Has it been that long?

Wow, I haven't written anything on the blog in months. As I start to get on a better plan to lose a little bit of weight and exercise more, I think I should add writing to my list. Writing has been my distraction for years since I sat in the church at seven years old lost in my own thoughts as the minister droned on and on about the same story I had heard 10 times by then (and I've never been big on religion so it made my eyes glaze over doubly fast). I used to pull out the pencil they kept in the pew for new guest registration, pull out the inserts from the current week's progam, and write and sketch on the back of them any ideas that popped into my head. Usually they'd end up in the trash at the end of the service, but occassionally I would save the ones I liked most. In high school, I never had the greatest of grades, but for some reason my English teachers always seemed to like me. They must have realized I had that creative spark somewhere buried deep inside and for some reason I was trying to keep a lid on it. I *failed* English twice in high school, and my English teacher *still* thought I was one of her smartest students. She encouraged me to take more writing classes in college. Unfortunately, there weren't a lot of writing classes there (Embry-Riddle didn't really have the funding for a lot of elective classes). That's how I ended up doing art history instead, which is an interest of mine as well. I still sketch random stuff to this day. The one English class I *did* end up taking in college, I received a B in, but got an A+ in the creative writing portion. I always made my public speaking teacher laugh as well and she gave me an A, but I usually got lower marks from the students, probably because on the first day of class I decided my name-tag should read "God." I figured the students already knew my name well enough by then, so why not have some fun. Did I mention that Prescott is the most conservative place I've lived? So fast-forward to my current job, where I haven't had to write anything at all except for computer programs, and my writing skills have been waning. Last year, on a lull at the current job, I started to pull out my old stories and notes and random scraps of paper where I would write down scenes that would be great in movies, and started to take a serious look at professional writing. I was offered a job shortly thereafter (which due to the nature of the publishing business may or may not be going through at this point) but it made me think that there may be something to this. However, the key to writing is *to write* so I've decided I need to just put in the time and write in this blog at least once a day and continue searching for more writing jobs (if I got one, I can get another.) This is somewhere that I've long aimed my creative energy, but never focused it quite enough. I end up with scraps of incoherent scenes that probably made sense at one time, but no longer can be found in my memory so they end up in the trash once again, forgotten with my ramblings and drawings as a young child. I intend to keep the blog updated with my random thoughts for the day, and plan to post any interesting news about my current or future writing jobs here. I should place in a call for the current one to see if the project is still going ahead or not, but either way I intend to write at least something every single day, even if it's no more than "Has it been that long since I've written something?"