tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77004998725098026272024-02-07T18:57:06.887-08:00The Pillsbury Dough Girl"Show me an unobstructed right of way, and I'll show them how to move the earth."Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger76125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700499872509802627.post-67701831946684119902012-07-18T10:20:00.000-07:002012-07-18T10:20:37.021-07:00JulNoWriMo Update and StuffSo, it's been a while. Yeah. At some point in my life I may actually make a schedule for things like this. Currently, not really happening.<br />
My life has been pretty awesome. I now work in our service deli at Albertsons. I also went to VidCon!!!! That was pretty freakin' awesome if I do say so myself. Once I finish moving, I shall upload pictures and videos and shenanigans.<br />
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Which brings me to another awesome thing! Byron, I, and two other friends officially have an apartment secured and will be moving in in about a week or so. We're waiting for them to finish up cleaning from the last people that lived there. And I've realized, through packing, that I have a <i>lot</i> of books. So on to other things. <br />
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Right now, I'm mainly focusing on JulNoWriMo. I fell behind pretty badly about a week ago and am now feeling those consequences. I am only about 5k behind now. I'm hoping to get entirely caught up if not more by the time I have work at 5pm tonight. That might not actually happen, but it's a possibility if I keep writing as much as I have been so far.<br />
I'm working on two novels this year as I usually do and this year it's particularly complicated and confusing because both novels focus on the same main character, but one takes place 8 years after the other one.<br />
I've been doing a lot of Write or Die recently in about 20 minute stints - which is apparently how long it takes me to write 1,000 words. If only I could do that for school work. But school work has to be good and with real information and not just stuff made up in my head. Crazy, right? I've also been listening to a lot of classic rock on Pandora and watching <i>The Universe.</i> So that's a thing.<br />
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And yeah. I'm also trying to convince a certain boyfriend to start a blog with his thought's because it'd be pretty interesting considering all the thoughts that run through his mind. Very interesting stuff. And funny a lot of the times. Anyways, I'm going back to writing now.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700499872509802627.post-77129765175886464052012-06-07T10:01:00.002-07:002012-06-07T10:01:39.819-07:00I'm an Adult, Now What?All right, so this post has been coming for a little, but it's taken me a while to finish it up. As hard as I try, it just hasn't gotten any longer or any deeper.<br />
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Guess what? I'm an adult now! Yay being 18!<br />
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Mostly, it's pretty boring. I don't feel any different.<br />
I was treated to a wonderful showing of "Rocky Horror Picture Show" for my 18th birthday, in which my boyfriend is a tiny bit obsessed with. It was fun. Quite the memorable experience, pictures on my Facebook if you're interested.<br />
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So, I don't think I've really done many different things or "only for 18+" things since I turned 18 except for not come home at midnight. But by midnight I was sleeping anyways. Just not at home. (So hardcore, right?)<br />
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I am looking forward to signing my own release forms. Just less hassle.<br />
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I really don't have any revelations or anything yet, but I'll let you know if I do.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700499872509802627.post-64240141465498136262012-05-29T21:52:00.000-07:002012-05-29T21:52:03.759-07:00Potentially Insane: Insert Writing Competition HereWell, as most, if not all, of you know, I participate regularly in writing competitions of some sort. As I was browsing the JulNoWriMo forums today, I found this new WriMo, called Camp NaNoWriMo. And Camp NaNo takes place twice during the summer. Once in June and once in August. They've got the same principle as any other WriMo. Write 50k in a month. Do a happy dance. Move on with life.<br />
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So, after considering the fact that I don't even get out of school until the 12th and that I already have way too much planned to possibly write 50k in June. Then another 50k in July. Then possibly another 50k in August. I realized that there is no possible way for me to do Camp NaNo.<br />
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So I signed up to do it.<br />
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So that's a thing. I also have a number of essays I need to write for school during that time. I'm planning on doing a lot of character and setting development during June so that I'm all prepared for trying to write an actual novel in July. And maybe finish that novel by the end of August.<br />
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I also am coming to the fact that I will almost definitely have to kill my favorite character I've possibly ever come up with in either the second or third in this trilogy that has yet to be named. I don't know if I can do it. And if I do, there will be many tears as I write it and if I ever edit it.<br />
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So, the post count is most likely going to increase over the summer in my procrastination.<br />
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<i><b>Let the games begin!!</b></i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700499872509802627.post-46426701390628327182012-05-03T13:45:00.001-07:002012-05-03T13:45:26.251-07:00Writing and School and StuffI'm just really bad at this. I'd say I should make no goal at all, but then I'd never post. Mostly, I'll just be doing some updates today. A lot of stuff is coming up, so maybe I'll be doing pictures and other stuff soon.<br /><br />First of all, JulNoWriMo 2012 is less than 2 months away now and I've seriously got to start getting some writing and planning done. I got a notebook and I'm going to write one page a day. Only one, no more, no less. I figure I'll have a decent amount of planning done if I do that. I've got some serious character building to do though. The setting is pretty well all worked out because it's the same one from last years' story. Just a different plot.<br /><br />Second. School. I don't think I thought entirely about how intense of classes I signed up for. There's a lot of writing involved this term. Which is a lot harder than taking a bunch of tests every couple weeks. Government is really fun, he's a great teacher. All my teachers are pretty good really. My "required high school class" isn't that great. It's been going okay though. I think I'll have straight As this term. I don't think I've had 100% A's since elementary school. Which doesn't count. But my GPA is rising slowly but surely. Another thing I have to do is start looking into scholarships. So that's a thing.<br />
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Next up, there is a LOT of stuff going on in the next couple months. First of all, my birthday is coming up in a couple weeks. I'm pretty excited about that. I'm not sure what's going to happen though. All I know is Byron is planning it all and I get to be surprised on my birthday. Then, I have graduation a couple weeks after that. Though I feel like it's going to be more like a high school reunion than a graduation. It'll be interesting to see who talks to me at all.<br />
