Date Written: July 6th, 2012
Date Posted: July 6th, 2012
Currently Listening To: Nothing.
So, I'm sorry this is so late, but I've been out of the house since 7:45 AM, and I've only remembered this now. Anyway, a slow week in terms of writing, seeing as I spend my days being depressed over summer school. But I've gotten one book read and finished this week, and I'm hoping to get another by tomorrow.
Right now, I'm at my cousin's house, where I'm sleeping over, and we're playing Nancy Drew. Hopefully that'll bring some inspiration.
- May :)
Strung By Words
Though it is strung by words and binded by ink, true creativity is boundless.
Friday, 6 July 2012
Friday, 29 June 2012
And They Say She's In The Class A Team
Date Written: June 29th, 2012
Date Posted: June 29th, 2012
Currently Listening To: Ed Sheeran – The A Team
Date Posted: June 29th, 2012
Currently Listening To: Ed Sheeran – The A Team
Today was my official last day of school, because I picked
up my report card. I did pretty well (except English, ironically. Well, I did
alright, just not as well as I wanted), I saw most of my teachers, and my Law
teacher and I had a long chat about writing.
Then my aunt picked me up, picked up my cousins, and we went
for a movie and then for lunch. I really enjoyed the day.
Also, I should probably say something about my deadline that
I didn’t accomplish.
I’m not all that upset.
I know that’s weird, because I feel like I should be upset. But the only reason I
really wanted to finish by this time is so I could spend my summer editing and
querying. (Though, that was before I found out just how busy my summer was
going to be.) However, if there’s anything I’ve learnt from the last couple of
months, it’s this;
Writing a book is not
an assignment. It’s not like a semester-long project you can write the
night before. It’s something that can take way
longer, and from what I understand, that’s completely
normal. So, as long as I finish my novel by the end of high school (and
land an agent too, hopefully!), then I’ll be happy with myself. And really,
that’s what’s important.
Anyways, happy summer everyone!
-
May :)
My Hate Of Flash Fiction Has Been Conquered
Date Written: June 24th, 2012
Date Posted: June 25th, 2012
Currently Listening To: Pierce The Veil – Kissing In Cars, You Me At Six – Nasty Habits
Date Posted: June 25th, 2012
Currently Listening To: Pierce The Veil – Kissing In Cars, You Me At Six – Nasty Habits
Hey, remember this?
Yeah, well, thanks to this amazing girl named Sonia, I’ve
gotten over it and the contest is
still open so I can still enter.
Also, she’s the finalist in a flash fiction writing contest she participated in so let’s all cross
our fingers for her and her genius.
And exams are over tomorrow. Woot! I finished Dreamdark: Blackbringer by Laini Taylor
today AND SHE BLEW MY MIND OMG I THINK MY BRAIN EXPLODED.
I can only hope to write that great one day.
-
May :)
Friday, 22 June 2012
My Current List of Library Spoils
Date Written: June 22nd, 2012
Date Posted: June 22nd, 2012
Currently Listening To: Marianas Trench – Push, Marianas Trench – Far From Here, Marianas Trench – Vertigo, Marianas Trench – Alive Again
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Dreamdark: Blackbringer by Laini Taylor
Lips Touch, Three Times by Laini Taylor
Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor
Paranormalcy by Kiersten White
Anna Dressed In Blood by Kendare Blake
Wither by Lauren DeStefano
My goal is to finish these by next Friday. (Just note I’ve already finished Jacob Wonderbar, already.) (And Hitchhiker's Guide isn't from the library. I'm borrowing it from a friend.)
Date Posted: June 22nd, 2012
Currently Listening To: Marianas Trench – Push, Marianas Trench – Far From Here, Marianas Trench – Vertigo, Marianas Trench – Alive Again
I present to you my library spoils:
From top to bottom:
Jacob Wonderbar and
the Cosmic Space Kapow by Nathan BransfordThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Dreamdark: Blackbringer by Laini Taylor
Lips Touch, Three Times by Laini Taylor
Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor
Paranormalcy by Kiersten White
Anna Dressed In Blood by Kendare Blake
Wither by Lauren DeStefano
My goal is to finish these by next Friday. (Just note I’ve already finished Jacob Wonderbar, already.) (And Hitchhiker's Guide isn't from the library. I'm borrowing it from a friend.)
Also, I’ve got my last exam on Monday, so I’ll be studying
for that.
And lastly, my deadline is on Tuesday. I can admit that I
probably won’t finish (I’ve got literally less than one percent done), but I
will definitely try to get a good
chunk done by the date. (I think I can get to page 50… if I’m lucky… and if I’m
really, really focused… and if a
miracle happens.)
