Been kinda weird the past week or so, but I think I'm better now. I've been doing a lot of writing on Winter. Things have been going well, and I've been thinking up chapter names:
8. The City of Red Flowers
9. The Heart of the Storm
10. Curiouser and Curiouser
11. Collapse
12. Tabula Rasa
Chapter 12 is the last chapter, and the last 5 chapters take place inside the Capital city. Currently I'm 19 pages in and am in Chapter 2 (Witch Hunters)
I've been toying with the idea of a short (2-3 page) zombie scene. I think the only real trouble I'd have with this would be getting started.
Story Idea: Steampunk Universe WWII Germany, science has unlocked psychic powers in certain individuals. Main Character- 15 year old Psychic Prodigy, Specialises in Telekinesis. Raised as military lab-rat, through the horrors of war begins to question whether or not he is on the right side.
Name to Remember: Anine
Tuesday 27 October 2009
Friday 9 October 2009
Can't Think
I feel the need to Blog, but I can't think of what to say. My senior project was turned down, so I'm behind three months. I finished Ender's Game and while I predicted the end, I enjoyed it very much.
Wednesday 7 October 2009
Stuck in the Middle
I am a middle child, but I am not used to being in the middle. While I am usually balanced in how I do things, I am almost never in the middle. I am either Happy or Sad in some extreme, I either feel intellectual and serious or foolish and carefree. Now I feel neither. After an extreme case of anxiety leading up to my Senior Project Proposal, I expected it to go very well or horribly. I was not prepared for the middle. It went in mediocrity and so I now do not know what to do.
Sunday 4 October 2009
A Dream and Other Topics
This morning, I had a dream with a very peculiar nature.
Though there was more before this, the earliest bit I can remember is Me, Brendan and someone who I can't identify standing at the corner of the sidewalk near the pavilion at school. The pavilion was much larger and had a ridged metal roof and the entirety of it was lowered to the point that one could jump from the edge of the sidewalk to the gently slanting roof. The roof leveled out at the top and was a large wooden platform with supports going up to hold another metal roof that sheltered this smaller area. The upper roof's edges went down to the edges of the wooden area with only about two feet of space to slip under.
As I was standing on the sidewalk, I remember thinking something about a man of some villainous repute (though, I don't recall what for). I remember Ms Wells bringing a herd of rowdy children over to Brendan and Myself. Some of the children were playing with a knife (which, as I looked at it, was alternately a hack saw and a trench knife). To stop them from doing this, Brendan took the knife and handed it to me and I stepped up on a small square portion that was raised in the middle of one of the concrete squares. I threw the knife onto the lower roof of the pavilion and afterwards went over and jumped onto the roof, crawling up under the higher roof and looking underneath. The first thing I noticed was a failed attempt at tying a noose that hunge in front of me a short way off from cross beam. To the right of it, was a successfully tied noose. Behind those were many beams that went up to the roof in the middle to support it. Some ways up these beams was a half-made platform of planks (with what may have been some sort of shed, though, likely was just some unfinished thought of a shed, to the left). The platform was small and square with a pole going up at each corner and gaps where there were no planks.
Bethany, Leonard, Emmie and Mahria sat each with their back in a corner and their legs dangling through one of the holes in the platform (the platform was just an outline of a square and then planks going from one side to the other, leaving the four quarters open holes). Bethany called to me to come up and join them and Emmie crawled down from her spot. I remember saying that I didn't want to and then I was woken up to go to church.
I fell back asleep, however, and my dream continued. I was now in the very small upper room of a house and I remember feeling that I was finally about to get the jump on that villainous person I had thought about before. I had a revolver and some power of invisibility that I can't really explain. I went down the stairs thinking that I must stop this man's latest scheme which included building a teleporter. I went down the stairs (invisible) and they turned at the bottom and to my left was a door and to my right was a small room with the man's teleporter and beside that, the man himself. He was sleeping on his back wearing only a large bathrobe or towel tied around his waist. He was tall and thin with long yellow hair, much like I imagined a character I had put in Winter. I thought about how I couldn't fail at my task and then I raised my gun and shot at him as quickly as I could. For some reason it made a sound like it had no ammo and didn't fire. For some reason I remembered it doing this before. When I shot at him, my invisibility faded and somehow the man woke up and reached turned over and grabbed a a gun identical to mine from an end table. He shot at me and his gun did like mine and a moment later he stopped and offered that we settle this with a duel. We went out the door I had seen and stepped out onto my front porch. I thought something about having dueled him before.