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Then, a couple weeks after that, I go to VidCon! I'm freaking out so much about this. It's going to be expensive, but I don't care too much about that. We've gotten the majority of things paid for already like hotels. Mostly it's just gas and food that we have to pay for during the trip. We're going to see a lot of people on the way down and back so it'll be a really crazy trip.<br /><br />Then of course there's JulNoWriMo and 4th of July and all the awesome car shows to go to this year. I predict an amazing summer. If the weather ever clears up.<br /><br />Also, there's a lot of things I'll be doing on my car too. A lot of it is maintenance stuff to stop oil leakages and fix little problems because my car is old and needs new knees or whatever.<br /><br />So, I'll definitely try and keep you updated on things. I also have a potential secret project in the works. I'll let you know if anything awesome comes into the picture.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700499872509802627.post-86340289925269277882012-04-17T10:38:00.000-07:002012-04-17T10:40:06.856-07:00Is this thing still on?Well, hi.<br />
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So, you know that whole post once a week thing I was planning? Well that didn't work out to well if you hadn't noticed. I'm going to try and pick that back up. I've been busy though.<br />
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Since I last posted I've started some major planning on my JulNoWriMo novel for the year, started a new term, written a couple essays, gotten a gym membership, gone to way too many movies, and read a couple books.<br />
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First off, I read <i>The Hunger Games </i>by Suzanne Collins. I haven't read the second and third in the series, so don't spoil it for me. I've also seen the movie 5 times I think? All with different people and I've only had to pay for myself one of those five times. The thing I've been telling everyone about the movie is that the emotions are real. The short clip of Katniss, Peeta, and Effie all in the car when Peeta is crying is ridiculously realistic. So are all the other crying scenes. Also, Katniss's face when she's cleaning out the burn wound is crazy emotional too. I still won't watch that part.<br />
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I believe I saw <i>The Lorax</i> twice as well. I recommend them both. They're great.<br />
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I've also gotten a fair bit of headway on my JulNoWriMo novel. Once again, I'm hoping to actually finish a novel. Which may or may not happen. It's called <i>Three Stars, </i>and is basically a prequel to <i>Rising Sun</i>. It's more of an adult novel than previous novels I've worked on. I'm going to have to tackle at least two sex scenes and it's going to be interesting. Not quite sure how that's going to go.<br />
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The thing I'm most excited about though is the fact that I got a gym membership! I am really excited to get in shape. I've gone once and I've literally been jumping up and down in excitement to go again. Sadly, I'm busy with lots of other things and can't go all the time. I'll let you know how that's going.<br />
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Blogger.com has gotten a new layout since I've been gone, so I'm going to go back and figure that out. There's a button that says schedule and I'm really interested in what that's going to do.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700499872509802627.post-53093897608692094472012-02-29T12:27:00.006-08:002012-02-29T12:44:30.135-08:00Words For Thought: Ideas and Other I- WordsBefore I begin, yes I've missed my week mark once again. In my defense I've been going to school full time, working five days a week and still managing to have a little bit of a social life. Which does preside over the internet. Sorry, guys. I may just have to make my goal a little less demanding. Or maybe manage my time better.<br />On the plus side, I have so many things I want to post about. I don't think that I'll run out of topics for the next couple of weeks. I have an ongoing list on a little post it note on my desk.<br /><br />Today, I'm going to start a new segment (Is that a good way to put it? I think that's more of a video thing.) I'm calling it Words for Thought. I never understood why the phrase "food for thought" especially since I'm writing this all down. Not... eating it. Yeah.<br />Anyways, the whole purpose of this is to put a little more content into my blog besides "Hey guys, I'm still alive. Bye." I have a lot of random thoughts that pop into my head throughout the day. So, I figured I'd actually start doing something with my thoughts. (What a novel concept.) Here goes.<br /><br />Words for Thought: Ideas and Other I- Words<br /><br />Today, while catching up on my macroeconomics reading, I started going down a rabbit trail of thought. About thought and why humans are smarter than animals and so much more innovative than animals (I- word #1). And the notes I made in the margins say this: "Ideas (I- word #2) are powerful things. --> Humans are above animals because of ideas?? --> Animals don't have ideas. They have impulses (#3) and instincts (#4)."<br /><br />I think this was a great epiphany. Because anyone who's studied animals and spent hours watching animals live and interact know that a lot of them aren't dumb animals walking around with surviving as their only goal. They have thoughts. But they don't have ideas.<br /><br /><a href="http://dictionary.com">Dictionary.com</a> defines idea as this: any conception existing in the mind as a result of mental understanding, awareness, or activity. Also, an opinion, view, or belief. It also defines thought as the product of mental activity. Animals have mental activity. Especially animals like apes, elephants, dolphins, cats, dogs, even parrots and a few other animals. I'm not so sure about things like snakes and reptiles and definitely not bugs.<br /><br />Animals do not have ideas. They don't sit around and debate the existence of a God or whether they should eat canned food or go hunt something down and eat that instead. They don't have little proverbs and parables to teach their children lessons. There's no ideas and wisdom. There's certainly intelligence (#5). I think intelligence and wisdom are too often considered one in the same. It's like someone being book smart or street smart. Intelligence and wisdom is the difference between something on the surface level and on an entirely deeper, conceptual level.<br /><br />Anyways, I have class to go to and there's some words for thought. Let me know if you have any opinions at all in the comments or something. (I pretend I get lots of them just to humor myself.)<br /><br />PS I don't think it's coincidence that all these words start with I. Probably some Latin or Greek thing.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700499872509802627.post-38019431693176436902012-02-16T14:30:00.000-08:002012-02-16T22:24:35.002-08:00I'm Really Not Sure What This is AboutSo I have been busy. Insanely busy. Therefore, I actually haven't even made my 1 post a week goal. BUT it was only one week. I didn't miss a whole month or anything.<br /><br />My life hasn't been very interesting lately. I'm pretty sure all I've done in the past couple weeks is school, job, and work. Valentine's day wasn't even a big thing. I did homework with Byron. Super romantic, right?<br /><br />I'm getting really close to finishing <span style="font-style: italic;">The Fountainhead</span> (how many times have I said that?), but I really am this time I swear! So, I'll be doing a review-ish thing on that soon I hope.