What’s on my mind?

This is for the Zero to Hero: 30 days to a better blog challenge which can be located [HERE]

With this blog, I can chart my progress in a non timebound way, there’s no iron rule other than my own that I can bend and manipulate to make me comfortable, after all why would I want to spoil my passion by tainting it with force? I don’t want it to become a chore. Despite the fact I don’t see myself being a published author when I’m older, I do have a lot of plots forming in my mind. Constant story starts, and daydreams. Daydreams I often find myself locked in, and they are truly marvellous in my head; or at least marvellous when I’m in a stuffy classroom creating presentations and charts.  I want the plots to have something tangible, and good. It might only be for my own entertainment, but I don’t want to read nor write something that I’m not fond of. It’s true sometimes I’m not happy with the work I choose to display publicly or hand in, but I feel by making my way through these writing challenges, I can develop my writing ability and thus progress and create works that I can be truly proud of.

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January 4
Quote me
Do you have a favorite quote that you return to again and
again? What is it, and why does it move you?

I have a lot of favourite quotes, I think it all truly depends on my mindset when I’m looking at said quote. I think for this writing prompt I’ll discuss two quotes that strike a nerve.

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January 3
Kick it
What’s the 11th item on your bucket list?

Another day, another writing prompt and yet another one that I can’t answer. Bucket lists have always seemed morbid to me, writing things you want to do before you die. Although saying that I do have things I want to do, I just have never documented it before on a checklist. I have a lot of dreams and ambitions, mostly silly ones and some less so. I want to attend university and get a degree. I’m also wanting to travel the world as part of a band. The two things don’t really seem to go hand in hand. I’m seventeen years old, and I’m meant to be making all these choices and decisions but they just don’t seem to happen. I either feel trapped or bored. There’s always that sensation that I’ve chosen the lesser option sometimes. It’s a horrible one that I’m sure many people are familiar with and in life I feel everyone will feel that sensation at one point or another, some more than others. 

What I’m trying to say is that I don’t want to be confined to a list, I want to be spontaneous, I want to do things because I want to do it that day, or because I had planned to do something. Not because I made a list when I was seventeen years old telling me I should achieve these before I die.

365 Days of Writing Prompts 02/365

I haven’t missed day one, I have merely posted it on another site and I might as well just post the second day here because here is where I will be continually updating it.

January 2
Resolved
Have you ever made a New Year’s Resolution that you kept

You know I dare say I haven’t. At least not to my knowledge. Perhaps I have at one point in my life, when I was a little child but not recently. Perhaps it’s due to my lack of confidence, patience and determination to strive towards keeping a New Year’s resolution or perhaps it’s merely because I tend to not set myself one.

I have decided for 2014 to make this a year of action and writing. 2013 was a bad year for me, and mostly focused on the progression of my character, and whilst looking back on it I am able to see just how far I have come. I would still prefer that 2014 be a relatively easy year. Although I obviously must work for this, nothing is ever handed to us on a silver plate. At least not young teenagers from a working class family who struggles to make and keep friends and who’s constant companion is two cats and the likes of Morrissey singing through my laptop because I can’t quite afford a record player just yet.

I also want 2014 to be a year of music, I have some tickets to gigs (Miles Kane and Jake Bugg) and also a comedy show (Jack Whitehall). I love music, I’m learning the guitar. I’m going to make this the year I set goals and stick to them. I daresay this isn’t a lot of writing, but I have little opinion or knowledge of resolutions other than goals that people set and rarely meet. We shall see if that is the case here.

Who I am, and why I am here

An introductory post by ‘Emma’ AKA rearrangemymind

Hello, as you might have figured my name is Emma, and I’m going to be using this blog to document my life. I’m also going to use this blog to complete the 365 days of writing prompts challenge, which can be found here and I shall also be working my way through the Zero to Hero: 30 days to a better blog challenge which can be found here.

I shall be using this blog to document my writing progression as well as events that occur in my life that I feel like I should share, for example today I was told that the writing piece I had submitted to someone on Tumblr was one of their favourite pieces.

I’m seventeen years of age and I was born in December. Despite being both Scottish and a winter child I have a dislike to cold temperatures, instead preferring the heat. I particularly like it when I am driving in a car with the heating on, and I can feel my mouth and lips start to dry up slightly. Although that being said dehydration isn’t particularly enjoyable.

Before I start to ramble on which is something I tend to do in my other writing pieces I shall cover some of the basic points. I shall answer some questions as if I’m at an interview, mainly because it’s the easiest way of working the questions and answers into a post.

An interview with the blogger Rearrangemymind

Why are you blogging, rather than keeping a personal journal?

I find personal journals as boring. I don’t feel as compelled to keep them updated because I’m the only reader. Whereas in a blog I feel as if someone somewhere will read it, and thus I might as well update the blog to satisfy them. Plus it’s nice to type things out in a blog than say a word processing document, and I do like penning my thoughts in a journal but I do not write with a pen nearly as fast as I write and I find my hand gets tired. It’s a burden really

What topics do you think you’ll write about?

A variety of topics I daresay, as of course I am completing two challenges resulting in two posts a day if at all possible and I highly doubt they will be related. I like writing about a lot of different things. I like reading lots of different things too. I find it improves my work.

Who would you love to connect with via your blog?

I’m not particularly sure, although I like the idea of my future spouse stumbling across my blog and falling in love with the words I write (which are average at best) but I highly doubt that will happen, why? Because the odds are slim to none.

If you blog successfully throughout 2014, what would you hope to have accomplished?

I would like to have accomplished an improvement in the way I write, it’s very important to me that I improve the way I write. Why? Because writing isn’t just a hobby for me, I need it for the college course (and potential university subject) I’m doing which is Business. I like writing, it’s a passion of mine. Of course I want to improve, it’d be mad to not want to improve a hobby.

What are you about?

In a quick summary I am about music, literature and dreams. I can’t romanticize myself, I don’t go walking with a dog through a park, or paint pretty pictures. Instead I sit up in a room with two cats and write stories that I wish would come true, and I like to listen to music. That’s me in a nutshell. I am all about my music and my words.

Why should they read your  blog?

Because why not?