I hope everyone had a spectacular Thanksgiving with their families! I certainly had an interesting one. Since my parents are divorced I had two separate Thanksgiving dinners. The one I had with my father's side was an interesting one since not only our family whom we always celebrate the holiday with were there, but my dad's girlfriend's family as well. My dad hasn't hosted a dinner party for that many people in at least twelve years! Sufficive to say, dinner was a little cramped. Of course we had the awkwardness that you see in movies since the other family was there and we (being my cousins, uncle, aunt, and I) don't really know them. My aunt, being Polish and actually from Poland is always an interesting character to be around. But all in all it was nice seeing everyone. And boy was I tired by the time everyone left. I had already fallen into the turkey coma before they left. So afterward it wasn't long until I was snuggled up in my bed.
My first semester of my Sophomore year is about to come to an end. Boy is it stressful! With make up work from an illness to the usual end of semester craziness I have absolutely no free time it would seem. It seems as if all of my professors decided to get together and conspire against the students and assign as many essays as is possible. I understand the essays in my English classes, especially since I am an English Major. But having essays in my Macroeconomics and History? Both of those classes are geneds, how is that fair? With all of this extra stress my journal certainly comes in handy. I hadn't had time to write in about two weeks, so writing in it earlier today was a long and tedious process. But it felt good at the same time.
I hope everyone had a spectacular Thanksgiving with their families! I certainly had an interesting one. Since my parents are divorced I had two separate Thanksgiving dinners. The one I had with my father's side was an interesting one since not only our family whom we always celebrate the holiday with were there, but my dad's girlfriend's family as well. My dad hasn't hosted a dinner party for that many people in at least twelve years! Sufficive to say, dinner was a little cramped. Of course we had the awkwardness that you see in movies since the other family was there and we (being my cousins, uncle, aunt, and I) don't really know them. My aunt, being Polish and actually from Poland is always an interesting character to be around. But all in all it was nice seeing everyone. And boy was I tired by the time everyone left. I had already fallen into the turkey coma before they left. So afterward it wasn't long until I was snuggled up in my bed.
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During the past few months I have not been working on my writing as much as I should. Over the summer, I had been working on my book a lot with edits and everything. But once school started back up I started to not work on it as much and got too distracted with all of my school work and my busy life. Recently I have come to the conclusion that I need to make time for my writing. If I do not have time that comes easily to work on my book and other writing, then I need to make the time to work on it since it is something that I love to do. I came to this conclusion after a few recent events that have happened in my life. My writing is something that helps me to de-stress and makes me happy. Therefore, I need to make sure I have time to do all of these things that I love to do. The fact that writing and working on my book brings me joy, means that I should love to make the time for it so now I am going to. By doing this I will also help myself complete a goal that is very important to me- and that is getting my book published. Successfully completing this goal will bring me so much joy and happiness and makes it so I am even more determined to set aside ti
Who else is excited about Thanksgiving?! I know I am. Getting to see my family is always a wonderful thing. I'm excited to see my cousins since I pretty much only see them for Thanksgiving dinner. I'm also really excited for all of the FOOD! I love turkey day dinner! It's always so good! This year I have many things to be thankful for. A few of them being my friends and family who have always been there for me, even when I didn't know it, I also am thankful for the chance to make up for my mistakes, and for my pets who are always there for me and will never criticize me. There are so many things to be thankful for all year round. Today I go home to see my family again and start helping out to get ready for the big turkey day dinner party!
~Lindsey Positive thinking can do a lot to brighten your mood and make your day a lot better. If you're having a rough time and all you think are a bunch of negative thoughts, your mood will never improve. For instance, if you have a class that you are not doing so well in and all you think about is how you're failing and "oh I can't do any better. I'm just going to fail!" Then you most likely will. However, if you turn that sentence into a positive one it makes it so that the positive outcome you are now imagining will come to pass. You can reform that negative sentence into one that sounds a little more like, "I know I am not doing too well in this class right now, but I can do better and I will." That way you are not depressing yourself. If you do that, then your work will suffer and you really will fail that class. Your motivation level will also decrease so you won't even try as hard in that particular class. If your motivation level decreases for that class, it is very likely that it will decrease in all of your other classes as well. Having a positive thinking can also help you with your relationships with friends, family members, co-workers, significant others, you name it! This is because your positive thinking will give you a positive attitude which will make you funner to be around and easier to get along with. It also makes it so you're not as quick to anger in a stressful situation. You will just be happier in general. It could also rub off on those around you. Your writing will also be affected by your positive thinking since how you feel rubs off in everything you do. When you are upset and thinking negative thoughts, your writing will become much darker as opposed to when you are thinking positively, your writing will become light and cheery. So keep it positive!
