Distractions

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.

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

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.

More Harry Potter blogs...

This video is so cool!! Check it out :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y57sYHIDP_Y&feature=topvideos_music

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...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgh-QyxbdXc&feature=relmfu

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!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JbPtDampKE

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nPyasEm3g0

Harry Potter Blog 5 of 7

Here we are with only two days left after this. Thursday is coming up really fast and I am psyched!

Today I will be showing a video about Quiditch. Which, according to spell check, is still not a word. But yet it is a word that many people around the world not only know, but play. Yes Quiditch is an actual sport now. In fact colleges have their own teams and play the game rather competitively.

Here is a news reel about it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UfPij5ABdo&feature=related

Harry Potter Blog 4 of 7

J.K. Rowling is not only the creator of Harry Potter and the Harry Potter world. But she helped discover an amazing actor who we might have never known if it weren't for her books. That's right everyone, I am talking about Darren Criss. A beautiful and talented young man, who wrote (all) and sang (some) of the songs in A Very Potter musical.

So are you guys excited for the Deathly Hallows? I know I am!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmwM_AKeMCk

Harry Potter Blog 3 of 7

So if you are a huge Harry Potter nerd like me then you will know that the Hufflepuff house is known for Loyalty. It is not a house for misfit students that didn't belong to the other houses. Believe me if there were students that didn't fit in they wouldn't have gotten a letter to go there in the first place.

But still I find this video extremely funny and I hope you will too. It is done by the famous Second City Network. Enjoy!

(if you click the title of the blog you will go straight to the youtube link)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0Z5_wipT2o

Harry Potter Blog 2 of 7

Okay guys, we have five more days until part two comes out and I thought it would be a good idea to watch one of J.K. Rowling's interviews. This particular interview is one of her earliest ones. It was made either right before or right after the second book, The Chamber of Secrets, came out.

I don't want to ruin the video for you, so I won't tell you everything that is in it. But I would like to draw attention to the fact that she is actually writing her books on actual paper and by hand! I know it doesn’t seem like much but once you begin writing on a computer it is hard to go back to just pen and paper. This is one of the reasons why she is my hero and one of my role models for writing. I wish had the energy to write an entire book on paper, but sadly I just can't focus properly. Maybe if I had nicer hand writing I could...

I wonder how many spirals she filled to write one of her books?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgDfmzpPf_Y&feature=fvwrel

Harry Potter Blog 1 of 7

If you are anything like me then you are a huge Harry Potter fan who is impatiently waiting for the final installment. If you're not then I am extremely sorry about the next six blogs (excluding this one), because you are about to see how much of a Harry Potter nerd I truly am :D

To start off the daily Harry Potter blogs why don't we watch a couple of puppets who we all have tried to mimic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx1XIm6q4r4

Back Tracking

This week I kind of… back tracked I guess you can say. My whole life was moving forward and sadly I went backwards.
You see ever since I can remember I have been doing plays. I always loved preforming, whenever I made someone feel something they weren’t feeling before I would feel accomplished. When I played Aunt Sadie in My Favorite Year and made everyone laugh, I was ecstatic. When I played M’Lynn in Steel Magnolias and made each audience member cry I had never been more pleased with myself. And at that time I felt as though it was what I was supposed to do. Touch people in a way that made their emotions run crazy. But whenever I was off of the stage, practicing and reciting, it was awful. The group I was with was filled with drama, they were all nice people, but we had been with each other for far too long. Plus I never felt like I belonged. I tried to though. I forced myself to like someone in the cast, which ended up being the worst decision of my life. But because of that decision, I found out how much I really didn’t fit in with any of them.
I started noticing that the only thing any of us had in common was our love for preforming. Besides that I was the only one who read constantly, the only one who was old fashion, and the only one who dressed in clothes that were from an older time period. I remember thinking I was just different. So I decided to write about it. I had always loved telling stories, so why not try writing them all down? And that was how I discovered my love of writing. Within no time at all I found a school for writers and sent my work to them.
I remember when I first met my class mates I found they weren’t like me either. They were all quiet, while I—got excited easily. But that didn’t stop me from finding out we had almost everything in common, the reading, the time periods, the imaginations. For the first time I ever I felt like I belonged. And for the last year my life has been perfect. My writing has improved immensely and I feel as though I have finally discovered the true me. But when the year ended I was depressed and bored. No one who went to my school lived near me and I was all alone. I wrote of course, keeping in touch with everyone, but I still need to hang out with someone. So I back tracked.
Yup. You guessed it, I rejoined the drama group. Even though I am having fun, I feel as though I am letting myself down. I was moving forward, making something of my life and there I was signing up for something that had nothing to do with my future. I am not saying I never want to do plays again. But I don’t want to preform until I can get something published. Until I get my dream started.
So get ready guys, this summer is going to be a clash of the old and the new.

