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I just wanted to say that...

7/20/2009 at 6:12 PM

...Just because I write angry poetry doesn't necessarily make me an angry person.

I'm quite the teddy bear, actually. :)

After I went to a poetry reading a few weeks back and performed a piece of mine ("Circus in the City" in the Word Barf album, if you're interested), a girl I had never seen in my life came up to me, said she really liked my poem, but that she was now scared of me. I find this quite funny: compared to most people, I'm fairly diminutive, and yet...XD Ha.

So just to clear things up. I'm not an angry person. I don't really hold that much scorn for love. I don't have it out for Abercrombie (although they annoy the hell out of me), I am anti-fake-Gucci-monster-bag. But that's really about it.

I promise I don't bite. =D

...Just saying.

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I am a GENIUS!!!

4/7/2009 at 6:15 PM

GENIUS, I TELL YOU!!!

Do you want to know WHY?!?! Besides my AWESOME command of the SHIFT key, I am a GENIUS because...

Well, I figured out why I'm not really getting read on Humblevoice!

/GAAAAAAAAAAASP!!!!!!!

Why is this, you ask? Even if you don't, I'll tell you anyway.

I don't post!

Barely ever, anyway.

Okay, seriously, I need to post more. I was reading in Writer's Digest just today about creating a platform or whatever. That, without a platform, your chances of getting noticed in the writing world is absolutely zilch. Zero. Nada. Well, near that, anyway. I'm rounding up a bit.

So I'm going to start working on that mythical platform. That elusive being, like Nessie, like the Lady of the Lake, like Sasquatch, like Michael Jackson...

The best way, I figure, is by actually writing. By stopping whining about how Nanowrimo has drained my creative juices. Because it hasn't. I still want to write, I've just been "too busy" to. So I used Nanowrimo as an excuse. Forgive me Father, for I have sinned.

So...I'm going to start posting more on here. Hopefully it'll help a bit with that platform thingy.

If I die in the process from a brain hemorrage, please contact my family in the Yellow Pages, tell them I've finally wasted away in front of my computer, and go ahead and take what you want of my Sobe sticker collection. Aren't I generous?

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Just very slightly mad...

10/11/2008 at 12:41 AM

So I've been going through the normal teenage angst this past month. FUN! But really, I wanted to apologize for not posting much on here. I posted a poem on here earlier, but, as in Terry's words, it was creepy. I know, I know. I can be downright twisted if I want to. But that's why I haven't been putting much on here...everything I write reflects what I feel, right? And what I feel is extreme frustration at myself and stress, as well as the most intense feelings I've ever felt for missing someone...

Being in love and being 5000 miles away from the person I love is probably one of the toughest things I will ever be through.

So, if I've seemed extra weird or aloof or upset or overly happy (yay, overcompensating!), well, lovies, that's probably why. XD

Meh, I'll be okay. I just wanted to say sorry for all that mess. Because I should be able to handle it on my own. And I am...Just not all that well...

Also, the huge amount of work I've been getting hasn't been helping really, either.

Oh, and that poem? "Mistress Mary"? The creepy thing? Yeah...It's just a little go I had at describing the legend of Bloody Mary...Lovely topic, eh? But really, I swear I'm not violent. XD Easily upset at the moment, yes. Getting better, yes. But it's all good.

Funny thing is, I wrote that in health class. DO YOU SEE WHAT IT DRIVES ME TO?! XD

Ah...I'm listening through this Blink 1-82 song for the millionth time...Not even sure what it's called.

But...yeah. I'm just chilling now. Relaxing completely for the first time in a while. Maybe I'll even write something happy in a bit.

"Pick me up now...I need you so bad!" (If you can tell me the Blink 1-82 song that comes from, I'll love you forever. It's driving me nuts.)

Oh! And I'm going to county for GHP! ^_^ And I'm REALLY sorry for this, but I'm not going to be able to come back to Writing Club this week...I have a meeting about how to do interviews or something like that on Wednesday. Why it's on Wednesday, I have no clue. Why EVERYTHING happens on Wednesday...well, I don't know that, either.

