Writing Journal

I’ve started a little exercise for myself. Even though I already do an excessive amount of writing it’s only for a few writing projects. So I’ve lost confidence in my writing of other things. Thus I am starting a writing journal. I vow to write in it everyday. The entry must be at least one page and it can’t be about my book or any of my short stories or fanfic and so on. It’s going to be all new!



So that’s what I started tonight. The first story was inspired by this song.



Laters,

Tales of Writing and Christmas

It hasn’t occurred to me that I do such an excessive amount of writing on a daily basis. I used to think I did so little because I finished my the first book in my series. On any given day I might cut a few hundred words and maybe add a dozen or so. But then I realized just yesterday that I write a whole lot more. I write papers or homework assignments for classes. I work on my fan fictions which I write about 5,000 words per chapter and I write new chapters almost every day. I also work on other writing projects like short stories and my other books. This also includes scenes that just demand to be written. Some of them are long and some aren’t. for instance a death scene that occurs in the second series is 24 pages now and I just can’t leave it alone because I keep tweaking it. *sigh* Alas I’ve come to the conclusion I have an addiction to writing.



And in other news my favorite part of Thanksgiving break isn’t just going into the city to watch the parade but Christmas decorations!! We put up our Christmas tree on Saturday. We use a fake tree now since we have dogs. Pus between my older brother and I we’re not usually all home to go tree hunting like we did when we were younger. So the task of putting together the tree fell to me this year. My mum gives me the base and the stand and told me “It’s going to be a pain to put together. But it only takes me a half hour so you should have no problem.” So I diligently set about putting the base into the stand. It was frustrating because it didn’t line up and wouldn’t stay still. After 45 minutes my mum is like you must be doing something wrong. So she gets out the stand that’s for a real tree and screws the base into it in about 5 minutes and trys to put on the top piece which puts it pretty close to the ceiling and she’s like “Was it this tall last year?” I just left the room because I was so frustrated with the tree. About five minutes later my mum calls me back to thee living room and the branches are laid out by color and she’s holding a piece of the tree. And she informs me that the reason the base wasn’t going into the stand was because she had given me the wrong base. Needless to say I was not a happy camper. I spent 45 minutes putting the wrong base into the stand. It was easy to put the tree together with the right base…. Oh the joys of Christmas!

Laters,

Books

So I saw this on one of my friend’s Facebooks and I totally loved it.






The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here. Instructions:


Bold those books you've read in their entirety.


Italicize the ones you started but didn't finish or read only an excerpt.


1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 The Republic - Plato
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma -Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Inferno - Dante
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hug


I’ve read 19 out of the 100. The ones that are italics I’ll probably get around to finishing them one day. But it’s funny because most of the ones that re bold are books I had to read for school. So I feel slightly ashamed that I have so few that I’ve read of my own free will. I’ve read hundreds of other books that are recent Fantasy or Sci-Fi ones… so that makes me feel a little better.


Laters,

Have You Ever Been Cut Off By A Bus?

I officially experienced the most terrifying thing in my life. I was cut off by a bus. They didn’t even have enough room to come into my lane and bam they just pulled in and I had to slam on the breaks and almost get rear-ended. Good game right? Then again it was bound to happen. Anyone who drives on Morris Ave in Union knows what a clown operation it came be. I just had to share because it was really scary for me and it reminded me why I hate driving in the yellow area. But I have to now to get to school after the weekends.


Which by the way only 53 days till I depart for Ireland! I move out of Kean on the 16th! That’s so super exciting! I’m done here!


Anyhow I’ve got to go eat before class. We’re doing more cat dissection in anatomy today! Yay!


Laters,

Entangled Fates

I’m so fickle sometimes. So The Snowy Waste has had it’s title for seven years now. And this morning as I was doing my life coaching assignment for the week (which is to set goals) I realized as I was typing The Snowy Waste completion as one of my short term goals that the title no longer fits. Basically I’ve changed the plot so much that the title no longer fits with the whole story. I brainstormed two new titles. 1- Threads of Time and 2-Entangled Fates. Then I went to google books and googled to see if there were any books by the same or similar titles. This threw Threads of Time out the door. So The Snowy Waste is now entitled Entangled Fates. Cool right? And it’s not even one o’clock and I’m making such big changes!!



Laters,

P.S. Pat Rothfuss now has NOTW shirts! yay!

FanFiction Dorkyness

Those of you who have been following my blog for a while know I’m one of those total dorks that writes FanFiction. I don’t care what people say about it so go ahead and bash it be my guest. I totally enjoy it. It’s a way to let of steam when I’m totally stuck on a part and REALLY REALLY want to write but don’t know what to write. So I write fan fiction. I’ve been doing for about a year now and it’s still lots of fun. I also do it because I love to see what people think about my writing. I’ve gotten very few negative reviews. I also like it cause I reply to my reviews and I’ve gotten pretty close with some of the people the review and none of them are in the states! It’s funny cause since I write fanfic for a manga series we always gush about the recent chapters and what not. It’s never any person detail but I still feel like we’re good friends. I also like it because when I started the reviews were few and far between then I started posting more new chapters and what now and now my stories of 4 or 5 chapters have almost a 100 reviews compared to other stories that have 10 chapters and are just making 100 reviews. I’d like to believe I’m a popular writer plus I update just about every week and people love updates! Just to give you a full scope my first series ended at 25 chapter 101,000 words (that’s a good sized book btw) and people were so mad that I ended it. But it was totally killer ending and I didn’t want to drag it out and make it a shitty story. And it has 364 reviews. Yup it makes me so happy to look on my chart and see the views of my story over 1.10K. Even if people don’t review I enjoy knowing people read my stuff and enjoy it! So I’m off to do edits now and maybe some fanfic. Check it out, just the last few days of people viewing my stories... makes me so happy...

Laters,

WorldBuilder and Apolo Ohno

Okay so this is just going to be a quickie because I feel the over powering need to get some serious writing done! Two things really… First off I love how Patrick Rothfuss has the means to make my day with a bog post. But seriously go check out his blog, T-Shirt designs are up to be voted on! I’m so excited! I’m tots def going to buy one when they come out!!!!! And since Pat is so freaking AMAZING WordlBuilder 2010 has started. Incase you’ve never heard of it head over to Pat’s blog… check it out. A quick blurb about it from me is Every year Pat gets a bunch of totally cool signed books and what not from famous authors. And for every $10 you donate you get entered into the lottery for these things. And Pat (along with other sponsors) will match the donations. And allt he donations go to the Heifer Project. Pat explains it a heck of a lot better on his site. So check it out and donate, cause I am!




And secondly I’m totally addicted to Apolo Ohno’s book. Go buy it! Incase you ive under a rock and haven’t heard of it. It’s call Zero Regrets; Be Greater Than Yesterday. And basically it’s epic and inspiring and the things that he says…… I could just rant on and on but I’ll spare you and just post a few of his quotes and you’ll get the picture all on your own.


“Zero regrets. It’s philosophy not just about sport but about life. School, business, academics, love - anything and everything. It’s complicated and yet not. You have to figure out who it is you want to be. Not what you want to be - who. There has to be a vision, a dream, a plan, then you chase it with everything you’ve got.”


“We need to work hard and dream big dreams and chase those dreams with abandon, with zero regrets.”


“Every one of us has choices, and the way we frame them and make them sets us on our paths”


Laters,