I hate it when my proofreaders move away. It is so frustrating to get them to open up their email! I’m still stuck on the whole first person or third person debate for one of my Stone story but decided to go ahead and keep up with first person…for now.
As for the other three….
The one I have decided to tentatively name Collide hasn’t really gone anywhere. That might be what I work on today just to get some creativeness flowing. That is also the one that I am writing with a friend who tells me two days ago that she isn’t the best a writing. Well shit.
But, I found a 30 day Character Development and that is EXACTLY what I need for this new girl in Collide. Everyone else I have been living with for a while :)
#writing #development #characters
I have always written in third person. Everytime I try to write in first person it just seems difficult to me. I am always switching around tenses and am never really positive whice tense I should be using. It gets very challenging.
But since I like a challenge, I’ve decided to write one of my stories that I am working on right now (one of FOUR, mind you) in first person. One would think that it would be easy since that is kinda how writers, at least I do, look at their stories. I like to put myself into the story as one of my characters and it just makes it easier for me to write. So, this should be a cake walk. Not so much. But mostly the reason for that is that I can’t seem to keep my tenses straight. And then I don’t even know if I’m using the correct word form.
Someone needs to create a website that can check your tenses and tell you which words are wrong. That would be lovely.
Do you prefer first or third person? Any special reason why?
NOW READING: Un Lun Dun by China Mieville
#writing #first person #third person
…this is what you get when you have way too many blogs, two jobs, and are attending school full time. *sigh*
Since the last post here a lot has happened. With this could be the line where I say I finished my manuscript…but that didn’t happen. Instead I picked up…two more.
Actually make that three. I found a story I had started way back when last night and then I dreamt about it…that has to be a sign, right? The upside to one of these stories is that I am writing it with a friend. Hoping it turns out for the better and doesn’t end in one of us crying…or dead.
I also aim to attempt at writing reviews for the Huskers come next football season even though most of my favorite players are graduating this year. It is a sad moment when they leave but at the same time that’s what makes college football so much better than the NFL. New kids get the chance to become a star without having to have it be for all thewrongreasons.
So, from here on out there will be bi-weekly posts. I can’t promise they will be about anything substantial and it might just be rantings but there will besomething.
And that makes me feel better
NOW READING: Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
#personal #catch up #writing
The Nebraska v. Fresno State game was last Saturday, the 10th of September (which is also National Sewing Machine Day…yup, I used to work at Hallmark). If you were to look at the score of 42-29 and our record of 2-0 then you would think we were doing pretty dang well for the preseason matchups.
This, however isn’t the shared view of the collective Husker fans who, if they are anything like me, were yelling so much at the television screen that they had headaches for days after the game. Our offense, lead by Mr. Taylor Martinez, was extremely inconsistent. They do get a gold star for pulling themselves together and getting the win, but they made mistakes that just shouldn’t have happened. Sure, the game wasn’t supposed to be as easy of a win as Chattanooga but it was supposed to be easier than the Huskers made it look on the TV. Martinez shouldn’t have fumbled let alone twice. Granted we recovered both, but two interceptions are also on his report card for the game. Over all he only made 10 of his 21 passes and some of his misses were just awful.
Not only was our offense seemingly not in the game, our defense, for the first time in a long time, wasn’t really as strong as it had been. They just couldn’t stop the Fresno offense leading to their 190 rushing yards. A big factor, more than likely, would be the absence of Alfonzo Dennard who still hasn’t been released to play after his injury earlier in the year. Also the Huskers’ short time of offensive possession would mean more time on the field for the defense. Whatever the reason, they just didn’t seem to step up to the proverbial plate and show what they can really do.
However messy this game might have been there are a few players who no doubt really made an impact in the frantic win by Nebraska. One in particular would be Freshman Ameer Abdullah. He returned a kick off for a touch down after Fresno state made it a 2 point game in the fourth quarter. He also set a school record with 211 yards on five kick back returns. It was the fourth 100 yard kick return in program history.
So, what am I looking forward to for our game against Washington on the 17th? Probably the same thing everyone else in Husker Nation is hoping for: Consistency. Our debut into the Big Ten has been pretty wishy washy for the past two games and a bit of stabilization would make everyone else just a little bit more comfortable in our new home. I guess we should be lucky that we have Washington at home. I just hope it doesn’t end up like the Holiday Bowl. This game may be tough, but without Washington’s star quarterback from last season, lets hope it ends up a 3-0 season with a bit more of a margin between the scores.
Love to Husker Nation, GO B1G RED
#Husker Nation #Huskers #Fresno State #Nebraska #sea of red
Nebraska Prayer with awesome video! Gave me goosebumps :D. So excited for the first game of the season!
#Go Big Red #Husker Nation #Huskers #Nebraska #Sea of Red
Football season is upon us and let me be the first to say…
About dayum time!
