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Writing has always been important to me, but lately I haven't been doing it very much. Sometimes I feel like writing and I have a love/hate relationship. I've somewhat given up on novels, focusing on short stories and flash, yet there's still an appeal. There will always be an appeal. Yet, mere appeal is not enough to follow through into action, you know?
This summer I've been living in Chicago, (which is about two hours from my parent's house), working at a video and media production company. I chose to study in this field when I came to college because it's another way of telling stories, and there's a real connection to people. There's energy and quick feedback. I struggle with writing alone for hours and not getting much feedback.
I've got one more year of school left. I'll always keep writing, and I do wish I could more easily write longer works, but for now I'm satisfied. Perhaps when I get older and less restless I'll do more writing.
This summer I've been living in Chicago, (which is about two hours from my parent's house), working at a video and media production company. I chose to study in this field when I came to college because it's another way of telling stories, and there's a real connection to people. There's energy and quick feedback. I struggle with writing alone for hours and not getting much feedback.
I've got one more year of school left. I'll always keep writing, and I do wish I could more easily write longer works, but for now I'm satisfied. Perhaps when I get older and less restless I'll do more writing.
What makes you write?
And for the non-writers who follow me/pay attention to these things... what makes you do your art?
I realize that this is kind of a shallow question, but I often question whether or not I actually like writing. Sometimes I'm like "hell yes" and other times I'm like "...meh." I've been exploring this question for several years now... still no conclusions. This journal is a half-butt attempt to start yet another conversation about it. So I guess we'll see what happens!
New Year, New Do!
With the New Year underway I thought it best to write some updates! 2015 was a year of many, many new things and paradigm shifts for me. In May I was in Texas for a wedding and actually danced (that's new) at a venue that had a saddle disco ball (also new to me...). I worked for three months at a small startup video production company and basically got super inspired and pumped studying productivity and entrepreneurs and learned how to focus my goaols.
At the very END of the year... (yesterday)... I got a fancy-schmancy new haircut... and accepted an offer for a full time video editing position! Plans for 2016, then, include finding a nice a
Time for the Existential Crisis!
There comes a point in writing any novel where you have an existential crisis, and I've had mine! It's that string of questions something along the lines of "why are you doing this? does it matter? will anyone read it? do you even have a target audience?"
I'm also suffering from the parallel condition of working 40 hrs a week (which is much more work than just being in school) and wanting to lie down and "zzz" all the time.
I also have this very strong feeling that the actual story itself is moving too slowly. I think it's the difference between reading speed and writing speed. Though I have been using voice-to-text with good results, which
It Begins
So I'm starting my WinBreWriMo! That's my stupid abbreviation for Winter Break Writing Month :bucktooth:. It entertains me, so yeah!
I've been doing a lot of graphic design lately, for my Myers Briggs tumblr blog. On that note I'm actually thinking about running a kickstarter to fund my Adobe subscription (it's $360 a year, $30 a month) until I'm out of school and have a "real job."
I started the novel today and so far there's 1,674 words. I'm using illuminara (https://www.deviantart.com/illuminara) 's novel tracker for it:
Thus far I'm feeling very good about it; not stressed. I think something that helped me was this advice I read where if you don't know the name for somethin
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That's awesome! I've always loved film and visual storytelling, and I think it's an incredibly powerful medium--probably even more so than novels. Good luck! I hope you learn a lot and enjoy your new field.