Two Guided Writings

Two guided writing things I did.

What color is the sky?

The sky is blue, except when it's stormy, then the sky is a dark, cloudy gray color. And when there's a rainbow the sky is filled with many colors: red, blue, green, orange, purple.
The sky is above us because it is. There's probably a scientific reason, but I don't know it. Who get's to decide what to name things? How did they get that job? Sky is a cool word. Could be a cool name. I have gone off into complete randomness. But I'll keep writing. Duck duck duck duck duck. There'a a story behind that.
My sister, my best friend and I made up hand motions to all the songs on Kelly Clarkson's CD "Breakaway". We were all in the back of a car at the time and kept hitting each other in the face. Kelly Clarkson!! There are multiple stories behind that one.
But the answer to life, the universe and everything is 42, which, coincidentally, is my best friend's parking spot number here at MTA. So, the is not blue. The sky is, in fact, 42.

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Prompt: Start and finish a short story with a character walking through the woods.

Every morning I start the day with a walk, and have been doing so for at least a decade. Where I walk has always depended on where I live. When I lived in my small, dark apartment in New York my walks were around the block my building was in and to the small office where I worked. After that I lived in a small, upper class neighborhood in Schaumburg, Illinois. My walks were around the neighborhood and to the parks nearby. Now the place I call home is this cabin in the woods, and every morning I walk the paths: around my cabins, and the lake. It's quiet up here, far from the main road. Only the sounds of birds, squirrels and other animals break the silence. I don't get lonely though, with Maddie to walk with me. The perfect companion. She listens to me and never talks back. Always ready to walk with me in the morning. Our ritual walk through the woods.

School Returns

School is back full time now. Classes, homework, teachers, high school drama, the whole nine yards. I really have have to get back into writing. Writing is like a release for me. I have to find a time to do it between sleep, school, girl scouts, extra-curricular activities, homework and television.

I'm getting braces on tomorrow. Kinda nervous.

I found a site just recently that has stuck with me: http://fate.rooniverse.net/. The site is the home for this person's virtual television show. The basic idea is that you make up characters and write stories in script form. I don't know why it's stuck with me, but it has and I want to try it. In the case of Fate (the site at the address above), the writer is writing scripts with Dawn Summers (of Buffy the Vampire Slayer) as the/a main character.

I think that's it for now. I'm kinda late for bed and I have to get myself up and to the orthodontist tomorrow.

Supernatural: The Beginning Of A New Obsession Era

I am now addicted to a show called Supernatural. It plays on the WB, soon to be the CW. The entire cast is Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki. They play brothers, Dean and Sam Winchester, who travel around the US in a black 1967 Chevy Impala to hunt supernatural beings, such as spirits, shapeshifters, and the demon that killed their mother and Sam's girlfriend Jess. They are also looking for their father, who went missing while on a 'hunting' trip. The plot is good, and I love Jensen and Jared. It helps that they are both good looking and act like brothers would.

FanFiction Pet Peeves

I am naming this post: FanFiction Pet Peeves. It's a good name, really. This is a list of things that I have seen in fanfics that annoy me.

1. Bad spelling.Use a spell-checker. Especially bad about bad spelling is character names. (ex. O'Neill: two L's. He's said it in the show fer cryin' out loud! and Teal'c: T-E-A-L-'-C. Jack spelled it out for us in the second episode of SG-1, The Enemy Within.) Check spelling and check again. Check other fansites for your fandom to find out how to spell character names, place names, technology names, etc.

2. Bad grammer. Read your story a million times before you post it. If a sentence sounds wrong when you read it, try to fix it.

3. Putting the words "I suck at summaries" in your summary. If you can't write a summary about the story you've written then how do people like me know if they want to read it. A summary is your chance to convince people that they should read your story It should be filled with stuff about your story.

4. Putting the words "please review" in your summary. If you wrote your story so that you could put into words an idea that you had, then you did good. Reviews are very helpful, they can give some good advice on making your story better, and raise any questions that haven't been answered. Don't hold back chapters because people aren't reviewing.

5. "Please review. Reviews make me write faster". Almost everyone does this. I've been known to as well. Reviews don't really make us write faster. They make us write slower. Instead of writing we're reading reviews.

6. Putting the kind of story it is in the title. (ex. The Blue Pineapple short fic). That kind of information can go in the summary. It's not important enough to be in the title.

7. "This is my first fic please be nice". Yep, I'm guilty of this one as well. Welcome to the fanfic community, thank you for writing your fic, now can we read it? Just because it's your first fic, doesn't mean it's going to be bad. And just because it's your twentieth doesn't mean it's going to be a great work of literary art. Be confident about your work. And have fun reading other people's stories.

I think that's it.

Procrastinating Writing By Writing

I'm trying to write this thing for Driver's Ed and I keep getting distracted. I found a prompt I can answer really easily though.

What line in a song do you often "hear" in your head?

"We're soarin', flyin'. There's not a star in heaven that we can't reach. If we tryin'. Yeah, we're breakin' free. Oh, we're breakin' free."

And...

"You know the world can see us. in a way that's different than who we are. Creating space between us, 'til we're separate hearts."

Both are from the song "Breaking Free", which is from the Disney Channel Original Movie High School Musical. I absolutely love the movie and all the singing, but that song in particular. I hear it in my head all the time, and I dance to it randomly.

I Used To Think...

Just kidding with the short post. My sis wanted the good puter. I'm working on another Off-World Incident story (and by working I mean I've been ignoring it in the hopes that it will write itself, but I have now printed it out so that I can get back into writing). I found a prompt that will hopefully get me thinking and should take alot of time, which is good.

Write for 10 minutes using "I used to think..." as your starter.

#1: I used to think I could save the world. I thought that if I was doing the 'right' thing by being kind to others, and being respectful of other ideas and opinions, that I could help make the would a better place. I have since realized that the world is really messed up and even if I am kind to others and keep an open mind, the rest of the people living here aren't going to do the same thing. But I'll continue to try it my way. I'll make an effort to listen to everybody, even if I don't agree with them, and I'll keep my positive attitude. Maybe I can make one person's day better by giving them a compliment.

#2: I used to think drama was just for the movies. Then I started high school. I've heard all the stories, you know, the ones your family tell you about when they were in high school and how it was the worst years of their lives. I never believed that. At this point I still don't think high school is awful. It's just all the DRAMA. Girls, mad at their boyfriends. Boys, mad at their girlfriends. Friends, mad at other friends. Catfights in the cafeteria, the girls yelling obsenities at one another, even after the teachers have pulled them away from each other. All the drama. And no matter where you go there's more drama to be found. Students are mad at their teachers for a bad grade. Blaming subpar work on their job, their boss, their family, a sick relative, the cold their coming down with. Is there a place to find creative excuses that I just haven't found yet (probably). High school would be so much easier if we all did our homework, paid attention in class, and kept our negative opinions of other to ourselves. But it would be SOOOO boring. And that would be bad.

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A piece of wisdom I would like to share: Having a good attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth your while.

How Short?

I haven't posted since over a month ago and I thought I would post something. Short. Really short.

And there it is.