The Last One Out

It's become a little bit difficult for me to get any creative writing done, with all these engineering classes and tests getting in the way. My goal right now is to average a page per day in my writing journal, and if I achieve anywhere near those results, I should be in good standing as far as my journal grade goes. That, however, doesn't have any bearing on the two real, honest-to-goodness stories I have to complete by the end of the semester. I've been stopping and starting on a few fragments of ideas, but I think it's just going to take some experimentation with finding a combination of plot and character that I care enough about to finish.

It's a good thing, then, that the rest of my engineering classes, job interviews, and Wesley activities are going somewhat smoothly, eh?

I'll leave you tonight with a peek into my writer's journal, with a couple of character ideas that hit me through some observations over the last few weeks.

(It occurs to me that blogging about creative writing class is a lot more interesting than blogging about Statistical Quality Control and how we began learning about the Sequential Probability Ratio Test for the variables case today. Some things just look better on the screen, I suppose!)

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The High School Thinker - He notices things and wonders if anyone else does. He catches the little details in life, reads desk graffiti with a relish not usually seen by kids his age, and wonders why people don't look at each other in the eye anymore. He's not exactly isolated at his school, though - the other students mainly see him as a mystery, an unknown quanitity, and thus he doesn't really fall into any of the usual high school category groups.

The "Rotten Egg" - Someone who, through fate or whatever chance, is always the last person to leave a place or event. Or they at least have that feeling of being the last person out. They've eventually come to grips with having the same kind of feelings as a captain being the last to go down with a ship, except their lives are usually not so negative or depressing. I'm thinking there痴 potential to be funny with this idea here, once the character realizes this and starts using it to his advantage.

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So there you have it, a secret exciting bonus peek into some stuff I've been writing.