As some of you know, one of my goals in life is to write something... preferrably a novel... that sells... at like, bookstores and stuff. I don't know why... I just do. I've always had a fascination with writing and creating stories since I was old enough to know how to use a typewriter. (Which was, by the way, somewhere around age 6, I believe. I should look up those ancient little stories I wrote and see if I dated them.)

Anyway, as some of you also know, I have a hard time focusing on what I want to write. I have really big storylines formed in my head that I'm constantly thinking about, and have, as a result, been constantly fine-tuning and adding and changing. (Several times I have major "eureka!" moments where I've been thinking and thinking about how I could tie two elements together and just, suddenly... Bang! It's formed! ...and halfway decently, too, in my opinion. (Which is saying alot, seeing as how I usually think my stories are pretty lame. (But then I think about how Tolkien kept thinking LotR was pretty lame, heh.))) (Wow, major parenthesis nesting.)

So I finally just make myself unplug my laptop from the network and sit on my bed and try to belt out at least a few pages... or sentences... or words... something... anything! I then open up my stories folder and see a subfolder called "Pillar of Autumn". I stare at it for a minute thinking what on Earth is the name of a Halo spacecraft doing in my stories folder. So I open it up and see a small assortment of snippets I'd written for whatever it was that... I'd written...

So I open one of the files up and read for about half an hour the things I'd written I don't know when about an idea I've had for years. (...and also didn't at all remember writing it.) After a while, I said to myself... "wow... this is good stuff! ...but then I remembered that, uhh... I wrote it, and that kind of creeped me out, since I was critiquing my own work without knowing it. (Well, I did know it was mine, since it was in my story folder... but then I sorta forgot again while I was reading.)

...but anyway, yeah. I love doing that. Rediscovering something I'd written long, long ago and reading it as if it were something completely new to me. (Even though I still have the ideas floating around in my head.) I dunno... I thought it was cool anyway. Don't know about you, but I was bored and my blog needed updating so this is what you get!

Oh, and I actually did write some stuff lastnight too, because I fell asleep at the laptop and then decided it was time to go to bed for real... I think I got maybe... two paragraphs... of nothing, really. Mostly boring backstory that I don't know if I want to keep, even... or even start out like that. They say the first sentences have to hook your readers or they'll think you're boring and have more of a chance to stop reading. So yeah... I'm going to try that again tonight, instead of playing Halo and wasting time doing nothing important online.

...and speaking of Halo, I've been playing a whole lot of Halo 2 lately. I decided to play Legendard mode, since I first played it through with the really easy mode, and I was disappointed. (But then I thought "dummy! of course it was boring... you played it on easy!") Now I'm having a really, really great time playing it!! YEY! I finally got past the second boarding party and all the way to the bomb on the space station, but I'm low on ammo and the room is crawling with Elites so I've stuck there for a few hours. (Nothing like being stuck on the second boarding party though, geez... that was maddening.)

But yes! Halo 2 is awesome now. I've already learned how to utilize dual wielding properly, learned that dual SMGs is worthless, learned how to use the Battle Rifle effectively in combination with Plasma Pistols and have learned how to aim grenades pretty darn accurately! (I've also come to realize that human grenades are pretty much pointless, since they don't stick to enemies, heheh.)

Anyway, time for supper... so... have fun... with whatever it was you were doing before you decided to read this... or... stuff. Yeah. Bye.