Just write something!

Currently on blogger, in my accumulating list of abandoned drafts, I have a list that looks like this (beware of spoilers!):

Hopefully you guys know me a lot by now, and know that I'm not just a carefree, modest, romantic bookworm who likes to compare armpits to head lice while playing the keyboard with my feet.

This is one of my classic symptoms of writer's block.
And maybe ADD.
By the science of deduction you can follow my reasoning perfectly. Here at the beginning, I thought "Hey! I haven't written in my blog in FOREVER. This will not do." So I did the first logical thing I could think of: I started a list. 
Now what can I put on this list? I pondered.
The first mediocre idea blasted quickly into my brain after looking at my bookshelf.
Books! This is good stuff. Now what...? 
Well... there's my piano keyboard.
It went downhill from there. I got distracted and started writing the first random things that came to my brain. It was amusing, but then I remembered I needed to get serious. I need real ideas. And that's where the last four ideas come into play. Simple.

Why am I telling you about my thought process?
Because let's just say that it isn't just the list I've been doing this with.
Let's just say that I have a list of half-finished drafts because I lose momentum and come to a slow, sputtering halt. It's awful. I either second guess my ideas, or get too lazy to think them through, so they never get written.

But today I met a couple friends of my grandparents. They're a nice couple who are really into all different kinds of art, one of them being writing. "Writing is a lost art," the husband kept telling me.
I believe him, since stuff like this is getting published...

They were really encouraging when I told them that I wanted to be a writer. When complaining to the wife about my current writer's block, she gave me some advice: Just write something! Even if it's something small, like about the weather, or something interesting you've seen. Because writing, just like every other thing that you love, requires work. It isn't always just a muse.

Sometimes I feel like if my posts aren't funny, then they aren't interesting. I could even be almost done with a post, read over it, and go "um... this isn't funny. I need to do something about this!" And maybe I'm trying too hard... :P

I just need to write stuff. Lots of stuff. All kinds of things about armpits and head lice and jelly beans and pot stickers and fuzzy socks and mouth guards. Maybe my posts can't always have a high success rate, but at least I'll be writing something. ;)

So... airplane food.

...What's up with that? Amiright?

This week, I've suffered from a total writer's block (hence the fewer posts and penguin randomness). I figured I may as well just try and push through it by writing something. So... here I am. What do you want me to say? Oh yeah... that's my decision. Crud.

Ok... I'm thinking. What about... purses? No.

Purple Pillows? No.

Paper cranes? Nah.

I'm just naming off things I see in my room. :P

It seems like this week my mind has taken an indefinite vacation. I really don't know where it's wandered off to. It doesn't write, it doesn't call...

My chores and my homework are like, "Kaylee... we need you. Please don't neglect us like this!"

But then the computer's like, "Hey, I'm way more interesting. You can learn from me, too -- Here's a tutorial on making paper cranes!"

My empty head is more attracted to the shininess of the laptop, so it's a losing battle.

My brain is in a total haze lately. I really can't think straight on anything. I think it's just all the things going on in my life right now. You know... we ran out of snacks, and nobody will learn morse code with me... life is tough.

Hehe, ok, it's not that trivial (although I think it would be really cool to learn morse code with someone so we could talk to each other without people knowing; or I could just be normal and get a cellphone...) I do know that my little pity party has lasted way too long. I need to do something like this:

She doesn't look like she has writer's block.

It's also funny how we can sometimes get so distracted with our problems that we sort of shy away from God a little. That's when we need Him the most! I need to suck it up, read my Bible, remember that God has everything under control, and be happy, darn it! ;)

In other news... I want cookies.