Written Whispers

Hello all! I’ve missed you. Sorry I haven’t blogged much these past few days but between writing, work, school, and wedding planning *grin* it’s been a busy month for me and I haven’t had much time to asses my thoughts let alone compose them enough to share them.

So, to get caught up let’s start with the easy stuff and work our way sideways. :)

Wedding - Just thirty some days till the big day! We went shopping today in relation to dresses. For more info on that though you should read my wedding update just a post before this one.

School - I’m half way to the end. :) I have 102 exams total and I just finished my 51st a couple of days ago which brought my GPA up a point (each one counts!) to 84. I have 10 more classes left, 5 of which are electives which will include the last 25 exams. I have 3 writing exams that are as good as done that need to be mailed in and another 6 for biology that I need to complete ‘within’ the next week and a half if I’m to finished by my desired deadline.

I’ve started looking at classes available for electives (more for fun and procrastination than anything else) and I’m thinking I’m definitely going to take Spanish. I would rather take French but they don’t offer it. I love learning languages- I know some Gaelic, lots of Latin, enough Japanese to form sentences or at the very least tell someone off, and half a dozen naughty words in other languages but I don’t think those quite count. ;) I also want to take Psychology because it interests me very much and this is the test period before college so to speak. If I can’t pass the class in high school I’ll know it’s not for me.

Thanks to one of my brother’s and both my friends pointing out a hidden (or not so obvious to me) skill of mine I’m definitely going to take these two computer classes. I hadn’t ever thought about it before but I really love working on my website, I’m good at problem solving, and creating things so programming or web design might be future careers for me somewhere along the lines- if anything the classes could help me hone my hobbies a bit more because I’m a little uncertainly I’d be good at it if I ‘had’ to do it. I’m terrible that way.

So, that’s four classes, three if I decide to only do the one computer class but it seems the two go kind of hand in hand as far as I see it. If I narrow it down to just the three though I want to take a writing class that’s specific to grammar and style. It’s my weak point as far as writing goes. My final choice would be an easy class to finish off with such as Keyboarding. :D I can already type a good deal a minute and who knows I might be able to bring my speed up even more which would certainly help me keep up with my racing thoughts when writing.

I’d take more writing classes, honest, but their selection is a bit dreary. To top it off my target deadline will either be right before or right after the NaNoWriMo (I won’t be doing any schooling during November) and I distinctly remember not writing hardly anything for an entire month afterwards so I’d really rather not ‘have’ to this time around if I can help it.

Work – It’s getting better. We’ve lost some oldies, gained some newbies- some really good hard working newbies that I actually get along with which is nice. I’ve been putting in a lot more hours lately and I’m up to five or six days a week all the way up to the wedding so I’m pretty tired. There’s a lot of not so cool stuff going on that’s a bit complicated to explain so I’m not even going to try. I was going to mention something but I just deleted the paragraph three times so… mayhaps it’s best not to.

Webbing – My site could be going better. From time to time it seems like too much for me to handle. Not the making- I love that, and not the helping of people- I love that even more, but the managing of people and the constantly posting in the forum to keep up with and keep bringing people around. That get’s a bit hard on me and makes me feel a bit stretched thin. I don’t do social well and with everything else going on right now I’m a little worried that it might suffer. We’ll see. Even if it does I know I can revive SH easily but still for all I know I could be losing members at the same time and that bothers me. A lot.

Even though I’m struggling to keep up with my ever growing community website I’m in the midst of plans for another not quite as interactive website. More specifically- a writing related website. I’ve started a private blog where I’m testing some of my ideas out with help from Jo and so far so good but I’m not quite ready to make the plunge yet. I’m ready to commit myself to another project, especially this one since I’d be able to go at my own pace and it’s be more creation than interaction, but I’m not ready to ‘start’ it yet. I’m worried that I might be way out of my league though I know in much sense I’m not and something else seems to be holding me back to but I’m not quite sure what it is yet. It’s as if some part of me just knows now is not the time. A moment will come when I can’t help myself and the idea will spring to life almost of it’s own accord and that will be the time.

My greatest web related prayer is that my friends and Co-Admins in training, Branth and Crystal, have enough patience to bear with my ever changing moods and disappearances on SH. I know they will, but I hope nevertheless.

Writing - I saved this one for last (I think) just because we all know how I can go on and on about this subject.

In the past twelve days I’ve written over 19,000 words for this one story of mine. The outline has been finished, and the main draft is nearly complete. To top it off I already have a second book to it completed outlined. This story, which popped up ever so rudely but thankfully in the midst of one of my other projects, has practically written itself. I had a random idea one day and I went to note it down- next thing I knew I had ten or so pages handwritten back and front and a nearly formed idea in my head. It was awesome.

I honestly think it might be complete (minus the editing process) by September. I’m so proud of myself! :)

I just finished two short stories which as soon as I tuck up the nerve I’ll be sharing on my private writing blog most of you have access to. One of them was written only a few minutes ago- inspired by an image on the television sadly. It was after an episode of Cold Case Files, a man left a white rose on a playground swing. The imagery hit me in the skull with force of, well… blam! :)

On another note I’ve started to seek out freelancing opportunities on the side but I have a feeling that nothing will find me till just after the wedding. Call it intuition, and by then I’ll have less on my plate which will help a ton.

Okay, well, this is a long post. I need food, sleep, and to write down these other few ideas that just attacked me so… night night all. Love and peace to you all. May your days be bright or may you at least be able to search the darkness for the light. May you find happiness, safety, and most of all- love.

I’ll catch up on comments tomorrow.

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