Rambling on Writing.

A Story by Weston R.

I wrote this just off the top of my head for no reason at all.

A note: All that’s below was written stream of consciousness. I’m going to type everything as it appears on the pages, with stuff crossed out included. So, please enjoy reading my random rambling rant on writing.

I’m sitting here

writing. But what to write about? I try and try and try and yet I still can’t think of a single thing to write about. As such, I have taken to writing about writing. That’s it! I’ll just write about anything that comes into my head about writing. After all, how hard could it be? I mean, WOW! I’ve completely lost my train of thought. Where was I? Oh yes. I’ve been able to write creatively before, writing stories and such, so I’m sure I can talk about writing for a while. Who knows, maybe I’ll even keep this. I guess you know you’re burnt out as far as school goes when you have to resort to writing about writing just to keep yourself entertained. But like I was saying, NOT AGAIN! This losing where I was thing really is staring to get on my nerves. Well, as far as think of the idea for a poem, or story, or whatever the hell you’re writing is the easy part.

This is Simon [My friend] writing. I hope I didn’t make you lose your train of thought.

S**t. Thanks a lot Simon! Now where was I, for the tenth time since forever! Ah yes, the writing process. The thinking of the idea is easy, however I have quite the nasty habit of not recording these ideas, so I tend to forget them in the end when it comes time to write. For example, my first period class (aka right now) we’re being allowed the hour to read or write. (She suggests we should work on our papers on poetry right now, but I’m all like “Screw that.”) So, I wanted to write, perhaps a new story or poem or SOMETHING. But lo and behold, alas and alack, I had no ideas. Not one. So, I have just spent the past 20-30 minutes just staring and thinking, when finally I wrote about how truly frustrated I was, and now here I am, ranting non-sense-ically (if that’s a word) about how hard it can be to write. I may have to stop in a moment, but I’ll continue anyway, so if I do keep this, you won’t notice. Or maybe you will. Who knows, all I know is that I just hope I don’t lose what I was about to say, and I if I ever do again here, please forgive me. Anyway, ~~while writing when you can be frustrating, but~~ I really like it writing, as I’m sure you know. I would write more often, but school is an obstacle as well. Although I must admit I have been losing interest in writing a bit, but ~~I this is keeping me into it~~ not to the point where I want to stop. Damn it to hell! I was about to say something, and then I guess my thought process was all like “Oh no!” Okay, now I remember. Going back to retaining ideas, it’s so hard isn’t it? I mean, I know I’ve already written about this, but I cannot express this enough, but I’m pretty sure that some of you (If this gets posted, which I think it will) ~~wil~~ agree with me. Now, I’m gonna changed the subject so I don’t sound like some broken record. I guess I’ll talk about exactly how I write seeing as how I can’t come up with anything else to talk about. Well, when I got to write, it’s usually because I was lucky enough to be able to write down the idea when I think of it. I’m pretty sure many writers on here (by the way, I’ve decided I will put this up, in case you were wondering) plan and proofread and are really meticulous about the writing process. I really respect and admire this. But I gotta admit that I can’t write like this. ~~I Hope~~ some other writers here, I’m ~~(I think, t~~ pretty sure (unless I’m just crazy) write like me, by just writing it wh without planning (but with obviously more thought than this). Also, not much editing happens either. I do tweak things a bit, but not a whole lot. I know that probably sounds (and is) haphazardly or uncaringly of me, but that’s how I pretty much gotta write. My God, I’m starting to realize the pointlessness of this writing. In fact, I’m kinda losing interest in going on with it. So I think I’ll stop. kthnxbai