Hope Road

I’m still trying to sort through my own wishes for next year and thereafter. Until I know what I want to do, it’s hard to move in any direction! And what I want to do changes daily. What is it today, you may ask? Well, today, I want to move back home next year. (I know: shocker!) This is something I’ve been trying to avoid for a long time. (Parents, if you read this, don’t get your hopes up too much. ) But it’s so financially practical. I just don’t know what kind of a job I could get, and I don’t have any friends really in my hometown. But I could work some kind of job that I hopefully wouldn’t hate entirely, and I could try to write a book on the side!

I just don’t know if I’m up for all the classes and schooling anymore. I love learning and I love the challenge of academics, but I’m seriously getting burned out on it. I think if I try to stretch my writing by going to grad school for English stuff right away next year, I’m just going to get tired of it. I want to give myself the chance to improve my writing ability by practice instead of by going to class, listening to lectures, workshopping, etc. I don’t want to feel constantly intimidated about my writing ability. I just don’t want to be in that environment yet. Stretching and learning is good, but I’m not ready for that much stretching.

And you know, a lot of authors write successful books, and they never had a degree in Creative Writing.

So we’ll see what happens. I’ll be back next week with an update on my desire to intern at Disneyland next year. Because with the way it’s going, who knows what I’ll want to do tomorrow!

(Input is more than welcomed too!)

Filed under: Books/Writing, Career/Education, My Life on October 1st, 2007