(Not-So-) Wise Words from a Teenage Debacle

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Bookstore:
Finished *Forest Born* by Shannon Hale, fourth novel in the Books of Bayern
series, narrated by Rin, younger sister of Razo (who narrated the 3rd book)
by five years...I remember how much I loved *The Goose Girl*, *Enna Burning*,
and *River Secrets*. (And a character is named Isi! Actually, Ani, but long
story... She goes by Isi) Someone's out for Isi's blood, and the only one
that will satisfy that person is if she becomes queen. Already queen of Kel,
that isn't enough--Bayern is her goal... This is her second attempt, and
she's back to life.

Got to C28 of *Rapture of the Deep* by L.A. Meyer, seventh book of the
Bloody Jack series. Jacky's got some trouble--she's done her spy work (not
very well, mind you) and she's about to be wed to Jaimy. But--but now it's:
Get the gold out of the bottom of the sea because you can swim and we don't
want you getting pregnant that's why we kidnapped you on the day of your
wedding... or be hanged. Simple as that... Not really, because it's Jacky,
and anything is possible...

Also, on a side note, I checked out *A Companion to Wolves* by Sarah Monette
and Elizabeth Bear because the wolf-bonding sounded like the Cheysuli
Chronicles by Jennifer Roberson, which were awesome. But apparently this
book has a lot of, uh...disturbing content. THAT I AM SKIPPING. (I refuse
to corrupt myself and I don't care if I'm not being a nice reader.) (But
just saying because people *cough*Cae*cough* might be interested in reading
it. But don't corrupt me, that's all I'm saying.) The bad thing about this
book is that I can never keep anyone straight. Really. Like one character
dies, and this other comes in, and their names are too similar, not to
mention that the wolves and the humans...I can't tell them apart because
their names are too complicated to remember. :P

And I finished *Good Omens* by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. It was
awesome. :D Even if I didn't get the baby swapping because I got confused.
But really awesome book.

So books suggested: Books of Bayern by Shannon Hale, Bloody Jack series by
L.A. Meyer, and Good Omens by Terry Prachett and Neil Gaiman.

So that team we totally lost against? The team that obliterated us? The team that always gets five runs and not three outs?
Well, we're playing them again. Woo hoo. Except it's a new game.
And it's 7-0.
And our captain was kicked off of first base because we were doing so good.
Which isn't fair because first of all, they have two captains. Second, we have an autistic kid on our team. (Cynthia) Third, Pierce played first base last game (which explains why I didn't get to first base a lot of times).

I got to first this time. Almost second, but I slipped and went off the base, and Brannon tagged me. But I hit the ball. Which has to be a good thing, right? I mean, at least I got to first base. I never did that last game. Because it was so obviously everyone else's fault. *cough*

I went to piano. The teacher yelled at me, but she grew a lot nicer when she figured out I actually practised and wasn't joking around with her. So I got released at the usual time. Which, finally, isn't an hour and thirty minutes after I entered the house. So yay for me.

NaNo planning: Good. I've yet to break the rating system. (Tria, Cae, aren't you disappointed in me?) Meaning I'll be writing Evsafe things. Or things that I would be completely comfortable with reading. And writing. Plot isn't so hot, and I've yet to figure out a lot of characters' roles, but I figured out 3 last night, so that was a plus.

And before any of you ask, YES, I got distracted by 07-Ghost, go me. At least my resolve is strong enough to get rid of the tab when it's 6 o'clock. I mean, this resolve and will is what makes people perfectly okay with putting an Evsafe link with a reallynotEvsafeatall link. (Oh, yeah, thanks, Tria, for making a separate entry for the drabbles...)

Happy birthday, Sass. :D

And I'll be Evening. Soon. When 1) I remember, and 2) don't get distracted by 07-Ghost.

I am, at the moment:
1. Being distracted by reading 07-Ghost online.
2. Not working.
3. Hugging everyone in The Chat.

