I am going to trying my DAMNDEST to get to a protest today! It will be during afternoon classes, so I'll have to skip, but the cause is worth it! Have convinced Rachel to come too ( Read more... )

MERLIN: So... You're writing your senior paper, huh ( Read more... )

So, here's the post I promised of one of the prompts I responded to for my creative writing final. I churned it out in pretty much five minutes, so it's not perfect, but I like it well enough. I'm not sure what it is. It's not a short story, not really. A short monologue, perhaps. It could work as one.

Prompt: Write about a favorite character from a ( Read more... )

So, my last post held all my super rage raaaa for the day, so even though it's 2am and I'm rapidly developing carpal tunnel, I wanted to outline the positives of my day.

This new semester of creative writing is looking up. A very hot guy has appeared in our class. He has great hair. He wore that awesome gray jacket Robert Pattinson wore for most of ( Read more... )

New Year's Resolutions:

1. Get a job.
2. Take better care of myself.
3. Forcibly make 2009 not suck.
4. To quote cleolinda , "I am also working on being more awesome, although this is a bit more nebulous as goals go. This kind of has a whoa-dude zen connotation in my mind, so it's like, if you weren't awesome today, that's cool. To err is human; to be awesome ( Read more... )

So for my senior paper, we have a few guidelines. The topic we choose has to be a work of literature or an author, and we have to write about how that author or piece of literature reflects their time period. Seems boring initially, but I can totally work with this. I just revamped [ha!] my original idea: vampires in pop culture and the origins of ( Read more... )

Today was a vast improvement upon yesterday!

In creative writing, most people are working on new short stories. However, I had a chat with Mr. X, and he said that instead of this and the rest of the portfolio requirements everyone else will be doing, I can write a novel. Which is really a much more productive thing for me to do than random little ( Read more... )

For those of you who were curious, I did hear back from Sarah Rees Brennan about the publication date of The Demon's Lexicon. Here is what I wrote to her:

Brilliance! I absolutely love it!

One short story that has stuck with me over the years is "The Lady or the Tiger" - I'm unsure of the author. It's one that many people have read in school, but it ( Read more... )

            There was banging, and the door shook. Dear God.

"911 emergency, how may I direct your call?" The woman who answered sounded almost bored.

"MR. ROGERS IS TRYING TO KILL ME," I shrilled into the phone, my voice rising to a pitch at the end that I thought only dogs would be able to hear.

"Ma'am, please calm down. Did you say Mr. Rogers ( Read more... )

I should be revising my intro paragraph for my AP English paper. So of course I'm blogging.

The first meeting of "Writer's Block", the creative writing club at my school, was today at lunch. There were only five people there, including myself. Only two of us were seniors. I was feeling surprisingly confident today, and jumped right into things. I ( Read more... )