Terry's back in charge. He seemed really excited, and I heard no complaints, so yay. :P

Anywho...I suppose that's it. I hope you're all doing alright, and I'm either going to read, watch the Rocky Horror Picture Show, write, or do a combination of two or more of the three.

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Why I Write

9/16/2008 at 2:10 AM

Ever since I was little, I have had characters in my mind that peck at me until I let them out. As I have gotten older, the pecking has become more persistent. The characters have become stronger.

Noah, the alcoholic.

Toby, the HIV positive husband and father.

Jonah, the gay preacher.

Kami, the insecure smart ass.

And SO many more.

I write to let them out. Because they are my babies. And it's time for them to be pushed out of the nest.

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HEAR YE, HEAR YE! ALL MEMBERS OF WRITING CLUB!

8/11/2008 at 7:32 PM

How about Wednesday in Room 305? The club could meet this week and get organized for the club drive next Wednesday during the lunch periods. If this works for you I will announce the meeting for Wednesday during the Tuesday announcements.

Thanks.

Jacqueline Vance

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Who, me?

6/27/2008 at 11:19 AM

This morning, before I got ready to do some study questions on Jane Eyre, I pulled up my email account to check in. I haven't been on in a few days, so there was a bit of a pile.

Dig dug dig dug dig dug. (Why, yes, I DID play too many video games as a child.)

Found the Humblevoice newsletter thingy.

Opened.

Checked the list of Word featured people.

Frowned, reread.

Reread.

No, that was right...

Somehow, I got featured.

...

*HAPPY DANCE!!!*

*ahem*

I'm so happy...and it was the first part of my novel, no less! A rough draft! Well, no, I never post anything on here completely rough...semi-rough, then, I guess.

More to come! I promise this time! I finished Jane Eyre, so I have no excuse. Notebooks with the rough draft in them are right next to me. I'll get to it as soon as I finish my study questions.

So, whoever decides who gets featured, thank you!

Hm...In other news...

I went to see Eddie Izzard on Wednesday. Lovely, lovely man. The tour was called Stripped, and it's the first time since a long time that he's done stand up sans women's clothing. He still had his flamboyant Izzard-ness going on, though: black, Victorian jacket with coattails, red lining, and brass buttons; black loafers with silver bottoms; fantabulous jeans; but who really cares? I laughed so hard...he's brilliant. Much love for him. <3 I joined his fan club and everything.

In short: best night ever!

Um...what else? I found my favorite CD that I lost ages ago: Queen Greatest Hits II. Has all my favorite songs on it, and I'm quite giddy.

*giddy spaz*

Anyway. XD I'd better get back to Jane Eyre if there's any hope of getting up some Never Be today.

Love you all!

Grey

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Big shmile...where'd it go?

5/29/2008 at 10:25 PM

The computer has eaten my soul...I've been on it so much today. I look like a vampire. And not the sexy kind like Edward Cullen, either. The freaky pale kind that runs away from garlic.

Anyway, I'm just now realizing how much I really like Creed. They were my favorite band when I was in third great, but I've pretty much ignored them over the past few years...I'm listening to them again. "Don't Stop Dancing" just came on...I love it.

I don't have to go to school tomorrow! Done with exams! Happy face!

And today marks my seven month anniversary with Danny. Go on. Barf. I don't care.

And just in case you want to know: just because I've been posting poetry a little bit doesn't mean I'm a poet. XD Jeez...I don't even know where I'm getting the stuff from! I can't focus on revising my novel, but I'm stamping out poetry...

I need a beret.

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May I kill it? Pretty please?

4/12/2008 at 9:49 PM

So. I finished the rough draft of novel numero dos this week. Much happiness over that. However, I was doing this short story for writer's club, and, well...

It sucks.

Really, really sucks.

For the people that were there last week: you thought my last chapter was horrible? Well, this week's chapter is two pages long and ends like this:

"I then dodged a squirrel and hit an 18-wheeler. Check out time!"

Yeah...I'm not changing that ending unless something major happens.

So...I don't know. I'm thinking about starting the sequel to my novel or starting something else, just to get me through to the end of the year. I want to revise and spend this time revising, but...

Would it be okay if I revised my novel and brought it in? Not the whole thing: just parts.

I think I'm going to do that...I can't get my head out of it right now.

Enough squirrels have died today.

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