April 10th
Today I learned a lot about writing. I was pointed in the direction of several interesting outline formats that I am going to experiment with for a while, and I was given some pretty great advice. This advice came about in a way that I am going to relate to you, blog-that-no-one-reads, now because I am having my mother blow-dry my hair whilst I write this blog.
Story:
So, last Wednesday was an Early-Out day and some friends and I stayed after school to hang out at the Seminary building, because we are losers and we have nowhere cooler to go. So, basically it was a bad experience because there were a ton of people there and nobody could do anything cool because there was too much going on.... that didn't make sense, but I am sitting about six feet away from my computer screen, so I can't even really tell what I am typing because I don't have my glasses on. Then, when I'm done writing this, I will be too lazy to edit it, so HA. Anyway, so, I got stuck on the revision of my novel and I was feeling a little frustrated so I decided to see if Brother Anderson was in his office, which he was. So, we started talking about creativeness and about how you shouldn't like doing something just because it is easy and you also shouldn't like doing something creative because you feel it's torturous.
So, Brother Anderson was talking about his wife's cousin or something like that, who went to college and got a degree in creative writing and he was like, "In fact, I think you'd like her a lot. You should become Facebook friends." So he writes her name down on a sticky note and says, "When you friend request her, say, 'Brother Anderson is my Seminary teacher (which is technically not true) and he says that you should be my mentor.'" So, yeah. I did, and she thought that it was pretty hilarious that he would say that, and then we had this super long Facebook message conversation talking about stuff, and she's like fifty times smarter than me and she has a bunch of great blogs and videos for me to look at and I read/watched most of them and they were super awesome, and now I'm going to start experimenting, and I think this summer is going to be pretty fun.
I have a TON of writing projects that I want to at least try this summer, including a novel about time-travel, a book that my friend Leslie and I want to write together, a book series that my friends Janessa, Cody, Leslie, and I are going to write while we are on the music tour in California, the revision of my novel, and my friend Amanda failed NaNoWriMo miserably in November because of school stuff, so she decided to try it again in June, and I want to do it again with her, except I'm going to work on my revision instead.... maybe.
Anyway, my hair is dry now, and I still have to work on the revision of my novel.... nighty night.
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