As soon as we got out there, I began to say that we had to do this right, walking paces and all. But as I did that he went about walking paces without me. He then turned and shot at me, and I at him and both our guns did not shoot. But after a second one of his shots left the barrel and hit a potted plant next to me. It was followed by more blanks. Just after this, two of my shots went off, one missing over his left shoulder and the other hitting him in his chest on his left (both of these are his left, my right). There was a spot on his chest where he was hit, but no blood came from it. He said something to me and began to fall when I was once again woken up.
In other news, I finished 'Castle in the Air' and was seriously good (rivaling even 'Howl's Moving Castle')
I'm planning to get more done on Winter today.
Though there was more before this, the earliest bit I can remember is Me, Brendan and someone who I can't identify standing at the corner of the sidewalk near the pavilion at school. The pavilion was much larger and had a ridged metal roof and the entirety of it was lowered to the point that one could jump from the edge of the sidewalk to the gently slanting roof. The roof leveled out at the top and was a large wooden platform with supports going up to hold another metal roof that sheltered this smaller area. The upper roof's edges went down to the edges of the wooden area with only about two feet of space to slip under.
As I was standing on the sidewalk, I remember thinking something about a man of some villainous repute (though, I don't recall what for). I remember Ms Wells bringing a herd of rowdy children over to Brendan and Myself. Some of the children were playing with a knife (which, as I looked at it, was alternately a hack saw and a trench knife). To stop them from doing this, Brendan took the knife and handed it to me and I stepped up on a small square portion that was raised in the middle of one of the concrete squares. I threw the knife onto the lower roof of the pavilion and afterwards went over and jumped onto the roof, crawling up under the higher roof and looking underneath. The first thing I noticed was a failed attempt at tying a noose that hunge in front of me a short way off from cross beam. To the right of it, was a successfully tied noose. Behind those were many beams that went up to the roof in the middle to support it. Some ways up these beams was a half-made platform of planks (with what may have been some sort of shed, though, likely was just some unfinished thought of a shed, to the left). The platform was small and square with a pole going up at each corner and gaps where there were no planks.
Bethany, Leonard, Emmie and Mahria sat each with their back in a corner and their legs dangling through one of the holes in the platform (the platform was just an outline of a square and then planks going from one side to the other, leaving the four quarters open holes). Bethany called to me to come up and join them and Emmie crawled down from her spot. I remember saying that I didn't want to and then I was woken up to go to church.
I fell back asleep, however, and my dream continued. I was now in the very small upper room of a house and I remember feeling that I was finally about to get the jump on that villainous person I had thought about before. I had a revolver and some power of invisibility that I can't really explain. I went down the stairs thinking that I must stop this man's latest scheme which included building a teleporter. I went down the stairs (invisible) and they turned at the bottom and to my left was a door and to my right was a small room with the man's teleporter and beside that, the man himself. He was sleeping on his back wearing only a large bathrobe or towel tied around his waist. He was tall and thin with long yellow hair, much like I imagined a character I had put in Winter. I thought about how I couldn't fail at my task and then I raised my gun and shot at him as quickly as I could. For some reason it made a sound like it had no ammo and didn't fire. For some reason I remembered it doing this before. When I shot at him, my invisibility faded and somehow the man woke up and reached turned over and grabbed a a gun identical to mine from an end table. He shot at me and his gun did like mine and a moment later he stopped and offered that we settle this with a duel. We went out the door I had seen and stepped out onto my front porch. I thought something about having dueled him before.
As soon as we got out there, I began to say that we had to do this right, walking paces and all. But as I did that he went about walking paces without me. He then turned and shot at me, and I at him and both our guns did not shoot. But after a second one of his shots left the barrel and hit a potted plant next to me. It was followed by more blanks. Just after this, two of my shots went off, one missing over his left shoulder and the other hitting him in his chest on his left (both of these are his left, my right). There was a spot on his chest where he was hit, but no blood came from it. He said something to me and began to fall when I was once again woken up.
In other news, I finished 'Castle in the Air' and was seriously good (rivaling even 'Howl's Moving Castle')
I'm planning to get more done on Winter today.
Friday 2 October 2009
Senior Project...
Senior Project has killed my urge to blog (we have to keep one for the class- sounds fun, they didn't execute it well). I hope soon to return to more regular updates. I've been playing Final Fantasy VII again and I'm some ways into the second disk. "Winter" is progressing smoothly, I'm filling out certain things as I go. Currently, I am reading Diana Wynn Jones' "Castle in the Air" and it is fantastic, a wonderful semi-sequel to "Howl's Moving Castle". After that, I plan to read either "Dune" or "Ender's Game"
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