Laufty goals

July 2, 2008 | In Random | No Comments

A few months ago I picked up some small pocket sized notebooks with the idea that I would keep them with me at all times. I would write down little ideas that strike me throughout the day, things that strike my fancy for a good blog post.

Cut to now and I’m still sloppy about sharing the details of the things going on in my life. I’d blame Twitter, the place where most of my fleeting thoughts end up, but that’s not really fair. Many of the topics that have popped into my head over the last few weeks would require more than 140 characters could provide.

Instead of going through the empty white pages of the notebook I stopped carrying with me three weeks ago, I figured I would list out a few of those topics here. Who knows, maybe I’ll actually get the motivation to do more with them soon if seeing them on the computer screen un-fleshed out doesn’t annoy me enough.

• Definitely, Maybe – the movie, not the fantastic debut by the best band ever. The flick is a love story told as a bedtime story, that spans 15 or so years. It’s a touching story about a father and his daughter, the loves he lived and the mistakes he has made. A must see.
• The golf swing – Alex and I finally got back out on the golf course, heading out to Savannah Oaks in Lynd. It was my first time on the course and Alex’s third. He was breaking in new clubs and mine were going for their second round. Terrible round for myself, but hitting the driving range later, I might have found my golf swing. Finally. Five years later.
  
• Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends – New Coldplay album is extraordinary.

At some point I hope to expand on those three subjects, but for the time being those will lay flat on the screen as they are. I’m horrible like that some times.

Earlier today I was having a discussion with one of my editors about the bad habits us writers suffer from. Wanting to improve as a writer, I asked if he would shed light on some of my bad habits. The thing that came time mind for him was my complete aversion to compound words.

Ironically I was writing two stories at the time that featuring “landowners” as “fireworks.” Of course reviewing, I realized on more than a couple occasions in each there was a space in the middle of the compounds that should have been there.

I’m sure this blog reveals a number of other bad habits I’ve picked up as I fly through the keyboard trying to get my point across. I’m working on it, I promise.