My Captain on his snowy horse
is coming back to take me home.
We're finally fighting back a terrible force
'cause I'm not afraid to die alone...

Saturday, July 30, 2011

Some Random Stuff

Like you all know I just set up this blog a little while ago. I'm not sure if I should have it be a private or public blog; any imput? If it were to be private I'd have to get all your emails so I can invite you. But I might just have it be public anyway. Then anybody can follow it, and it'll be nice to not have to invite everybody who ever wanted to see it.

That's about all I had to say that's really important. Other than that, life continues, right?

I got this packet from my school the other day, and the letter from the principal was addressed to "My Beloved WHS Students". Really? Beloved? That's a little much. Our principal is a bit odd.

My brother and I are working on my schedule for high school. I've got a full four years. It's going to be pretty intense. I've got all sorts of Graphic Design and art classes. I've completely switched up my schedule from what it was at the end of the year last year. Basically the only things that are the same are my art class, French, Biology, Honors English, and Algebra 2. I switched out a bunch of classes and tried to compact my schedule. The problem is how much it could change - a lot of the classes I'm taking are going through some course changes and stuff, so everything could drastically change in the next few years. It's going to be so much fun! But totally crazy.

Still madly typing on my stories (when I'm not typing on here) and trying to get up the courage to go through the publishing process. It seems so scary when I think about it! But I've got to do it. I think the scariest part for me is letting other people read it. It seems so cheesy sometimes! When my friend reads it I just want her to skip all these parts that seem so ridiculous. But they're the most important parts of my story sometimes. I wonder a lot if other authors often felt the same way about their work. But I've just got to go on faith that somebody out there is going to like what I spent half my time writing... We'll see.

I feel this crazy urge to blog every day but that's ridiculous. It'd waste so much time. I guess right now I'm just super excited over having this fun new blog that I can type on and have people read. It'll cool off eventually. Then I'll just blog about important stuff, like how far I've gotten in the publishing process or something.

Anyway... until next time.

Thursday, July 28, 2011

My Life

So basically my life is pretty crazy right now. Lots of stuff has been happening that's pretty crazy, like, I'm going to be a freshie next year! I can't believe it. It seems like just yesterday that I started middle school... what a sappy thing to say. But let me say I won't miss middle school. Some of the teachers I will miss, and I'll never forget all the crazy memories I made. But I'm so glad to be out of there and heading into high school. I can't wait! But at the same time I'm scared sick.

Along with that, I'm trying to make something out of my life (which might seem weird at this young age but I feel like I should try to do something rather than just like, party). Basically, that means I spend hours on end typing and typing and typing on the stories I'm writing. There's two really big ones right now - one I've finished and am editing, and the other one a work in progress. It's pretty cool. I'm totally psyched for this new story. I haven't been this excited about a new idea since my first story, which is by far my favorite of all the ones I've ever tried to write, have written, or am working on. But this new one, called Emotion, is turning out to be a close second.

My first book, which I'm calling My Story (although I may change that later), is about this girl named Max who is basically the leader of this group of people called Mythics. They're trying to stop the world from basically coming to a dreadful and painful and abrupt end. She has to deal with a bunch of crap and betrayal and demons - it's awesome. If you're reading this you should read it when it gets published. It's really cool. Right now my bestie is the only person besides me who's read it, and she thinks it's the next world-wide best seller (which is cool, but I seriously doubt it's going to be that popular). I'll cross my fingers, right? We'll see. First I have to get it published, lol.

Then the other book, Emotion, is awesomeness. It's about this JD named Shadow (her name is actually Sierra, but she goes by Shadow) who can taste emotions. Her best friend, Jade, can see emotions. That was way fun to describe, by the way. There's this whole group of people who can sense emotion in some way like that. Like, some can taste it, some can see it, some can hear it, some can feel it, and others can smell it. Shadow and her group of friends don't like what's going on with these people and they try to get out and stuff it's sooooo cool. You should read this one when it's published, too.

Anyway, besides writing, I like to read - fantasy, mainly. I also enjoy drawing and am going to take some classes so maybe, someday, I can illustrate my own novels. I know most novels don't have pictures, but some of the things I'm trying to describe just need a little help, you know? I can't get everything down perfectly in words. Eventually I want a movie made out of some of my books...

I love how, for me, everything comes back to writing. It's so important to me. All except, maybe, my future job, which is animation. At least, that's the direction I'm heading. I've got my school classes all lined up so I can get into BYU and maybe work for Pixar someday. I think that would be the coolest thing. And it's another reasson I'm taking drawing classes. I need to know how to draw so I can create the images you see when you watch movies. So that completely packs my school schedule for the next four years. With all the art and digital design classes, I have next to no time for anything else, so I'm going to be taking several classes online and early-morning seminary for half a year one year. All the other classes like singing and band and stuff are just totally pushed aside. It's sad; I'd like to do some of that stuff, but sometimes you have to sacrifice to get what you really want, right?

Other than that, my life is pretty boring. Like most of you out there, I've got irritating siblings and annoying parents. There's church and school and parties and music and writing and boys and every other crazy thing I've tried to pack into my life, including this blog. I decided to make one 'cause when I'm a famous author I want one. Just because. I think it'll be cool for fans to come here and read about what I'm working on, what's happening in my life, which seems weird, but what the heck, right? I think it'll be fun for random people to know that I like Owl City's music and the Artemis Fowl books... whatever.

Now that I've blogged my brains out and irritated the heck out of my sister (I'm on the family computer and she wants on) I think I'll go type on Emotion some. Thanks for being crazy enough to read this!

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Hey:)

So this is my new blog. I love how I only have one follower and she's sitting right next to me as I'm typing this... lol:) So I pretty much have no idea what to type cause this is sort of new to me and I've only ever read three other blogs - one was my sister's, one was my best friend's, and the other one was Owl City's (which made no sense at all, by the way.)
So hi:) I'm a fourteen year old girl who likes to write and read. I'm actually writing lots of books and I think I'm going to publish soon. I hope to do it together with my bestie - but you know, whatever. It seems like a sort of daunting thing to do all by myself.
I have long dark auburn hair and blue eyes. I'm sort of tall (some people tell me I'm tall but my brother insists I'm short) and obviously I like pie. It's super yummy:)
Also I like smilies.
And now I have to leave... TTFN (ta ta for now)