Starving artist? Check!

I am trying to get my creative juices flowing. I feel like it is so cold today that it is slowing my thoughts down so that they can't get from my head to my fingers without losing heart. I'm having a very difficult time writing today. I always sit down and warm up my thinking engine with a blog entry or a writing exercise, I guess today I may have to sit here and let it run a little longer before I try to go anywhere.
That reminds me, I have a terrible fondness of metaphors. I used to think it was pretty cool that I could come up with a complex and clever metaphor for any situation in life. These days I think it seems a little campy and tacky. It's just the way my brain works, as if I am constantly making comparisons in my mind. What do metaphors accomplish? They can be very powerful illustrative devices, when used properly. They can help convey thoughts, emotions, actions, all in a way that make you think on something a little more. But I feel like I overuse them, and I am afraid to use them too much in my writing.

I am incredibly serious about pursuing writing as a career. I feel like some around me may not see it that way, as if I had said, "I am writing a novel," as though it were some hobby or project I planned on putting a little time into every now and then. This is something huge to me. This is a life choice. I can't quit my day job and sit at home writing all day to make it a more legitimate career-I don't think any writer should or could do that in the beginning. I will be going back to school in the fall and picking my english major back up, changing my concentration from literature to creative writing. This is what I am doing with my life. And yes, it is a difficult decision. I am going to have nothing to show for this for a very long while.
You better recognize!
Hahaha, I hope, SO much, that no one would read this old blog of mine and take it in as a serious representation of my writing abilities. As I said before, this is my warm up. These are my thoughts running wild in word form. No spelling, grammar, or syntax editing. This is rough, I am fully aware of it. Judge me not!

I saw a book at work the other day entitled How to Become a Successful Writer Before You're Dead. That makes me nervous. I shall persevere.