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!
Nonsensical Ninja
Nonsensicality is inevitable
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Monday, April 25, 2011
BEDA: Blog Every Day in April
In case anyone wanted to know, BEDA has been moved to http://emilytheapple.tumblr.com/
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
BEDA: Blog Every Day in April; April 12th
April 12th
Right now I’m sitting in my Web Page Design class. It’s a really interesting class, but the fact that I have enough free time to get on tumblr and my email and blog and stuff like that is really sad. The stuff we are doing isn’t that hard, so I don’t understand why people are taking so freaking long to do it. That is all.
Monday, April 11, 2011
BEDA: Blog Every Day in April; April 11th
April 11th
Today, I was more happy than last week. I think it's because I'm so shallow and four of my favorite teachers told me good morning, and another one talked about my Facebook use... So, in essence, I really like it when my teachers give me attention. I am a shallow beast (to use the words of 2008 Amerah)
Today, I was more happy than last week. I think it's because I'm so shallow and four of my favorite teachers told me good morning, and another one talked about my Facebook use... So, in essence, I really like it when my teachers give me attention. I am a shallow beast (to use the words of 2008 Amerah)
Sunday, April 10, 2011
BEDA: Blog Every Day in April; April 10th
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.
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.
Saturday, April 9, 2011
Snippet From Screenplay
Dubois:
Alright, quiet down children.
One boy raises his hand. Mr. Dubois raises his eyebrows at the kid.
Boy:
Are you wearing a bow-tie?
Dubois: No.
Boy: What? Yes you are.
Dubois:Then, why did you ask?
A girl from the back of the class raises her hand, but doesn’t wait for Mr. Dubois’ acknowledgment.
Girl:I think bow-ties are a crime against fashion.
Dubois: Well, you don’t have to wear one.
Girl: Why do you wear one?
Dubois: Because The Doctor wears a bow-tie.
Mona: YES!
BEDA: Blog Every Day in April; April 9th
April 9th
Me-"iPods are like etch-a-sketches, only better."
Because I can hold my iPod upside down and it will still be clockwise to turn the volume up. It's a useful thing to know, I'm telling you.
Me-"iPods are like etch-a-sketches, only better."
Because I can hold my iPod upside down and it will still be clockwise to turn the volume up. It's a useful thing to know, I'm telling you.
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