Writing (other than blog posts (aka stories))

I actually titled this post before I started writing! That's new. I just hope it goes in that direction; I don't see why it wouldn't since literally the next sentence I planned out in my head is on topic.

I feel kind of inadequate trying to write a story. It's weird. I know that I'm, in theory, good at writing, but I feel like I should do so much before I simply start writing something. Listen to Writing Excuses, for example. There's so much useful stuff there. But it's such a big block. How much should I listen to it before I'm suddenly 'prepared'? etc.
Or, another thing that I should probably totally do, but idk, is, you know, actually think out the story. Make plot points. Think about character development. More fully flesh out the magic system. Come up with random scenes and make an outline for them. Outline everything.
But even though I kind of want to do all of that, I don't want to do any of it.
Hm. Maybe. It might just be more of a time commitment issue. I want to do so much; I have to cut out some stuff.
Do I want to have writing in my future at all? I mean, I think the answer is yes, but what does that entail? Do I just go off on my normal major/career choice (whatever that may be) and just write stuff off on the side? Try to publish something randomly? Even though my career has nothing to do with English (probably)? It doesn't seem like that bad of an idea. If I enjoy writing, then why not, I guess.
Although the funny thing is I'm not fully sure if I do enjoy writing. I'm assuming I do. It's always interested me. I don't see why it wouldn't. But I've never actually done it. The most I've ever written on a story is a couple pages. Do I just enjoy coming up with stories/characters/worlds/magic systems/whatever, but not the actual process of making that into a comprehensive, interesting, compelling story? Idk. That's something I'll just have to figure out, I suppose.

Figuring out stuff as you write is totally a thing, though. I don't necessarily have to think out everything. Knowing me, it might work better if I do, but maybe not. You just write to discover. What's going to happen in this world? Is this going to happen or that? I don't know, because I haven't written it yet. Perhaps you stumble along and suddenly you realize that one of your main characters has to die. Welp. That sucks for you. But that's what's going to happen.
I mean, if you stick with the whole idea, that is. At that point in the book you've probably already come up with stuffs, so you could probably just go and change a few things so your precious character doesn't die, but.

Anyway. So yeah. I want to write. I've started something earlier today. Wrote it while in the hot tub, eating a bowl of ice cream (thanks for the idea, again, person that I'm referring to). Main character was born with slick white hair, which I connected to magic prophecies etc. because I felt like it. Obviously I could talk more about it, but I don't want to, so.

((You know, I used to run my posts through grammarly and check them bunches, but recently I haven't been, so, yeah. Just a random note.))

Titles' Names and OSTATUMSBWBJF,IDK

Key:
OSTATUMSBWBJF,IDK: Other Stuff That Actually Takes Up More Space But Was Basically Just Filler, I Don't Know

It's surprising how often I come in writing a blog post about no specific topic, but by the end I get a general topic. I always name my posts after I create them, because I rarely have any idea where I'm going with these things. I kind of just go for it. We'll see if anything comes up this time.

I didn't really have anything else to do, so I decided to write this. I'll probably go back to Stardew Valley after I write this, though. I played a decent amount earlier, but I don't want to play too too much in one day or else I feel lame, so I've been doing other stuff. The game is really quite good. I'm growing all the blueberries right now! (and by that I mean, like, 39 (which is a lot, granted (well, a lot for my point in the game, at least)))

Thanksgiving this week! And then a month later it's Reuel's birthday!! (Oh, and Christmas, I suppose). ((I'm not sure why I feel it necessary to clarify that I'm joking here. I am super excited for Christmas (and Reuel's birthday. I don't really know why; I just like to make a big deal out of it)))

That's actually about all I want to write. I'm getting no inspiration to write anything more. So this is all I'm posting, I guess. The post doesn't really have a purpose, but it doesn't need one. Allowing me to just type something is purpose all its own.

(Turns out the title was the most interesting thing about this blog post. Funny.)

(Fun) Things I Need to Do

Still don't remember what I was going to talk about last time, so whatever, I guess.
Don't really feel like talking about Ashes right now either, so I'll just talk about other stuff.
I changed my Change in Lists List to a List format, so I can keep all the changes, but it will only show a few at a time. Just a random note.

