Right. Tired of feeling useless/pointless. I think it's time to start making some tough goals for myself and getting myself somewhere in the writing world. With one professional sale and a diploma from Clarion West I'm sure that I can, I just have to stop being so wishy-washy about it ( Read more... )

Yesterday I went onto campus early to speak with a professor whose class I'd missed due to illness, and to clarify the rather dense reading. (As it turned out, I'd read the entire thing - some 30 or so pages - when he'd said in class that we were only responsible for the first ten.) It started out very cool and casual, and then I noticed ( Read more... )

I have this problem with New Years' Resolutions. It's, you know, the usual problem, a sort of amalgam of "They never work" and "There's no magical power bestowed on you on New Years" and "If you have something you want to change in your life, there's really no reason it has to be New Years for you to decide that." So I don't usually declare them ( Read more... )