Hunting Sense

It seems to be getting more and more common for me to not make posts than it is for me to make them. I have to admit, I have been struggling quite a bit lately with the motivation to write. I thought that the changes and new additions I made may help me overcome it, but they didn’t.

I had a lot of posts either ready, or planned, and after looking at them, I either decided they weren’t that great, or that I couldn’t do them justice. I think that a lot of it has to do with the fact that I like to consider myself a writer, and that I have been struggling with whether I should or shouldn’t do that. I look at some of the things that I have written and I’m extremely proud of them. But most, I look at and all I see is a lot of rambling choked full of mistakes. And then I figure what’s the use in pretending.

But, like hunting, writing is in my blood. It isn’t one of those things that I can just forget about because I don’t do it as good as I wish I could. I have to keep pushing forward. That is what writing is all about. Putting pen to paper, setting words down on the page, saying what you want to say, and then going back and editing it to make it be the best that it can be.

So, for the most of this month I have set my sights on a somewhat crazy and off-the-wall goal. Some of you may remember me talking about a challenge called Script Frenzy, where you tried to write a screenplay in one month. Well, that event was inspired by another, called National Novel Writing Month.

The point of it, NaNoWriMo for short, is to stop procrastinating, quit worrying about how well written something is, and finally sitting down to turn out a fifty thousand word novel in thirty days. It is all about allowing yourself to write first, and then worrying about quality later. And I think that is what I have been needing to do.

So, I have been working on a story for it that centers around coon hunting. It is raw, unedited story telling, likely full of typos, errors, and gaping plot holes, but I am going to post it up here for the world to see. I would like to know what you think about it. Be brutal, be honest, and don’t woory about hurting my feelings. That is what I need to have happen to help improve my writing.

I’ll break it up into chunks so it isn’t so hard to digest, and post a few a day until I get it all up. The story itself is roughly around six thousand words, and is just one short story in many that I did for the NaNoWriMo challenge and getting fifty thousand words.

Enjoy, and thanks for your help. I promise, I;ll do my best to get back to making more relevant posts as soon as possible.

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