Yesterday I used the word excepting in a sentence, I wasn't entirely comfortable doing so, but it fit so I'm happy.
"More important, perhaps, than any other person she’d ever come across. Not excepting her closest, most irritating, minutes older, sister."
- How to Fall in Love and Not Die
Monday 3 January 2011
Read: Jan 3rd - Short story 'Outside/Inside'
January 3rd
Read: Grl2grl by Julie Anne Peters, Short story 'Outside/Inside'
So I'm here again, with another short story from the same book. I haven't blogged the first story because I read it around the time I first got the book. I do, however, after having read 3 of the 10 stories in the book, wonder if I should just read them all. They can't all be as clichéd as yesterdays, can they?!
Maybe they can.
See, I thought it was going well. This wonderful story about trying to choose the best card to send. It was from the point of view of a boy, at least I think 'Logan' is meant to be a boy (I never can tell with American names - today I learnt someone named her daughter Hunter, who'd have thought it?). I read most of the story imagining it was a female, it could have been either, the story didn't specify enough for a gender to be chosen.
Anyway, I'm getting off track. Logan bought a card, it kept mentioning the outside then inside messages.
(Outside) I love you
(Inside) Every day/ every way
That wasn't so bad, I quite like the concept. The build up of buying a card with card messages and details of moments Logan had spent noticing the girl he liked.
Until the end, when we find out it's for a teacher. Talk about a cliché, what an anti-climax.
Now I'm wondering if there's any point reading any more from this book, well, that's story four. Why not try just one more.
Until tomorrow...for now I will read a non-fiction book about counselling children. I wonder if it will be any good.
P.S. Having read the book last night for all of about five minutes I realised that the counselling book was also rather infuriating. I don't agree with most of the things suggested in the chapter I started. That book will be returning to the college library unread, I can guarantee that now.
Read: Grl2grl by Julie Anne Peters, Short story 'Outside/Inside'
So I'm here again, with another short story from the same book. I haven't blogged the first story because I read it around the time I first got the book. I do, however, after having read 3 of the 10 stories in the book, wonder if I should just read them all. They can't all be as clichéd as yesterdays, can they?!
Maybe they can.
See, I thought it was going well. This wonderful story about trying to choose the best card to send. It was from the point of view of a boy, at least I think 'Logan' is meant to be a boy (I never can tell with American names - today I learnt someone named her daughter Hunter, who'd have thought it?). I read most of the story imagining it was a female, it could have been either, the story didn't specify enough for a gender to be chosen.
Anyway, I'm getting off track. Logan bought a card, it kept mentioning the outside then inside messages.
(Outside) I love you
(Inside) Every day/ every way
That wasn't so bad, I quite like the concept. The build up of buying a card with card messages and details of moments Logan had spent noticing the girl he liked.
Until the end, when we find out it's for a teacher. Talk about a cliché, what an anti-climax.
Now I'm wondering if there's any point reading any more from this book, well, that's story four. Why not try just one more.
Until tomorrow...for now I will read a non-fiction book about counselling children. I wonder if it will be any good.
P.S. Having read the book last night for all of about five minutes I realised that the counselling book was also rather infuriating. I don't agree with most of the things suggested in the chapter I started. That book will be returning to the college library unread, I can guarantee that now.
Write: Jan 2nd - A New Project (Skins fiction)
I'm posting this a little late, but today(yesterday) I started a new Skins project. I know I have many stories that have been abandoned, left behind in the mess that has been the last 12 months of my writing.
I catalogued my work, put together a list known as "A Year In Fic", I did it in 2009 too. That year I wrote 35 stories, 5 of those were from my series - that's an awful lot of writing.
This year I did 23, only 2 of those were longer than one-shots.
That makes me feel disappointed and sad. I could have done better.
In all fairness to me I have had a lot of changes this year - three jobs, a period of being unemployed, a college course that I began, a sister returning to live at home and so disrupt everything in her path. It's not been easy, especially these last few months with my job, course and sister to contend with.
But here I am, with a new year ahead of me and I'm ready, willing and putting my best foot forward. My job is only part time, my course ends in March and maybe my job too. I don't know what the future holds, but you can bet that I'll be there with a pen(or keyboard) in my hand, writing my way into next year.
Maybe I'll consider writing some original fiction, creating a blog to showcase a story full of new people and exciting new adventures. Maybe I'll write fanfiction about the new generation of Skins or maybe I'll stick with Naomi and Emily who I'm so desperately unwilling to let go of.
In the meantime, I will work on my new idea - a story only known as 'How to Fall in Love and Not Die'.
Wish me luck, I may need it.
I catalogued my work, put together a list known as "A Year In Fic", I did it in 2009 too. That year I wrote 35 stories, 5 of those were from my series - that's an awful lot of writing.
This year I did 23, only 2 of those were longer than one-shots.
That makes me feel disappointed and sad. I could have done better.
In all fairness to me I have had a lot of changes this year - three jobs, a period of being unemployed, a college course that I began, a sister returning to live at home and so disrupt everything in her path. It's not been easy, especially these last few months with my job, course and sister to contend with.
But here I am, with a new year ahead of me and I'm ready, willing and putting my best foot forward. My job is only part time, my course ends in March and maybe my job too. I don't know what the future holds, but you can bet that I'll be there with a pen(or keyboard) in my hand, writing my way into next year.
Maybe I'll consider writing some original fiction, creating a blog to showcase a story full of new people and exciting new adventures. Maybe I'll write fanfiction about the new generation of Skins or maybe I'll stick with Naomi and Emily who I'm so desperately unwilling to let go of.
In the meantime, I will work on my new idea - a story only known as 'How to Fall in Love and Not Die'.
Wish me luck, I may need it.
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