catastrophic: (♕ saints with souless sinner stares)
Kiri ([personal profile] catastrophic) wrote on November 18th, 2010 at 08:23 pm
run away, run away, i'll attack
When I set my mind to make something badass, I MAKE IT BADASS. I make it so badass that my eyes bleed from the badassery levels of my own creations! ... Alright, I'm going to shut up about it now, but long story short - I sat down and decided that I short really make some progress on my Lit/Art trade and suddenly it bloomed into a really sweet excerpt/rewrite.

But that's all I'm saying about it! If I hype it up too much, I'll just pull a Peter Molyneux and it won't be as cool when it's done - like a certain game in the Fable series that I could mention - so yeah, I'm just gonna say that I like where this is going. I took a break from it for now because ... well, to be honest, I know how I want it to end but I'm not sure how to get there. And I'm wondering if I can squeeze a super secret character in or not. (Kind of like how Ash sees Ho-Oh in the first episode of Pokemon? Like, a teaser for things to come...) Either way, I have the ending planned out (it's not really an ending since it's an excerpt but... I know where I should stop writing and actually upload the excerpt) so it's gonna have a neat finish no matter what, I just gotta get there.

I've been doing something different with this piece - I've been sketching it out at school and then adding layers onto its 'skeleton' if you will at home. (Yeah, I have time to do stuff like that at school - easy breezy senior year for the win.) I've gotta say, I really like this way of doing things. Once I get out of school, I think I'd be the sort to sit in coffee shops or librariesand just write out skeletons for things - it's a lot easier to sketch out how a story will go when you're out in public for some reason. I'm not sure why. Ugh, makes me so anxious to get a car, get a job, get money, just be independent, so I could just go out there and sit somewhere and write without being bothered my mom, dad, etc...

Speaking of libraries, I checked out Bag of Bones by Stephen King from the library the other day without much of a reason really. I just wanted something to read - I'm supposed to be reading Fellowship of the Ring but to be honest, it's proving really hard to catch my attention. So I checked out the book, right, and the librarian said that she had to stop reading it because of something graphic in it - but she wouldn't tell me what it was. I haven't read very far in it, but I'm kind of bored by this book too. A guy's wife dies, he starts talking about how much he misses her, etc... He was also an author (the... the guy in the book, not Stephen King - well he's an author too, but yeah) so he just talked on and on about how much books he wrote and the happy life he led and blah blah blah I'm bored! And I don't really need an anecdote about how every time you and your wife had sex. Christ - in the first chapter alone he talked about sex ever two pages, I swear. Why do books bore me so much nowadays?!

I just want a good book to read that isn't boring as hell! Is that too much to ask? There's a ton of books I want to read but our school library and city library sucks big time. I don't really read young adult fiction - all of that's cluttered up with shitty Twilight spinoffs and I don't really have any patience for that. I think for my birthday I'll just ask Dad to take me to Borders and I'll splurge my allowance on buying a ton of thick fantasy books that'll take me a while to get through. I haven't bought books since two summers ago, and that, to me, is way too long to go without a new book.

In unrelated news, I've been watched way too many Crisis Core videos lately. I have a bunch of songs stuck in my head, most of them by 30 Seconds to Mars - like "I'll Attack" and "This is War" - but "This is War" has been stuck in my head ever since I beat Dragon Age really. I updated my listography with a list of songs I really need to put on my iPod because of it - I'll swipe 'em later, but not now. Ugh, I can't wait for the weekend - I'm gonna finish my Pridea excerpt and then sit down with a bunch of frickin' video games and just start playing and goofing off. See, senior year can be easy if you let it be. Hopefully I can keep cruising on through the year without any more bumps in the road.
 
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