Introduction, to be Heavily Modified in the Future

I'm terrible at being creative.

No, really, I am. I think of myself as a writer, a very creative individual. I love typing. I can type 90 words per minute when I'm doing one of those online tests where they give you a block of text. Less quickly when I have to think of things first, of course, but typing is the one instance in which my body moves faster than my brain. It requires very little effort, and I have such good muscle memory that it works out well enough.

So, yes. Terrible at being creative. Mostly because it all comes in fits and spurts, just like my desire to clean my entire house (I only end up cleaning the kitchen, every time) or to stay in touch with friends and family (I determine to call once a week, then forget for 5 months). I create blogs and forget about them, spend days on end obsessing over my latest work of fiction then abandon it mid-sentence, and that's when I think the writing is good, let alone the bad stuff. It's why I forced myself to jot down my first manuscript, 150k words in 3 months straight, but never finished the editing.

I'll probably forget about this, too.

But for now, let's try it out. A blog about my terrible creativity. Right now I'm knitting a scarf, so I'll probably finish that. I'm reading fanfiction, too, and there's a writer in it who is talking about reactions to his work, which is quite honestly what made me decide to throw this out there.

Maybe I'll keep up with it. Maybe I won't. Maybe I'll post five times a day, once every three months. That's pretty likely.

I'll post the scarf when I've given it to the intended recipient. For now, here's a picture of a Tardis tissue box that I made for my friend Janaye, based on an online pattern. Took about 50 hours to make. I did it over a week or so during Christmas break.

BAD WOLF graffiti was a a part of the pattern. Which makes it basically perfect.

Came out pretty well, I think. That's my couch it's on. I have the best couch in the world. So there.

I'm gonna go back to my fanfiction and knitting though, for right now. Maybe I'll write later. I need to do some work, too. (I'm the Lead QA Editor at a business consulting firm. It's a good job but I'm constantly stressed out because it requires too much left-brained thinking.)

Anyway, as I used to say during high school because I have a penchant for quoting old black and white comedies, Hail and Farewell!

(That's from a Marx brothers movie. "Room Service." I should watch it again.)