Well, so much for being more present. *Sarcmark*
I’m sorry (in its very essence, this is for me). The reason behind my absence is because I’ve been spending my “writing time” on this site I stumbled upon (stalking a friend’s Tumblr account) called 750 Words. It’s a site where, well, you write 750 words a day. Easy peasy. Of course you can just type random words to reach the 750 mark, it will count per word even when it doesn’t make sense, but you’ll only be fooling yourself. I mean, c’mon.
Anyhow, it works like an online diary but no razzle dazzle. No formatting. No photos. Just you and your thoughts put into a visual form. The topic depends upon your state of mind for the day. Mine varies from my inner rage to my furry buddies or youtube finds. Did I mention it gives you a scary-accurate analysis of your state of mind when you’re done? Yep. It’s not overbearing though. It doesn’t tell you what to have to do (except to write until you reach 750) nor does it tell you to act on your sadness when it tells you that you might be, it doesn’t dictate what you should talk about even. You can be as silly or serious as you want. You just have to be honest and really commit to the task. I like it. It gives me that I-did-something-today feel.
Only recently though, as I was blurting away on said site, did I realize that it’s all that I’ve been doing (well, mostly, because I am now really focusing on my freelancer life) and that I’ve been missing my target posts for XanWrites. So today, even if it’s a Friday, I’ll start again. We should totally stop that first-day, first-month, first-year madness. It’s counterproductive, I think. I mean, if you were drowning in fear on the first day of March, are you seriously just going to wait ‘till the first of April to move? You’ll be making a fool out of yourself then (I am nodding at the genius of the unintentional pun I pulled off here).
Anyway. I’m turning a new leaf—again—on a Friday. I’ll be using this YouTube channel that does super in-depth analysis of the nerdiest things which make me nod my head in awe. It blows my mind how they are this observant and knowledgeable about a lot of things from art to religion, to mythology and noticing references from old movies and shows—all of which are presented in my favorite language—comedy. New Rockstars have these lingering questions at the end of every video, they’re a couple of open ended questions that are just begging to be answered. I guess I will be making a new category here in XanWrites for prompts I find from my new obsession.
That’s my rambling for today. I hope to be more expressive from here on out.
Don’t stay sane.
-x
FN: If anybody reads this, let me know if signing my entries with x (for my nickname, xan) is okay? I don’t have anybody writing for me so maybe this is strange? I’ll love to hear from you (considering that by you, I mean somebody is actually reading this).
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