<br /><br />Also, I've been playing The Sims 3 as a form of procrastination. I'm determined to finish a Legacy Challenge, however I'm not following <span style="font-style: italic;">all</span> the rules this time around. I didn't buy an empty lot. And after taking Macroeconomics, I'm really interested in playing Civilization IV again with ideas of productivity in mind and a few other things. I'm also curious to know if the success of any civ has to do with GDP type stuff.<br /><br />I really have nothing interesting to talk about though. Nor do I have the time. I have some homework I need to go do.<br /><br />I'll be back next week!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700499872509802627.post-17855981288699969892012-02-02T09:56:00.000-08:002012-02-02T10:28:42.277-08:00People Aren't Excited and I Don't Get ItI love school. I'll probably be taking night classes my entire life. Just because I want to. I've been looking at what my schooling schedule will be like the next few years and I have a lot of credits that I want to fulfill, but also, I just want to take all these classes. It makes me wonder why people don't enjoy school.<br /><br />So, that's what I've been thinking about the past couple weeks. Why don't people don't enjoy learning? Why people don't get excited about things? And why don't people want to know everything?<br /><br />I don't really know, but I have guesses. Everyone in the entire world gets excited about <span style="font-style: italic;">something.</span> The only problem is, getting excited about anything except for sports and the latest scandal in pop culture is usually looked down upon. And the people that do get excited about things are called nerds, which is for some reason, often considered a bad thing.<br /><br />I believe the world would be a better place if people got excited about things. I've never been one to care about what other people are thinking. I find everything interesting and get excited about so many things. But I get weird looks, get called a freak a lot or people just nod their heads and smile when I get excited. Truthfully, I don't even realize I'm way over excited about something people don't think anyone should care about. I don't understand why things aren't interesting to people.<br /><br />What I find sad, is that people don't realize the importance of enjoying things and getting excited about things until they're old. Too old to get a second chance usually. Whenever I talk to older people, 50+, they think that it's great when I get excited about things. They're very encouraging to anyone who is excited and wants to do anything.<br /><br />There's so many things out there to learn in life. For me, I'm bothered by the fact that I probably won't live long enough to learn everything. (I'm going to try my damned hardest though.) It bewilders me that people can just sit back and let the world happen around them.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700499872509802627.post-80990722622257475682012-01-27T16:40:00.000-08:002012-01-27T17:00:31.749-08:00Busy Busy BusyAll right, so originally I had planned to do this post on my opinions on SOPA. But seeing as it's been indefinitely banned, that's a bit pointless now. And then the whole ACTA thing started up and I was going to do a post on that. But I'm busy. In case you were wondering, though, you should check out <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8Xg_C2YmG0">this video</a>. It explains ACTA really well.<br /><br />Then I was going to do a bunch of other posts, but I've had stuff get in the way.<br /><br />School's going well. That's all nice and stuff.<br /><br />More importantly, on Thursday night I had to leave early because my grandmother went to the hospital to get heart surgery. So I've been at the hospital for about 6 hours now and I was there for about 4 last night.<br /><br />Through all this time, I've come to the conclusion that I don't like hospitals. Oh the waiting rooms are all fine and dandy, but I just don't like being around sick people. Especially in a Cardiovascular Unit. Everyone is so old and they're all so frail and seem like they're about to die. It gives me the heebie jeebies. And it's so somber and.... gah...<br /><br />I know I need to be here and be supportive but hospitals just give me the creeps.<br /><br />I respect doctors so very much. But I really don't know how they do it.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700499872509802627.post-39955414006590824362012-01-18T23:20:00.000-08:002012-01-19T00:39:19.878-08:00Thoughts on PIPA and SOPA: Part 1: What is it?Originally I was going to post about a different subject, but I decided that the internet has a higher priority. This is going to come in parts, so brace yourselves.<br /><br />Before I even begin my talk, I'm not about to tell you that SOPA is the worst idea ever and the world will end if it passes. I'm also not going to tell you that it's a good idea. Fact is, it's neither. It just needs editing. A lot. While it does make things easier to explain, most things are not black and white. Especially when it comes to politics.<br /><br />First of all, what are PIPA and SOPA?<br /><br />The Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) and Stop Online Piracy Acts (SOPA) were introduced to Congress on October 26,2011. Since then, many people, mostly users of the Internet have been pretty enraged with the idea of SOPA. I'm going to do my best to sum up what the current bill is proposing as of today. You can read the official text <a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:H.R.3261:">here</a>.<br /><br />First, the bill discusses "foreign infringing sites". This is a site that sells "infringing products" like music and movies without authorization; this also includes knock off products of clothing and medicines. The bill basically defines a foreign infringing site as a website run, or partially run, somewhere in the US or a site used by US users.<br /><br />Basically, the bill says that a website can be sued for being an infringing site. After this the court will rule and order some sort of restraining order or injunction - causing the domain name or portion of the domain name to "cease and desist".<br /><br />After the court order is issued, the service provider in question must take action to "prevent access by its subscribers located within the United States to the foreign infringing site (or portion thereof)". Search engines (such as Google) must prevent direct hypertext links to the infringing sites. Payment network providers (PayPal) must prevent, prohibit, or suspend transactions involving customers in the US with the infringing site in question. <span style="font-style: italic;">And</span> Internet Advertising Services that knowingly advertise with the infringing site must cease ads and stop any affiliation with the site. This all has to happen within 5 days and if they do not comply within the given time, the company must present information showing how it was not feasibly possible for them to comply within the given time.<br /><br />Then it moves on to sites "dedicated to the theft of US property", or in simpler terms, pirating sites. It's very similar to what infringing sites must do, and payment network providers and advertising services must cease affiliation with the site, but says nothing about search engines.<br /><br />All in all, not so bad, right? Just stopping pirating and selling of fake goods.<br /><br />Well, it then gets into the part that everyone is up in arms about. This section is all about the streaming of copyrighted law. And I'm not going to lie, I got a bit angry just reading this section. The bill starts by discussing who can be accused of criminal infringement. The first and second things listed are about if you're doing it for commercial gain, and if you give away enough that it equals at least $2,500 worth of product, etc. (If you don't know, bills aren't the most riveting things to read.) Then it says this:<br /><br />"Any person who willfully infringes a copyright shall be punished as provided under section 2319 of title 18, if the infringement was committed by the distribution or public performance of a work being prepared for commercial dissemination, by making it available on a computer network accessible to members of the public, if such person knew or should have known that the work was intended for commercial dissemination."