Three days into Freedom

I've been officially "out of school" and in my hometown for three days now, and I must say that things have been interesting.

The most interesting thing that relates to writing is my daily word goal.  For the past two years I've attended readings at the UBCO that featured many established authors, and many of them encouraged people to keep writing by setting a daily word goal.  The goal that they told people to usually set was about 200 words, but I've been finding that every night, while sitting in the living room with the TV on, I've managed to hammer out a good 500 words in very little time.  I must say that I'm quite happy with this.  I do realize that this number will probably drop when I manage to secure steady employment, but for now I'll take whatever I can get.

Quite busy, so I've been watching some stuff.

I'll confess, between periods of times sweating over essays, projects, and exams for school, I've been wasting my time on the wonderful internets (not that it should be of any surprise).  This week I stumbled upon two incredible documentaries that I found to be quite interesting

The first is "Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown".  This film documents the life of H.P. Lovecraft, american writer of weird fiction and father of the Cthulhu Mythos.  I have always had an interest in the Cthulhu Mythos since I was in high school, but didn't actually start reading Lovecraft until a couple years ago.  I should have started earlier.  Lovecraft was an extremely interesting man, it's only expected that he should leave behind such an interesting legacy.

The second film is "Dreams with Sharp Teeth", a film that delves into the life and mind of imaginative fiction writer Harlan Ellison.  For those of you unfamiliar with Ellison, he has published 75 books, over 1700 stories and artilces, and has publications in in 40 languages.  He has also won "8 and a half" Hugo awards for his fiction.  However, despite his many accolades and achievements, Ellison will always be known as being one of the biggest assholes in the world of literature.  Don't believe me?  Watch the film.

Hello World

Hello People who might be reading this.

This blog was created in response to a shared desire by members of my creative writing class to remain in contact with one another following our separation after many of us graduate and move on to try and hammer out living in the real world.  So, we're starting blogs.

Yeah.

It seem like a good idea at the time.

For those of you not familiar with me, this blog is to act as a means to encourage myself to keep writing outside of the structured confines of an institution of education.  Who knows how well this will work.

Anyway, thanks for joining me on this ride.  It's going to be slow.