So, I have Dictionary.com send me a 'Word of the Day' every day. Many of them I already know, some are pretty dull, but you still get awesome words quite often. :D This one is definitely up in the top now:
"flibbertigibbet \FLIB-ur-tee-jib-it\, noun:
A silly, flighty, or scatterbrained person, especially a pert young woman with such qualities."
I'm using that. So totally using that, somewhere, in something.
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
As promised...
Snape's on the Snog Hunt.
http://ktshy.deviantart.com/art/Simply-Potterific-20-32407999
If you can't see the whole comic, just click on the image. :P
Personally, my favorite scene is the one with the Weasleys. Snape's leap of doom is amazing. :D
http://ktshy.deviantart.com/art/Simply-Potterific-20-32407999
If you can't see the whole comic, just click on the image. :P
Personally, my favorite scene is the one with the Weasleys. Snape's leap of doom is amazing. :D
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
I need help.
I know, the one thing in life I hate asking for above all else, and I give a blog the title.
I need to get a manuscript of Boneteller done by June. If I manage that, I can get a free printing of it.
Problem is, I recently restarted the book. Can I write a book in 6 months? Yes, I think I can. Yes, I know I was nearly done with it in the last version, but it just wasn't going where I wanted it to. I had reverted to my usual tell, tell, tell writing style. Very little 'showing' at all, when that is really what this book requires. Boneteller is a scientifically based book. It exists on the theory of evolution, thrives on history, lives on mans' curiosity. It requires explaining. Not to mention just average description, which I've always had a bad habit of leaving out.
It has also evolved into a bit of a mystery too. The last version gave the whole book away in the prologue. For V3, I've cut that out completely. The story the prologue originally told will be revealed slowly, reaching its conclusion with the rest of the book's climax.
I have the whole plot of the book worked out. I have how it will be told worked out. I have things moving backwards and forwards, have snippets from all over written, have the characters running rampant in my head, even more frustrated than me at my lack of ability to put them on paper.
I've basically written the middle of the book. I've written pieces of the end, and know the conclusion.
The problem is, I can't start it.
I've never had problems starting a book. That's practically all I ever do. I start books without thinking out a plot, and then when I reach the point where the introduction is finished and I actually need something happening, I stop writing it. Eventually every started story does get a middle and end, after myriad rewrites, but the point is, I never have problems with beginnings.
Boneteller, unlike my Silvath books, unlike Sanni's stories, and unlike however many other stories I've written, is the one I want to get published one day. I want to get it perfect. I study and study and study. I go physically to digs, I go to museums, I talk to paleontologists; most of all, I read and read and read. But I still feel inferior, and its holding me back. Even with my experience, I don't really know what I'm writing about. Not to the extent I'd like to.
I think it's because I've studied the subject, amazingly, too much. I know so much about it, but also know I'll never quite be in it and it's making me reluctant to work on it. But I need to write Boneteller. I've written the start twice, both with minor yet big changes, and have had no problem with it.
Third time's the charm, but I can't get going on it. Ugh.
I'm wondering if maybe my problem is that I'm not changing the beginning from how it's been in the past. But I love that beginning, and am reluctant to pull away from it, not to mention it means thinking even more about the book. But the slight edits I've made to the usual beginnings this time around just aren't working. I can't get past the second page, past Dave's comment. Things were working out so nicely until I got to it. >.<
Dumb Dave, he does have a habit of ruining things.
Bu-ut yeah.... since I'm not actually posting any of the book, I don't think this rant is going to get me anywhere. xD Just needed to complain about it somewhere...
So, uh, yeah, done.
/an agitated Sparrow
I need to get a manuscript of Boneteller done by June. If I manage that, I can get a free printing of it.
Problem is, I recently restarted the book. Can I write a book in 6 months? Yes, I think I can. Yes, I know I was nearly done with it in the last version, but it just wasn't going where I wanted it to. I had reverted to my usual tell, tell, tell writing style. Very little 'showing' at all, when that is really what this book requires. Boneteller is a scientifically based book. It exists on the theory of evolution, thrives on history, lives on mans' curiosity. It requires explaining. Not to mention just average description, which I've always had a bad habit of leaving out.
It has also evolved into a bit of a mystery too. The last version gave the whole book away in the prologue. For V3, I've cut that out completely. The story the prologue originally told will be revealed slowly, reaching its conclusion with the rest of the book's climax.
I have the whole plot of the book worked out. I have how it will be told worked out. I have things moving backwards and forwards, have snippets from all over written, have the characters running rampant in my head, even more frustrated than me at my lack of ability to put them on paper.
I've basically written the middle of the book. I've written pieces of the end, and know the conclusion.
The problem is, I can't start it.
I've never had problems starting a book. That's practically all I ever do. I start books without thinking out a plot, and then when I reach the point where the introduction is finished and I actually need something happening, I stop writing it. Eventually every started story does get a middle and end, after myriad rewrites, but the point is, I never have problems with beginnings.
Boneteller, unlike my Silvath books, unlike Sanni's stories, and unlike however many other stories I've written, is the one I want to get published one day. I want to get it perfect. I study and study and study. I go physically to digs, I go to museums, I talk to paleontologists; most of all, I read and read and read. But I still feel inferior, and its holding me back. Even with my experience, I don't really know what I'm writing about. Not to the extent I'd like to.
