This is today's installment of: "Emily Talks About Stuff"

Today for ETAS (clever, clever), I am going to talk about something. I don't really know what that's going to be at this moment, but it'll probably end up really boring......
So, I've started writing a new novel. It's going to be about time-travel. A couple of things are going to be different about this novel relative to every novel I've ever written.
1) It'll be in first-person instead of third-person. I really hate first-person because I always felt that it restricted me because I couldn't really talk about the thoughts going on in other people's heads (which I realize isn't necessarily true and that I'm just really stupid and not good when it comes to writing) so, I just never wrote in first-person, but then I realized that my writing is basically a lot of what is going on in the character's head, so I started my new novel in first-person, and it's turns out to be SOO much easier to write in, which is new.
2) I'm going to do what I was supposed to do for NaNoWriMo. They tell you that you aren't supposed to edit as you go, but I did. I would write in my notebook at school and church, and then I'd get home and I'd transfer it into my computer, while making it make more sense, and adding more words and stuff. With this book, I'm pretty sure I can push my way through to the end if I stop caring whether or not it makes sense or works. I'm not going to care about sentence or paragraph structure so it'll be, as my eighth grade English teacher calls it, word vomit.
3) My main character won't be a nerd. In every other novel/story/everything I've ever written, the main character is super smart and super adaptive. This time, I'm writing about a normal (HA) person, which might or might not work out seeing as I don't know a whole lot about normalness.
If my changing of book writing principles doesn't work, then I will probably hate the world, but that's okay, because no one cares.
Best Wishes!

BEDA: Blog Every Day in April; April 6th

April 6th
I need to tell Amerah a story, and so I'm killing two birds with one stone (cliche) by blogging about it for my BEDA blog... Yeah, story:
I was having a cool conversation with my former Seminary teacher, Brother Anderson, and we were talking about how non-fiction literature was good, and biographies were cool, but to write one, you have to be a semi-good story-teller as well. So, I was telling him about the conversation that Amerah and I were having via text message last night/this morning. I was telling him about how we've been doing email quizzes for a while and about how we save them and laugh at ourselves. I also talked about how that's sort of how Amerah and I keep in contact, (besides, like, Twitter and Facebook), and Brother Anderson was like, "That's very interesting. I like the idea of you two maintaining a friendship by doing email quizzes back and forth, and I also like how you save them and laugh at yourselves years later, because it's important to know where you are, but it's also important to know how you got there... I think you could write a very good article, if not an excellent book about how you maintain your friendships using technology and email quizzes."
I thought this was absolutely hilarious, because we were totally kidding about how important email quizzes were to our development or whatever.... I also thought that it was kind of hilarious that he was the first person to EVER find our email-quiz-doing interesting. This, my friends is my story... There was a lot more to what our conversation was about, but I don't remember how exactly things went, and I'm kind of too busy working on stuff to write it all out.