So lately I think I've been doing pretty good as far as keeping up on my exercises and writing goes.
I've forced myself into doing 10 minute writing exercises on my LiveJournal (Gotta use it for something), and writing another 10 minutes in my actual, physical journal (Which I keep detailed notes of dreams I have). Though when I don't have a dream, I try to imagine something and write about that instead.
I think I've been doing that for about... two weeks now? They say the only way to get better at something is to do it every day, ye? So that's what I'm doing. A former professor I had at our community college told us about that. It was my Eng075 class, which I'm grateful I took as a refresher on grammar is always nice. She told us about her beliefs for writing, and passed out to us our very own journals. (They were just the cheap kind you could buy at a local dollar store, but it was the thought that counted.) She told us that every day in class, which was twice a week, we would have 10 minute writing exercises. When we would come into class, there would be a prompt on the board that we would have to write about, then submit it to her when the time was up. While we worked on our grammar exercises, she would read through them and then pass them back to us at the end of class so we'd have them for the next day. I loved it. The very idea pleased me so much and made me feel all warm inside. I honestly enjoyed that class more than Eng101 and Eng102, which was mostly editing. -shrug- It was good times for me.
I've since then accumulated a list of various prompts; however, I have yet to purchase myself a plastic bowl to which I can begin to randomly draw out prompts for the day. What I
really need to start doing is one-word prompts to which I can write both poetry and prose from. So I can get back into my poetry. ): Siiiigh. I'll probably get around to doing that this weekend. For now though, I recently felt the surge of inspiration through my veins. It was telling me about ideas for a fanfiction (which I'm working on sorta right now), and how to go about editing and continuing my one story Just Like Heaven. *w* I loved it. I wish I could force myself to feel that way over and over again. But as for now, I need to work on my prose and finish up the prompt I'm currently working on. Good things are waiting for me this weekend.
Yay~!