where have i been?

I am sorry it has taken me this long to write. I started taking free college courses at the main library while trying to finish one of my novels. I have come to realize that was a mistake. I can’t write a novel, keep this blog updated and take a class all at the same time. Now with my chronic migraines and fibromyalgia. So I have decided to use the classes each session as inspiration for this blog. When I have a class going on I will post on here. When I don’t have a class going on I will focus on my novel. I hope you can forgive the long periods of silence on my part.  This session the class is How to write a book in six weeks with Cathy Fyock. 

Why does knowledge have to cost so much?

Every Tuesday as I walk across university of Louisville campus I try my hardest to see only the beauty around me. I see the beautiful landscape but the buildings hold a painful memory for me. I know that even though I walk past these buildings every week the doors of almost all of them are closed to me.
You see a few months ago I had the foolish dream of sitting in on a class.  I assumed I would have to fill out an application or contact the professor whose class I wanted to take.  I never dreamed I would be asked to pay $1300 per class.  That is the same price as someone who is getting credit.  now I am reminded of my foolish dream every Tuesday.
There is a difference between education and knowledge.  I can understand why education has to cost so much but why must it be the same with knowledge.

Set in my ways

I have my ways and I am set in them which is okay. I am who I am.  I am a writer. I am a woman in search of love, respect, acceptance and great food. I have a passion for words that will never die as long as I don't let myself get stressed out about life or my work.  I will let the words come out anyway they want to,  for however long they want to.  In whatever language they want to even though I can only read and write English right now. Maybe one day I will know more languages and more cultures around the world but it is okay if I don't. I can only make do with the things, people and chances life gives me today and tomorrow.  GOD will give me what I need. He always has and always will.

The unpredictability of life

Life never has any set plans or at least we humans will never be told what they are. Why should I plan for the future?  Of course I should save up for the things I want to do like paying off my loans, buying a plane ticket to India and buying a house but I should not let anything stress me out. Life is unpredictable and exciting if I let it be.

Writing the first draft of my memoir

I don't have any idea what I am writing but at least I am still working on it.  I am making six hundred or more words a day. I am just going to keep typing until I make seventy thousand words, then I will edit it over and over again until it is ether good or gone. I think this is a good way to work.  Today I don't know how I feel or think except that I want to make it to seventy thousand words.  Why? Because I want to prove to myself that I can do it even if the first draft is nothing but crap. I don't believe it will be complete crap though because there has to be something good in one hundred pages of writing on a single subject. I am only thirty-eight pages in and I know that some of it is good so it stands to reason that some more good writing will come out of eighty plus pages. Sure doing it this way will take a lot of time and work but that's what writing is all about. It is an addiction, a passion that has to come out in whatever format it wants to. I don't have any control over this draft and I like it that way.