Confessions of a Traveler: The Observations of Alien 597 by Clara L. Molina
Grotesque
insect looking beasts, which burst out of your chest, and have acid
for blood. Grey and short aliens with big eyes, who want to take over
your mind, and they do horrible experiments with instruments that go
up your anus. They’ve come to take over the world, and make you
into a zombie or dinner. If they ever land in full view, they would
either be worshiped and a new religion would form, or murdered
immediately, and their ship parts sold to the highest bidder. Alien
597 read her report about aliens that humans had encountered.
A short story about an alien visiting Earth.
A short story about an alien visiting Earth.
Procrastination.
It isn’t all bad
-How to
make sure your procrastinating for the right reason.
Procrastination
is purposeful, and writing and periods of nothing go hand in hand.
Ernest
Hemingway, Stephen King, Aldous Huxley, Kurt Vonnegut, Voltaire -
these are all influential authors, that have at one time or another
had writer’s block. A feeling of dread has come over every writer
at one time or another, but all successful authors have lived through
it, and lived to tell the tale.
Let me
check Youtube, I need to put the dishes up, let me get up and put the
right music on, there’s a sock on the floor, so let me fix the sock
drawer. Yet time is slipping away, it’s called the dreaded
procrastination, but do not dread. Learn from it.
What to do
when you begin to procrastinate? You need to stop, and figure out why
you are procrastinating. If your stopping to contemplate the wonders
of the universe, then please, life is too short, do not deny
yourself. Keep contemplating on this, it may even be good writing
material later on. If your procrastinating at work, because you hate
your job, well, the answer is obvious, your not passionate about your
work.
What are
you passionate about? Don’t fake your way into passion because
everyone is doing it. Don’t punch into work, talk the talk, and act
the act. You are what you think about when no one else is looking and
seeing. If your not passionate about your work, then procrastination
will be your friend forever.
What do you
get for your time? You never get get it back, the hand is moving, but
your getting nothing. If your passionate about what your doing, then
you must repurpose procrastination. That’s right. Procrastinate
with a purpose. Fill the void, and channel it toward your passion.
How do you
do this? Ideas for writers come from everywhere - our experiences,
our encounters with people and situations, a movie that moved us, and
music that invoked heavy emotional feeling. When your stuck on a
piece of writing, continue with the idea in your head, and use the
world around you as a helping hand.
Ideas do
not come out of being stuck in a hole, unless your writing about
being stuck in a hole. Don’t see procrastination as the enemy, see
it as a process, a means to an end. A contemplation about the
universe, that could be a backdrop to a book. Your tire blowing out,
and the frustration you felt, that you can now write in words so
clearly for a character.
Make sure
procrastination is pointed in the right direction, and get your
compass aligned. Carry a notebook, and experience the world with
purpose. A good book is on the horizon, and you have procrastination
to thank for that.
As Henry
David Thoreau said, “It’s not enough to be busy… The question
is: what are we busy about?”
Clara
L Molina writes Science Fiction books most of the time, dabbles in
comic drawings occasionally, and writes to laugh at herself all the
time. She has a computer
science degree, but has been a lifelong
writer. She currently lives in San Antonio, Texas,
and enjoys fresh air and days where
her hair is not frizzy.
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