Heh.
I have written my narrative essay for English. Due Monday, so yes, I know I procrastinated, but hey, that's who I am. I'm actually rather proud of it though. The main requirement was that it be of a single incident that took part over no more than 24 hours and that the teacher (who is conveniently both my English teacher and my newspaper adviser) be able to hear our voices when she reads it. There was no "you must have three metaphors, two similes, etc. etc. etc." And yes, my teacher will be able to hear my voice. That much I know.
I went Christmas shopping today, which is always a pain and seems more fun than it really is. I got Sarita's gift--a book that I know she'll love, and Emily's--a DVD, and my sister's birthday gift (which is tomorrow)--two new books. Other than that, all I bought was a pair of socks that I'll have to find someone to give to because they were so fuzzy and cute I couldn't resist and my movie ticket to see The Holiday. Which is a really great movie, by the way. But yet, even with my pitifully small amount of gifts, I managed to go from $105 to $40. I still have to buy Madie's gift, Danielle's, Katy's, Kyle's and Kelly's. My parents will pay for the family gifts, thank goodness, or I would be broke.
You know what I consider the mark of a person that has grown up? It's when your wish list is no longer filled with toys but with clothes. When my sister had reached this stage but I hadn't yet, I couldn't understand, but now all I want is shirts and sweaters and jeans and just clothes. Sad, but true. I'm grown up. Ugh.
And on an entirely different note, I've been looking up quotes all day, and I got really into looking up quotes about writing. There've been a lot that are really great, actually. For instance, by Ernest Hemingway, "I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows." And by Burton Rascoe, "What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working even when he's staring out the window." By E.L. Doctorow, "Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way." I can definitely identify with that, and it's a little comforting to know that I'm not the only one that has no master plan for what I write. There's that quote, something about how you should write what you know, what you've experienced, and I never really agreed with it. I think that writing is the greatest chance to take yourself to somewhere else and do something you would never normally do, and I remember hearing one once that said something like "Writing is the chance to cheat the rule that says you only have one life to live." I love that. And by Nikki Giovanni, "If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy."
"Everyone thinks that writers must know more about the inside of the human head, but that is wrong. They know less, that's why they write. Trying to find out what everyone else takes for granted." That's by Margaret Atwood, and I think it's really interesting. Because that is a huge part of writing, and it's a lot of what I see in things that Marauder writes, most specifically--just that curiosity over how people react to situations and what makes them do what they do.
Anyway, I'm done.
<3
Tiffany
I went Christmas shopping today, which is always a pain and seems more fun than it really is. I got Sarita's gift--a book that I know she'll love, and Emily's--a DVD, and my sister's birthday gift (which is tomorrow)--two new books. Other than that, all I bought was a pair of socks that I'll have to find someone to give to because they were so fuzzy and cute I couldn't resist and my movie ticket to see The Holiday. Which is a really great movie, by the way. But yet, even with my pitifully small amount of gifts, I managed to go from $105 to $40. I still have to buy Madie's gift, Danielle's, Katy's, Kyle's and Kelly's. My parents will pay for the family gifts, thank goodness, or I would be broke.
You know what I consider the mark of a person that has grown up? It's when your wish list is no longer filled with toys but with clothes. When my sister had reached this stage but I hadn't yet, I couldn't understand, but now all I want is shirts and sweaters and jeans and just clothes. Sad, but true. I'm grown up. Ugh.
And on an entirely different note, I've been looking up quotes all day, and I got really into looking up quotes about writing. There've been a lot that are really great, actually. For instance, by Ernest Hemingway, "I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows." And by Burton Rascoe, "What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working even when he's staring out the window." By E.L. Doctorow, "Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way." I can definitely identify with that, and it's a little comforting to know that I'm not the only one that has no master plan for what I write. There's that quote, something about how you should write what you know, what you've experienced, and I never really agreed with it. I think that writing is the greatest chance to take yourself to somewhere else and do something you would never normally do, and I remember hearing one once that said something like "Writing is the chance to cheat the rule that says you only have one life to live." I love that. And by Nikki Giovanni, "If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy."
"Everyone thinks that writers must know more about the inside of the human head, but that is wrong. They know less, that's why they write. Trying to find out what everyone else takes for granted." That's by Margaret Atwood, and I think it's really interesting. Because that is a huge part of writing, and it's a lot of what I see in things that Marauder writes, most specifically--just that curiosity over how people react to situations and what makes them do what they do.
Anyway, I'm done.
<3
Tiffany