Distracted By Something Shiny

I love how everyone seem to start out writing Mary-Sue characters. I guess it's because we want them to be awesome and amazing and stuff, and in the beginning we think the only way to get them to be like that is to make them perfect pod-people or something. :P One of my creative writing books said something about learning the craft: in the beginning you think everything is shit, because you've read good literature and you know how to recognize good literature, but what you write don't turn out that way, and you just get frustrated and think everything you write sucks. What you need to remember is that you've spent years cultivating your literary tastes, so you should spend years cultivating your writing before you get to think it sucks.

Long ramble is long. Point is, everything is awesome and I just got back from ten days in the Swedish mountains. That is totally the point. :P