So I am starting to write posts and then set them up to publish at different times, just to keep my blog updated on a regular basis. This is the second post I am writing for the evening the one that came up yesterday was also written this evening (Feb 20, 2012) so yeah, but I want to talk about something.
Why does experiencing one thing lead to a whole new thought pattern? Life can be great and then you see one thing, hear one song, see one picture, and all of a sudden your mind is going the opposite direction it has been going for weeks?
It is like this little switch in your brain that turns you from going up to down, or from right to left. It is so confusing for me. I can be completely and amazingly happy and suddenly something will happen that will lead me to think I am not... But I am. Or am I?
Get it? I barely do myself. There are all sorts of thoughts that run through my head and some are good and some are, well, not so good. Some lead to great things and others to thoughts that I wish I did not think sometimes. But that is the amazing thing about us humans, the capacity of thought. The ability to basically think of anything. We have this endless capacity for learning and this endless capacity to create new thoughts and connections in our brains.
It is really quite something, but when those thoughts turn against you is when it becomes absolutely dangerous. Like scary dangerous. Could lead you to perhaps doing something you might regret, or perhaps making a decision you would not normally make. But maybe those thoughts are good for us.
They help us realize what we want out of life. What we really want in the moment. Those experiences that we might regret actually help us grow as people. Mistakes help. Even if we dislike them, we usually realize the wrong-doing and do-right from that moment on. Mistakes are what shape us. Our problem solving capabilities lead us to becoming better people.
Whether it be just learning not to say something to someone, or learning not to pull the fire alarm (even though it says PULL), or learning not to act a certain way, or anything else, thoughts lead to mistakes which lead to learning. But if those thoughts are too dangerous for you, maybe you need to talk to someone.
Maybe you have made the mistake before and have corrected it but are proceeding to make the same mistake over and over again, leading down a dark path. That is the time where it is best to discuss it with someone, maybe you just have to talk about it with someone else on the internet, or perhaps with a close friend.
Ok, my preachy blog is done now. Thanks for reading as always, tell your friends to come here!
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Post 193 | Writing
So my friend Rebecca is currently in the process of writing a book, and I do not mean to steal her thunder in any way, but it has inspired me to write something of my own. But what should I write? A short story? A book? A novella? A script? I have no idea!
I wrote what should be considered fan fiction basically for Studio 60 many years ago now. It was basically my spin on the entire thing because I honestly did not want to see it die. But what would I write that is my own? I did a short story a while ago that some people seemed to really like, but what now? I should just start brainstorming ideas eh? That would be a good first step, eh? Ideas are a good place to start.
I am never one for coming up with a solid idea and running with it, I like ideas and the like to develop as I am writing or thinking about my writing. I do not like to have a formal outline or anything, I just like going for it and hopefully something good will come out in the end. So, I ask myself the question once again, what to write?
Screenplays and scripts have to be detailed in such a way that is incredibly interesting to me. The setting, the movement of characters, the expressions of characters and such all detailed in this huge script. A book is an entity all on its own. An undertaking that should not be taken so lightly. A novella is something between a book and a short story and sounds like something I could do. I think short stories have a tendency to stretch to novella lengths sometimes.
I can imagine coming up with a short story but developing it so much it becomes much longer and detailed than originally planned. I have done realistic fiction before, taking people and places I know and basically coming up with scenarios that were not all that unlikely.
Writing intrigues me, and is something I really enjoy doing. As you can probably tell I am attempting to write on here every day which is a good step for me on the path to writing more and more in my spare time. Reading and writing. Two things I love doing but reading I am finding harder and harder to get into these days. I think I need to pick up a really good fiction novel to get into it again and give the Steve Jobs biography.
So writing, I think I am going to give it a shot, Microsoft Word is not my favorite tool ever but here's hoping eh? I like writing out by hand and all but I love typing and I find myself getting better and better at it all the time. I used to suck as a typist and only barely managed to pull myself through all those classes but I am much improved with all the papers and such I have been writing for my various classes. Ok, so writing. Here's to it and here's hoping I can come up with some idea. Thanks for reading, tell your friends to come here!
I wrote what should be considered fan fiction basically for Studio 60 many years ago now. It was basically my spin on the entire thing because I honestly did not want to see it die. But what would I write that is my own? I did a short story a while ago that some people seemed to really like, but what now? I should just start brainstorming ideas eh? That would be a good first step, eh? Ideas are a good place to start.
I am never one for coming up with a solid idea and running with it, I like ideas and the like to develop as I am writing or thinking about my writing. I do not like to have a formal outline or anything, I just like going for it and hopefully something good will come out in the end. So, I ask myself the question once again, what to write?
Screenplays and scripts have to be detailed in such a way that is incredibly interesting to me. The setting, the movement of characters, the expressions of characters and such all detailed in this huge script. A book is an entity all on its own. An undertaking that should not be taken so lightly. A novella is something between a book and a short story and sounds like something I could do. I think short stories have a tendency to stretch to novella lengths sometimes.
I can imagine coming up with a short story but developing it so much it becomes much longer and detailed than originally planned. I have done realistic fiction before, taking people and places I know and basically coming up with scenarios that were not all that unlikely.
Writing intrigues me, and is something I really enjoy doing. As you can probably tell I am attempting to write on here every day which is a good step for me on the path to writing more and more in my spare time. Reading and writing. Two things I love doing but reading I am finding harder and harder to get into these days. I think I need to pick up a really good fiction novel to get into it again and give the Steve Jobs biography.
So writing, I think I am going to give it a shot, Microsoft Word is not my favorite tool ever but here's hoping eh? I like writing out by hand and all but I love typing and I find myself getting better and better at it all the time. I used to suck as a typist and only barely managed to pull myself through all those classes but I am much improved with all the papers and such I have been writing for my various classes. Ok, so writing. Here's to it and here's hoping I can come up with some idea. Thanks for reading, tell your friends to come here!
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