Today I woke up to the highly anticipated first snowfall of the year. It's not very normal for it to take this long to snow in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, but I wasn't complaining about the lack off winter weather. Recently I've been having trouble organizing my thoughts, so with today, the perfect stay inside and write day, all of these thoughts are just itching to get out. I have so many ideas on what I want to write about, both fiction and creative non-fiction. I'm really good about writing down every story idea the second I think of it, but now I feel like I have too many projects I want to work immediately.
I've been working a lot with short stories told from the view point of one particular character I created this semester in my Fiction Workshop class. Some of them are shorter and others much longer. I'm actually pretty proud of some of them so now I'm considering compiling them all together in a book of short stories.
Last week I woke up from a really intense dream that sparked one of the coolest and most promising fictional novel ideas yet. So naturally, this has been consuming my thoughts and sort of pushing other ideas out of the way.
I've also been considering starting a new blog from the persona of a fictional character. They'd analyze different aspects of what's happening in the world and give their opinion on it like a journal or diary entry. So much is going on that I know I wouldn't run out of things to talk about. I've also considered just making it a part of this blog, but I want it to be clear that it's another person's thoughts, not my own.
On top of everything, finals are just two weeks away and I need to be focused on that before I can delve deeper into any of these ideas, or the others I haven't even mentioned yet. It's important for me to finish this semester strong so I can graduate in May and hopefully go back to working for the mouse. At least I now have a week off of school and can sit inside my warm home with a fresh cup of coffee, letting my pent-up thoughts escape just like the first snowflakes of this season.
