Should I Even Call This An Anniversary?

I’ve officially been posting stuff for a year. Surprisingly the majority of articles have not been memes.

It doesn’t feel like it’s been a year, but the 114 dollar dent in my checking account, which I thought at first was a stranger who’d stolen my debit card information, is definitely real.
A year, and I’m no closer to having a definite topic of conversation, besides what I happen to be doing that day. A year since R.I.P.’s debut. A year, and my life is drastically different than it was in 2018.

. . . a year, and this is getting kinda old.

Writing isn’t what’s getting old, though. I don’t think it’s possible for writing to get boring for me; word craft is and will always be a fascinating thing to me. What’s wearing on me, is the fact that I’ve been trying to make this into a job, when maybe it’s not supposed to be.
A lady in one of my classes professed a love of analyzing English works, possibly even writing; so I asked her why she didn’t pursue it. She told me because then it wouldn’t be a hobby, it’d just be work.

Now usually, when I hold myself to a schedule, I’m happy. But having a writing schedule? Pure torture. It’s like enslaving my imagination and motivation, when they don’t want to be forced to do anything at any specific time. I realize this is something most writers face, and something a professional would merely work around. A professional would train themselves to write regardless.

Don’t I want to be a professional? Make writing into my major career? Well, yeah, that’d be ideal and I imagine I’ll get that way one day. . . but in the words of Aragorn from the Lord of the Rings “it is not this day.”

So. . . I don’t know where I was going with this. Maybe it’s my cop-out for not writing as often as I should, maybe it’s to give either my readers or myself an explanation. All I know is that patience is a virtue, and I need to practice it a bit more concerning all the things I put on myself to do.

Thus, for now, I’ll post when I post, and I’ll try to keep it fairly frequent, but forgive me if the things I post aren’t that interesting or well-thought out.

Anyway. I gotta do my math homework now. I’m afraid I can’t bore all of you any longer. 😉

-WordTechnician