I am such a football fan at times I surprise myself. And so the point of this post is to warn you that starting now through the fall/winter seasons I will be posting stuff about football. TCU and Nebraska Husker football to be specific.
Like tonight, for example. TCU was at Baylor for a pretty amazing game. TCU lost but that’s beside the point. In a quarter they doubled their points which is pretty amazing considering it was the last quarter.
Nebraska plays tomorrow and if you only knew me y
ou would be able to measure how excited I am. I don’t even remember when I started counting down to this wonderful day. Well, it will be wonderful if we don’t lose/don’t get pummeled by Chattanooga Mocks. Their team’s mascot is a mocking bird…dressed like a train engineer…not even kidding ->
My prediction. I’ll say 45 points for Nebraska and Chattanooga is going to be around 10 points.
Oh, and the best thing about this season is being in the Big Ten Conference instead of Big 12. I was a bit sad at first because it’s a huge change but in the end, it’s a better move for the us but there will probably be more on that later ;]. Also, with Colorado leaving the Big 12 that makes them 2 teams short of a championship. It’d have been awesome if we were the last-maybe ever-Big 12 Champions. So sorry Texas Conference Big 12 Conference. Looks like you’re starting to miss us ;]
GO B1G RED
#Huskers #Go Big Red #College Football #Husker Nation #Chattanooga
…as it applies to traffic and being late. Since school has started I don’t work Mondays or Wednesdays because those are the days that I have class right in the middle of the afternoon and it would be a waste of time. Well today was different. The girl that usually covers for my days off was sick and so I had to come in before class, leave for class, and come back when class was over. The sad part is that isn’t even my long day! Tuesdays I work 8-5 and then have class from 6-8:40…and it’s accounting…talk about looooooong daaaaaay.
So today, for some reason, everyone decided to show up for class. For the first time I had to shark for a parking space. Thank goodness I am an overachiever and like to be early so it wasn’t a huge deal. The heading back to work was the big deal. It was a mass exodus after class. Everyone and their pet fish were pulling out from their parking spaces and let me tell you. The only thing that could compare was leaving the midnight premiere of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2. I’ve never had to wait in a parking lot at school for so long!
As a result, I was racing to get back to work along with the hundreds of other people who were nearing the end of their lunch breaks (even though it was almost 3pm) and thus was born the Five Stages of Being Stuck in Traffic and Ending Up Late for Work (I’m working on a shorter name):
1 Denial-This first stage is just that. Being in Denial that you really, truly, actually, honest to goodness are going to be late. At this point I was looking at my clock thinking, is it really that time? No way. Something is wrong with my car clock…and my phone…and that bank. What happened to all the times?! Maybe some freak sun spot messed everything up…
2 Anger-this is probably the average American’s favorite stage when it comes to the Five Stages of Traffic. In this stage I invented the ingenious curse word “Jack Hole”. It happened on accident while riding with my parents about a year ago. They still don’t like to hear their children curse even though one of us is a Junior in College and the other is now a Freshman. Jack Hole combines the two non-obscene words in both Jack @$$ and @$$ Hole. I’m trying to be PG so if you don’t understand the symbols then there is no hope for you. In this stage, I use Jack Hole alot. I even came up with a new one today and can’t post it here if I want to stay in accordance with my PG rating. This stage is commonly filled with pointing fingers, whether they are the index or middle, and blaming other drivers of, but not limited to: driving too slow, cutting you off, not letting you merge, not using their turn signal, stopping too quick, stopping to far back, etc., etc.
3 Bargaining-this stage is short lived in my Five Stages of Traffic and is more along the lines of a more subdued Anger stage. I am usually trying to make deals with inanimate objects like traffic lights and other vehicles to make my journey contain a lot less stress.
4 Depression-yup, I get super sad when I get stuck in traffic and am in a hurry to get someplace. Work and school especially because I hate being late to stuff like that. And when I have to make friends wait? Oh dear! I absolutely feel like a horrible person making friends wait on me to get someplace. Especially when I know they have had a long day and haven’t eaten and they are waiting on me. Total. Guilt Trip.
5 Acceptance-this stage really only kicks in once I get to the place and know I am late. Or, if I am going someplace that I have been to millions of times before and know how long it takes to get from a certain point to my destination and I kinda give up. I don’t slow down but I definitely am not driving as crazy as I was a few miles ago. Sometimes though, Denial comes back around and I blame the person I am meeting and tell them that they are just alwasy early.
Needless to say I have slacked a bit on the tumblr front. But in all honesty it is simply because I have been extremely busy so I don’t feel as bad as if I was just plain lazy. Classes start tomorrow and I’ve had a website design/coding project that I’ve been knocking out details to.
