Working and Writing

Today is rainy and cold. Just my kind of day. I love being able to rap myself in my blankets and snuggle with my cat as I listen to the pitter patter of raindrops against my window and writing in my little book of horrors. When it rains, I feel the most happy. This is my kind of weather. I have grown up where the sun is out and the weather is “perfect” for most of the year. I’m not complaining, I just am done and up for a change. So I sit here, staring out my window as I write this, loving the break from the sun and wish the rain will stay.

I have found a job for UberEats as a delivery driver. So far, it has been fun and easy. I don’t feel the same pressure from it as I did at my last job. This past week I felt like working for 4 days and it was great. I worked a total of 13 hour and made just as much as I did working 16 hours. I could have probably worked a little more but I wasn’t feeling 100% on one of the days so I went home and rested. It was a big relief to find something I can do for work that allows for me to make some money when I want as well as focus on school and writing.

Before the CoronaVirus force my boss to shut down the restaurant and lay me off, it was becoming major drain on my time and energy. I had to work with an employee that left a majority of the work on me. She spent most of her shift sitting on her phone or eating the food. She was the pure definition of lazy and I got stuck with her for 4 month before she was finally let go. With her gone, I was the one who had to train some new employees to make sure we had enough staff to work.

I would go to work stressing and come home with no desire to do anything. I was irritable with those I loved as well. In a sense, I was losing myself. Even though no one likes getting laid off or having to deal with a pandemic, I have been able to take care of myself and get back to finding joy in what I do. I am now trying to work on finding a good balance between driving for UberEats and being home to study for classes and work on stories. I have been looking for things to do when I am not driving that that help be to start my own drone business.

Part of what I am doing is getting comfortable in front of a camera. I joined my mom in a 30-day video challenge with a group that she did a training with. I would like to do some youtube tutorial videos on drones in the future. Only problem is that I am not confident in being in front of the camera. Being in the video challenge has made it easier for me to let go of all my preconceived ideas of needing it be perfect right off the bat. I took a shot at doing a tutorial video for the group and was surprised to find that it was easy. Now I want to start getting a stockpiled for editing later when I get ready to launch.

This virus situation has forced not just myself, but many others that are staying home to find new ways to bring in money in different ways in order to stay safe. I know I have become more creative in how I want my business to run if this was to continue or if something similar were to happen in the future. I have, also, had to think of ways to keep myself entertained and challenged while limiting my need to go outside.

Here I go rambling on and taking too much of your time dear reader. It is time for me to sign off today and get to writing in my little book of horrors. Until next time.

Starting New in 2020

Hi everyone. Today I decided to completely restart my blog to reflect the changes that I have gone through in the past couple of months that I have stopped blogging. I have been going through quite a bit in those month and needed to take a break, but now that I am stuck at home and have to find a way to deal with the world around me, I feel it is time to get back to what I enjoyed the most. I am using this blog as a personal journal, of sorts, to help work through my writing blocks that I will have as well as keep some sense of normality in my life. I had started a job that took a lot of my attention away from this and I have been laid off from said job due to the Coronavirus. Now I am evaluating my situation and debating if I should go back once this quarantine is all over

My passion for writing is still a strong desire for me, but I have not been able to commit the same amount of time and energy to it. In some ways I feel I have let myself down as well as my viewers. I am getting back to my roots and working on making changes for the better, making positive habits that will help with my writing. So here is to a new day and a new beginning.

Let me share some updates that have happened in my life since September. I finished writing the first draft of my short horror story and I am in the works of typing it into my computer so I can get started on my first round of editing. I have learned that I need to write the story in my head out onto paper before I start working on editing, because I found that if I edited before I was finished writing a rough draft, I would never finish it. I would get so focused on changing things in the moment that I would lose sight of the story itself and would never finish it.

I am, also, in the process of writing my second short story that will also be in the horror genre. I have a couple ideas rolling around in my head but the one that has been coming up the most is one that relates to a class that I am taking. I am currently enrolled in a course that is for unmanned system and I am learning everything about drones, from how to fly them to how to repair them. My end goal of this course is to be a drone pilot and run my own drone related business. My short story will be about a drone pilot who captures something on photo that will haunt her for the rest of her life.

To improve on writing horror stories, I have expanded my reading into the horror genre. I came from a very strict and religious background. My parents did not allow me to read anything that was meant to frighten you or be disturbing in any way. I didn’t even watch my first horror movie until I was 18. When I turned 24, I chose to leave the religion that I had grown up with and become my own person. It wasn’t until I was 26 when I found my love for all things that go bump in the night. Now I am trying dive into my love of horror as well as my understanding of it in the one way I know how, by reading and learning from others who have paved the road for me.

That’s all for today. Keep an eye out for my next post to see what I am up to. Until then, stay safe and enjoy every moment

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