<br /><br />Basically, if you upload a video of a public performance of a work being prepared to be sold and paid for to view, listen to, etc. you have committed a criminal act. The amendment then says it has to be viewed 10 times or more for this to apply.<br /><br />Then comes the punishment for uploading said video, which is already a law, this is just now amended to include uploaded videos.<br /><br />So, let's say you upload a video to YouTube with someone's song in the background, or you singing their song, or something like that, and you get in trouble with the government because the government found your video or the original artist wanted to sue. You would get fined and up to 3 years in prison.<br />Then, if it was discovered that you did it for personal gain monetarily (you started selling the cover on iTunes) you would get fined, and up to 5 years in prison.<br />Then, after you got out of prison, you decided to upload another video, you would get fined and up to 6 years.<br />AND THEN, because for some reason you want to go to prison again or something, I don't know why, you would get up to 10 years. And fined again.<br /><br />That's a grand total of 3 uploaded videos minimum and up to 19 years maximum.<br /><br />This last part all about uploading copyrighted content is what's got everyone up in arms and protesting. Granted, there are people who still want their pirated movies and such, but mostly, it's the uploading content and shutting down websites because of user uploaded content.<br /><br />And in case you're wondering, this is where I got all my information:<br /><a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/F?c112:1:./temp/%7Ec112UsmHJF:e3470:">Bill Text</a><br /><a href="http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/244011/the_us_stop_online_piracy_act_a_primer.html">Business Center on PC World Article</a><br /><a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/usc_sec_18_00002319----000-.html">Cornell Law Information Institute</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700499872509802627.post-49853016786142435652012-01-14T00:45:00.001-08:002012-01-14T00:54:35.205-08:00Skiing and School and Other S WordsAll right, here is post #2 of 2012 and it's still the second week. I'm right on track. Now there's only 50 more posts to go.<br /><br />Now, I really ought to be sleeping because I am doing something I've never done in my life before which is going to be rather scary. But I have support. Tomorrow, I am going downhill skiing for the first time in my life. I've done cross country skiing before, but downhill is just an entirely different matter. For example, I need to rely much more on my actual physical ability to use physics to direct myself in the direction I want to go at the correct speed I would like to go. I don't have the best coordination. So, tomorrow should be interesting.<br /><br />The first week of school has been pretty good. I won't bore you with all the nitty gritty stuff; most of them are related to each other anyways seeing as most of my classes are business related. The one class I do want to talk about is my Zumba fitness class.<br /><br />Zumba. Is awesome. Go do it. You'll have fun and get in shape and look hotter than you do now (most likely) and you'll be healthier and less likely to die early.<br />Zumba is totally awesome and totally worldwide (so I've been told). I suggest finding a local gym or studio that teaches it. You'll have fun.<br /><br />I wish I had more to say, but honestly, I've been so busy that I haven't been thinking of anything interesting to discuss and I haven't finished any books yet.<br /><br />OH! I did get my signed copy of The Fault in our Stars by John Green yesterday. It's got a lovely silver J scribble in the front. :D No hanklerfish or anything, but I'll get one of those at VidCon hopefully. :P<br /><br />Until next week!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700499872509802627.post-43493094525351251232012-01-05T14:22:00.000-08:002012-01-05T15:04:47.041-08:00Happy New Year!Hey everyone!<br /><br />So, I've been a little reclusive lately and this year I've made a resolution not to.<br />This year I am really going to try to make a post in my blog once a week, I figured I might want to make one before the week is up. And no whatever posts about whatever. I'm talking book and movie reviews or actual thoughtful things.<br /><br />This year I really want to improve my writing skill and maybe just get a bunch of short stories done. I don't really have that all planned out yet. Hopefully a novel finished also, but lord knows how many times I've said that.<br /><br />I've been going through and editing old HPFF stories as well. I really wish there was a way to change my username, but that doesn't look like it's going to happen. I'll just have to work hard to build my reputation. Let's just say my 8th grade self was not very creative and very reminiscent of "Annoying Facebook Girl" a few of you may have seen in memes.<br /><br />I've got quite a few New Years' resolutions this year. Some of them being:<br /><ul><li>Read 12 books I haven't previously read</li><li>Win JulNoWriMo 2012</li><li>Be able to run a mile</li><li>Get better at rock climbing</li></ul><p>What are some of your New Years resolutions??<br /></p><p>Also, I shall be taking part an awesome adventure with Byron in June in honor of my 18th birthday and I am beyond excited. I will be going to VidCon 2012!!! Now, as Byron is not quite as well versed in YouTube and such nerdy things, I'm training him as I go. He's getting a lot better.</p><p>School also starts on Monday and I'm taking 18 credits. It should be an interesting term. One of my classes is Zumba fitness, so it should be very fun.</p><p>Other than that, not much has been happening. Holidays have been busy and I've been working a lot. (Pay day tomorrow!)</p><p>So I'm going to get back to editing before I have work.</p><p>Until next week!<br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700499872509802627.post-54962797889072585382011-08-10T11:42:00.000-07:002011-08-10T12:24:38.654-07:00Pulling Things TogetherHey everyone!
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<br />I won JulNoWriMo with about an hour to spare. I didn't reach my goal of finishing my novel, but for once, I haven't actually stopped writing because JulNo is over. I'm proudly still working on writing.
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<br />I've got some extra big super awesome news as well! What have I always wanted? Besides money... I got a car! A 1996 Mazda Miata. See the lovely picture? Beautiful isn't she? Her name is Lenore as of a few days ago. I got her on August 2nd for 3 grand. There aren't any major problems with it. And I have a lot of stuff I want to modify on it. I'm crazy way too excited.
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<br />Learning stick is still kind of scary. I've yet to go on the freeway and everything. The only thing I'm really scared of is going from standing still to first gear. I know it's the problem that everyone has but I'll get better and get over it and everything.
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<br />So, I finally got my pictures from the cruise on my computer. They're on Facebook if you can check them out on here. I'll start posting the best of the bestest pictures on here going through all the days. It will most likely take me a while, but I'm getting closer!
