Don't think.

Lesson of the day: don't think too much about writing.

We did a few writing exercises in my Writing Fiction class today. After sitting there for a few minutes our professor told us not to think too much about what we were writing. Once I quit putting thought into what I was writing, my pen just kept moving. It was a miracle. Usually I sit with a pen and paper, or a keyboard and blank word document for about 10 minutes before I can come up with anything.

Today, I wrote about three notebook pages worth of a story in about 15 minutes. It was the best I have ever felt about writing too, in that amount of time anyways. I wrote a story about a girl who wants to go to the big city and escape the small town farm life. Even though that is a pretty cliche story, it just all came together so perfectly and I didn't have more than one brain freeze while I was writing either. After class I felt like writing more so when I got back to my house I wrote a few more paragraphs.

I think I am really going to like both classes that I had today. I know people in both classes and the professors seem nice and intelligent.

I hope that everyone else's first day of class was as exciting as mine was.