I graduated from high school last night. It was kind of awesome, but awful at the same time. There's nothing stranger than walking down a hallway full of your classmates and realizing that you may never see some of them again (and liking that with some people, which makes me feel like a horrible person). Everything's just so strange. But fantastic because I can finally say that I've completed high school on forms! I can also say that I was awarded the biggest scholarship that my school offers, which is kind of cool and immensely helpful. Although I hate hearing people give speeches on me, it's awfully awkward. But, I like the money I can get out of it.
Now that that's out of the way I can really focus on writing again once I get back in the groove. I had planned to write a road trip style story that I've had in mind for a while, but I decided that I want to finish my fantasy trilogy, so that'll be my focus this summer. Ideally I'd like to get the really skinny first drafts for the second and third books done. This will probably happen with the help of NaNoWriMo camp, which is essentially WriMo but over the summer. Maybe I'll be able to get it done way earlier and be one of those people with hundreds of thousands of words in their pieces. But we'll just have to wait and see. I start working on my second book (which was started in the original NaNoWriMo that that series had come from a few years ago) tomorrow. Here's to hoping that everything's gonna go well and I can finish! And then get to revising...ew. Cheers!
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Exams...
Are over! I've officially written my last high school exams. Know what this means? I can actually write again! This means blogging, and stories and my webcomic scripting and revising my novel (which I started doing on...Sunday I think). Point is, I'm back! And I'm excited and itching to work, especially on the Giving Child.
Also, I noticed a recent spike in readers from Russia. Which is exciting, since, as you know, I like Russia a lot. I've been looking into Russian sign language recently, since I've recently memorised the ASL finger spelling alphabet (kinda, I'm still slow and there's a letter or two I don't remember, but I'm getting there!). Although that seems hard, so for now I'm sticking with ASL. If anyone knows of any resources for any sort of sign language though, I'd love to hear about it.
Also, I noticed a recent spike in readers from Russia. Which is exciting, since, as you know, I like Russia a lot. I've been looking into Russian sign language recently, since I've recently memorised the ASL finger spelling alphabet (kinda, I'm still slow and there's a letter or two I don't remember, but I'm getting there!). Although that seems hard, so for now I'm sticking with ASL. If anyone knows of any resources for any sort of sign language though, I'd love to hear about it.
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
New Work: The Giving Child
Yeah, the title's self explanatory. I posted a new book on writerscafe. It's called the Giving Child. Go forth and read. As usual, it's under my username of littlestnewt (although I guess the name that shows up is Kay, but I don't really know how that works). I hope you like it. Although I hope you review regardless.
Monday, June 13, 2011
The Loss of Sharings
So remember how I was talking about how Didn't Mean To had been shared? Well, it had been up to 3 shares today, I was all excited and felt special, but when I checked moments ago it was back down to 1. Which makes me sad. I didn't know you could unshare something. I feel kinda unloved.
Inspiration!
Every now and again, I'll pop back on the NaNoWriMo website to see what's going on. I did that again today, and went onto the adoptables thread to see what was going on since sometimes that gives me good ideas. And it did.
So here's some background, lots times when I write, I come up with an alliteration or something of the like that that would function well as a title and use the inspiration from that. For instance I thought up the Closet Days and figured out a plot line that would work well under that blanket and voila, Script Frenzy idea. Therefore, the page for title adoptables is heaven on wheels for me. (Oh, in case you weren't aware, adoptables are ideas that people post and you can hijack them, generally you say when you're going to use one, and then leave some behind but I'm sneaky and can't be bothered to post.)
Now I have a ton of different ideas that I'm going to ferment until I know more about them, and I shall then write when I have time. I'm not sure if any of them will turn into post-able ideas, or if they'll all be ones I keep to myself as potential ones to go back to in a few years to rewrite and publish. Regardless, though, I now have ideas and I'm itching to write which is a fantastic feeling and I can't wait to make use of it.
So here's some background, lots times when I write, I come up with an alliteration or something of the like that that would function well as a title and use the inspiration from that. For instance I thought up the Closet Days and figured out a plot line that would work well under that blanket and voila, Script Frenzy idea. Therefore, the page for title adoptables is heaven on wheels for me. (Oh, in case you weren't aware, adoptables are ideas that people post and you can hijack them, generally you say when you're going to use one, and then leave some behind but I'm sneaky and can't be bothered to post.)
