Journals From a Land of Joy and Darkness: agenda

Thursday, July 28, 2011

The Procrastination and Undone Deeds of a Teenage Writer

So, I've been busy the past few days, and my story has been waiting. I've got a good idea of where I'm going with it, though, thankfully, so I plan on working with it today. It can be so hard sometimes, balancing friends, and writing, and blogging, and my Protagonize projects (then I'm going to be throwing school in here in about a month, and eventually a job), and everything else in a teenage girl's life, but I'm really happy right now. I feel like I'm finally at the place I want to be, and things are just getting better. On my agenda today, I plan on getting a new profile pic for Protag, doing some allowance work, working on my writing, working on some writing for Protag, calling a friend, and hopefully starting on a book I've been meaning to read for a while. We'll see how much of that actually gets done, but I'm set on doing at least the writing, the allowance work, and hopefully calling my friend.
Unfortunately, many times I have lists like this and they get put aside, and my daytime consists of nothing but setting in the sun, swimming, and listening to music, then I write a bit at night. Maybe I should ween myself out of this procrastination problem with a reward or something? But how would I reward myself? It may take some time, but I will do it somehow. I think what I need is a nice place that I can write outside in the daytime. I mean, every time I try to write outside, it's either too hot, too loud, or too annoying (little brother's friends). Maybe I should resort to writing in the woods. I am surrounded by them. The other things I'll probably just have to force myself into doing. I'll just have to walk around with a To-Do list stuck to my forehead, and not allow myslef to take it off until the necessary deeds are done. Maybe that'll teach me. I also REALLY would like to figure out how to get a new free CSS template for my blog. If anyone could help me with that I'd be very grateful. <3 So yes, I suppose I'll finish this off now, and maybe write back later to tell what has actually got done.... if I'm not too busy procrastinating.

My Favorite Book Quotes

~" 'What is REAL?' asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room. 'Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?'

'Real isn't how you are made,' said the Skin Horse. 'It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.' "

-The Velveteen Rabbit, by Margery Williams

~"My mother used to tell me about the ocean. She said there was a place where there was nothing but water as far as you could see and that it was always moving, rushing toward you and then away. She once showed me a picture that she said was my great-great-great-grandmother standing in the ocean as a child. It has been years since, and the picture was lost to fire long ago, but I remember it, faded and worn. A little girl surrounded by nothingness."

-The Forest of Hands and Teeth, by Carrie Ryan

~"She had never cried so hard in her life. The moon drew the sound out as if she were a dog. She cried because Muffet loved her and because Hyacinth didn't. She cried for Mrs. Lambert, who was nice, and for Caroline, who had died when she was eight years old. She cried because she had been left alone in a burning house and because she had not been good. She cried for fear, because she was afraid of the dark, and she cried for lonliness, because no one knew she was alive."

-A Drowned Maiden's Hair, by Laura Amy Schlitz