Yes, not working. That's me. Oh, well. Each to their own, no? Oops, was distracted by 07-Ghost again. Everyone in there is so brotherly (I think), but sometimes I swear everyone's gay in that. I dunno. My character gaydar is broken, anyway. Talking about brotherly and gayness, I planned more of my NaNo (few more characters, few more backstories, few more scenes) in my English notebook, and I also impressed V, who sits behind me. By changing his "A singing snake" for his Brown Bag Story to "...the wyverns would scream with joy as they flew across the desolate wasteland...". Now his isn't humour, but dark fantasy. He's impressed, but at the same time, convinced he's doomed to failure. Oops?

Well, I read Another Faust by Daniel and Dina Nayeri (and I also read A Lot of manga), and AF is an interesting book. Deals with devils, one thief who hates stealing, another thief who steals one thief's greatest desire, two girls who take from each other's beauty because of vanity, one girl who is determined to win no matter the cost, the language of angels, the value of souls, and manipulation of the broken children who just want attention.

No kidding. It's a great book.

ARGH, was distracted by 07-Ghost AGAIN.

Anyway, my picture for SRB is up here. Scroll down, you can tell which is mine because mine is GRAYSCALE, not to mention that I've drawn that kind of drawing for some people that I'm convinced won't steal my style. *cough, cough*

Now, go buy that book.

And don't scold me because I got distracted by 07-Ghost for the millionth time.

ETA: And I just remembered to add this... Well, if people only call me EV/Ev/Evey/Evie/Evvie/Eve in the chatroom, it only involves the first 3 letters, so I could go by any name as long as it started with Eve and the chatroom wouldn't even notice. Because it's not like you guys call me Rusty or something. And Azz's suggestion is a good one--Evening. Because it can be pronounced like the word (so that means Eve/EV/Evey/Evey) and it can also be ev-uh-ning (which is Ev/Evvie). :D

And I just shut down the 07-Ghost window--aren't you proud of me? Though I did spend half an hour there. I really, really, really, really need to start writing the SNCSN now... (And if one of you guys have read 07-Ghost, can you tell me if everyone's brotherly or if everyone's gay? Because I really, really can't tell.)

A public post! I really do hate those silver locks that show up on f-locked posts, but I don't want my real life friends reading this. I mean, I'm perfectly okay with some people reading it, but there are others... (I think it's quite obvious who(m?) I'm talking about.) Paranoid am I. I don't understand why I'm so paranoid--I wasn't this paranoid at the beginning of summer. Did the fishies make me more paranoid, or did they stop me from pushing my paranoia away and meekly accepting everything?

At Chinese school, I'm using my brother's ninth grade textbook, and guess what--the answers are all there. Awesome! Now it means I don't have to do some activities. (He fell asleep sometimes and didn't do some of the activities.) But coolio! I don't care if the cover isn't shiny like the new ones this year because I have the answers! Mwahahaha!

I also started the present for SRB. I'm 1/3 of the way through it--I have the skeleton. Now I just need meat and shading. I swear, I can't believe I held it off this long. And I don't even know if it'll look good once I scan it in. But since I can't draw unless I'm in a certain mood, and I can do this kind of drawing anytime, I decided to go with it. I mean, I'm not exactly famous for this because I think people will steal the style because they like it, but I'm relatively good at it, and I hate it how people assume I'm looking at an alphabet and drawing the letters from that text. I mean, TDL has three E's in it, and each E is different because of the letters next to it. People. So dense, I swear...

And I had a debate about whether to add that icon in. I mean, it says "fucktards" and I learned the swear words when I was so little, not to mention that people have swear words in books all the time... So I just used it because it was so funny. :D

Aren't you proud of me? A public post! Heh, heh. I swear, I'm too paranoid for my own good... Well, last post had a whole bunch of my grades and percentages, so that was a good reason as to why it's f-locked. But some others... *shakes head, amused*

Writertopia! I found it off of the MF forum, thanks Azz! It's very interesting and cute. ^^"

CHRISTINE: And he like marries his servant...
ME: Who's a guy?
CHRISTINE: NO!
ME: What? When you say 'servant' I think of a guy, is it my fault?
CHRISTINE: Well, it's a girl...
ME: Oh. Okay. Go on.