Reading Plans (in order): Oathbringer, Alloy of Law, Shadows of Self, Bands of Mourning, Mistborn: Secret History, Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell, Sixth of Dusk, The Hope of Elantris, The Eleventh Metal, The Burning Bridge.
And then other stuff, I just don't have an order for them. Snapshot, Legion, Legion 2, Alcatraz 5, Glass Castle, and Slaughterhouse-Five will come after in some order. I'll figure it out and update you later.
Clarification: I have already read Alloy of Law, Shadows of Self, Bands of Mourning, and The Eleventh Metal. The Burning Bridge is the second book in the Ranger's Apprentice series.

I've got a lot of reading ahead of me, but I'm ok with that. Oh, and somewhere in there is Anthem because I might be using it for a book report. I've already read it and annotated it a ridiculous amount for AP English last year, but I love it enough to go through it yet again. It just sounded like a good idea.
For my 3rd and final book report I'm going to use Mistborn, I think. Sounds like a good idea.

Some time in between that list I'll revamp my Favorite Books list, and then I'll update it more after finishing the other books.

Other things I need/want to do (only counting activities that are individual (and only counting things I actually want to do, not things like look at colleges and such)):
Rewatch a couple of my favorite anime/Watch a couple others. I'll come around to those eventually; it's near the bottom of my list of things to do.
Play Stardew Valley.
Play Skyrim.
Play Civ V.
Play Fire Emblem: Fates.
Finish Breath of the Wild.
Play Majora's Mask.
Play Ocrina of Time.
Play Snake Pass.
Play Geometric Game thinsofdinskofjdklsfjkds (EDIT: I forgot to replace the random letters with the actual name, but now I'm too lazy to get the Switch and see what's it's called)
Flippin' get the NAT to work (once that's done: Play Splatoon 2)
Play Ashes.
Play other board games, of course.
Listen to music.
Continue to write blog posts.
Play tennis.
Do other stuff with my life that I want to do sometime.

Yep.

Minor Post about Ashes

Currently in AP Stats. The next few days in class we're just preparing for the test and doing project stuff, both of which I have little motivation to do. They're not that important right now, so I'm not concerned.
Going to relisten to the most recent podcast by The Main Action. It's downloading on my phone right now, so after it finishes I'll start listening to that. It might be a little difficult to listen and type at the same time, but I'll probably be fine.
Speaking of which, I'm finally getting back into Ashes, and it makes me happy. I love the game, and I missed the community greatly. Deck building is basically as much fun as playing the game itself, which is great because that's often the only thing I have time for. I haven't yet played a game with any of the new cards, but hopefully will very soon. I think I've figured out the deck I'm going to use for my first deck. It looks really good. Granted, I don't know much of the meta anymore so I'm ignorant in a lot of places, but I think it should be good. We'll see.
I feel like there was something else I was going to talk about. I could talk more about Ashes, but nah.
This works for now, I guess. I'll post another something soon, probably. I'll either just ramble more about Ashes and stuff that very few of you understand anything about, or go back to the thing that I'm currently forgetting about, but was originally planning on talking about.

Oh, and this looks like it will be Posted as Alexander Perazzo. The first post to do so. That's cool, I guess.

Wrote this in a video in Video Production

    Acting like I’m typing an important paper while writing this. Jefrey had some problems with stuffs, so he needed to refilm everything, and this time I’m going to be his talent. I don’t really like being talent, but I’m getting more used to it after doing Bleed Green News (Watching myself do talent is the worst. I know that theoretically I did alright, but I feel so cringy and awful when watching the BGN, and meh), and after allegedly being sealed in to do talent for Skills this year. I might talk about that in a different post. I’m still going to avoid the music video dancing like the plague, though. Probably. I don't think I'm that much out of my shell.

    That means I’m typing this on a google docs first, which means I have paragraph indents, which are always a nice thing. I’m also doing some Calc on the side. I’m going to continue to type this even though I don’t know what’s going on. I just need to continue typing stuff, so it looks like I’m doing something in this video. You might actually be able to read this in the video, which would be cool. Especially since I love it when videos have those random things that you can pause on, and it’s absolute gibberish. Newspapers are a prime example of this. You can put whatever Easter eggs in a newspaper as you desire. It’s pretty great.

 Writing this right before I post: Yeah, I guess I'm just going to post this as is, idk. Sounds good, I guess. If I want to type about something different, I'll just make a new post.