean time, I'm worried that I'll miss things. I keep trying to remind myself that I've only been at the job for less than two weeks. It's going to take a while to get really settled in. In the mean time, I need more sleep.
4. So I pulled the trigger and registered for Japanese in fall. As much as I'd like to take more than one class, I know I can be easily overwhelmed. I need my free time. And time to study!
5. I have raspberries! I would exclaim about how it's so early in the season, but it is late June.
2. Speaking of my story (ow), I have realized what my problem is: I cannot write endings. At least, that's my problem at the moment. I have great ideas. I have beginnings. I even have middles sometimes! But no endings, so I just wander, with no idea where the story is going or what it's trying to say.
With my current story, I don't even know what the main character's Horrible Crimes are. He might have killed his wife, though I don't know if this is intentional or if it has anything to do with his latent ability to read minds. Or maybe both. And if he did kill his wife, do I really want to write his story? (I blame waking up in the middle of the night with this story idea blooming in my head...) All right, so I apparently know more than I think I know. I'm just not sure why we're following this character at this moment in time...
3. Trying to tune down my job-related anxiety. Everything's going fine...but everyone else is stressed, and I know that it's going to take me a while to get up to the knowledge/skill level of the person I'm replacing. And, in the mean time, I'm worried that I'll miss things. I keep trying to remind myself that I've only been at the job for less than two weeks. It's going to take a while to get really settled in. In the mean time, I need more sleep.
4. So I pulled the trigger and registered for Japanese in fall. As much as I'd like to take more than one class, I know I can be easily overwhelmed. I need my free time. And time to study!
5. I have raspberries! I would exclaim about how it's so early in the season, but it is late June.