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.