Retail Therapy

Nothing beats a long and dreary day like a healthy dose of shopping. Summer’s over and gone. In a few days I’ll be back to school, going back to college life. While I’m there I dread coming back, but now that I’m relaxing at home, being pimple-free for the first time in a long while, I’m not exactly looking forward to that stressful, all-day learning environment. I love learning new things, but it’ll be a bit different this year, perhaps having to work harder to get the same results. I hate it when things start going uphill. I don’t think I exercise enough to make the climb.

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Writewritewrite

Nights are quiet and a bit eerie when there’s no one to talk to. Maybe I should get in the habit of sleeping earlier so this wouldn’t happen. It’s been chilly these past few days, a bit of rain here and there, with not a chance of the gray clouds leaving. This makes for gloomy weather and even gloomier moods. But today, I got a bit of my groove back. (I just can’t get over that movie! ) I wrote about five pages today. The last chapter of Almost Perfect. At last. I think I know what the ending should be like, and it’s coming along like I’ve never expected. I’ve been dwelling on this ending for the past few years. A happily-ever-after ending wouldn’t satisfy me, but a happy ending? That might work.

So I’m either taking a break from it or quitting for the day. I don’t want to lose my flow. Today was the deadline for the creative writing class submission, so I guess I’m not going to register in the class this quarter–not like I had room for it anyway. I’m hoping I can keep this creative flurry going, finish Almost Perfect, and get started on something that’s been on my mind for a while. I have at least two story lines in the making, both in different genres. So I’m not sure which one to go ahead with. I have a small beginning for both of them, but not sure of the direction.

I still suck at coming up with names. I’m tempted to simply write NAME1 and NAME2 and come up with a suitable name later. But stuff like that takes the feeling of writing a story away. So I’m sort of stuck. I’m going to try to plow ahead with the idea, and see if some nice names come up as I write. Maybe next quarter I’ll get to take the creative writing class… and I’ll see how it goes from there.

Good. I finally have a plan.