Writer's Block Tips and a Sit-Rep

I don't have a quote for today. I can't think of one. I'm kinda ashamed in myself, but whatever.

Good Monday. I hate Mondays, it doesn't even deserve to have good before it. So, just Monday. Plainly, solemnly... Monday. So, Monday to you and you.

I don't have much of a topic today but I'm at school right now so I won't do a formal topic until I get home which will be in about three or so hours. So, expect a new one up by then. For now, I will blog about what has happened to me.

Despite that I've been having a lot of friend trouble lately, nothing else much has been happening. I had a very lonesome weekend only because my parents were doing stuff that I simply didn't want to go to. I managed to do my homework but I didn't get to write any. I haven't had much time or inspiration to write anything when I know deep down inside that I need to keep writing.

Here's some writing tips, heed them anyway even if you aren't writers. I think I may have a bit of Writer's Block. (NO! NEVER!!) even if I don't want to admit it. I'm finding myself scrabbling for words lately. I pull up the document and... nothing; absolutely nothing comes to me. It could be that I've possibly reached a very dull part in my book but I know it's very important to the story. Ugh, but here are some tips.

Writer's Block is basically your lack of will or strength or whatever to write words or you're just not feeling it. Never fear, I have some excerises to get those writing juices flowing. I should probably try these out for sure.

1. Get a dictionary and flip to a random page, pick a random word and try to write a sentence or paragraph with that word in it. If you want to do a paragraph, I suggest you do a couple of words instead of just one.
2. Get your favourite book and type/write down the first paragraph or so of it and begin writing there. I have done this one many times and all have seemed to work, so I would recommend that one the most. Not to worry, this isn't copyrighting... Trust me, it's not.
3. Play random word. If you don't know what that is, you haven't read the blog post There is Too Much Awesomness for this Text Bar. and I'll explain it for you. It's a two player game and you and your buddy get two totally different books, flip to a random page, and pick a random word and you and your buddy try to make sentences out of it. It's a pretty wacky game and its cool to see what sentences you come up with. See the ones Adrian and I did by looking under the Archives and select: There is Too Much Awesomeness for this Text Bar.

I think that's all I have for those tips. Or you could just read a book or watch a movie or listen to music but for some it may take more than just inspiration to get you going again.

Now, let me run you through my day so far.

American History was fine, except the fact we had a short, elderly sub today. No, it wasn't Mr. Smiley, sorry guys. I took a quiz, yadda-yadda, but you don't care about that.

Band, we had a chair test. As of now, I'm fifth chair out of eight... BUT that's only because we haven't had a chair test yet and that's just how the seating worked out. So, I haven't taken the test yet because time ran out and THANK GOD because I get sooo nervous whenever I have to take a test. Don't get me wrong, I'm not afraid of some 1990s recorder... it's the fact that I'm alone, WITH the 1990s recorder, in a stuffy room with Swanson (my trumpet =3). I get really self-conscious and really SHAKY too and it's hard to hold a trumpet whenever you're shaking. And if you don't play an instrument and you don't know waht a chair test is... SHAME ON YOU. Just kidding, I'm not mean like that. :) But it's where you play a certain piece of music and the band director chooses a chair for you depending on how good you play the piece. First chair is, obviously, the best and last... isn't too good. I was last chair ALL LAST YEAR, but that was because I was in the section where people have been playing about a year or two longer than me... So, I got some slack on that.

There was an explosion of french fries when I got into lunch today... OH! Get this, the bell rings cutting of our glorious three-minute recess period and sending us back to class. As I walking into the building, I'm chatting to Adrian when I look up from adjusting my shirt, I'll get to my shirt issue in a second - but I saw this guy with blakc hair and light pink shirt, we locked eyes and it's wasn't anything like adoration or admiration, I was simply looking up... But I didn't think HE'D THROW something at me! He threw it and it hit my stomach and GEEZ it HURT. I mean, he threw it really hard. And I didn't do anything!! >:(

It was random and it hurt, what the heck man. That was all I could say. And we locked eyes, I saw him... it was weird! Anyway, here's my shirt deal. It's a striped button-up shirt that's not really suppose to be a blouse by itself. You're suppose to have a undershirt under it and I did - that wasn't the problem. The problem was that there are TOO MANY options for this shirt's sleeves. They reach just past my the crease in my arm and I don't recall them ever begin that long. And I find this strip of fabric inside the sleeve. I pull it out and see a button about seven inches up the sleeve. You're suppose to button that strip up and it pulls them up... But there's another button underneath the sleeve and it's keeping a break in the sleeve, it's not a rip. So you can leave THAT buttoned or unbottoned...

I say forget it. It's all the same to me and does it honestly matter. Oh! I remember. Me de igual. You know what that means? "It's all the same to me"... In Spainsh! :D Epic huh! I told you I would get something useful out of Spanish... Oh wait, I never said that and I have about eighty note cards to do when I get home... Dang it...

I'm not doing a topic when I get home because I think this one cuts it. Awesome but please, post some comment, here's a couple of questions:

If you're a writer, what do you do when you have Writer's Block?
If you play an instrument, please tell and give us any funny incidents that come with it.
And, rating your day from 1 to 10, 1 being the worst - 10 being the best, how was your day?
As always, any recommendations for any blog topics. They will be humbly accepted. :) Wow! I didn't realize how big a word "recommendations" is...

And please comment, I was sad to only get one comment on the last post. I like when my readers interact. :) But it's optional... Swanson recommends it. And it's appreciated.

For now, tootles!

--Chelsea, PinkMenace1227.

P.S. I'm making "tootles" my official good-bye. So... TOOTLES!