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Day Two Hundred and Sixty-Five:  One Hundred Days to Go

Writing is a journey.  Think about it.  You plan out a time when you sit down and let things inside of your head come out and sometimes it is beautiful and heartwarming and identifiable and other times it’s analytic and academic and boring, and other times it’s just whatever you feel like, but you took the time and effort to make it happen and so with that you contribute to some kind of art.  I have been writing blogs like this since first year, and thinking about this project has gotten me really nostalgic for my early writing years and my writing in general.

I remember when I first started writing a lot it was in third grade when I didn’t have any friends so I would sit under this big tree and write.  I had just finished a book on the pioneers so I feel like it was about that, and maybe some Egyptian stories too, and I would write and draw little pictures and put my heart into those things.  It was a white binder, and I was so proud of that writing.  Now it seems I’ve gravitated towards public writing, writing for a greater good, but that isn’t to say I don’t write for my own benefit or for class, it’s just that sometimes I put my thoughts out there for…thought.

I was appreciating this blog, and how it keeps me on my toes and encourages me to work on my writing daily.  It helps me think about thigns in different perspectives but also fine-tunes my voice.  We talk about voice a lot in playwrighting where in order to find a voice we take a long time figuring out how we want to speak or what we want to speak about.  I currently am procrastinating on a monologue project for tomorrow morning due to my lack of focus on my voice, and well, I think I will regre thtat tomorrow but it will be fine.  I appreciate this blog because it takes time and effort to think of things everyday but the writing does not take much effort. 

Writing for me is simple.

And so it fits into my mandate for this semester of taking things as they come.  In one hundred days this project will come to an end and I will have written over 1000 blog posts between my first 365, my travel blog, personal blog and the inbetweeners.  I have been contemplating new projects and what I would like to do after this is over, looking ahead and seeing where I would like to go with this.  Next semseer is going to be academically and creatively draining, so maybe I need a new, challenging project that combines the two?  I will have to think on it a bit more.

Part of me wants to follow my independent study process through blog form, but then another part of me wants to just start a diary, it all comes together very sporadically in my head sometimes.  I thought I’d start this post and end with an idea, but at this point it looks as though it’s going to take me another hundred days to get it all figured out.  Maybe I’ll write a list of goals for each week and write about how I’ve accomplished them, or something, or maybe I will just let myself write.  The thing about my writing is that sometimes it really needs structure, and in the form of blogs I do need that structure.

But for now I think I am doing well.  Sometimes, as I have mentioned, my posts come out a little less quality than I’d prefer, but that’s the reality of having a blog-a-day outlet.  Sometimes I am not happy with my work, but I will always be proud of it.  I stand by my art, even if it doesn’t stand up to my own standards because it is important to believe in yourself.

Alright, end of the cheese, I’m off to try for my solo play.

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