Anyways, have a great weekend and rejoice that it’s almost
summertime!
(… Unless you’re an unlucky duckling like me and are going
to have to endure summer school. Joy.)
-
May :)
Friday, 15 June 2012
Of Exams and Poetry
Date Written: June 15th, 2012
Date Posted: June 15th, 2012
Currently Listening To: Neon Trees – 1983
I haven’t gotten a lot of writing done this week, due to the lovely fact that exams start on Tuesday. However, I found some time yesterday to work on some Fanfiction, which I haven’t done in a while.
Also, I’m reading Dreamdark: Blackbringer by Laini Taylor.
And lastly, my school’s Poetry Club had a poetry slam today. This is the second time I’ve gone, and everyone who goes up was just wonderful and they’re always so good and I wish I can just go up and present like them.
It also helps that I know two of the heads of the Poetry Club, and they’re such super nice guys who really care about poetry and are so passionate about it. I’m seriously considering actually joining the club next year… except I’m not sure how my poetry is. I guess the club members of next year will decide?
Anyway, my weekend plans include studying. (Oh, joy.) What about everyone else?
Date Posted: June 15th, 2012
Currently Listening To: Neon Trees – 1983
I haven’t gotten a lot of writing done this week, due to the lovely fact that exams start on Tuesday. However, I found some time yesterday to work on some Fanfiction, which I haven’t done in a while.
Also, I’m reading Dreamdark: Blackbringer by Laini Taylor.
My goodness, that
woman is a genius.
Hm… I’m going to spend tonight catching up on Suits (instead
of, you know, being productive and writing… or studying) and Rookie Blue.And lastly, my school’s Poetry Club had a poetry slam today. This is the second time I’ve gone, and everyone who goes up was just wonderful and they’re always so good and I wish I can just go up and present like them.
It also helps that I know two of the heads of the Poetry Club, and they’re such super nice guys who really care about poetry and are so passionate about it. I’m seriously considering actually joining the club next year… except I’m not sure how my poetry is. I guess the club members of next year will decide?
Anyway, my weekend plans include studying. (Oh, joy.) What about everyone else?
-
May :)
Friday, 8 June 2012
Making Pictures Where The Lines Overlap
Date Written: June 8th, 2012
Date Posted: June 8th, 2012
Currently Listening To: A bunch of Paramore songs… a list of 28, actually.
starting finishing
of an essay that’s worth fifteen percent
of my English grade… an essay I’ve had an entire semester to write.
Anyways, odd random outburst (expect a couple more of those in
this post) and major lack of sleep aside, this week’s been interesting.
Everyone seems to adore the new cover… but I’m not as excited about it. I’m not saying it’s bad – in fact, I really like it. I just prefer the original cover. Maybe it’s because I haven’t finished reading the book? More likely it’s because I’m used to the original... And because I like the font on the other
Date Posted: June 8th, 2012
Currently Listening To: A bunch of Paramore songs… a list of 28, actually.
First things first –
I may sound just
the slightest bit loopy
today. That tends to be what happens
as a result of getting only an hour of sleep… and that mere hour of sleep may be the result of my
(IT’S NOT MY FAULT THE ESSAY WOULDN’T LET ME WRITE IT BECAUSE IT WAS
OUT TO MAKE ME FAIL IT WANTED ME TO DIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEE.)
Ahem.
So, to start off –
Last week, I was saying how I wanted to do a post on
something, but I had to finish something else
to do that. Well, I’m going to do thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat NOW:
(LOOK WHAT I LEARNED. IT HAS A PICTURE WITH IT.)
I mentioned two weeks ago that I borrowed a book from the library. As
I’m sure you can infer, I borrowed A Drowned Maiden’s Hair by Laura Amy
Schlitz. I borrowed that book on a Thursday. Then, sometime between that day
and Saturday after, I decided that I would try to make a habit of going to the
library once a week – every Thursday, in fact. I would read a book in
the span of a week, then return it and get another one.
But I didn’t go last Thursday, because I didn’t finish the book. It’s
not like the book was super long. It’s not as though I couldn’t make time for
it. It wasn’t as though I didn’t like it (trust me when I say it’s not that
one. I recommended it to my English teacher).
It’s because I didn’t want it to end.
Now, I don’t know how many of you have read A Drowned Maiden’s Hair, but the basic
rundown can be found here.
