Resolutions and Shitty First Drafts

Let's face the truth, I am terrible with keeping up with my blog, but I guess it is because I am terrible prioritizing time for my writing. In fact, I have only been able to barely write stories and poetry down, and the poetry is for a class that I am taking. I keep saying to myself that I'll have time later. It's always later, and then as time slowly goes by that later becomes a missed opportunity and a never. If anyone wants to read about how I got that notion, then I recommend reading Middlemarch by George Eliot. It is a little slow going; however, the writing is brilliant. During the whole time I was reading it, I had resented my professor for including it in the assigned reading, but in the end I am quite happy that I read the book because I would not have had the ability to realize that I was feeding my writing to fake time that I had in life and that it would have become a squandered joke.

It's a little late and I understand that many people do not believe that New Year's Resolutions work. To be honest, I am one of those people, but I think that this year I will do one. Let's hope that I keep up with it, and become more reliable with the resolution.

So, here it goes... My resolution for this year and others to come is that I write on my blog once a week. It does not have to be long or fabulous, but it has to be written in once a week. Now warning to many, there will probably be many shitty posts because honestly every first draft is shitty. Even great writers have shitty first, second, and third drafts. Apparently the trick in writing is to make it seem like it was an effortless whim that happened to be written down. I guess that seems legit.

With my resolution given a little behind the times, I also have great news. I am planning to be studying abroad in Ireland for the Summer term. Isn't that AMAZING??!?! For some reason, I have always wanted to travel to Ireland. My plan is to go back packing through Europe afterward. The first to places on my list to visit after Ireland are England and Scotland. If I am able to go on this trip, then I will be staying there for three weeks. I would be in Dublin, Belfast, and Galway most of the time, so I would be able to explore the different parts of the island.