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From Lauren --
"I'm doing the year in review meme also, because I don't want to study for finals. Stolen from two or three people, who each left differently worded instructions that all amount to: take the first few sentences of the first post of each month this year. This is your year in review."
January 1, 2007: So many things to do...
Stuff I've gotta get done some time or other...
Chemistry
--finish homework
English/Senior Thesis
--read The Stars Are Ours
--read Brave New World
--read Fahrenheit 451
--read Foundation
--write first eight pages of thesis
--start Hamlet (?)
History
--read chapters
TOK
--start "ten questions" essay
Calculus
--homework
MUN
--grade position papers
--organize freshmen into jobs
--write HBHS position paper
--write UCSD position paper
Other
--get together short story collection for publication
February 1, 2007:
I've been doing a lot of procrastinating lately. For instance, it's 5:15 right now and I haven't touched my homework, despite the fact that I've got a few things to do -- Spanish, Calculus -- and an MUN conference to prepare for.
The thing is, I can't get myself worked up over doing work. It's a bad thing, because it's not going to get any better as the school year progresses, but I'm just in a bit of a slump right now. I hope it's just because I'm sick, and that it's not going to become a habit, but I've got my worries.
March 1, 2007: Headache, but otherwise okay.
Don't have too much to do...that's a first. Really, I have plenty of things to do, but they're not all going to get done.
I think my favorite thing I did today was work on a project in Art. We're supposed to draw a superhero or action figure or something, so I asked if I could draw a character from one of the books I'm writing. So I drew Holly, from Azuria, my great unfinished&unplanned novel. Her story's being changed around as I draw her, because of how capable (or rather incapable) I am of drawing things well, but it's a good exercise in character creation.
April 2, 2007: I love Julie Czerneda.
My love affair with literature contines. I just spent a few days (four, I think) with Sira and Morgan and Barac and Huido and Rael (again). I love returning to a book after having spent a long time away from it, especially if it's a book like this one. Though it's not her strongest work in purely literary terms, A Thousand Words for Stranger holds something so true and pure that it's one of my favorite works of hers, making it one of my favorite books, period.
May 1, 2007:
I'm trying to write something important, but I'm failing, mostly because I have no idea what I want to write. I need for Hypatia to start training Lysander in the use of his powers. But what sort of things would a novice be trained to do?
Well, first things first, they'd be taught the safety and the history -- just like in first-year chemistry. You need to know all of your safety procedures before you can do any of the experiments...
June 2, 2007: Once in a blue moon
Last night...was good. When I got home around 11:30 I was tempted to turn on the computer and write up a journal entry right then, so that I could capture it in all its glory. But then I realized that nothing would do it justice. Really, as much as we may try to preserve things with photographs or with writing or with video, in the end these only serve as tools to jog the memory, so that only someone who lived through the experience can fully comprehend its wonder. That's kind of what yesterday was like. While it was being experienced, it was great. Now...it just feels odd, knowing that that was the last Humanities field trip of my life, and nothing like that will ever happen quite like that again.
July 7, 2007: London!
Just got into London today and it feels like home...we're staying at the same flat we stayed in two years ago, and everything is almost exactly the same. I can't wait to get out into the city and see some new things as well as some old favorites. I've been keeping up with writing about my days, even if I haven't had internet in order to post my stories.
August 1, 2007:
Dear Mrs. Stewart:
I am writing to apply for the editorial internship being offered by National Novel Writing Month. As soon as I could write, I wrote stories, and my passion for writing has grown over the years to the point where I can imagine no better career. NaNoWriMo has played a significant role in my development as a writer. As a two-time participant and winner, it is hard for me to imagine a November not spent in a feverish, noveling delirium.
September 5, 2007:
This is (once again) just a quick update to let you know I'm still alive and doing well. I think this weekend I'll have the time to sit down and relate (in a rather impressionistic way, no doubt) the salient facts regarding my first two weeks of classes. As it is, I'm so busy with homework, clubs, and now my internship. (I'm actually missing two club meetings just to type this!)
October 1, 2007: Writing poll results
My short story is as follows.
Who - A man going through his midlife crisis / A writer
Wants - To make a difference/be remembered
What - A small dog / Mismatched ballet shoes / "Casablanca"
When - A rainy night in mid-autumn
Where - Arizona / London
This is not actually my short story. This is the one that I'll write sometime, really I will, because you all thought it would be a good idea if I did.
November 3, 2007: Blues.
Erm. Well. Somehow I've managed to make it to my first noveling slump. I'm just a little over 9k and I'm not sure what happens next.
Or rather, I am sure what happens next, but I don't want it to happen next any more because two of my main characters just got into an argument that wasn't supposed to happen and now if what was going to happen next actually does happen next it'll be far too depressing...and possibly a little anticlimactic.
Why won't the characters just behave and do what I want/need them to do? Is it really such a bother?
December 5, 2007: 10 things you might want to know.
Oh goodness. The number of things I have to say. So many things. Too many for me to adequately get down in the next five minutes, which is the amount of time I'm allowing myself before I make myself start in on the homework.
1. I am happy NaNoWriMo's over, but at the same time disappointed. I always tell myself that I won't stop writing when the month stops, and then I always do stop writing when the month stops. I've told myself that this time will be different, but so far I haven't written anything since November 29th, and that bothers me. I don't want to fall out of love with another story.