I think it's because I've studied the subject, amazingly, too much. I know so much about it, but also know I'll never quite be in it and it's making me reluctant to work on it. But I need to write Boneteller. I've written the start twice, both with minor yet big changes, and have had no problem with it.
Third time's the charm, but I can't get going on it. Ugh.
I'm wondering if maybe my problem is that I'm not changing the beginning from how it's been in the past. But I love that beginning, and am reluctant to pull away from it, not to mention it means thinking even more about the book. But the slight edits I've made to the usual beginnings this time around just aren't working. I can't get past the second page, past Dave's comment. Things were working out so nicely until I got to it. >.<
Dumb Dave, he does have a habit of ruining things.
Bu-ut yeah.... since I'm not actually posting any of the book, I don't think this rant is going to get me anywhere. xD Just needed to complain about it somewhere...
So, uh, yeah, done.
/an agitated Sparrow
Monday, January 4, 2010
My new philosophy.
This will solve all my 'I want this but can't get it' problems. :D
Life's Grand Solution
Now just to figure out how to get more than a book's cover to enter and open itself up to me.
Life's Grand Solution
Now just to figure out how to get more than a book's cover to enter and open itself up to me.
This on the other hand...
So after school today I had to go to the dentist for a filling. He told me at my checkup that it was just a tiny cavity, we planned when I would come in to have it filled (today), and told me to expect to be here about 40 minutes.
Well, it wasn't quite that.
I arrived at the dentist's about 10 minutes early (due to a lifetime of being taught to be somewhere 5 minutes early, plus throwing on an extra few minutes in case my car has troubles). I had to wait, obviously, for a few minutes, but they got me in still about 5 minutes early (1:55 rather than 2:00).
They told me, "This is just a tiny filling so we aren't going to numb you are anything. If it does hurt though, just tell us and we'll numb you."
I was like, "Okay, sure," and quietly resolved to live through whatever pain I ended up in and not get numbed at all.
So, they got started. For about three seconds total, maybe, my one tooth hurt a little. The whole filling took a whole 5 minutes. Then they were like, "Okay, you're done!", did the usual, "Are you feeling okay? Does it hurt at all?" questions, and when I had no complaints they told me I could leave.
I was just like, "Wait, I can go home now?" I mean, seriously? Already? I'd hardly been there 10 minutes!
The dentist assistant girl just laughed at me and assured me I could. So... I left, and was home about a half hour earlier than expected.
Very fast. I'm impressed. xD
Well, it wasn't quite that.
I arrived at the dentist's about 10 minutes early (due to a lifetime of being taught to be somewhere 5 minutes early, plus throwing on an extra few minutes in case my car has troubles). I had to wait, obviously, for a few minutes, but they got me in still about 5 minutes early (1:55 rather than 2:00).
They told me, "This is just a tiny filling so we aren't going to numb you are anything. If it does hurt though, just tell us and we'll numb you."
I was like, "Okay, sure," and quietly resolved to live through whatever pain I ended up in and not get numbed at all.
So, they got started. For about three seconds total, maybe, my one tooth hurt a little. The whole filling took a whole 5 minutes. Then they were like, "Okay, you're done!", did the usual, "Are you feeling okay? Does it hurt at all?" questions, and when I had no complaints they told me I could leave.
I was just like, "Wait, I can go home now?" I mean, seriously? Already? I'd hardly been there 10 minutes!
The dentist assistant girl just laughed at me and assured me I could. So... I left, and was home about a half hour earlier than expected.
Very fast. I'm impressed. xD
Sunday, January 3, 2010
That'd take a lot of time.
I was thinking today about how God made worlds without number. I can see him physically watching over them all (well, not really, but I'm sure he's capable o.O) but then I thought about the Holy Ghost.
Does he have to go around to every single world and put his influence over every single Mormon and person that just needs to be feeling the Spirit?
That's just insane. o.o
I've always imagined the worlds were all made at different times, so maybe some of them are finished with their Plan and he doesn't have to bother with them anymore, but there's still plenty, seeing as they're worlds without number. Some might not be at the point where he needs to work there, but we can't name how many are still left.
Wow.
I'm glad that's not my job, especially since he probably gets ignored and rejected way more than any missionary. (If I go on a mission and no one wants to listen to me, that'll be my creedo. xD "Just think about how the Holy Ghost feels!")
~An amazed Sparrow
Does he have to go around to every single world and put his influence over every single Mormon and person that just needs to be feeling the Spirit?
That's just insane. o.o
I've always imagined the worlds were all made at different times, so maybe some of them are finished with their Plan and he doesn't have to bother with them anymore, but there's still plenty, seeing as they're worlds without number. Some might not be at the point where he needs to work there, but we can't name how many are still left.
Wow.
I'm glad that's not my job, especially since he probably gets ignored and rejected way more than any missionary. (If I go on a mission and no one wants to listen to me, that'll be my creedo. xD "Just think about how the Holy Ghost feels!")
~An amazed Sparrow
Sunday, December 27, 2009
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