Hello All,
I know I have not updated this thing in forever but college has gotten in the way and any free moment I had I dedicated to my story (which still isn't finished). Now, here I am, with enough free time to make a work-a-holic feel antsy, and I am blogging.
Not that there is anything wrong with blogging of course but I feel like this time should be spent on actually finishing that stupid story that I love so dearly. I think my patients with it has just run out and I just can't handle it anymore. Part of me has started to wish that my word document could take a brain reading of my mind and write it for me but I have yet to find the button to accomplish this.
Anyway this post is called distractions for a reason and hopefully by now you have figured it out. Yes, yes YOU are the distraction keeping me from my writing, in fact you are my fifth. My others consist of Charlie McDonnell youtube blogs, teaching myself how to work iMovie, getting in touch with people I haven't hung out with sense pre-school, and writing another story. The last one seems a bit stupid I know but I was running out of things to do.
Now don't get me wrong, my story isn't so frustratingly difficult that I can't write it, I am just sick of writing the same story over and over again for three years straight. I have everything planned out, languages written, and maps drawn up, I just need the will power to fill in the skeleton. Which is why I have given myself a dead line. On January 18th I must be finished with my novel, no excuses! By then I will send it off to my grammarian to edit and then off to the publishing house in hopes of someone buying it.
Well my first iMovie is done, so I am going to go now and hopefully start writing.
Sunday, December 18, 2011
Saturday, September 3, 2011
My First College Post
Whether my life is one novel or a book series, I have moved onto my next adventure. College. After finishing my first week in a liberal arts college I have learned a lot of things and yet very few of them are academic.
1) Liberal Art's is NOT the same thing as an art's school. Though they might tell you this, it is not true. Coming from an Art's high school I expected basically the same thing that happened over there to happen in my new college environment. But no one dresses express themselves, no one does anything to stand out of the crowd. They are all so alike it is hard to tell them apart.
2) The campus is divided by two groups: commuters and residents. They rarely ever mix.
3) Introducing yourself as a nerd (in a joking sort of manner) black balls you from making friends.
4) College students think they know everything. They don't. If they did then they wouldn't be showing up to class an half and hour late hung over.
5) No one likes somebody who actually cares. Each of them put all of their energy in trying to be cool instead of their academics and their intended major.
Now here is the list of things I have learned academically:
1) How to make pin shots.
2) Socks are not allowed in yoga.
Pretty dismal I know. But thankfully I have started to make friends. I have a close knit group that I eat lunch with. They, like me, actually care about academics. I have made a group of friends I can study with. I have at least one person to walk to class with each day. And I have found someone to carpool with twice a week. The only downside about the carpool situation is that I barely know the person. So each drive his filled with awkward silence and sometimes awkward conversations.
From what I hear, things will get better. I hear that our college years are the best. I hope they are right, because so far the best year of my life was my senior year. But who knows. It was only the first week and that is usually when people are still trying to find their way.
Now off to finish a bucket load of homework that is so easy it is tedious...
Kx
1) Liberal Art's is NOT the same thing as an art's school. Though they might tell you this, it is not true. Coming from an Art's high school I expected basically the same thing that happened over there to happen in my new college environment. But no one dresses express themselves, no one does anything to stand out of the crowd. They are all so alike it is hard to tell them apart.
2) The campus is divided by two groups: commuters and residents. They rarely ever mix.
3) Introducing yourself as a nerd (in a joking sort of manner) black balls you from making friends.
4) College students think they know everything. They don't. If they did then they wouldn't be showing up to class an half and hour late hung over.
5) No one likes somebody who actually cares. Each of them put all of their energy in trying to be cool instead of their academics and their intended major.
Now here is the list of things I have learned academically:
1) How to make pin shots.
2) Socks are not allowed in yoga.
Pretty dismal I know. But thankfully I have started to make friends. I have a close knit group that I eat lunch with. They, like me, actually care about academics. I have made a group of friends I can study with. I have at least one person to walk to class with each day. And I have found someone to carpool with twice a week. The only downside about the carpool situation is that I barely know the person. So each drive his filled with awkward silence and sometimes awkward conversations.
From what I hear, things will get better. I hear that our college years are the best. I hope they are right, because so far the best year of my life was my senior year. But who knows. It was only the first week and that is usually when people are still trying to find their way.
Now off to finish a bucket load of homework that is so easy it is tedious...
Kx
Sunday, July 31, 2011
First Chapters
One of the hardest things for any writer to do, is to write their stories first chapter. This chapter has to have an enticing first sentence and a riveting first paragraph. If not, the reader will put your book back on the shelf and decide to get another book about something that has been over done.
So how do we do it? How do we write that sentence that makes the reader fall in love your book completely?
The truth?
I don't know.
But I am trying. Each day I work at it and work at it. I read stories and try to find my favorite opening sentences. From what I have read Jane Austen is the best at it. Her first sentences are so memorable that they are still quoted to this day.
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters."
—Jane Austen, Pride and prejudice, ch. 1
You see it is clever and makes you want to read more of what this witty author has to say.
Once you have got that down though how do keep them interested? How do prepare them from what is to come without giving so much away? Leave your opinions in the comment box bellow and together we might be able to come up with the best written first chapter since Austen.
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Saturday, July 16, 2011
The Deathly Hallows
I saw the last installment and it was awesome!!!!!!! Seriously the best ever!!!!! I cannot even go into full detail of how much I love it, I am still in awe...
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Harry Potter Blog 7 of 7
Okay guys this is it! The last of the last! I hope you enjoy it as much as I did and I hope you enjoy the movie tonight :D SO EXCITED!!!!!!!! I cannot believe it is all coming to an end tonight... Just look at what J.K. Rowling has created, she has made the world fall in love with something together again :)
P.S. Lily Evans Potter is my all time FAVORITE character!!
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Harry Potter Blog 6 of 7
Severus Snape. One of my favorite characters. Or at least, a character in one of my favorite chapters which happens to be at the end of the 7th book. I love him! So when I saw this video I practically died on the inside :D
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