31 in 31
I am going to do some form of writing each night (presumably night) for ever day of December to get in a better habit of writing and I will post them even though they will most likely be gibberish and stuff only I think is funny (or profound). It will not be journaling, that much I can tell you, it will be creative.
I have not been writing as much as I would like to for… quite a while now. I did a little bit of writing on this website as you can see. When I didn’t write for a while, I felt compelled to put something else out even though it wasn’t necessarily good. I just wrote it to have a new thing. And that’s fine. I don’t know if anyone wants to read it and having no quality standards probably doesn’t encourage people to read what I post. There are definitely things I don’t post just so you know there is a little bit of a standard. As you can see from the last few posts, I’ve written some short stories directly onto this website just to try to get back into the habit of writing. Are they good? You be the judge.
When I was a Freshman in college, I had this Philosophy professor that didn’t believe in homework, but needed something to grade us on so he had us write short stories so at least the thing we wrote could be potentially entertaining. At least that’s how I remember it. I remember him saying he used to only ask for one, but people would get so stressed out (even though he would give everyone who turned one in an A) so he made it 3. I kind of marvel that I was able to come up with these stories out of thin-air back that. I did it kind of under pressure. It doesn’t really matter, but to get back into that sort of area again, I am going to try to write 31 short stories in 31 days since it happened to be December 1st when I thought of this idea. I started writing something last night, but then felt like I had done enough writing because I am lazy so there’s that unpublished unfinished thing in my drafts. It doesn’t matter. Anyway, these are going to be pretty stream-of-conscious and almost certainly unedited. And if you happened to read that short story about the billboards, you can probably tell that I have a bad habit of writing myself into whatever the opposite of a corner is. I just start writing and essentially getting further and further from an ending. And then I think to myself “how long is this going to go on for?” If I had published the thing I started writing yesterday, you would see that I am very much writing really stupid stuff that I think is funny. So spending several hours on a short story that is really stupid is kind of not a great use of time especially when I want to just finish so I can watch a movie. But I want to get back in the habit of writing again so I can be a little bit decent again and then maybe put something polished out. But like I was saying about “Billboards,” I get going and it’s been like 45 minutes and I just want to watch a movie and there’s no end in sight so I just suddenly try to figure out how to wrap it up. I have a feeling that is going to be a pattern. Maybe I’ll revisit some of these stories in the future and take them to better conclusions, but this first one for December 1st is definitely one where I just wanted to be done since I don’t anticipate many (any?) people reading it anyway. I’ve got some days off this month so maybe those days I’ll be less tired.
Anyway, I realized that putting a bunch of half-assed ideas on the front page of this website is not going to be a great look if people do visit it to read quality content so this is my post saying that you can visit this sub-section for what I have decided to call 31 in 31. I am a night owl and stuff so a lot of stuff is going to get posted technically the next day. I have no interest in getting it done before midnight or even making sure I start before midnight, if I write it before I go to sleep, it counts. And also “counts” doesn’t mean anything since I am just doing this for myself and nobody will probably read these. But here is where you will hopefully be able to find 31 short stories - or poems or some form of writing - by the end of the month.