~Lindsey Mistakes have the ability to define us, but they also have the ability to change us and make us realize how to change our lives for the better. Some mistakes are easy to bounce back from and everyone forgets them instantly and you can go on about your life as usual quite quickly. Others, however, are harder to recover from. They are harder to right and harder to get people to forgive you for. They are harder for you to prove that you are truly sorry for the action that you took and prove that you won't make that same mistake again. Mistakes are hard to over come in general, but are even harder to over come when people won't give you the chance to prove you are changing. Some mistakes require people to be supportive of you and show that they are willing to see you make that change and willing to let you prove that you can and are willing to make that change. The more difficult mistakes in life require people, especially the people who are the most important to you to truly stand by you and prove that they care and not abandon you. Having people stand by you gives you strength and helps you to know that you are a strong individual who can overcome your issues and prove that you can change for the better. However, having even one person who is a huge factor in your life that you care deeply about abandon you in your time of need, can make things so much harder. It can make it so that you feel hopeless and like you can't ever recover and make up for your mistake. Hopefully people who do abandon those struggling to right a wrong of a mistake will come to their senses and try and make amends and help that person. That they will realize their own mistake and try and help their loved one overcome theirs. Some mistakes are incredibly hard to overcome, but they aren't impossible. You just have to be strong and believe in yourself, that way you can do anything.
~Lindsey "Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning how to dance in the rain."
I know I said something about this quote recently, but it really is a great quote to know and to think about. Especially when you are having a difficult time like I am right now. I am currently in the hospital for reasons and it is a very difficult time for me right now. The storm is still raging all around me and will most likely rage on for quite a long time. Therefore, I need to stop hoping and praying that the storm will hurry up and pass and I simply need to learn how to dance in the rain that is being brought by the storm. This means I need to start to rejoice in the little things that are surrounding my own personal storm. I need to focus on, say, my writing. If I focus on my writing I can have fun and metaphorically be dancing in the rain while enjoying something I love to do- which is writing. The storm that is occupying my life currently will most likely never fully pass. Just like everyone's own personal storm, they never truly go away. Your storm will always be there in the back of your mind, following you throughout your life. How to deal with it, however, is by following the advice of the quote at the top and that is to learn how to dance in the rain. My dancing in the rain- or my distraction, my joy out of the hard times of my life- would be writing, hanging with friends and family, or doing sports I love. Like in previous posts, writing is a great stress relief, so working on my writing is a great way to dan One of the other forms of writing I have considered doing is travel writing. It combines two things I love- writing and traveling! There are so many things you can write about, you just have to find what interests you since you can't write about something that you don't find enthralling. The thing with travel writing is that you can do so much with it. You could write a travel guide on different places, you could write a non-fiction story about something that has happened in that country/town/etc, or you could write a novel located in that area. There are most likely a lot more you could do with travel writing that I have not even thought of. I am hoping to go to Ireland to study abroad within the next year or so and I was just thinking about how I could use that opportunity for more than a learning and personal experience but as a way to increase my writing and broaden the horizons of my writing. I also plan on traveling around Europe while I am there, and that means I can just increase the amount of travel writing I do! The type of writing I think I will do while over there would be fiction. I love to write fiction in general but I can use local myths and legends and expand on them to make a story that is somewhat believable. By using these myths and legends I can create a fictional romance or adventure based off of them and use Ireland or wherever else I travel while I am (hopefully) abroad as the location the story takes place in. Just like one of my favorite book series by Diana Gabaldon titled The Outlander series, she uses the myths behind standing stone circles to bring her story to life. Her stories are so entrancing that I feel as if I've watched a movie rather than read a book. It also makes me want to travel to Scotland even more than I had before. I also did some of my own research on standing stone circles since I became interested in them from reading her novels.
~Lindsey Whenever I feel especially stressed, which I have been feeling a lot lately, I like to turn to my writing. I turn to writing when I am feeling stressed or low for many reasons. It doesn't matter if it is my jouranl (diary), a random writing, one of my stories, etc, all of it helps me vent my feelings. If I hold my feelings in for too long I will eventually explode and everything will be a million times worse. Turning to my writing, since I love to write so much, helps to take my mind off of whatever is bothering me and focus and either spilling my guts out or escaping into my own made up world full of magic, romance, action, and everything my life isn't. I can do whatever I want and come up to solutions to my problems- the solutions I want to have happen. Writing is such a powerful tool. It can express emotion in such a way that nothing else can. While writing, even if it is a made up story, you can reveal what is deep down in your soul. You can reveal it in such a way where it is not too terribly obvious while also helping you to express your inner emotions. If you write a letter to a loved one, you can rant about how you are feeling and you can express love of the deepest kind. Writing can open up many doors and relieve a lot of stress that one carries around with them. So, perhaps next time you feel like exploding you should pull out a pen and paper or your laptop and just write something. Anything. It could possibly save a lot of heartache and make you feel better. And perhaps you'll even wind up
Recently, for an English assignment, I had to look at two different paragraphs I have written and say why I liked one of them and why I didn't like the other one. I chose to do my two paragraphs on paragraphs from my book I am working on titled, The Silver Locket. One of the paragraphs came from the very beginning of the book and was the preface to it. I decided I liked that one because of how descriptive it was. I could really picture what was going on. I had images of the scene I had been describing in my head as I read through the paragraph. Of course it may be easier for me to picture it since I wrote it and knew what I had intended to describe, but like with books I buy and read for pleasure, I could picture the scene in my head. The books I really enjoy are the ones where I can picture what is going on in my head as if I had actually watched a movie rather than read a book. The paragraph I don't like as much is from the middle of the book in the middle of a scene. Therefore, there are most likely more details surrounding it, but not as many in the paragraph itself. The second paragraph didn't have enough detail for me to picture the scene as well as the first. However, I'm sure if I had read the surrounding paragraphs I would have been able to picture the scene more vividly. So, to wrap it all up, details are important!!! :)
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