gettiing out of my rut, story time- Benton Eskelsen

So I've been really trying to write more and more since I've gotten into the major but I have really limited myself in this because I'm intimidated by length. I mostly write either advertisements, short poems or little blurbs, things of that nature. I have really wanted to embark on writing a short story, but I've always convinced myself I'd do it later or I just wasn't ready(I'm just a young padawan). SO I decided to buckle down I write one. I was going to be in a car for 8 hours so I knew I was going to have time and I knew I really had no excuse. I had a couple ideas for stories already in my head and picking one was not too difficult to do. I also placed a page limit on myself because I wanted to write a complete work and not just start something I would never finish. So the beginning was the hardest, becasue I was being very critical from the get go I didn't like certain words or I didn't like How it progressed and in short I started over a lot. In the end I finally got the story to flow the way I wanted to(atleast to some degree, I plan to work on it some more). I by no means got a finished product but I got something I could def work on and tinker with. I don't know if I ever would want to publish anything or be an author of some sort but it is something that does interest me and this was at least a toe in the water in this pursuit.