Question Fridays

What's yo favorite aspect of your novel?
I think probably Caylee's musings, because they're so much fun to write and because she thinks differently than I do. I like how they seem so innocent, like she's just thinking, but that they're really not. They're dangerous.


What's yo favorite aspect of MY novel (plz preen my ego)?
I love love love your character development of Novelist. I always skip that part and am like, "BAM! INSERT MC HERE!" and you are smart enough to actually show the reader who she is and what she's doing. You also can muse really well, without slipping into a droning tone, and also making a point. I know you feel like you're droning, but there's always something really really good about your musings. I can always find at least like a hundred really good sentences that just make me... feel something. The way that it's supposed to. This is because you think so well. Like I hear a lot of your voice in your novel, the way you get when you're seriously thinking about something. But you're not restricting yourself and you take the time to make everything work out so well. And I love that. You throw in good vocab in a natural way that doesn't sound like you're trying to sound smart. You just sound like you legitly are smart. Your metaphors work and are stunnnning.


Why do you run? (you must've seen that coming!)
This is what I wrote a week ago, when I hated everything about running and started to quit:
It started because everyone around me ran. You, Laura, and Hope all did it. Hope was probably the straw that broke the camel's back (or should I say broke Amy's knees?), because I knew that you were weird, and Laura just looked like a runner. But when I found out that Hope, who had another sport too, ran, I felt bad about myself. Everyone did something but me. I also felt fat and knew that I could handle losing a few pounds. But I run now because... I don't know. Some days it's out of habit, and these are the days when I ask myself why I do it. These are the days that I hate every aspect of it and I swear to never run again. I think I run because as much as I try to convince myself that running sucks and I would be better off without it, I still keep coming back for more. As much as my run the previous day made me question everything about why I do it and what the freaking point is, I still go out for a quick one. But right now... I run because I should. I am so sick of running. Help me quit.

And this is what I wrote yesterday:
Dean Karnazes says that, really, no one enjoys running, so I guess that I don't. I enjoy parts of it. I do not enjoy other parts of it. I do not enjoy the parts that make me hurt when I am not running, and I do not enjoy the parts that make me look all ugly. I enjoy everything else. I like going slowly for longer runs and I like powering it up for short ones. I love runners' highs. I love races. I love feeling like whatever I do in running, to an extent, is up to me. If I want to be slow, I can go a quarter mile once a month. But if I want to be fast, I can train like Megan. I do not, obviously, have that sort of motivation. But I love struggling up a huge hill and being about to die and then there's a freaking amazing downhill that makes it all worthwhile.
I'm going to stop now.
I think that this represents just how freaking moody I am.


What are some of your favorite lyrics?
"Seaweed and Indiana sawgrass...pale green things." -Pale Green Things (Mountain Goats)

"And I feel so proud to be alive
And I feel so proud when the reckoning arrives." -Heretic Pride (Mountain Goats)

"Someone will do something someone else will regret, I speak in smoke signals and you answer in code." -Have to Explode (Mountain Goats)

"You or your memory?" -You or Your Memory (Mountain Goats)

"There will be feasting
and dancing
in Jerusalem next year
I am gonna make it
through this year
if it kills me." -This Year (Mountain Goats)

"There's gonna come a day when you feel better
your eyes are free and easy on that day." -Up the Wolves (Mountain Goats)

"And I hope the junkyard a few blocks from here
someday burns down
and I hope the rising black smoke carries me far away,
and I never come back to this town." -No Children (Mountain Goats)

"As I pace back and forth all this time cause I honestly believed in you." -White Horse (Taylor Swift)

"And I wouldn't change a thing
I'd walk right back through the rain
Back to every broken heart on the day that it was breaking.
And I'd relive all the years
And be thankful for the tears
I cried with every stumbled step
that led to you and got me
here." -Here (Rascal Flatts)

"Kick up the leaves and the magic is lost." -Bad Day (Daniel Powter)

"Someday we'll all get started
Someday we'll have what we wanted
Someday we'll want what's better
Someday we'll all live forever
Someday we'll all reach higher
Someday we won't be so tired
Someday we won't say never
Someday we'll all be together" -Someday (Plain White T's)

"These are the times that we'll remember
Breaking the city's heart together
Finally it's out time now" -Our Time Now (Plain White T's)

"Don't be afraid
What your mind conceals
You should make a stand
Stand up for what you believe" -Invincible (Muse)

EVERYONE THAT IS NOT CARRIE SUCKS.

