Things are starting to fall into place! But I don't want to speak too soon. I've come to my senses about a few underlying issues, and I may have made a decision. Unless, Murphy's Law, it backfires at me and goes horribly wrong; leaving me in a long and painfully unhappy lasting of my high school "career". Let's hope that doesn't happen, ha.
Submitted some shtuff to Teen Ink, hoping to hear back from them shortly to see if they will publish some of it. All I did was send in a few poems, just to see how the whole thing works, and then once that stuff gets either pushed aside or used, I'll send some short stories from my portfolio. Or write a few new ones...yeah I'll probably do that. You know how lately you can pretty much type anything into Google, and get pages upon pages of responces? Well, being curious/bored/juvenile/whatever you want to call me, I typed in "Topics for short stories". With my creative writing teacher breathing down my back every day in class to see what I'm working on, and whether I'm getting my stuff out or not, it was my last hope to get something started. I had a few ideas already in my mind, but I don't know, I just wanted to see what came up.
So, at first they all sucked. Every single thing that came up sucked. And it progressively got worse, and not once did I come across something that appealed to me, or would appeal to anyone sane? Then I clicked on one site, and all that came up was "If you are typing into Google what topics to write short stories about....you should not be writing short stories."
I felt horrible! Humiliated! I looked around my office to make sure no one was behind me who could see the website. I instantly shot my mouse to the red 'X' box in the top corner, grabbed my Indiana U notebook (where I write all my stories) and made a whole list of ideas on my own. Which, let's be serious, could blow all the other ideas off the internet anyways.
I was just bored, I swear! Hahah.
It was a good day.
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