It's been 9 whole days. Woops.

Hey guys,

Sorry about ditching you for the last 9 days. I haven't been particularly busy, I've just kind of forgotten to post anything. I've had a rather interesting 9 days as well, school wise and muse wise so I guess I'll just jump into it and go.

English class. Had my first essay due on the world's most retarded topic ever. It was about nomology and why Shakespeare invented the words he did in The Winter's Tale. So I basically put down the argument that he created the verb "land-damn" (to make hell on earth for someone) for use in one specific scene but that the meaning of his new word carried throughout the play and ultimately drives the plot through a complete story arc. It was not my most shining piece of work, but it was really the best I could do with the topic. I'm not one of these English majors who's into the technical side of writing, I'm more into the elements of story-weaving that contribute to a believable escapist experience for the reader. I want to know how good books are good, basically, because I think that as I writer this information will be immensely beneficial to me in my chosen career path.

My mom has been trying to steer me away from writing as my career. I can understand where she's coming from being a mother who want's to see her child thrive and make a good life for herself, but she's simply assuming that the writing business will never be lucrative for me. Which I highly disagree with. I think that when it comes to writing there are certain steps that make for success in the field such that it can function as a lucrative career. Kind of like Vorkuta.

Step 1) Passion
Step 2) Humility
Step 3) Perseverance
Step 4) Gusto
Step 5) Versatility
Step 6) Success

Or something to the effect anyway. Totally Vorkuta.

Anyway, I finally got to go to a creative writing club meeting because we finally got a meeting organized. I opted for not sending in any of my work to be critiqued quite yet because I didn't know how the critiquing forum was going to work so I decided to just sit in quietly on this meeting and see how it went. There were only 7 people there but it was a super-friendly environment so I don't feel quite as nervous about sending something in. I'm planning on submitting The Wooden Spoon from a while ago and see what they think. Or I might compose something new. I don't know yet.

Shameless plug: you can find The Wooden Spoon on my deviantArt page. Link is on the right.

I have also become hopelessly addicted to Sherlock this week. If you haven't seen this show it's a wonderful 3 episode (so far) series on the BBC about Sherlock Holmes sent present day, which is kind of wonderful. If you don't live in England nor do you get the BBC (like me) Sherlock is on Netflix!

I love Netflix by the way, it's a wonderful hub for everything wonderful and it's only like 8 bucks a month or something. Which I'm okay with. My family shares an account and it has made life wonderful. Except: they removed MythBusters which I was really sad about. But they added 1001 Ways to Die and Deadliest Warrior. So... they're halfway forgiven.

I should probably stop with the stream of consciousness now, because that seems to be all that this post has turned into. I hope you guys are all doing well, I apologize for having ditched you for so long and I will post again soon!

Farewell!
~Alexandra