I stare up at the ceiling as car lights flash across it. Music swirls through my mind, a perfect background to my thoughts. It's a strange thing, being a teenage girl. But it's even stranger to be this teenage girl. Teachers often say that they don't want to know what's going on in a teenager's head and I see why: it's a chaotic mess of gah, I ( Read more... )

This week, it was sonnets. Last week, it was villanelles, and the week before that, it was sestinas. The assignments became progressively more difficult as the weeks wore on. First, it was simply six words repeated in a certain order at the end of each line of a sextet. Then there were repeating lines with rhyme. Two sets of rhyme, actually, in a ( Read more... )

“Are you serious?”

Three words, five syllables. They didn't seem like they would make much of an impact on anything. They were just three tiny words that I say several times on a normal day. I didn't mean anything by it: I was just a quiet teenage girl who didn't want two obnoxious little boys rampaging through the house, being loud and annoying ( Read more... )

A year ago, I sat at this very same desk, littered with pencils and papers and snacks, and penned my first post in this competition. I was fifteen then, a sophomore in high school, with only the slightest hint of who I was, even though I thought I knew so much more at the time. Doesn't age always turn out that way, though? You think you know who ( Read more... )

I am clinically insane, but ( Read more... )

I am so sorry that I haven't been updating very much. The only excuse that I have is that school has started and I have been bombarded with homework, but that's not really a good excuse because there were weekends. However, I am definitely going to try to update more often.

NaNoWriMo is starting up soon, though, so that might put a monkey wrench ( Read more... )

I am in a predicament, everyone ( Read more... )

Oh, oh!

I almost forgot.

I have 7 codes for Dreamwidth accounts. If anyone wants 'em, come get 'em!

God, I'm bored but I also don't feel like thinking enough to do the Five Things meme, so have that lyrics meme. I recently revamped my entire library, so the songs are bound to be fairly different than they were the last time I did this.

Step 1: Put your music player on shuffle.
Step 2: Post the first line(s) from the first 30 songs that play, no ( Read more... )