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700499872509802627.post-3269420936641226572011-07-27T13:23:00.000-07:002011-07-27T13:47:31.738-07:00JulNoWriMo UpdateAll right, well after a long month of almost no updates. I've almost reached 50k.<br />I'm at 41k as of now. And I've had a lovely bunch of novel plots come in my way this entire month.<br /><br />Well, not a whole bunch, but a few.<br /><br />Once I finish <span style="font-style: italic;">Rising Sun</span>, a prequel will be on the way called <span style="font-style: italic;">Three Stars</span>.<br />3S is honestly probably a whole lot better than RS. I may even turn 3S into a trilogy, I'm not sure though. RS might become a trilogy as well. I'm not sure how many times I'll have to write that novel before I'm happy with it. A long time though. I'm considering re-outlining the entire thing and making it longer and more in depth.<br /><br />The other novel and sequel are stories that were originally separate ideas and turned out to be related. The first one, I started a couple years ago, but didn't do anything with it because I didn't outline really. That one's called<span style="font-style: italic;"> Not Guilty</span>. The second I wanted to write four or five years ago, but never started it, called <span style="font-style: italic;">Chasing Reality</span>.<br /><br />I don't have a good summary for any of this, but I'd love to tell you about them some time.<br /><br />After JulNo, I think I'm going to have a goal to write 500 words a day for the year. That might just start at the start of the New Year, I'm not sure. I'll definitely want to do that, though. Get a bunch written in the next year. Instead of only in July.<br /><br />Anyways, that's all for now. I'll come back later at some point! :DUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700499872509802627.post-44426702785050050212011-07-15T14:17:00.000-07:002011-07-15T14:33:04.771-07:00This Isn't Goodbye...I want to thank you for all the good times we've had; staying up all hours of the night together, giving me friends and teaching me life lessons no one else would teach me. Thank you for showing me that friends can make you stronger, having courage is sometimes all you need, loving someone can save a life, and standing up for what you believe in is the most important thing of all.<br /><br />Thank you for helping to be myself. Thank you for being a friend when no one else would be. Thank you for making me a better writer and thank you for inspiring me to keep going. Thank you for showing me that life isn't always as bad as you think. There's other people that have it worse.<br /><br />There are so many memories I have. From getting the first four books for Christmas and reading them straight through, to staying up every Christmas then on just to read all of the books. All of the movie marathons with friends; all of the midnight premieres; being excited for something new; slaving over four fan fiction challenges at once. Crying every time that one character dies and I still can't believe it. And the final memory, that final midnight premiere where everything came to a close. We could all raise our wands and say, "Mischief managed." It's over.<br /><br />But it's not. Harry Potter will not die now that the movies are finished. Sure, there's no more excitement of dressing up and going to a midnight premiere. The books will always be there to read and the fans to share memories with. That world exists in so many hearts and minds it cannot die. Children are hearing the story for the first time every day. People are reading the books and discovering a new world. Speculating whether Snape is good or bad and crying over all the lost loved ones along side the characters.<br /><br />Thank you Harry Potter. For being one of my closest and oldest friends. You will always be in our hearts.<br /><br />This isn't goodbye. It's merely the beginning of something new.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700499872509802627.post-40330809653809451092011-07-05T16:21:00.000-07:002011-07-05T16:25:43.811-07:00The End of an AdventureWell, I'm back from Europe and I'm not quite sure if I want to be back. Right now, most of my focus is on my writing for JulNoWriMo - which I have decided to hand write. However, that might change if it keeps taking me so long.<br /><br />For the next few days I will be talking about my European adventure. Basically taking each day at a time. However, my camera is currently at Byron's house, so as I procrastinate, I can't post pictures or anything. So I shall leave you now.<br /><br />I do have my first JulNo vlog up on the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/julnowrimo">JulNo youtube page</a>. And I've started a <a href="http://forum.julnowrimo.com/viewthread.php?tid=1823#pid73576">progress report</a> on the website as well. So go check those out if you like, and I'll be back tomorrow!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700499872509802627.post-57620535787838739232011-06-14T21:08:00.000-07:002011-06-14T23:53:31.311-07:00Cruisin Sherwood 2011So I had the first super intense crazy adventure of the summer on Saturday! It was very fun and, of course, a car show. I guess I really don't talk much about cars and that world on this blog, but now I'm going to! With pictures! (Pictures will become a more common thing now because I got a new camera. It's a <a href="http://www.fujifilmusa.com/products/digital_cameras/s/finepix_s2950/index.html">FinePix S2950</a>.)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcUDng6ZrnLmRBgMwtFK_LulK8p7LzTLjr5tV4wuRzosAQX9msj7CH2HLq4HxUtFXI4A4lECH3a3h1xBUhLwnARBOkEOcWjHEATdt516JqvIxnxR0GrjzkvCa67_R7R6_L4VfJvJg6E3JD/s1600/DSCF0018.JPG"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcUDng6ZrnLmRBgMwtFK_LulK8p7LzTLjr5tV4wuRzosAQX9msj7CH2HLq4HxUtFXI4A4lECH3a3h1xBUhLwnARBOkEOcWjHEATdt516JqvIxnxR0GrjzkvCa67_R7R6_L4VfJvJg6E3JD/s200/DSCF0018.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618297911820849506" border="0" /></a><br />This awesome adventure started out at 3am. Byron (who slept over in the guest bed) and I left the house by 3:30 and were at the location of the car show entrance, waiting in line with other cars, by 4am. It was insane. And dark. And we were tired. So we took about a 1/4 mile stroll down the long line of cars that were waiting and back to stay awake and take up time.<br /><br /><br />T<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj69Z7FqkeXeFrjiPjzCxySbRI99GLC1mn2e8jNt5FXvGXdkLC1mG2wIOE1Q6Ryj4fWQhPWsBwfIB8jRYNJqSSjMdBrZPpYveyRoaUWBnocog77Jrt-Nw3bhbidZBeqeRsc_-YvprkrFFbI/s1600/DSCF0023.JPG"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj69Z7FqkeXeFrjiPjzCxySbRI99GLC1mn2e8jNt5FXvGXdkLC1mG2wIOE1Q6Ryj4fWQhPWsBwfIB8jRYNJqSSjMdBrZPpYveyRoaUWBnocog77Jrt-Nw3bhbidZBeqeRsc_-YvprkrFFbI/s200/DSCF0023.