For the first time in my life, it feels like a new year. 
Every New Year I have experienced prior, I have faced difficulty in recognizing that a transition had been made. I would continue writing last year's date on my papers, continue referring to two years prior as "Last year", and not realizing that a new beginning was upon me. However, as 2018 came to be this morning, I was overcome with the sentiment that I was somewhere new. That I was now a part of something different than before. 
2017 blessed me with challenges. I was constantly questioning the right decisions, who the right people were, and if I was in the proper place. 2018, however, fell intp my lap as I celebrated with the most incredible people. As I grinned from ear to ear, surrounded by people who I just felt such comfort with, I just had a feeling that the challenges of the past year were now lessons that I hope to keep in my heart until the end of time. 
So, this is me raising my dollar store champagne flute to you, 2018. Hello there, it is so wonderful to meet you. If your beginning is like the rest of you, I can't wait to see what's in store. 

So, this is what's happening.
My plan before work was to go and write at the coffee shop in my favourite bookstore. However, my computer charger had other plans. It conveniently broke this morning and I know I won't get too far with a battery at 19%.
I was extremely frustrated when I found out my new charger would only be coming in next week. Just as I was groaning and moaning over how "I wouldn't be able to write for a week" realized that this isn't what makes a writer.
"The Writer" isn't about their medium, it's about their content. I realized that the thoughts in my head that I was so excited to create, to bring to life, were actually so much more valuable than any computer or charger imaginable. No matter how I let them pour out, it was my writing and that's what is special.
So, as I write this to you on my phone, I'm sitting in this café, my last festive holiday drink of the year next to me (by the way, I am so excited for Christmas), writing all of my ideas and plans in an old notebook of mine. I couldn't be happier.
Cheers to content, cheers to perseverance, and cheers to never letting anything come in your way of creating.

Let's try this blog thing again, shall we? 
Today in Montreal, it has been predicted that fourteen centimetres of  snow will fall. This is quite fantastic because I was already in the mood for the holidays, but this feeling has officially been amplified. 
Considering the snow and my incapability of driving well on dry ground, it was best that I stay home, and this got me to thinking. 
I will officially be on my winter break for the next month and I want to make the most of this. I would argue that I currently am, for it is noon and I am still in a onesie and I am on my third tea of the day (yum). However, I want to make myself something more than this. 
I feel as if I am so close to the life that I want to be living. I want to associate my name with being a writer, to being someone who can help people, and to being someone who has control of her life. I feel as if I am finally so close to grasping this.
I want to make it clear that it is impossible to force creativity. You can force yourself to sit down and make something creative, but I am not sure of how positive the outcome of this will be. I realized such with my first shot at this blog, where I tried forcing myself to sit down every day and write a blog post. This lasted for about a month, because the writing that I was producing wasn't what I wanted to be producing. It was forced, it didn't sound like myself, and I was not proud of it. 
Being someone who is dedicated to becoming a writer and who is also trying to become familiar with YouTube as a platform, I am trying to take advantage of every moment of creative energy that I come across. I want to be able to create work that I am proud of. I really believe that this is where "Quality VS Quantity" concept comes into play. I would rather be creating work that I am proud of and that reflects who I am as a creator as opposed to forcing myself to spit out nonsense that even I can't relate to. 
Creating is the best thing that has ever happened to me. I think I just need to start grasping onto these bursts of creativity and do whatever I can to release it. Whether it is working on my current book, making a video, or writing a blog post just like this, I want to be able to share this energy so that we can all become inspired. I believe that this will truly be the key to making myself more creative. 
So let's go ahead and try it. See where it takes us. 
I hope you enjoy. 
-Cheyenne