Hello, all. G-star here, a little worried about the future of this blog...but I'm getting ahead of myself. See, the entire first trimester at my school I had (well, have) Business and Financing for third period, and it's in the computer lab (if you haven't figured that much out by now, you need to see a psychiatrist). Every Wednesday I would spend maybe twenty minutes of my 70-minute class writing my blog, and a lot of the time that would be the only time I would get on the computer that day. For a while I've been depending on third period for my internet and typing allowance for the day, but next term I have Mechanics Science third period, which is obviously not in a computer lab. Thus, my posts will probably be up later (like after dinner) and most likely be shorter. This will have no effect on my Saturday story updates, but since I'm bad at keeping up with those anyway, that's not really a good thing.
Speaking of my story updates, they will be ending soon. While I did finish the first chapter after re-typing it from a printout I wrote on a computer in middle school, I never started chapter 2. Heck, I didn't even type the chapter heading! I simply lost interest, and now am interested in another story involving Zane, the main character. After going over my weaknesses in writing, I realized that I'm just not cut out to write a novel and so came up with the idea to do it in comic book form. I'll have more creative freedom and can put in more humor. I've already drawn three of the major characters (including Zane) and they turned out very well. This one I just know will get done.
I've never talked about my "writing weaknesses", I know, and I will put them in a list in this entry, but now I'm going to talk about some interesting things that have been happening recently (I mean, that is the whole point of this blog -_-). My family has two cats, an old, cranky grandma cat and a teenager cat who's as cute and timid as a kitten (it's pathetic, really). Whenever I see the cute teenager, Spike (his name is so inaccurate it's funny) I want to just pick him up and cuddle him; he doesn't resist much, either (I think he's part ragdoll -- yes, that's a real breed) but if I get too close he'll sprint up the stairs and I give up. Once I persisted because I REALLY wanted to pet him, but he ran back and forth from the upstairs exercise room (that my family never uses) to the upstairs play room (with a Foosball, an air-hockey, and a basketball setup that my family also never uses) and no matter what I did if I got close he'd sprint past me and into the other room. It was exhausting.
Last night, though, he ran away from me up the stairs, but kept stopping to see if I was there and then running away again when I got close. If I went back downstairs he'd sit on the bottom step and stare at me until I followed him again. Once I got upstairs he stood there until I picked him up, purred and kneaded his claws while I rubbed his belly, and when I put him down and went downstairs he followed me, standing still so I could pet him and then following me again. He would've followed me into my room if I hadn't changed courses, which caused him to stare at me with a look of abandonment and confusion. Him going into my room isn't abnormal, because he loves sleeping on my blanket, but normally he only runs into there trying to get away from me. When I went into the bathroom to brush my teeth, it took after I turned on the light and closed the door to notice that my other cat, Abigail, was curled up on the shower mat. This itself was extremely odd, as for some reason none of my pets ever go in the bathroom (even though they hang out in the oddest places like the laundry room and Dad's office) but what was even stranger was the fact that she didn't look at me until I started petting her. She normally looks toward even the slightest noise, but didn't respond to the door closing...
I also tripped over her sitting in the middle of the laundry room in the dark four and running in front of me in the kitchen four times each yesterday.
Spike came up to her while I was getting their food and randomly started licking her back.
I swear, they're conspiring to drive me mad.
Anyway, here's that list some of the ways I write, and I think you'll see why doing a chapter book just won't work for me. I haven't written a list in a while, have I? I hope I'll be able to post again next week, but until Saturday, this is G-star, signing off.
Notes on My Writing
Speaking of my story updates, they will be ending soon. While I did finish the first chapter after re-typing it from a printout I wrote on a computer in middle school, I never started chapter 2. Heck, I didn't even type the chapter heading! I simply lost interest, and now am interested in another story involving Zane, the main character. After going over my weaknesses in writing, I realized that I'm just not cut out to write a novel and so came up with the idea to do it in comic book form. I'll have more creative freedom and can put in more humor. I've already drawn three of the major characters (including Zane) and they turned out very well. This one I just know will get done.
I've never talked about my "writing weaknesses", I know, and I will put them in a list in this entry, but now I'm going to talk about some interesting things that have been happening recently (I mean, that is the whole point of this blog -_-). My family has two cats, an old, cranky grandma cat and a teenager cat who's as cute and timid as a kitten (it's pathetic, really). Whenever I see the cute teenager, Spike (his name is so inaccurate it's funny) I want to just pick him up and cuddle him; he doesn't resist much, either (I think he's part ragdoll -- yes, that's a real breed) but if I get too close he'll sprint up the stairs and I give up. Once I persisted because I REALLY wanted to pet him, but he ran back and forth from the upstairs exercise room (that my family never uses) to the upstairs play room (with a Foosball, an air-hockey, and a basketball setup that my family also never uses) and no matter what I did if I got close he'd sprint past me and into the other room. It was exhausting.
Last night, though, he ran away from me up the stairs, but kept stopping to see if I was there and then running away again when I got close. If I went back downstairs he'd sit on the bottom step and stare at me until I followed him again. Once I got upstairs he stood there until I picked him up, purred and kneaded his claws while I rubbed his belly, and when I put him down and went downstairs he followed me, standing still so I could pet him and then following me again. He would've followed me into my room if I hadn't changed courses, which caused him to stare at me with a look of abandonment and confusion. Him going into my room isn't abnormal, because he loves sleeping on my blanket, but normally he only runs into there trying to get away from me. When I went into the bathroom to brush my teeth, it took after I turned on the light and closed the door to notice that my other cat, Abigail, was curled up on the shower mat. This itself was extremely odd, as for some reason none of my pets ever go in the bathroom (even though they hang out in the oddest places like the laundry room and Dad's office) but what was even stranger was the fact that she didn't look at me until I started petting her. She normally looks toward even the slightest noise, but didn't respond to the door closing...
I also tripped over her sitting in the middle of the laundry room in the dark four and running in front of me in the kitchen four times each yesterday.
Spike came up to her while I was getting their food and randomly started licking her back.
I swear, they're conspiring to drive me mad.
Anyway, here's that list some of the ways I write, and I think you'll see why doing a chapter book just won't work for me. I haven't written a list in a while, have I? I hope I'll be able to post again next week, but until Saturday, this is G-star, signing off.
Notes on My Writing
- I always start with either an explanation or by jumping right into the action in some way.
- I prefer to write from the view of my most developed character.
- I try to never use the same verb, adverb, or adjective twice in one paragraph.
- I have a habit of only writing interactions and details necessary to advancing the plot.
- My stories never really have an end goal.
- I don't like doing research.
- I find it difficult to write for more than three characters at once because I have to repetitively use "he", "she", and "they", without explanation of who's talking.
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