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618299303945668354" border="0" /></a>hen, at 6am we were let in to park and it was finally completely light out. The show wasn't even open to the public until 9am, so we definitely had some time to kill. We got an AMAZING spot in the middle of Downtown Sherwood. We got to registration and started cleaning Byron's car right away - which woke me up more than anything for some reason. Right across from a Sesame Donut shop thankfully. So I promptly went across and got a cup of coffee with 4 shots that woke me up sort of.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho8UfQG5UTgHa0aQs-xFJG9ccj33KySDdu93GK56A_prYxAeoA280Sq1d8iiM2gaN50eOP-rk5QdoTGxIB_4AXAT0Qc3_vnqdX2px7pnnoHuF-jHXhZxI3AUXb6HkEwSaqumED6cUMR_Tc/s1600/DSCF0140.JPG"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 130px; height: 174px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho8UfQG5UTgHa0aQs-xFJG9ccj33KySDdu93GK56A_prYxAeoA280Sq1d8iiM2gaN50eOP-rk5QdoTGxIB_4AXAT0Qc3_vnqdX2px7pnnoHuF-jHXhZxI3AUXb6HkEwSaqumED6cUMR_Tc/s200/DSCF0140.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618331814949490930" border="0" /></a><br />So after getting some breakfast we finally went and looked at the cars that were still coming in. There were some absolutely beautiful cars at this show too. It might be the favorite of my summer too. The cloud cover didn't go away until maybe 10 or 11. I would like to point out that 10 o'clock was 7 hours into my day. So it finally being sunny (besides the fact that it's Oregon and we're still waiting for summer) was kind of a big deal.<br /><br /><br />We both fell asleep in lawn chairs for about an hour around noon or so I'm guessing. I got a mild sunburn, but nothing <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVjv0RGDyP2onchCVwqNX7AZWOubeg0QbO3oa9hKHh0ps8SOr_knXw5y-Aa2ingxnhSCjCX9t_JV1M_BBwAE52GNuGJfx0lT6NqVMFY1MP1sNhqo6rmPQqzLKoFiZlSVIZd6I73YuQ8qgg/s1600/DSCF0072.JPG"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 235px; height: 170px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVjv0RGDyP2onchCVwqNX7AZWOubeg0QbO3oa9hKHh0ps8SOr_knXw5y-Aa2ingxnhSCjCX9t_JV1M_BBwAE52GNuGJfx0lT6NqVMFY1MP1sNhqo6rmPQqzLKoFiZlSVIZd6I73YuQ8qgg/s200/DSCF0072.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618335284909418722" border="0" /></a>too bad. We met up with his parents and ate some food and watched some contests. (loudest car, best burnout, stuff like that) And at 3pm (12 hours now!) they started announcing the awards. The trophies looked totally awesome. I wish I got some pictures of them, but I was way to tired at that point to even think about that. Byron didn't win an award this time, but that's okay. Maybe next year. I don't have any pictures about anything in this paragraph, so here is a picture of my favorite car at the show - a 1971 Corvette Stingray.<br /><br /><br />There were so many amazing cars. I'm uploading the best pictures to my personal <a href="http://pillsburydoughgirl.deviantart.com/">deviantArt account</a>. Here are a couple of my favorites. But most of them will be on my site if you are interested. :)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700499872509802627.post-77034356131490526572011-05-26T20:41:00.000-07:002011-05-31T23:57:11.493-07:00Almost Happy Birthday to tPDGB!!!Well, it has come to my attention that my blog will be celebrating it's one year anniversary as of July 5th. Luckily, that will be right after I return from my "hiatus" that will be an amazing vacation.<br /><br />I'll attempt to post on the actual birthday of the blog, but no promises. It'll be around then though!<br /><br />It's kind of amazing how much has happened to this blog in the past year. I'll write more about that later.<br /><br />Uh... I leave really really soon guys. So, I'll make a post the day before I leave announcing for sure the no posts thing.<br />Yeah, then pictures and everything will be for a long time. Plus JulNoWriMo.<br /><br />SO MANY EXCITING THINGS HAPPENING! :D :D :DUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700499872509802627.post-83725560487718373102011-05-25T12:14:00.001-07:002011-05-29T11:37:43.228-07:00Grammar Nazi Rant<span style="font-weight: bold;">UPDATE 5/29:</span> Please pray for this girl and I am not saying anything against this girl and I am worried about her and I want her to get better! I'm just upset at the declining grammar in this world. Not just this one person who wrote this. Thanks. :)<br /><br />I'm currently working on a different post that's a lot more in depth and stuff, but I just read something and it made me angry.<br /><br />So, the background story is apparently a girl got hit on the highway while walking her dog. (Why she was walking her dog on the highway, I'm not sure...) And she got hit by a truck that a teenage boy was driving. I got invited to a Facebook "event" asking me to pray for this girl.<br />This is the summary of the event on the page:<br /><br /><blockquote><div class="description summary">Please please pray for Stevie Urwin Sandy high school grad in our home town, This poor 19 yr old girl got hit walking the high way here in sandy by 211 by a half ton truck a 15 yr old boy was driving. She was walking her dog she was taken to the hospital. plz "like" this and lets hope for the best for her and her family. plz let me know if u have any ideas on how to help with her and her family thru this tuff situation we are sandy...some went to school with her and some know her via family or friends but lets plz do something about this... she didnt deserve this. Plz contact me with ideas.</div></blockquote><br />Excuse me, but <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">WHAT THE F**K!?!</span><br />I have so many problems with this it's not even funny.<br />What does this even mean?! I mean, I got that this girl was hit by a truck that a 15 year old boy was driving apparently... but WHAT?!<br />Dear person who wrote this,<br />YOU ARE ASKING PEOPLE TO PRAY FOR A GIRL WHO GOT HIT BY A TRUCK AND YOU CAN'T EVEN SPELL "PLEASE" OUT CORRECTLY! This is a dishonor to her and her family. "Tuff" is not how you spell t-o-u-g-h. "Plz" is not a word. It's spelled "please". If you want people to care about what happened to Stevie the least you can do is take an extra 5 seconds to <span style="font-style: italic;">spell out your words</span>, an extra minute or two to <span style="font-style: italic;">write complete sentences</span>, and use your brain to <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">make sure it makes sense</span>!<br />I don't know this girl, and I am very sorry for her and I hope that she is okay.<br />But you are disgracing her by this.<br />Sincerely,<br />HeidiUnknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700499872509802627.post-64777748513515949242011-05-24T14:32:00.000-07:002011-05-24T16:04:35.095-07:00Introducing...Quote of the Day!!!<br />It may or may not actually be "of the day" exactly, but it sounds better that day. And maybe it will get more people interested so they can see more quotes. Yeah.