Woot, second fishie chat! I missed the first, which was in June. It's going on right now. :) I'm rather inactive in it (Yes, I hear some gasps), because I need to start writing and whatnot. I'm planning a sequel for Empty Heavens, but I'm still brainstorming right now... I have some good ideas. We'll see how they go. I really am in love with those two characters. :P

Hannah, the teacher says it's OK to interview through letters, the phone, and e-mail, so now I am working on a diabolical plan for you to say "yes", and the plan is for you to think I have a diabolical plan, except I do, because *this* is the diabolical plan. Ha. That made absolutely no sense to me. Even if it made sense before I was writing.

So. Empty Heavens has a few inappropriate content that I would not be allowed to turn in at school, but the teacher pretty much said, "Go ahead, I'm not telling." Here's the conversation:

ME: Who's going to read the writing?
TEACHER: Me. And your parents if you want them to.
ME: Oh, well, see, some people think my writing is... disturbing.
TEACHER: Just keep writing like you usually do.

Which either means he's encouraging Cae and the other fishies to corrupt me, or he's encouraging me to see the light, which is that my writing is in no way inappropriate. Which he doesn't know, because he has never seen my writing, much less something like Empty Heavens, which is admittedly the most-corruptive story I've ever written.

I have Permafrost (thank you), the sequel to Empty Heavens, and the sequel to The Excalibur Encounter. My friend Pooja wanted to design the main character, and I set the line at changing a MC's looks because he was perfect the way he was. Pooja now wants to read some of my writing because she's read a short story that I'm expanding for NaNo, and she's read TEE. Of course, I'm not handing over any work, as much as I love EH.

I explained a few things about EH to my friends, and they suggested a few plot ideas:
1. A relative
Okay, so they suggested more than that, but that's the only one that stood out to me because it's absolutely perfect for what I'm planning. ^^" Heh. And since this post is on public and since I'm so paranoid, I'll leave out all the details.

Han: Help me with the interview! Please!

Read:
"Tricks" by Ellen Hopkins
"Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins

Tricks is a fabulous book about what sex means. Five teenagers--Seth, Whitney, Coby, Ginger, and Eden--fall into prostitution for different reasons, but each reason is valid, and each wonder what sex means. Some have happy endings, some don't, and some still use sex as money. Like the other books of Ellen Hopkins, this is a novel in verse, and it's as raw and true as her other novels...

Crank and Glass, which are about Kristina's drug use, Burned, Pattyn's desperate need for love, something that is short coming from her family, Impulse, three teenagers--Vanessa, Connor, and Tony--who attempt suicide three different ways for three different reasons who reveal secrets that, despite the newfound trust, may not be able to save them, and Identical, twins Raeanne and Kaeleigh who need to speak to each other before one falls, but who both keep silent.



Got you hooked? Great, now go out and read Hopkins' books--they're books that will bring you into the world of the characters, and when you think everything's going well, there will be that one smack that propels you over the edge and into a terrifying hell, an unexpected twist that will leave your heart pounding.

"Catching Fire" is a science fiction book, and book 2 of the Hunger Games Series. Launched into politics, Katniss has to defuse the uprisings to save her family and friends' lives. But what happens if she fails? To make it worse, these issues are hurting her relationships with two boys she loves--and she will have to make a choice. The Quell is coming up, and once again, Katniss and Peeta are launched into the Hunger Games. This time, they're up against victors of other hunger games, some wasted by liquor and morphling, some dangerous and loveless, like Johanna, who everyone thought was a sniveling idiot--until a cold streak showed and she murdered to come out alive. Some are allies, some are enemies--but Katniss can't tell them apart; allies she are sure of are eliminated, and there is one betrayal that changes everything...

Another series that holds my heart. Katniss is a character that won't be forgotten, much like Brie of the Songs of Eirren, Nick and Alan of The Demon's Lexicon, Nate and Scott of Play's novel, paranoid, nickname-obsessed Martin of Uncomfortable Situations by Cae and her friend, and many, many more. Katniss is the girl on fire, and she'll forever set your heart on fire with the spirit in her, her will to live, and the human starkness of her emotions.

And that ends the two books. Their covers are both red. It's very cool. They matched! I absolutely loved them, and my butt got sore, but who cares? ^^