Update :)

Hey guys,

Sorry I haven't been blogging much lately. I have so much to write about but this week has been super hectic! I will update you guys more on Friday. But until then, please tell me what you would like me to blog about. Any suggestions for the topics of writing, photography, tea, or anything artsy? Let me know!

A Pretty Good Day

Yesterday I woke up wondering what I was going to do. One thing you should know about me is that I love to be busy. I love having my schedule full, I love trying to fit in seconds to write my story. Plus I feel I write are better during my hectic days. But when I am writing in the summer, when my schedule is fully open, my stories become boring like my life at that moment. So today I woke up deciding to do something about it. I went down stairs and started upon my new room. This summer I will be moving into the downstairs bed room but in order to do that I have to remove everything in that room and find a place for it. So I guess I won't be moving until the end of the summer.

Anyways while I was working on it I got a call from one of my best friends who lives out of town (he lives about 5 hours away from me) saying he wanted to surprise me by taking out for breakfast. Within in ten minutes he was at my house whisking me off on an adventure with his friends. It was so much fun and I still cannot believe I saw him. When I returned home I continued with my room. Get a good amount of work done, clearing out spaces and getting ready to put all the stuff in the downstairs room now into storage. The whole time I got to spend quality time with my family.

The last part of the day I hung out with my friend Paige (I will post her website link below) and together we worked on resumes and job applications while eating ice cream. All and all I think it was a pretty good day.

http://prettylittleglamazon.com/

My Sort of Comic Books

Almost everyone in this world collects something whether it be comic books, beenie babies, Pokémon cards...it is still something that means a lot to you. Though I have many things that our important to me there are only two things I seem to collect. Books and quotes. I have way too many, it is even getting hard to keep track. So you can imagine how happy I am when I get new one or how ecstatic I am when I get a quote book! But I am not here to talk about books, I will save that for another post. Today I will be focusing on quotes.

Quotes can be many different things, they can be inspiration when you are at a dead end, they can cheer you up when you are in a down sort of mood, or they can even distract you from the task at hand. And though I believe all of those things are true, I also believe that quotes are like miniature bios that explains a person in a few sentences or less.

This explains the quote on my page. First off Agatha Christie is one of my favorite authors but this quote also describes my writing process perfectly. Almost all of the ideas I come up with are thought of when I am doing a household chore. The story I am working on now was thought of when I was folding laundry. It just goes to show that the tinniest of things can help you create a whole other world in just seconds! Funny how the world works?

A Sigh of Relief

One of the best feelings you get as a writer is when you know what you are doing. Today I started writing my series outline. I have been writing this series for about two years... But after rewriting it and re-planning it, I feel like I finally have MOST of the kinks out. I cannot wait to get this book finished and out to the publishers but by that time I will probably feel like I raised a kid and sent it out to get married.

Money Makes the World Go Round.

It is sad but true. I have tried to imagine a world without money but I am afraid it would never work because human beings would just find something else to replace it with. But then I thought, what about trading? That still wouldn't work because we wouldn't know how many lemons would get you a computer. So in the long run I guess money is important and I am noticing that now more then ever.

Starting college is a scary thing. But it's not the starting over that scares me, it is the "what comes after". What if I don't get a job? What if what I major in has no help for me in the real world? What if I never complete my dream of publishing my book? It is a rather scary thought to think one day I might be homeless...

So this summer I have decided to make as much money as I possibly can! While I get a job, get ready for college, and try to write a book that I hope to one day get published I will be making bookmarks to sell on the side. Though that seems like a tiny thing that will barely get me any money. It will be something to do during me free time that will help me in the long run.

Now the next thing I need to learn how to do is write a blog.

Starting it over

It is has been a while since I wrote in this and a lot has changed since I did. But starting this summer I will be writing a lot more and posting little stories maybe as well :)