<br /><br />Updates on Life:<br />JulNo outlining is going peachy and wonderful surprisingly. :) I'll continue to update the "10,000 Word Novel Outline" page as I add more to my own outline.<br /><br />And I've been re-addicted to Sims 3 and I'm attempting to do the Legacy Challenge. It's insane. I LOVE IT! :P<br /><br />And Stefaniya went home today. :( She will be missed so much here!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700499872509802627.post-56188182649732275382011-05-23T17:25:00.000-07:002011-07-27T00:19:36.074-07:00Why Don't We Care?Note: I wrote this rant a few months ago. I am just now getting 'round to finishing it. Sorry it's been a while since I've posted.<br /><br />Today, I am going to talk to you about a serious topic.<br />I know I generally don't do that, but it's something that's been on my mind lately. This is a bit of a rant that I've been dying to write and I finally have time to write about it.<br />America. It's totally messed up. We all know it except for those who aren't involved with it's problems or those too ignorant to care.<br /><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span><br />Mostly, my problem with America is the education system. The main reason this is currently on my mind right now is that I am reading this book that is considered really nerdy.<br /><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Oh, and reason #2 is one of John Green's most recent vlogbrother videos. Found here.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">So, why does reading a nerdy book make me angry about the American education system? Well, the book is <a href="http://www.jenniferouellette-writes.com/calcdiaries.html"><span style="font-style: italic;">The Calculus Diaries</span></a> by Jennifer Ouellette. And my first problem is, is that when I consider taking it with me to read anywhere I have a little voice in the back of my head saying, "People are going to think you are such a nerd if they see you reading that." Generally, I don't let people see the book.<br /><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span><br />The fact is, I don't care to a point if people think I'm a nerd, because it really isn't an insult. However, occasionally, I find myself thinking "Okay, this really is very nerdy. Do you really want to deal with people's comments on this?" Therefore I hide whatever nerdy thing it is.<br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">So, the reason this book made me start thinking about this is a couple quotes that Ouellette wrote in her book. The first one is:<br />"Knowledge is power, and we forfeit that power when we choose to remain willfully ignorant."<br />It's pretty self explanatory. And makes me wonder why knowledgeable people are looked down upon when they obviously have the higher ground and power.<br />The second is a little more relevant to the book and goes a little something like this:<br />"[S]cientists have a valid point when they bemoan the fact that it's socially acceptable in our culture to be utterly ignorant of math, whereas it is a shameful thing to be illiterate."<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT POINT THAT ALMOST NO ONE REALIZES!!!!!<br /><br /></span>The world can exist without reading and words. As much as I and a few other people would like to think it <span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;">can't </span></span>exist without books and words and writing and literature. It can. There are entire cultures that were created and built upon that had no writing system whatsoever.<span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"> BUT IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO EXIST WITHOUT MATH!<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">/endrant<br /><br /></span></span></span><span><span>All right, so that's where I stopped in the rant. I'm not particularly angry about this topic at the moment, so I won't continue it. However, I think I made my point. I didn't support it extremely well. But it's a rant, so... no support </span></span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;">technically </span></span></span><span><span>needed.<br /></span></span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700499872509802627.post-2763711484552628112011-05-19T08:51:00.000-07:002011-05-19T08:55:47.893-07:00Today. Is My Birthday.And I'm going to do what I want.<br /><br />Yeah. That's right.<br /><br />So, my day is going to go like this (as decided by someone else):<br />Get up at 6am so I can go to school like a good kid. Even though class doesn't start until 11. It's the only way I'll get there.<br />Leave school at 5. Two hours after my class gets out, because once again - it's the only way I'll be getting home.<br />That's 10 hours. At school. On my birthday. That's twice the hours of when I'm actually supposed to be in class!<br /><br />So, I'm all "I am not going to allow myself to play Civilization until I get to 4k on my outline."<br /><br />Now I have decided that that is total BS.<br /><br />It's my motherf**king birthday and I am gong to play Civilization.<br />That's right.<br />Imma rebel. <span style="font-size:85%;">(<--See that? You know what that is? BAD GRAMMAR! YEAH!)</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Note: This mood may or may not have to do with the extra shot of coffee I had this morning. I'm not sure.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700499872509802627.post-26573183802440670212011-05-18T11:38:00.000-07:002011-05-18T11:57:10.929-07:00IHAVESOMUCHTODO!!!askhansdiogalksf;sdgh<br /><br />That. Up there. It's my brain right now. Freaking out. Because of all the things I have to do.<br />I don't know how I let this happen. Maybe it's not my fault that I always end up having to do everything at short periods of time. Chances are though, it is.<br /><br />Maybe what happens is I get all motivated subconsciously and figure out all these things I have to do, then consciously I freak out because of all these things.<br /><br />Who knows. The real issue is I have a whole lot of things to do in a very short time span.<br /><br />Right now, here are the things I have to do within the next week:<br /><ol><li>Upload 3 pinstriping things</li><li>Make avatars for people</li><li>Get a 6 page paper rewritten for tomorrow</li><li>Clean my room because it's too messy for me to think</li><li>Do laundry</li><li>Do math homework</li><li>Get a whole lot outlined on my story for JulNo (at least another 2k within 2 or 3 days)</li><li>Have a birthday</li><li>Start packing for the cruise</li><li>Have a goodbye party for the exchange student</li><li>Write thank you notes for the birthday</li><li>Not ignore boyfriend because I'm busy doing other things (which definitely won't happen because I tend to ignore everything for spending time with him :P)</li><li>Go through bookshelf</li><li>Put lots of stuff on Amazon.com</li><li>Ship stuff that's been ordered on Amazon.com</li><li>Sleep.