"I'm doing the year in review meme also, because I don't want to study for finals. Stolen from two or three people, who each left differently worded instructions that all amount to: take the first few sentences of the first post of each month this year. This is your year in review."
January 1, 2007: So many things to do...
Stuff I've gotta get done some time or other...
Chemistry
--finish homework
English/Senior Thesis
--read The Stars Are Ours
--read Brave New World
--read Fahrenheit 451
--read Foundation
--write first eight pages of thesis
--start Hamlet (?)
History
--read chapters
TOK
--start "ten questions" essay
Calculus
--homework
MUN
--grade position papers
--organize freshmen into jobs
--write HBHS position paper
--write UCSD position paper
Other
--get together short story collection for publication
February 1, 2007:
I've been doing a lot of procrastinating lately. For instance, it's 5:15 right now and I haven't touched my homework, despite the fact that I've got a few things to do -- Spanish, Calculus -- and an MUN conference to prepare for.
The thing is, I can't get myself worked up over doing work. It's a bad thing, because it's not going to get any better as the school year progresses, but I'm just in a bit of a slump right now. I hope it's just because I'm sick, and that it's not going to become a habit, but I've got my worries.
March 1, 2007: Headache, but otherwise okay.
Don't have too much to do...that's a first. Really, I have plenty of things to do, but they're not all going to get done.
I think my favorite thing I did today was work on a project in Art. We're supposed to draw a superhero or action figure or something, so I asked if I could draw a character from one of the books I'm writing. So I drew Holly, from Azuria, my great unfinished&unplanned novel. Her story's being changed around as I draw her, because of how capable (or rather incapable) I am of drawing things well, but it's a good exercise in character creation.
April 2, 2007: I love Julie Czerneda.
My love affair with literature contines. I just spent a few days (four, I think) with Sira and Morgan and Barac and Huido and Rael (again). I love returning to a book after having spent a long time away from it, especially if it's a book like this one. Though it's not her strongest work in purely literary terms, A Thousand Words for Stranger holds something so true and pure that it's one of my favorite works of hers, making it one of my favorite books, period.
May 1, 2007:
I'm trying to write something important, but I'm failing, mostly because I have no idea what I want to write. I need for Hypatia to start training Lysander in the use of his powers. But what sort of things would a novice be trained to do?
Well, first things first, they'd be taught the safety and the history -- just like in first-year chemistry. You need to know all of your safety procedures before you can do any of the experiments...
June 2, 2007: Once in a blue moon
Last night...was good. When I got home around 11:30 I was tempted to turn on the computer and write up a journal entry right then, so that I could capture it in all its glory. But then I realized that nothing would do it justice. Really, as much as we may try to preserve things with photographs or with writing or with video, in the end these only serve as tools to jog the memory, so that only someone who lived through the experience can fully comprehend its wonder. That's kind of what yesterday was like. While it was being experienced, it was great. Now...it just feels odd, knowing that that was the last Humanities field trip of my life, and nothing like that will ever happen quite like that again.
July 7, 2007: London!
Just got into London today and it feels like home...we're staying at the same flat we stayed in two years ago, and everything is almost exactly the same. I can't wait to get out into the city and see some new things as well as some old favorites. I've been keeping up with writing about my days, even if I haven't had internet in order to post my stories.
August 1, 2007:
Dear Mrs. Stewart:
I am writing to apply for the editorial internship being offered by National Novel Writing Month. As soon as I could write, I wrote stories, and my passion for writing has grown over the years to the point where I can imagine no better career. NaNoWriMo has played a significant role in my development as a writer. As a two-time participant and winner, it is hard for me to imagine a November not spent in a feverish, noveling delirium.
September 5, 2007:
This is (once again) just a quick update to let you know I'm still alive and doing well. I think this weekend I'll have the time to sit down and relate (in a rather impressionistic way, no doubt) the salient facts regarding my first two weeks of classes. As it is, I'm so busy with homework, clubs, and now my internship. (I'm actually missing two club meetings just to type this!)
October 1, 2007: Writing poll results
My short story is as follows.
Who - A man going through his midlife crisis / A writer
Wants - To make a difference/be remembered
What - A small dog / Mismatched ballet shoes / "Casablanca"
When - A rainy night in mid-autumn
Where - Arizona / London
This is not actually my short story. This is the one that I'll write sometime, really I will, because you all thought it would be a good idea if I did.
November 3, 2007: Blues.
Erm. Well. Somehow I've managed to make it to my first noveling slump. I'm just a little over 9k and I'm not sure what happens next.
Or rather, I am sure what happens next, but I don't want it to happen next any more because two of my main characters just got into an argument that wasn't supposed to happen and now if what was going to happen next actually does happen next it'll be far too depressing...and possibly a little anticlimactic.
Why won't the characters just behave and do what I want/need them to do? Is it really such a bother?
December 5, 2007: 10 things you might want to know.
Oh goodness. The number of things I have to say. So many things. Too many for me to adequately get down in the next five minutes, which is the amount of time I'm allowing myself before I make myself start in on the homework.
1. I am happy NaNoWriMo's over, but at the same time disappointed. I always tell myself that I won't stop writing when the month stops, and then I always do stop writing when the month stops. I've told myself that this time will be different, but so far I haven't written anything since November 29th, and that bothers me. I don't want to fall out of love with another story.
