Yoboseyo, 2014!

"I'm making a blog.
Simplifying my resolution comes down to that. I am here, figuring out this bloggy software, trying to do what I've never done before: finish something... 

...My resolution is not to learn to cook, or to lose weight (all things I spent last year doing, with mild success, and will continue to do this year) but to finish Halfer. I spent 4 years in school learning the skill and discipline I need to make this happen, and I hope by the end of December 2013 I will have something to start shopping to agents. 

This blog is called Writerlust because that is what I have: a desire to write, really, and no direction. Maybe if I put everything I do this year on display for everyone to see, it'll guilt me into trying to actually get something done.

So here goes nothing."

Joke's on me I guess, right guys?

It's almost 2014. It'll actually be 2014 for me before it is for the most of you, isn't that crazy? 

Making the Most of Summer

My favorite season is some kind of weird amalgamation of autumn and spring. I love the cooler part of spring and the warmer part of autumn. I love sweater weather and leggings and not necessarily having to wear that coat to be able to step outside the door. I love apple cider, I love pale flowers among new green leaves. Pumpkin picking, puddle jumping, I love so many things about those two seasons...except that somewhere in the middle I have to deal with summer.

Turning Over a New Leaf

It's amazing I've gotten any work done.

As a wee lass, I never had any video game consoles to speak of. I think my neighbors had a Playstation, my other neighbor an Xbox, and an assortment of Nintendo 64's littered the houses of my various friends.

I had a computer.

Obviously that didn't stop me from gaming. I'm 23 now and the past decade of my life has involved some pretty intense dedication to video games of various kinds, but the fact that I couldn't really call myself a "gamer" until my teen years meant I missed out on some of the very foundations of gaming our generation was built upon.

One of these games was Animal Crossing.

I remember, vaguely, when it came out. Ads in my Nickelodeon magazine, Disney Adventure, I remember seeing the cardboard cutouts in toy stores while I gazed longingly at Gamecubes I would never be allowed to have. I didn't quite know what it was about, but elementary school aged me, immersed as I was in every Redwall book Brian Jacques could spit out, knew the important part: 

Talking. Goddamn. Animals.

But I never played it, and I in fact don't think I knew anyone who actually owned it. So the years passed, and while I never forgot these games existed...they didn't exactly stay on my radar. 

Fast forward to 2013, where I purchased a 3DS XL in anticipation of the new Pokemon Games this October.

I'm much more aware of gaming news at 23 than I was at 12. Release dates, reviews, trailers, I tend to be exposed a bit more to it in the *meager* time I spend on the internet. So when I first stumbled across the news of the release, it was like I had been transported a decade back in my life, staring at that glass case of games in Wal-Mart that I would never own, with only one thought in my mind.

Talking. Goddamn. Animals.