Disclaimer (a little too late)

So this post is coming six months too late but better late than never as the old cliche goes. Anyways, I just reread my posts on the blog and basically just cringed. Between my trying to be funny (which I'm not) and never ending any post satisfactorily I'm glad that I've never publicized that I write this blog. If anyone actually read it I would probably just receive scathing reviews. (And not just because of all the typos I've found.) So I would like to add a disclaimer to this blog: IT IS A TOTAL BRAIN DUMP!!!! I basically just type whatever I'm thinking and edit after I hit the publish button. Is that the most efficient or rational way to write a blog? Probably not but it's how I write and I guess that's what this blog is about in the end.

Moodiness

Firstly, don't ask about this title or think too much about it. I'm tired from chasing 4 and 5-year-olds all day at work. Sorry, I can't resist tangents. Anyway, on to the actual topic which has to do with moodiness or more specifically, moods. This summer I've been doing a lot of work on Guardians even if it's just a few sentences a day. The point is that I keep writing and keep the juices flowing. It's one of those things where sometimes I have to make myself sit down but once I start writing I can't stop. To me, writing a novel isn't something that you exactly have to be in the mood for, you can kind of just put yourself in the mood. However, I realized that I haven't written any poetry at all this summer. I find the fact funny because this past year I was writing poetry non-stop, it actually became a bit of an obsession. But my lack of poems actually confirms I theory I've always had which is that poems arrive. I've never written a satisfactory poem when I've just sat down and been like, "I'm writing a poem now". Poems to me are a more organic process between thoughts and paper. They're almost like eloquently phrased diary entries. And as I've learned you have to be in a certain mindset or mood to write poetry versus being able to submerge yourself in another world when writing a novel. And although they're very different types of writing I have to say that I enjoy both.