</li><li>Eat.</li><li>Not die.</li></ol>That's a lot of things to do! quertyasdghaskdf;ja<br /><br />Oh, and not die in all my other classes. And that's not including job research and studying and talking to other people and working. At my job. Where I get paid to do stuff. That I'll get fired from if I don't do. Yeah.<br /><br />YAY! STUFF TO DO!<br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Note: I am actually not avoiding doing other things right now. I'm in math class. So I do not have the ability to do the things I need to do on my list. So it's okay.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700499872509802627.post-80847373203803871622011-05-12T12:33:00.000-07:002011-05-13T13:57:16.121-07:00I Sometimes Have Really Weird DreamsLike, really super freaking weird dreams. And this is my dream I had last night that I want to share with all of you.<br />This one dream ranks pretty high on the list of weird dreams I've had. Maybe even weirder than the "dinosaur children selling me soap in black velvet bags door-to-door" dream.<br />So here's how it goes:<br /><br />I was at Southridge and Byron worked down the street. We were eating lunch together and there were these really mean popular girls. <span style="font-size:85%;">(Which is weird, because I generally don't care about the really mean popular girl type. They will be hence named "Cordillia" in honor of BtVS.)</span> They were like, "We're all going to be super pretty at prom. And you won't. So that sucks." And I was like, "Well, no one cares." So Cordillia scoffed and went away. Then all the girls decided to wear the same dress to prom. Because that would show them.<br /><br />Then, school ended and my friend Luke <span style="font-size:85%;">(I really hope you're reading this)</span> and I had to go save the car shop from the Canadian Mafia. <span style="font-size:85%;">(I feel like they don't exist in real life, nevertheless, they were mean and scary.)</span> So we went to the car garage and there was a Mafia chick there and then 2 Mafia dudes. The chick was just standing there. Luke and her started having a conversation and stopped paying attention.<br /><br />Dude 1 was working on a seat in the car, Dude 2 was sitting on the ground facing the other way and for some reason, I was laying on the ground between them. I don't know how I got there, but I knew that I had to get out of there. I looked over at Dude 1 and he had a gun in his belt. I had to get that gun. So I tried to pickpocket him basically. And I got the gun, but then, being clumsy me, I let the barrel hit the cement ground as I was grabbing it. It made a very large sound. Which made both dudes realize I was doing something bad.<br /><br />So Dude 1 shot me. In the neck.<br />Then Dude 2 shot me in the side.<br />I wasn't bothered too much by this fact.<br /><br />They were like, "Idiot. You don't steal guns. You always get shot when you steal guns." Then they left. Chick went with them.<br /><br />I was laying on the ground all bleeding and stuff and Luke was over me saying, "Are you okay?" At which point I'm thinking, <span style="font-style: italic;">Well, this isn't great, but I'll survive. I should probably get some help though.<br /><br /></span>So, I told Luke to take me to the hospital. They could help me. So Luke took me to the ambulance that was conveniently waiting outside. And we went to the hospital. Then this very large burly man that looked a lot like Vin Diesel was like "Oh, you'll be fine. We can fix this."<br /><br />Then I woke up from being knocked out (from anesthesia I assume). I had stitches on each side of my neck. <span style="font-size:85%;">(Where Frankenstein's monster's bolts are.)</span> And a set of stitches on my right side. Three large stitches for each place a bullet went. I don't know where the 3rd bullet hole came from. Maybe an exit hole.<br /><br />I was all better and so I decided that I had to go to prom. Byron was waiting in the waiting room and told me that I couldn't go anywhere yet until I ate some ice cream. <span style="font-size:85%;">(For those who are unaware, I don't like ice cream.)</span> I told him I was fine and that we needed to go to prom. Now. It was super important.<br /><br />So we got ready and went to prom and everyone was asking why I had stitches. I didn't want to tell them I got shot. So I told them I tripped and fell on a knife. Because that made sense.<br /><br />Then I woke up.<br /><br />Coming soon is a story I wrote in 2nd grade! :D<br /><span style="font-style: italic;"></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700499872509802627.post-86581551541822141242011-04-25T16:23:00.000-07:002011-04-25T16:35:05.634-07:00The Road to "The 10,000 Word Novel Outline"Well, as this whole novel planning thing unfolds, I'm coming up with an outline for my outline almost. What to outline. A process for it all. And my goal is to have a 10,000 word outline.<br />That number may change as I finish the outline and all the things I want to do. See how much I want to go in depth of the novel before I actually write it.<br /><br />So far, these are the things I have written or will have written when I finish. I'm sure that this will change dramatically as I continually plan for this novel. I actually have no idea if this outline will even reach 10,000 words. It might. It depends on how many characters and places that the novel will include. I should probably come up with a different name for it, but for now:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The 10,000 Word Novel Outline: "Draft 1</span>"<br /></div><br />Character:<br /><ul><li>1 sentence description (<span style="font-style: italic;">must be 20 words or less</span>) and motivation for <span style="font-style: italic;">every</span> character ever mentioned</li><li>physical description for every character mentioned</li><li>names for every character</li><li>paragraph descriptions for characters that affect the plot<br /></li></ul>Setting:<br /><ul><li>list (and organize by city in my case) every place that shows up in plot (I wrote scene list first...)</li><li>1 sentence description of setting (20 words or less)<br /></li><li>5 senses list for each setting<br /></li></ul>Plot:<br /> List every scene that will happen in the novel:<ul><li>side notes of what is happening in other parts of the world if important to know</li><li>characters involved in each scene</li><li>place the scene takes place</li><li>1 sentence description of the scene (still 20 words or less)</li><li>notes of quotes, descriptions, etc. that should be included in the scene</li><li>divide into chapters if you want</li></ul>So, what do you think? Anything you would add? Any huge part of a story I'm missing in the outline?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1