Livelihood

I’ve been working on a short story lately titled “Golden”. If you’ve heard the song on the new Fall Out Boy CD, Infinity on High, you may understand how it inspired me to write a story about it.

Mathematical

I hate math.

Not that I’m bad at it; on the contrary, up to a certain point I’m very good at it. But I’m absolutely no good at College Algebra. I’m scared of what my grade will look like. I suck at this class.

But, on the bright side, I’m going to go see James today. (My cousin’s husband. He’s a lawyer.) I might be able to start contracting with different people soon!

Last night, I worked on a lot of different stuff. I typed soooo much… my fingers are going to fall off. Hope you guys don’t mind. I think I typed four poems and two short stories? Yeah, something like that.

Recently, I finished a short story about Zoe Lee, one of my faaaaaaavorite characters of all-time. It’s four pages and one thousand, five hundred nine words long. Yay! I love the story, though, seriously.

An Update on Tediousness

Editing is tedious.

I spent a good amount of yesterday editing various parts of The TECH Project. It’s just kind of… you know… ugh. Right? Very boring, a lot of reading and reading and reading and – oh, change a letter – and reading and reading and reading. I know it’s necessary for the common good and all that… but it’s boring as hell.

Added a new scene into Teenage Drama. That’s about File 17 or something like that in the second half of the novel. Did you know that The TECH Project is around two hundred pages long typed?? Well, you probably didn’t, but it is!

Today’s post is dedicated to things that are inspiring. I’m going to make a list.

• Music

Music is my numero-uno inspiration. I listen to all sorts of music, everything from Jimmy Eat World to My Chemical Romance, Il Divo to Dragon Force, and even the occasional Michelle Branch and Justin Timberlake.

Music definitely keeps me inspired when I feel like writing. All the time. There’s the fun stuff, like MCR’s “Dead!” and “Teenagers” that get my blood pumping and the rest of me dancing around the room, and then there’s the sad stuff, like The All-American Rejects’ “The Last Song” and Il Divo’s “Regresa A Mi” that bring me down and help me work on the sad, depressing parts that all novels have to have at some point.

When you feel writer’s block coming on, definitely listen to some music. May I recommend Riot Like Words, Fly Phoenix, or TheNewsCanWait if you’re bored with your old stuff? All three can be found on MySpace.

• The World

Yes. Sad but true. I sometimes have to resort to the “real world” for my inspiration. I draw from everything: my own experiences, stories my family members have told me, even school gossip. Sometimes, when I hear something, I just latch on and end up with a brand-new story.

For example: last night, I wrote a short story about Zoe Lee, the lead protagonist of The TECH Project. Although she is DEFINITELY based on a certain person in my life, most of what I was writing about when describing her relationship with her father came from my mother’s experiences with her father. (My grandfather suffered a stroke, which left him in a debilitating state.) So, if you use the real world as inspiration, draw from many different sources, your own and that of others.

Post #1

This is new.

I mean, yes, I’ve blogged before.  With a Xanga, three Blogger blogs, and a LiveJournal account to keep up with – not to mention a MySpace blog, although that has terrible features – I’ve got plenty to keep me busy.

There’s plenty of other writing I have to do, as well: with my novel, The TECH Project, its sequel, and the other novels, short stories, poems, and songs I find to write.

But I’ve been reading a few blogs, which were both hosted here on WordPress, so I decided to give it a try.