So I was laying around the other day, wasting my life eating junk food and playing video games, and having an awfully grand time doing so, when suddenly I said to myself "sick flying pickles, I've got a blog!" So I hurried the fricksticks right up my stairs to my laptop, which brings me to here. I have been feeling a severe lack of writing, and I think this'll cheer me up. (I don't know if "this'll" is a correct contraction, but I like making those up, so I amn't going to change it.)
You know, I can honestly say that I'm pretty awful at pretty much everything. I mean, I can play some instruments pretty well, but I can't read music, and I never got a grade on how fast I can play something I made up on piano. I couldn't do Biblical Exegesis because every time something had a deeper meaning I took it as literal, and vice versa. Math? Well, that's pretty much a lost cause for me. Chemistry? That's just a fancy way of saying "more math." I enjoy languages but the translations over and over and over and over bore me. Words. I love words. If there's anything I can do in this world, it's list off synonyms for pretty much any word you throw at me. And you know the sad part about all this? Last year, at school, I did awful. I was awful because they give me all these classes that I have no idea what I'm doing in, while at the same time I wrote a grand total of about four papers the whole year.
And for serious, that's probably the reason I started blogging. We all know that my good friend Matt Woods and I had a sort of blog-battle in the beginning, but I seriously just wanted to write. Writing makes me feel good. I didn't have any classes where I could let out all this compressed creativity, and frankly it was screwing with my brain. I'd start getting sarcastic on my homework answers. I remember specifically answering "beats me" and "I dunno" multiple times on my math work. There was one particular case where I flat out said "who cares about the falling velocity of this kids baseball?"
So anyways, it feels good to be writing again. Writing is my mistress, and frankly my dear, I'll never get tired of you.
You might get tired of writing if you're being made to write scripts, reports, and research papers all the time.
ReplyDeletereports maybe, research, well... if it wasn't for the bibliography page, and scrips no. I love writing scripts and plays and stories and such.
ReplyDeleteWatching you unfold onto a page, even an internet one, is like what it felt to watch Davis begin his musical. You were born to do this, Greg. That's all there is to it!
ReplyDeleteAnd, I'll tell you a secret: the only paper I ever wrote that won anything (1st place and 75.00) was a little snippet about the Wind Woman, which I wrote while frustrated with my mom's idea of writing structure, and tried to break as many grammatical and expressive rules as possible.
Go ahead. Get outside those lines. :)
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http://www.amazon.com/Pocket-Muse-Ideas-Inspirations-Writing/dp/1582971420
C'mon, the cheapest one is $0.19!!! Well, plus shipping, but whatever. Do itttttttt.....