Tuesday, January 31, 2012

WHAT SHOULD I DO?

      I love to write but I don't take what I write too seriously. I enjoy it and will keep going with it while being happy to share it with anyone and everyone who would like to have a read of anything I may get to come up with, without thinking of any sort of gain for myself from it. However even though it is just a hobby, a pass time for me it would still be nice to see something in print.

      Something I have been thinking about for quite some time now it to take some of the stories I have written, gather them together and print them up in maybe a book or magazine like format, maybe get 100-200 copies printed up and sell them between family and friends with the though of donating any and all profits from such a project to charity. If I was to do this the charity of choice for me would be the Make A Wish Foundation.

      My main problems are however, first of all I am not a naturally confident person. I keep trying to tell myself not to worry as my efforts would be going to a good cause. Secondly if I do go ahead with this, how should I go about it? Over the last couple of weeks I have been working on rewriting two groups of stories. One of which is a series of continuing short stories based on the ideas of Vampires. The other story is the story I wrote for last Novembers NaNoWriMo. Both still need a fair bit of writing and rewriting.

      Thing is now, should I just say 'feck it' and go ahead with this project? Then if I do, should I only do up one of the two stories or go ahead with both? If I only do up one then which one should it be? If I go ahead and do both should I keep writing the way I am at the moment alternating between the two? Adding to one story then taking a break before going through the other one, or maybe stick to completing one story at a time. Maybe I should keep the writing as a hobby and do nothing at all with the finished stories.

      Is it worth my while to do any of this? I don't know. If I do print anything up I may not even get the cost of doing so back, then again it may prove to be a successful project. So now the question is what should I do? I am quite confused.

Thursday, January 26, 2012

A STRANGE OCCURANCE

      As some of you may know, all through my life I have had experiences which you could say were a bit super natural or paranormal, moments which con not be easily explained. Well it has been quite a while since my last 'strange' encounter. Been a while that is until this morning.

      Having been up quite early I decided to head back to bed and I fell asleep fairly quickly. About an hour or so later I awoke to and straight away felt a strange presence. Having not yet opened my eyes, I had this feeling that I was not alone. Before I could do anything I felt what seemed to be two hands wrap themselves around my neck. All of a sudden I became paralysed. I could not moved what so ever.

      A second or two passed and I began to struggle to breathe. Ten or fifteen seconds passed and I still could not breathe. Still being paralysed I knew I had to do something quick or I would not survive this moment. I fought to open my eyes and as soon as I did I was once again able to breathe, through my nose at first. I could feel power return to my limbs and I got out of bed as quickly as I could and found that I was indeed alone, and I could no longer feel a presence.

      I generally don't mind the strange moments that I experience, though as this shows, not all of these strange experiences are pleasant. Seriously hope I do not have another moment like this one.