Now I have a ton of different ideas that I'm going to ferment until I know more about them, and I shall then write when I have time. I'm not sure if any of them will turn into post-able ideas, or if they'll all be ones I keep to myself as potential ones to go back to in a few years to rewrite and publish. Regardless, though, I now have ideas and I'm itching to write which is a fantastic feeling and I can't wait to make use of it.
Thursday, June 09, 2011
Sharing is Caring
I discovered something new about writerscafe.org today. Apparently, you can share things directly from the website. But that's not the new part. I knew you were able to do that, I'd accidentally pressed the button that would have allowed me to do it half a kazillion times. No, what's new is the fact that people actually use it. And that when they do use it, it takes not of it and puts a little number up there.
How did I discover this? It freakin' happened to me! I'm not mad. This sounds like I'm mad, but I'm really not mad. I'm really excited. That means that either someone knows nothing about technology and therefore clicked on a share button, or someone actually liked something that I wrote enough to share it with the world! Or maybe just their grandmother and her deaf cat, but I don't care! There's a grandmother and a deaf cat out there someone reading something that I wrote! How cool is that?!
The only problem is that I don't know who this person is, and it won't even tell me which platform it was posted onto secondhand. I've tried googling it a bunch of different ways, but I can't find it. So someone out there likes my writing, I don't know who and they've shared it with people I don't know. It's awesome, but kinda disconcerting, because it's weird knowing that it's been read and then given to others to read and I don't know who those others are. I just hope I've been credited appropriately. (If you happen to see it somewhere, let me know, I'd love to poke around where it's been sent!)
How did I discover this? It freakin' happened to me! I'm not mad. This sounds like I'm mad, but I'm really not mad. I'm really excited. That means that either someone knows nothing about technology and therefore clicked on a share button, or someone actually liked something that I wrote enough to share it with the world! Or maybe just their grandmother and her deaf cat, but I don't care! There's a grandmother and a deaf cat out there someone reading something that I wrote! How cool is that?!
The only problem is that I don't know who this person is, and it won't even tell me which platform it was posted onto secondhand. I've tried googling it a bunch of different ways, but I can't find it. So someone out there likes my writing, I don't know who and they've shared it with people I don't know. It's awesome, but kinda disconcerting, because it's weird knowing that it's been read and then given to others to read and I don't know who those others are. I just hope I've been credited appropriately. (If you happen to see it somewhere, let me know, I'd love to poke around where it's been sent!)
Back To Here
So I have ideas for Away From Here! I'm excited! Unfortunately, though, exams are coming up so I have next to no time to write. It sucks. But starting on the 24th I can get back into writing full force. Unless I have a job. Which I desperately need. So I'm not sure which I want more, but we'll see. If you're noticing a lack of posts, or else that they're ridiculously short, that also happens to be why, since I can't dedicate too much time to blogging. Actually, I shouldn't really be dedicating my time to anything that's not schoolwork, buuut, sometimes it's hard. For instance right now I'm taking an...extended break. That I should really end. Siiiigh. Oh, well. Later days.
Tuesday, June 07, 2011
Monday, June 06, 2011
Old Stuff Resurfacing
I decided to join fictionpress.com against my better judgement, since I'm not a fan of giant conglomerate writing communities. Since I have so much stuff going on right now, I decided to make use of the start of an old story I'd written a really long time ago. So I cut it into some chapters and have posted the first one. We'll see if it actually gets any views. It's called Away From Here, and my name on it, is, like usual, littlestnewt. Cheers.
One Day More
No, this is not a post dedicated to my love of Les Miserables. It's about the fact that I find out tomorrow whether or not I got the job. There's only one day left. I'm nervous.
Saturday, June 04, 2011
New Blog
I like books. Find out which ones, and maybe why. Go to my profile, and read away on Reviewery. Toodle pip.
Friday, June 03, 2011
Interview Update
I did it. I didn`t do it well, but I got through it. My problem is that I get nervous and I can`t organize my thoughts. So I fail miserably. That and the fact that I`m sorely unqualified, but I`m really passionate and a quick learner and I hope my interviewers picked up on that. Not to mention I really need some sort of income. I can`t afford school without it. I`ll find out on Tuesday whether or not I got it. Here`s to hoping it went alright.
Thursday, June 02, 2011
Interview
I'm very fortunate to live in a community that takes literacy seriously. I have a huge passion for words, if you haven't already noticed, so I love that there are organizations that share the same love as I do. And guess what? I have an interview for a job with one of them! I am beyond excited, so hopefully it goes well. We'll just have to wait and see. I'll post how it goes. :)
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