I looked up Two-Bit's astrology profile the other day, looking for possible career options for him (yes, I was getting desperate). Then I got so fascinated with it that I proceeded to check on nearly every Outsiders character's sign to see if it matched up with his or her personality. The verdict? Hinton must have been thinking about that when she ( Read more... )

I'm really not all that bright. I've been trying to figure out this timeline for my story (yes, I'm actually going to use accurate dates, years and ages!) and it's been confusing me far more than it should be ( Read more... )

"I thought of Soda and Steve. What if one of them saw the other killed? Would that make them stop fighting? No, I thought, maybe it would make Soda stop, but not Steve. He'd go on hating and fighting. Maybe that was what Bob would have done if it had been Randy instead of him."   - The Outsiders

You know, I never noticed that quote before. I'm ( Read more... )

I'm back, with another quote-filled post... haha. I got through another bit of the book, and I figured I'd make another post so that hopefully it won't be as long as the last one.

"The park was about two blocks square, with a fountain in the middle and a swimming pool for the little kids. The pool was empty now in the fall, but the fountain was ( Read more... )

I'm about a third of the way through highlighting The Outsiders, and already things are jumping out at me that I either hadn't noticed or hadn't thought about before. I'm just gonna copy the main stuff in here for later reference...

"They were all as tough as nails and looked it. I had grown up with them, and they accepted me, even though I was ( Read more... )

Interesting. S.E. Hinton had a habit of capitalizing "Socs" but not "greasers", at least from what I see anyway. I wonder why that was. If I were a psychologist or something, I would say that she subconsciously felt inferior to the Socs and was displaying that by representing Socs as more important with capitalization, but alas, I'm not, and plus, ( Read more... )

I seem to be fixated on continually messing with things that I don't need to. I still find myself changing my xanga layout or song, even though I declared it "shut down" a good year ago at least and haven't written in it since. And I'm going through The Gang right now to look for an excerpt to put in the summary, because I always hated the summary ( Read more... )

I need to buy another copy of The Outsiders. I keep itching to highlight mine, and make marks in the margins and such, but I don't want to because it's autographed. I always feel like I should have one version of books that is nice and neat and clean, and one that I mark up and bend the pages to and etc. OCD? Maybe ( Read more... )

Lately, I have been fascinated with the idea of writing stories that don't end happily ever after. I used to hate character death, but for the past few months, it's become an interesting subject. You can do a lot with the character that is suffering from grief when someone he/she loves passes away. I mean, do they turn mean and lash out? Do they ( Read more... )