But, I did want to tell you about my Sugarland concert experience when they came through a couple Saturdays ago. It really was amazing. Sara Bareillis was their opening act and I wasn’t a HUGE fan of her because I never really listened to more than what they played on the radio so I was interested in seeing her live and boy did she change my mind around! She was funny and sarcastic and just really had an amazing set even without the big screen that most headliners have nowadays. She talked to the audience and pulled everyone into the conversation. She asked a few questions and when people in the upper bowl freaked out and did hand gestures or pointed she noticed and called them out (in a good way) and even though we were in a huge arena with a bunch of people it felt like a little, cozy, intimate show.
Then Sugarland came on and their set was one of the most amazing things I have ever seen! It was almost as amazing as Taylor Swift’s. It had gears and mechanical elements (since it was the Incredible Machine Tour) that were absolutely stunning. They only played for about an hour but it was the most packed full hour I have seen at a concert so far. They hardly talked between songs but kept the energy WAY up. At one point they did a cover of Bootylicious by Beyonce and Jennifer Nettles did an amazing imitation of the dance! Definitely one of the best birthday presents I ever gave my mom! :D
The main thing that I will forever remember will be the storm afterward. Before Sugarland came on my aunt texted my mom and asked where we were and said there was a storm coming. About five minutes later I heard thunder and was relieved because hopefully the storm would be done and gone by the time the show ended. Not the case at all. We rode the escalators down from the lower bowl and the windows in the entry way of our convention center were getting hit with rain so hard it looked like we were in a car wash. When the rain let up a bit we started to bolt for the car but the police officer manning the street stopped us and then the gates of heaven opened up and dropped an olympic swimming pool upon us. When he finally let us go my mom and I, along with the massive heard of people, booked it across the street, everyone splashing each other with nasty water from the street. At one point on of my flip flops fell off so I retrieved it and took the other one of and ran barefoot trying to find the car with all this rain! When I finally did find it I realized I lost my mother…
It was quite an interesting experience. Once my mom got to the car (after I turned on the hazard lights because I had her phone in my pocket :/ ) we just sat there for about five minutes laughing. We gathered our composure and as I backed out of our spot we hard a loud rush and a pop. A few yards away from us there was a geyser of water! We live in the suburbs but downtown they have the worst sewage system ever. The water in the street that we ran through was so deep because the rain was falling so fast that the storm drains couldn’t take the water away. Not to mention the Missouri river has been flooding all summer from up north. So as we drove as quickly and safely as we could to the interstate ramp there was water up to the door of my car and a horrible smell. Definitely didn’t make me appreciate the water I already had on me any more…
So that was my journey. It isn’t one that I will very soon be forgetting. It was absolutely crazy!
But I would also like to send out prayers and thoughts to the families who lost loved ones when Sugarland’s stage collapsed during the Indiana State Fair as well as those who were lost when a Belgium state collapsed a few days ago.
What is your craziest concert story?
I don’t know if it will stay this way but Music Review Monday just seemed to have a ring to it. It might not turn out to be every Monday, but if I do get to a music review it shall be, from this point forward, on a Monday. :]
For the Monday of August 8th I’m going to be raving about “Bad Habits”, the fourth studio album of Every Avenue. It dropped last Tuesday, August 2nd, and I ran out and bought it that day. I even gambled a bit. My local Target didn’t have it (figures, it really is a hit and miss with them) and the closest Best Buy isn’t very close at all. So, I strolled on into the Wal-Mart down the street and bought the album. You can only imagine my joy when I found that it wasn’t edited like most others I find at Wal-Mart. Total. Win.
And I must admit that I cheated a bit when it comes to this album. It was on AOL.com’s free CD listening party thingy that they do so I had the pleasure of listening to the full CD in all its glory for about a week before it was released (thank you Mom). But, either way I love this new album. The one that preceded it, “Picture Perfect”, was by far my favorite one so far. That was probably because it was the album that was popular when I discovered this band but that’s beside the point. In these first couple weeks of listening to the album I’ve already gotten a few songs stuck in my head for hours on end. I’ll be doing something around the house and just start singing out, “I am the same as I was when I was younger, whatever happened to you?” from song numero dos, my favorite from these past few weeks. Their song “There Tonight” is starting to make its way into the radio in my head as well and it is all just such an awesome experience.
They were also on the complete Vans Warped Tour which finally came close to where I live in the middle of the Midwest but, unfortunately, it sneaked up on me pretty quick and I didn’t get to go. I was devastated when I got tweets from some of the bands I was really wanting to see saying how much fun they were having…couldn’t have been that much fun…
But while this album doesn’t have quite as many rock-ish songs as the last one it definitely sticks with the same feel as a whole album. It definitely is worth the purchase. Best Buy has the album for $7.99 so it won’t hurt the pocket that much. ;) Go grab it and let me know what you think.
Any suggestions for another Music Review Monday?
#Bad Habits #Every Avenue #Music Review Monday
