6 posts tagged “writing”

Where do you want to be in ten years?
Submitted by baby3194.

In our own house.... We have owned in the South and the North East but never the far West, very different market out here! In my opinion, 1500 square feet would be plenty of room for a family of 5, with enough room outside for vegetables, fruit trees, some grape vines, and a cutting garden.

Disciplined writing every day, working for a publication, all kinds of those in the Bay Area.

Traveling by then, our youngest is four, so traveling very far doesn't feel like an option right now. Yosemite is about as far as we want to vacation right now. Preferably Great Britain, all over, and India, but 10 years from now, who knows what we'll have added to the list.

In ten years, we'll be sending our eldest to college. That's an exciting thought, seeing our children's education and life unfold. Savannah has always been intrigued by the idea of university education and life, the array of study choice, and living away from home. When she was 4, Savannah was sure she would still live at home during college, but now she knows about apartments and dorm rooms. She leans toward science and math. We will see. She's already had about 50 start ups.

My Nanowrimo died early on. But I’m totally okay with that. I was just very happy to have a concrete goal. I still intend to give the book a try, No Plot? No Problem! I’m still stoked.

Choosing November, the novel writing month, to fly to Arkansas and Mississippi for 12 days was some of the problem, but early on I was not happy with what I wrote. It all came out very literal, yet I’ve been living in another universe for some time, and not always Smallville or Firefly. I used to love Gabriel Marquez’s universe, but after reading 7 novels by one man, why read the 8th? though I remember most of it fondly. (Except Innocent Erendira, I think that’s the one that made me feel like retching.) Still, he was mind opening for my creative spirit.

Perhaps I’ll read the plot book and pick my own month, a month when we’re not traveling, maybe before winter’s finished.

What are 5 things you'd like to accomplish in the next 5 years?

All right, no one said how realistic this had to be.

1) an unspotted back hand spring

2) running 15-20 miles through woods or wilderness

3) playing piano and guitar again

4) disciplined writing every day

5) enjoy reading again 

What was (or is) your favorite subject in school?

English literature. It followed me to college, although I never declared it as my major. (Got my degree in print journalism.) But through the 4 years' time I put in, English literature crept around the back of my mind. But I could never answer the question, "What on earth would I do with that?"

At that point, I didn't have children, but once we knew that we wanted children, I knew that I would stay at home to raise them, at least until they're all three in school. So when Brad and I left Arkansas, I never pursued any work in my degree, and have yet to earn a paycheck in that field. I took retail jobs, which I really enjoyed, namely Barnes and Noble and Starbucks, mostly owed to the nice people I worked with. So English lit. would've been just as good, at least for what I've done to date.

I feel a little differently about writing now. I was quite side tracked in college by poetry and fiction, but now that I care more about world affairs, childcare, parenting, some politics.... the writing spectrum could really open up. I just know that I don't want blogging to be my sole writing outlet, and would love to earn a few dinero.