Writer in Review

I have this professor at school. She is managing editor of Arizona Highways magazine, as well as a published author. She said something in class that really got me thinking:

"Write as though every word is on trial for its life."

So I decided to go back and review what I have written on this blog. I have almost made it to the five year mark and I think a good clean-up is in order.

It's funny. There are so many things I didn't write about in the beginning. Why did I omit so many epic backpacking trips? The Seven Devils, Heart Lake, William O' Douglas, Revett Lake and tons more. I briefly considered going back and writing them all anyway, but I wont. Instead I'll just clean up what I have.

Reviewing my archives, it's clear that I just didn't take the blog seriously until I moved to Arizona in 2013. It's the stuff before then that I'll be working on. I want my blog tip-top. I want it to be the best.

Real Life

Holy smokes, what a crazy last couple of months. Some of you might be wondering where I have been, and what I've been doing, well let me give you the rundown.

 

It all started in May when my laptop crashed. Luckily I was able to save all the files before the end, but I was still without a computer. I borrowed an old Dell from a friend to hold me over until I could afford a new one of my own. Unfortunately I couldn't do any photo editing with it, so I have been piling up photos on the SD card.

 

Anyway, it was around this time that I got my butt back into college. I enrolled in 3 classes for the Summer 1 semester at Paradise Valley Community College, and holy crap did they kick my ass. For the entire month of June I lived Algebra, Speech, and Computer Programming. I didn't hike or camp, or do anything fun at all, I was just so damn busy with my classes and my regular life.

 

So that's why I haven't been blogging here at writerinthewild.com... I thought about writing a blog post explaining how to solve quadratic equations, but I figured you might pass out from boredom before it was over. Well, the semester is over, and I have a brand new laptop, so I am definitely back in business, so keep an eye out for new stuff.