I adored Maud. She
was clever for her age. She was sweet. She tried so hard to be everything Hyacinth
wanted. But at the same time, she was eleven and still somewhat naïve. Her
biggest trait, however, was this:
She desperately wanted to be loved. And it’s
understandable why, too. That’s why she tried to be an “angel child” for
Hyacinth.
But Maud Flynn was no
angel child. She made judgements. She picked favourites. She indulged in the
luxuries she was offered. She was vain. She had silly notions about adults. She
disobeyed her orders for some freedom.
Yet the entire way, I
was rooting for her.
(ESPECIALLY DURING THAT MOMENT IN THE HOTEL OHMYGOSH YES MAUD THAAAAANK
YOU.)
She made mistakes, and she learned from them. She developed
a sense of right and wrong throughout the book. She loved Hyacinth
relentlessly, yet even she knew there
was something that wasn’t quite right with her schemes.
Of course, Maud’s not the only one I adored. I could never
quite figure out how I felt about Hyacinth, who was enchanting and terrible at
the same time. I thought highly of Judith, who was so serious and knew what she
was doing wrong, but understood why they did it. I adored Victoria, who tried
to do the right thing and cared for Maud more than Hyacinth ever could.
And I loved Muffet, the deaf
and mute hired girl for the Hawthorne sisters. Anything and everything that had
to do with her had me almost jump with glee.
I have so much more I can say about the book, but if I do, then this post
will never end and I won’t get to the
point. (I wouldn’t mind, except I kind of need a nap after I finish this.)
Anyways, as you can tell, I
simply could not get enough of that
book. And while I knew Maud’s story could not go on forever, I didn’t want it
to end. (And, while I thought the ending was good, it’s not the ending I
wanted.)
And… is it really sad that I
typed out all of this to realize that I completely forgot the point I was
trying to make because I was so wrapped up in how much I adored this book?
Moving on, I guess –
So, I returned A Drowned Maiden’s Hair to the library
on Monday. That day I ran to the
library, because I the book I had put on hold had come in. Which book was that?
A certain Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi.
I’ve heard so many glowing
reviews about this book, and I totally understand why it got them. I’m not a
super fast reader, but by the next day I was a hundred and fifty pages in, and
there were several times when I was reading and practically stopped breathing.
(And Kenji – I love Kenji. Even though I kept thinking, “That boy is just asking to get shot.”)
I only have a hundred pages left, but I actually had to put it
away on Wednesday and Thursday to work on the essay mentioned above. I knew if
I didn’t, I’d lose fifteen percent of my grade.
Anyways, on Tuesday Tahereh
Mafi revealed the new cover for the book.
(OH HEY LOOK MORE PICTURES YAAAAAAY.)
(The original cover is on the left. On the right is new cover.)
Everyone seems to adore the new cover… but I’m not as excited about it. I’m not saying it’s bad – in fact, I really like it. I just prefer the original cover. Maybe it’s because I haven’t finished reading the book? More likely it’s because I’m used to the original... And because I like the font on the other
(However, I really like the
bird that’s in the eye, since the bird is such a recurring thing.)
And lastly, I think –
I have my Mock Trial for Law
class on Tuesday, and today we just got “a break in the case,” I guess you
could call it. I’m a defence lawyer, and my “witness” recorded one of the “prosecutors”
admitting that they would lie during the trial. And then one of the prosecution’s
witnesses came forward and admitted that he believed my witness (also the
accused) was innocent.
So, Tuesday’s going to be
interesting. Just thought I’d share.
So… voila!
Hopefully that wasn’t too
painful to get through… even though it’s longer than my introduction post I
wrote back when I first got a blog.
Anyways, how was everyone
else’s week? Any weekend plans?
-
May :)
Friday, 1 June 2012
Better Think Of Something Good To Say
Date Written: June 1st, 2012
Date Posted: June 1st, 2012
Currently Listening To: Pierce The Veil – Kissing In Cars
Date Posted: June 1st, 2012
Currently Listening To: Pierce The Veil – Kissing In Cars
Blah.
I had a blog post in mind for today… except I can’t bring
myself to finish it right now because to do so, I need to finish something else first, and I haven’t finished that yet.
So, you should be getting that post next Friday.
Also, I’ve noticed that I’ve been writing a little everyday
for the last couple of days. A huge
accomplishment after sometimes going a week
without typing a single word because I wasn’t sure how to proceed, I’d say. And
right now, I’m in the mood to work on something different than that, but I like
the inspiration.
So, nothing big to report right now, obviously – but there
should be something next week.
Anyway, have a great weekend, everyone!
-
May :)
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