snaffu...

wow, okay. i clicked on 'save draft' on my last post and thought i'd come back adn post it later, but i don't know how to get to it.

oh, well. although it was a good post. it was about my (lack of) writing.

but seeing as how i just moved out of my apartment not an hour ago, that's understandable. the dream is over. hello, real world. the possibilities are immense and nearly overwhelming. they are when i look at them all at once. i can see the future sometimes, and a decision this big is not one to be scoffed at.

i could stay here in corpus, with the few freinds i've managed to accumulate.
i could move to austin, a town made for my art and medium- in whch i could launch a new identity and make my dreams of novelry come true.
or, could go to boston, a sort of compromise between the two, as i could live there for free like in corpus, and it's author freindly and student oriented. only problem is, it would cost all my money to get there.

the world awaits. but although it won't wait forever, i have no real time limit in which to decide.

the game is on and it's my move. too bad i never learned to play chess...
(i won't take my finger off the piece just yet)

well it's been a few days and i still can't beleive it

so now it's two days since i graduated and i have to move out of my dorm tomorrow. all this stuff is kind of wreaking havok on my writing. i haven't gotten anything substantial done since halfway through the semester. hopefully after i find a job things will settle down and i'll be able to continue editing "UHA" #1. but i do have a deadline. i'm looking to apply to a screenwriting fellowship, the deadline for which is july 1. the story shows promise, but at the moment my heart is being swarmed with inspiration for another project in novel form. it would make a great movie, but do i really want to start all over?

this is a key dilemma for authors everywhere. follow your inspiration like an artist? or stay the course and plod on with your current project like a worker? well, it all depends- am i doing this as a hobby or as a job?

yes and no

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Why no one will ever read this

This is my blog. i dislike blogs. and blogging. it sounds wet adn sloppy. and not in the good way.

but i made it so i can practice writing every single day.

tomorrow i graduate form college adn set out into teh world to try to make my dreams come true.

what are they? too numerous to count. i guess i gotta start small-- basics first and all that. i feel a lot like that guy from that rankin-bass claymation christmas special. it think it was jack frost-- he wanted to be human, so he got the east wind or some shit to change him into a human. simple enough, right? but he wanted to stay human-- permanently. so here's the recipe:

in order to stay human forever, you gotta have a house, a job, a horse, and a wife.


so, i got a horse, or a truck, anyway...


i've never really felt human. don't get me wrong, it' not like i'm a furry or anything. it's more like i'm a monster. some kind of chimeric amalgam of everything i've ever seen.

well, i'm gonna try to be human.
oh, and one last thing. wherever i go next, i'm going to introduce myself as Jack. not in honor of the claymation dude. i don't even like christmas. it's a pasable nickname for me adn i feel in need of a new identity.

so, i'll be checking in from time to time... or every day... whichever is first.