Hello.

So, I have recently completed the task of reading every single Pearls Before Swine comic ever printed. And, somehow, I found my friends in some of them.


This one reminded me of Maggie. I think that either Carrie or Molly could be Zebra:


This one reminded me of how Laura probably feels sometimes, especially with me around:


if it's fuzzy, deal with it. i can't fix that.

This is not completely Carrie, but it kind of made me think of her:
I see a difference in the fact that Carrie is not dating a pig. And that she is respected.

And this made me miss cross country:


Reminded me of us trying to sing Disturbia. We didn't know the lyrics. At all.:

These are Pearls Before Swine plushes. Must. Have. NOW.:


You would do well to remember this:

The end.



Side note: "Sing for Absolution" and "Invincible" are like the coolest freaking songs to have playing when it's thundering. It sounds so cool.

Side side note: Marat pwns Corday. Just saying.

LAURA DAY!!!

HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LAURA!

Amy is a Copycat

So I have decided to be a copycat. I am going to copy Carrie, who copied John, and start doing question Tuesdays. However, these are going to happen on Fridays, because I don't like Tuesdays.

Leave questions in the comments or email me.

And if you ask any question at all, I will not answer it until Friday. Possible example:
Someone: Do you want to go running?
Me: WHY DON'T YOU WAIT UNTIL FRIDAY?!

However, if the questions are urgent:
Someone: Do you want some chocolate?
Me: FRICK YES! You don't have to wait until Friday, dear kind person who has given me chocolate!

I am also going to embark upon another project, one that I will come up with on my own. I just don't know what it is yet.

pooost

Today has been a good day. I woke up and found out that I didn't have to run, which made me happy. Then I went to Barnes and Noble with my parents, and we spent over an hour browsing (I found a GORGEOUS anniversary edition of Lord of the Flies, but didn't get it because I didn't quite like that book as much as I liked Pi. But it was still really really pretty) and ended up with a nice edition of Life of Pi. It's small, which I don't like in paperback books, but the other edition was too big. But it's pretty and the words are still the same, so I don't mind too much. Then we sat at Starbucks for probably 20 minutes and drank coffee and talked about books. My mom also got this record/tape/CD player today, and it's really nice and sounds really good so that made me happy.
I have been loving this break. I really needed it.

New Goals

I've been hanging out at the "Goals" thread on the nanowrimo forums, and I have decided to make a few more goals. These include:

Running:
14:30 3200
7:00 1600
3:15 800
1:10 400
Be able to run 7 miles

School:
Do the work more often...
Make a greater effort to pay attention, instead of zoning out and thinking of the most random things possible
A's in: English, History, Newspaper, Bio, Health, Spanish
A B in math is ok... math sucks.

Other:
Beat Super Mario 64 the legit way, as in 120 stars and beating the last Bowser, not just beating the last Bowser
Pass driving test with an 80%
Read 30 books in the summer
Read at least one classic novel
Take one week and only get on the internet to check email and facebook (this might possibly be my hardest goal...)

These are things that I have been thinking about, but have finally decided to go through with. There are 14 goals, so accomplishing 8 would make me happy.

FeNoAdMo

Today begins a torturous adventure that I have decided to inflict upon myself.
FeNoAdMo.
February Novel Adding Month.
This idea came into my head a few weeks ago, and I knew that I would not do it, no matter how much I wanted to. And what is the only way to keep myself doing a project? Tell someone that I am embarking upon it, because then failing the project would just be embarrassing. So I told Carrie, whom I hope will go with me on this month long addition of 30,000 words to our novels.
30,000 is such a small amount of words that it almost sounds easy (look at that. How will I ever become a good writer if I insist on starting sentences with numbers?). Almost. That is 1,072 words a day. So small, compared to the required 1,667 in a NaNoWriMo day.

But the problem is that I have been away from my novel for so long. I have been re-reading it in an attempt to get the mood of the story back, but that just makes me mad and has caused editing, which is a monumental task that I will, maybe, get around to in March.

I have never finished a novel before, and I've started so many of them that it's just pathetic. But I really hope that FeNoAdMo will get me close to, if not directly to, this point.