I'm supposed to be polishing up a final draft of my Textual Intervention piece right now. "Textual Intervention" is basically a fancy way of saying fan-fiction. Last semester, this is what I did for Textual Intervention. This semester, the genre we're working on is fairy tales. Instead of turning a fairy tale into something completely … Continue reading The Fault in Fairy Tales
The Character Issue
So I have this character, let's call him Character X, and he's fantastic, okay? I barely had to do anything, he just came barging into my story, fully-formed. Well, not exactly barging. He was just sitting there politely, watching the story happen and eating popcorn, but then he saw something he didn't like, so he stood … Continue reading The Character Issue
Book Review: The Book Thief
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. No Spoilers. I've been meaning to read this book for years. I first picked it up in twelfth grade. I had been on a streak of Holocaust stories including The Diary of Anne Frank, Hanna's Briefcase, and Yellow Star. It blew my mind (and still does) at the scale of destruction … Continue reading Book Review: The Book Thief
Chapter 200
At 4pm on March 11th, 2015, a Wednesday, I finished writing the 199th chapter of the first draft of what I call Book 3 (it hasn't got a title yet). On the page, I wrote the time and date because I had reached a milestone. Two hundred chapters and only a few more to … Continue reading Chapter 200
We Did It!
Yesterday I had class until noon, then at 12:30, one of my group mates came over to work on our script for Scriptwriting class. We worked for ten hours. Ten hours. That doesn't include the half-hour break we took for dinner. Writing is difficult. Sometimes it's damn near impossible. By the end of our writing marathon, … Continue reading We Did It!
Character Flaw
You know when you look up a word and find the definition and then YOU START TO SEE IT EVERYWHERE. Before, it was just a word, but then you became aware of it, you understood it, and it ruined your life. I've recently discovered it's a lot worse when you become aware of something about yourself. When … Continue reading Character Flaw
SIV
There are forty-five minutes left today. I need to do a little creative writing. Here is a short story I wrote last year. As with anything I've written over three weeks ago, I think it's rubbish. But it's a Saturday. The story is called SIV and is told from the perspective of a robot with … Continue reading SIV
How To Deal With Writers
Dear friends and family (but mostly family, especially the extended kind), I write a lot. It’s a thing I enjoy. I write fiction, mostly. Novels, short stories, articles, poems, whatever I want to write, I'll write. Mostly by hand for stuff that isn’t for school, but a lot of it is typed, too. My stories … Continue reading How To Deal With Writers
The Shield
I was going to do a recipe today but I've never poached an egg before and I messed up so here's a poem: – The Shield By Ivy — No need to point your finger at me Just because I'm all you see. Do not mistake my fury for hurt. . Yes, a broken shard … Continue reading The Shield
