Happy New Year! And my writing situation....This year I'm going to try and spend more time writing, which means even less time on the computer T_T My mom was talking with me yesterday and was saying how I'm not going to be able to get into a good university by grades alone and blah blah blah. She wants me to start writing short stories for magazines and stuff and stop role playing and writing fanfictions. She says it isn't productive and is useless :/ I do it because I like it. I find it fun to write with others. The collaboration of new ideas and the brainstorming of new ones is something that I love. I love writing about what I like. If that's Pokemon, than so be it. It helps me become better. I like reading other people's work and revising and editing, as it helps me improve as well.
I have problems making my own ideas. Problems filling in plot holes. Problems with motivation. I write because I love to write, NOT because I want to make something out of it. I can write essays and stuff just fine. But there's little heart in that (although I do add my own voice to it). I write to be someone else, even for just a little while. If for a few moments I can forget who I am and where I'm at, and believe that I'm in another world on an adventure of a lifetime, than I'm going to do it. The real world doesn't provide much adventure for the average being. I strive to become that individual that stands out and goes the extra hundred miles to do something amazing. Writing lets me do that for a time.
I can write poetry, but I don't put much heart into that. Yet I'm still praised for it. Is that wrong? If I don't put much effort into it, yet it still is loved? I think it is. I rhyme and write to shorten an idea into a few funny phrases. I tell a story. I don't write about feelings, my own characters take care of that.
I am going to try and write more poems to satisfy my mother. And I may write a few short stories. I am going to strive to finish a novel I would like to write, but I feel that it isn't going to work. Should I give up? I don't know....
Either way, I'm going to try and spend more time writing.
Also, my grandma wants to rent a houseboat and wants to spend a summer floating down the Mississippi River. I agreed to help, because it sounds like an awesome adventure. I also dream to hike across Germany or maybe just across the U.S. with a few friends before I head off to college. There's something magical in a journey, I want to have memories that will last me my entire life. I don't want to just sit at a desk for the rest of my life. But I know an adventurous heart has few places to settle in our modern world.
Yeah, a little vent, sorry. I'd like to hear some of your opinions on the subjects if possible :/
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There were alot of Internationals from SIU there, but they were really funny, so I had a blast.
Everyone was so surprised to have them talking with us from Germany. One of the kids kept looking at the screen as they talked to him until he finally asked me "Are they in the other room?" XD So yeah, we all took turns talking to them and catching up, so it was really really cool 
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