Dear Diary . . . day by day

Friday, June 23rd - Story-story-story!
Part of me really loves my writing class. Then there's the parts of me that don't like it at all. We sit still for 2 hours before we get the briefest of breaks (not even enough time to potty, buy a drink and do some yoga to stretch out the kink in my legs). It is physically terribly painful for me, and I think I shoot the teacher irritated looks because he always looks back at me with a bewildered expression.
We read some of our beginnings out loud to the class, and I was relieved to hear that most of the class are thoughtful, intelligent writers with a good dollop of talent. It actually makes me hate my own story even more - the thing I'm working on has the potential to be very, very cheesy. So far it's ok - Molly (a classmate) compared it to the Harry Potter books, which is quite a compliment (and a shock, as I wasn't writing young adult books and if this IS young adult there goes that hot sex scene I was planning for near the end of the story . . . perhaps I'll try both a PG and an R rated ending?). Anyhow, I'm not really wanting to write anything as gentle as a Harry Potter book right now - this story will have much more bitterness in it than Molly could see from the beginning - I'll have to foreshadow that more. But her comments did give me a new direction to go in - I'm developing a character whom I originally thought was just a walk-on. The really interesting thing for me is that the character who reflects my personality in this piece is a 12-year-old girl - or me at around age 12. Hmm, actually, this character is somewhat nicer than I was at age 12, which is rather telling about me, since the girl in the story is rather devious.
Sorry - I'm all "story-story-story" today (much like I get when I have a crush on someone and I'm all "boy-boy-boy"). I was talking with Christa at lunch about her kitties (the story has lots of cats in it and one of the main characters speech patterns are based on the way Christa talks about her cats) and something in what she said totally gave me the ending for my story! I was so psyched, but I can't write until I get home (phones too distracting for one thing)! But I know where it's going now - I can finish this baby tonight!! Then, then I've got ANOTHER piece which is probably going to be heavily based on Holly and my relationship in the mountains of Spain (which I haven't put up here yet, I know). That's going to be a more serious piece than the current, goofy cat-story (which, after editing, I hope will be in the style of Tom Robbins. That's one reason why I keep writing it, despite the fact that I'm afraid it will get cheesy - this writing style is not my typical writing style, and I think it's good for me to practice something else. Yeah, that's it.). Anyhow, I'm about a story and a half behind my head right now, and I'm dying to catch up.
Exercise log:
Lifted weights: back and bicep day. And let me tell you, it's HELL to sit still for 3 hours in tiny schoolroom desk after working out; I stood up and almost fell down, my muscles were so fatigued. Rrgh.
Writing log:
Wrote the second beginning for my assignment at lunch (it'll probably be another story with the same characters, since it's set 20 years earlier). After class I was so pumped up from Molly's (a classmate) comments on my story that I sat down and just let more of my story flow out of me - 1388 words worth before I was too tired to see straight. Writing class = double plus good.
I'm currently reading:

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (aka "Blade Runner") by Phillip K. Dick

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