The Perks of Being a Cuban.

Yes, it's worth it. It is worth the frustration and aggravation as the end result will be something I'm proud to have "given birth" to. I understand there's no need any more to continue writing, but I want to. And fee it will only do me good in the future to never let my skills rust up. I've gotten much more comfortable in the creative genre and I do not want to forget all the tools and techniques I learned last semester. It loosened me up and I fear that I may be ready to start my own story, withuut a teacher's guidance. Who am I kidding? I NEED MY TEACHER!! I don't have a due date! I don't wave a day to have a first draft done! I don't have to be done in time for a useless peer edit by a peer who has nothing helpful to say!! I'm not being graded Im not being rushed! I NEED TO BE RUSHED!!!

Now that I don't take Creative Writing anymore, I am finding itt harder to motivate myslf to write. I do want to continue writing fiction as I don't want my skills to get rusty, but now that there is no need to rush I fear that I am becoming a lazy writer. There is no need to get a story down as now the time is limitless, I do not only have one cycle to finish a story. Now I could end up like Ms Eaton, whose worked on a book foryears. Or, God forbid, like Muir, who has never written anything and just aas a dream to become a published author someday. I need due dates, which Ms Eaton jokingly said she'd give me, since she noticed the joy I found in writing for her class. I will continue and have a good idea for my next story, I just do not know where to begin, or why I'm writing it. I no longer have an audience, though it was just an audience of one, maybe at most three, it was still an audience. I do not want my writing to sit on my hard drive as writers write because they are vain and want to share their "babies" with many. I want to continue, but fear it isn't worth it... I may just start emailing my stories to Ms. Wortman and never get a response. I'm atill waiting for a response to my "happy nondenominational holiday season" email.

I try to stay away from politics. Mainly because it doesn't interest me and I hate talking to people about it. The qwhole opinionated thing. Just bothers me and I'd rather not be a polittico. BUT I'm loving that the VERY FIRST HISPANIC inducted into the United Stattes Senate was a CUBAN! Robert Menendez! What an awesome name too! And he's CUBAN. America's not so stupid after all.