Hmm, this place looks familiar somehow...

It's been a while, no?

After my excursion, school became freakishly hard. I was in the doghouse, as my English grades slowly slipped. So I had no time to blog, let alone write anything of my novel.

But now things have calmed down a bit, so I will be on top of this once more.

Except for the fact that I have to go somewhere very soon today, so I will not be able to say much more right now. Perhaps later.

My mommy crazy...

She is. She woke me up at 5:45 this morning to get me ready to go to a place we don't have to be at until 7. O.O

But I love her anyway.

Anyhoo, about to go out of town for three days, so don't expect anything from me, if indeed there is actually someone out there reading this... *crickets chirp*

*more zombie staring*

My resolution for reviewing is suffering a little, for the simple reason that school started again Monday and my teachers heaped the homework on us like crazy. My homework load, after only two days, would be:

1. a problem set in math
2. two 5-paragraph essays and the reading of the first 60 pages of ‘Waldon’
3. section 13 assessment for chemistry
4. read and outline chapter 8 in history

They crazy, methinks. I have had less than six hours of sleep a night for the past 5 nights and as I write this, I could very easily like down and sleep for a couple of hours. I almost fell asleep during chemistry today.

Everything else on my resolutions I have been keeping religiously. My 200 words a day aren’t always on the work that I want them to be, but I figure any time spent writing is good.

But my reviews are going to suffer even more this week, because I am going out of town Friday, Saturday and Sunday and will have no access to the Web. I can do everything else, but I feel bad about not being able to help out my fellow writers.

I’m actively looking for a writer’s group of face-to-face people, hopefully at my library. I love everyone on my writer’s groups on YWS and YW101, but I have never met any of them face-to-face or heard their voices. It’d be nice to be able to shake a fellow writer’s hand and see their real face make the same expressions as their smileys that they use to describe their writing.

Maybe I’ll never find one, but I’ll always have my buddies online. *sigh*

Anyway, I have got to go pack and got to sleep. I could sleep for two days straight it feels like.

Small Soldiers...

I watched that movie and holy moly... That was one violent movie! O.O

I wasn't expecting it to be anything like it turned out. Craziness... It definitely warrents it's PG-13 rating, methinks.

Thoughts on 'Why?'...

There are days that I wonder why I do this – sit on my bed or at my desk or at the table at lunch and scribble words on lined paper or on the backs of old homework, only to go home and tempt carpal tunnel syndrome by typing it all up. Even this entry was written on the back of an old history outline and had to be typed up.

Why do I write? I never thought about it until this past year, even though I have been writing since I was six.

I really don’t know the answer. I don’t know what keeps me chugging through Writer’s Block and deadlines. I don’t know that it is that keeps me writing at all. All I do know is that I can’t imagine life without writing.

I don’t know what I’m going to do when my current writing project is finally done. I have been working on it for something like three years now and I’ll probably be at it for most of this year, what with rewriting and editing being worked in around school. I think I’ll feel a little lonely when it is all over and done with. After all, my characters and I have been together for several years now. When their story is finally done, I’ll be all alone until I throw myself into another full-time writing gig. I have two other works currently: my short fic anthology, ‘Mutts’, and a retelling of ‘Beauty and the Beast.’ But they are only side projects. I suppose B&B could become full-time, but Mutts, even though I have been working on it for about a year, doesn’t have the long-haul characters of a novel to keep me company.

*sigh* There are times I wish that stories would never end. Then, on the flipside, there are days I can’t wait to finish this story and plunge up to my elbows into the muck of a new novel. There’s always another story to be conceived and told, I suppose, though I will miss this one when it is over.

Bookmarks...

You know, it's funny, I just discovered the 'bookmark' menu on my computer for the intranet. Yes, I knew about it before (I'm not that illiterate) but I never thought to use it. But now that I am online a little more and there are only a few websites that I am really consistent in going to, I have added them to my bookmarks.

It's great and it saves me so much time, unlike the 'contacts' option on a cell phone. My mom tries to get me to use it, but if I already know the number, it is faster for me to just punch it in, rather than looking for it on the contacts menu. If I don't know the number, then I'll use the menu, but generally, I know who I am calling and what their number is...

My daddy's mouth...

I hate the dentist. I take care of my teeth, but he takes one look at my mouth and says that I have decay. Then I hear later that I have four - count 'em... 4! - cavities!

I must have my dad's teeth. He takes ridiculous care of his teeth and if you were to look at his teeth, they are almost all silver in the back of his mouth with fillings. It isn't his fault, he just has weak teeth. *sigh* Not only do I look like my dad (good) I inherited his mouth (bad). Ah well, I love my daddy.

Today in a shoebox...

Three of my New Year's resolutions were: 1. to finish the second draft of my novel, 2. to write at least 200 words every day and 3. to leave at least one helpful review on this or any other of my writing sites I frequent.

Thus far, number 3 has been covered. Number 2 has to be in a work of fiction, otherwise I would have covered it about three times over in the seven or so reviews I have left scattered all over the web... (What can I say? I like long reviews.)

Number 1 obviously will take a little more time. I am starting chapter 11 and I am a little stuck... Having revised the entire storyline, I naturally have to revise my character's actions. Now I have to have one character run away. But I never worked out just how to do it (I am fiercely opposed to outlining) and so now my poor character is twiddling his thumbs whilst I devise a feasable method of his escape... Hmmm...

Going to the dentist today. *growls* I hate the dentist. I used to wonder why people didn't like the place of toothpaste and fluoride, but now I see it for what it really is: the land of metal hooks perpetually scraping, of the whine of drills and the bitter taste of cavity filler. *gag* I hate the dentist...

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I completely forgot that yesterday was New Year's Eve... *smacks forehead*

Anyway, I hope you all have a great new year in 2008!

Resolutions:
1. To finish the second draft of "Ocean of Tears" by next year - and I can do this... I'm up to chapter 11 right now
2. To write at least 200 words every day
3. To leave at least one productive review on at least one of my writing groups every day
4. To drink more water
5. To start branching out of my fantasy fix

Yup... at least I don't have to worry about losing weight. I'm thin as a twig as it is...