Just a random rant

So I have classes throughout the week towards my major and whatnot but there is one class that I am taking that is NOT towards my major at all.

Creative writing.

Holy fuck.

Love this class.

Shit ton of writing though.

This summer as an aspiring writer my writing has not been....well flowing like a river so to speak. (If that sounds dirty just snicker and giggle now then I'll smack you later). It's been coming in small spurts. Yeah life gets in the way and did get in the way significantly. I was so stressed at finding a place to live that I kind of shut down for a little bit and became a little bit like a hermit. I worked, I ate, I slept, and I was on my laptop fucking around on the internet. I was mostly watching stuff on youtube. As well as freak out and stress about finding a place to live and getting into classes I needed for school. Thankfully I got the classes I needed. And thankfully I was able to get a place to live.
So now my writing is either a skeleton of what I want a scene to be or...an ugly baby. I'm voting for the ugly baby part because at least it will become a beautiful child once it grows up!
I'm still struggling to get back into writing daily and writing something good. I am a perfectionist by nature when it comes to writing or any creative artsy activity. Although I did read something so profound the other day on someones facebook page...actually it was the fanpage for Egoraptor and in all honesty I felt uplifted and inspired when I read it. Here is what he posted:

"I want to share this thought with everyone but I'm afraid it might come off as arrogant, but it really got me back in a creative mood and I hope that other artists can appreciate it and maybe relate. I'm editing the audio to Pokeawesome 2, and I'm really happy with it. I listened to it back to check the levels, and I realized how amazing it is that I made this. Just, out of nothing. It's a thing a

nd I put a little work into it and bam, it's a thing that exists. I hope it's good in the long term, but right now I'm just like... damn. Creating stuff is awesome. I don't think artists give themselves enough credit because they're always criticizing themselves, and, well, as an artist I don't think it's smart to get a big head about things, but it is nice to appreciate yourself every once in a while and what you create. I go every day saying my shit is nothing compared to whoever or whatever, and all the people around me are like, no dude, it's amazing, and I'm like, you just don't get it. Tonight I get them. Tomorrow I'll go right back to being like, "fuck, this sounds like ass," but today, I guess I'm satisfied."

Link: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Egoraptor/177305482292691

Creating stuff is awesome. 

 

I'm gonna say it again. 

 

Creating stuff is AWESOME! (yes this includes paintings, babies, food, interpretive dance, porn whatever you create)

 

It's one of the best things in the world!

So fucking true because its something that came from you! Yeah we may bitch whine moan and say its horrendous or its a piece of shit and as artists we forget that at the end of the day we created something, whether it be good or bad or downright shitty. We really should be proud that we have done that, as opposed to some who spend most if not all of their free time playing video games (I'm not saying video games are bad, in fact I love them and I am all for it but Always ALWAYS in moderation!) or watching television or sitting doing nothing at all. (By the way I'm not saying these things are bad I'm just using them as examples and again taking things in moderation is a good thing.) The fact of the matter is we created something and that's something we should be proud of. Sometimes things look bad and, as Egoraptor has so eloquently stated, "it is nice to appreciate yourself once in a while," In which we should. I think we should take a moment each day to appreciate ourselves and find one good thing about ourselves that we can be proud of...even if our day is going through the nine hells and back.

Also going back to the creative writing class. Expect to see some of my assignments for my portfolio and major assignments posted up here. there even may be stuff that was intended for use but never got used. I'll still post it. 

By the way for those of you who read this, thank you for putting up with my random rantings, opinions, spiels and what not. I don't know if it affects you and if it does I am glad that I have affected you in some way or other. :D