I am signing of livejournal because of some technical issues with posting blogs, so I made myself up a fancy little Blogspot that I will be using from now on, or at least until I can get this page fixed. Anyway, feel free to update bookmarks/links if you are so inclined, I'm sure that I'll use the blogspot for at least a year or so ( Read more... )

I haven't updated in a while. This is mostly due to the fact that whenever I try to update, my livejournal text box thingy goes all wacky and does weird shit that makes the text change while I'm typing (the spacing, not the words) and it makes my head hurt. Which, in turn, makes me angry ( Read more... )

Last saturday I sat down at about 4pm and started reading "1984," which I had not read before. I read pretty much straight through till about 1am when I finally got to the last four words of the book. Which I havn't read yet. Just kidding. I really enjoyed it. I've read books before that I "couldn't put down" but this one was like some sort of ( Read more... )

My english professor said that an author once wanted to capture the horror of a soldier in the middle of Vietnam waking up with a leech stuck to his face. Apparently, it was a very horrific scene for him and the other people in the camp (I think the author was in the camp with him) and the only way the author could recapture the horror was by ( Read more... )

I was actually having a pretty decent day today. I got good news on my future studies at UNR from a professor and an adviser. I didn't realize how gung-ho I was about taking more English before I graduated, but when I caught a glimpse of the rest of my career there today, I realized just how much that meant to me. I really wanted to switch over to ( Read more... )

There are a few things I should be working on at the moment, get some catching up done from the break. But here I am instead ( Read more... )

I am posting this to try to get a couple of responses on what you think of the style of the scene. I know it won't make sense in this context. It is not a full story, just a small sample of what a story by me might be. The reason I post it is to hear what people think is wrong with it. There isn't much to go on, but, hey, just comment on what you ( Read more... )

I was thinking about star wars today. I just watched Empire again and I was thinking about how much better it is then all three of the new ones put together. And, personally, although I know I'm in the minority on this, I like Empire the least out of the original three. I'm not saying i dislike empire, i love it, i just like the other two better is ( Read more... )

I wish I could write novels like Chuck Palahniuk. They just seem to have so much soul. I don't know if I've ever had soul for any creative endevour I have pursued. I remember once when I was taking guitar lessons my teacher telling me to add some soul to it. I just hit all the notes a lot harder. I can make things louder, I can't seem to make them ( Read more... )

I have had a headache for the last three days or so. It only goes away for about an hour or so after I drink some caffine. Speaking of which...oh man, that shit works fast. The problem with this is of course that the more soda I drink, the longer I stay up, and the longer I stay awake, the more caffine I need to keep the headache away. It kind of ( Read more... )