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Alpha Female in Training Blog
May. 24th, 2009 | 04:46 pm
mood: 
amused
Tell me what you guys think - the article in linked in the page. The link above is actually written by me :p
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Dec. 3rd, 2008 | 10:23 am
mood: amused
<wc> <uid> 423462 </uid> <uname> SkullJuggler </uname> <user_wordcount> 50390 </user_wordcount> </wc> ^_^ don't mind me, I'm just playing with HTML. I rarely do, since it's just a tad above my comprehension.
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Video for Skull Juggler
Nov. 13th, 2008 | 01:41 am
mood: 
giggly
*blush* this is the video I did for Skull Juggler: Disenchanted. I read an excerpt from the first chapter and uh, if anyone is curious to know what I look and sound like, go ahead and check it out. Next stop for that video is youTube.
EEEE!!! *hides* tell me what you think! And um, be gentle?
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Nov. 11th, 2008 | 08:23 pm
mood: 
aggravated
Okay. So. Last night I did not go to sleep. As in, at all. Why, you might ask? I was writing a 10 page research paper (very detailed, at least five sources) because I thought it was due today. When I had completed this endeavor, I happen to glance at my clock. Why, it is now 4 AM and I must awaken and go hence at 7 AM to take my loving mother to the airport. So, I decide to stay awake.
I go take a shower at 6 AM, water becomes freezing towards the end (better than two minutes in), get dressed, and go downstairs to mooch some coffee off my dad. He is extremely surprised to see me up and chipper at such an unholy hour. Mother eventually comes, acting like a squirrel on speed because she's moving around but not really doing anything. Take said mother off to the airport (yay for stealing her car for a day!) and then I come home. I then go to my old high school and finally give some people a copy of my book. Their eyes practically pop out of their heads and they want to know EVERYTHING. I am trying not to develop a big head but then start getting annoyed when a certain person presses YET AGAIN that she thinks I should go to law school. Even though I say six times I will not go down that road. Point out that a PhD in Literature/Creative Writing sounds like fun, she counters with the fact that I'll probably get bored because I have a "brain with SO much potential!" I counter with "it is very pink and squishy." Get desired laugh, lighten topic from life-or-death, decision of a lifetime, DO NOT SCREW THIS UP OR YOU WILL BE POOR AND MISERABLE FOREVA.
Moved into other topics. Plugged nanowrimo. Plugged FSA (Florida Speakers Association). Plugged my mom's bestseller :D
Gave a copy to my old English teacher - she fangirled on me hardcore. It was awesome :D when I came back after class to sign it for her, plugged nanowrimo again and explained a little more about publishing in general. She wants to get one of her students, a pretty serious writer from the sounds of it, to speak with me because she thinks I can help :D!!! YAY MENTORING!!! It made me SO happy ^_^
And umm, yeah, the fun part. Drove to the university, took a one hour nap in my boyfriend's dorm (he is a warm pillow!) and then went to class. And guess what? Miracle of miracles, the damn paper wasn't DUE today! Now isn't THAT great? I only wasted my entire night working on it and didn't get even a LITTLE sleep! How great.
Now I am home. Tired after a two hour nap (how can this be!?!??!?!) and writing ANOTHER essay for tomorrow. This one had better be due tomorrow. Or I shall kill someone.
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Nov. 11th, 2008 | 12:05 am
mood: 
thoughtful
It's such a generic question. I'm starting to wonder about it. For most of my life, I've been analytical and firm about most of my beliefs. Love is this, hate is that. Things are easier when they're black and white. I used to have strong opinions about what is acceptable love and what isn't.
Now... I'm just not sure. People have told me things in confidence that I won't reveal... but I can't help thinking on them. I've accepted homosexual love since, well, forever. My uncle is gay - both of them in fact, on both sides of my family. I love them with all of my heart and it never occurred to me to think there was anything wrong with that.
Not saying I have a problem with that. I'm saying I'm starting to question my OTHER values, things I thought were cut-and-dry wrong or unacceptable. But... well, so many of my friends now have been in complicated relationships. So I'm starting to question myself - what is love?
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Nov. 5th, 2008 | 11:07 am
mood: 
frustrated
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My first Word War
Nov. 5th, 2008 | 01:22 am
Match: me vs Intention - 10 minutes
Final count: Intention, 316 words
Me: 779 words!!! Woot!
Final word count today: 7,028 :3 much better
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The Only Time I Will Discuss Politics
Nov. 4th, 2008 | 11:13 pm
mood: 
crushed
It seems that Obama has pretty much won. I'm going to be pissed tonight. I am going to use that anger and annoyance to write as much as I can. Then tomorrow I will be over it and I will shift my thoughts to hoping Obama will be a good president and surprise me. I want him to surprise me and do great good. If he can do that, I don't care if people tell me I was wrong or what.
But I will say this: John McCain deserved to win. He is a truly good man and I know this will not stop him from helping this country to the best of his ability. I wish him the very best.
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Voting
Nov. 4th, 2008 | 09:29 am
Word count yesterday: 100ish words :( I know.
Voted this morning! :D anyone interested in knowing my political views... Beware. I'm opinionated and will argue if you disagree... You have been forewarned!
I will write today!!! A lot!
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Day 2
Nov. 2nd, 2008 | 04:30 pm
Already behind in Nano because the family kidnapped me for the day. Writing a lot of crap but learning a lot about my characters as I do. I wonder if any part of the chapter will survive the coming slaughter of my internal editor...
I've this far written a scene I didn't know was going to be written, changed gears so that my main character gets to where he's going faster, and I've seen Andreas a lot more than I expected him to. The return of old memories too and an idea for one of the myths. Tune in tomorrow for the next train wreck :p
Note: I foresee a whole lot more writing getting done tomorrow during class...
Word count: 3,813
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Oct. 27th, 2008 | 12:40 pm
mood: 
creative
music: English teacher talking
So :) news.
First, I will be participating in nanowrimo for the very first time this year. My screen name is "SkullJuggler" so friend me if you're interested in being writing buddies and seeing excerpts of what I come up with! I will be writing Skull Juggler: Columbarium (book 2) in my series. I'm also upping my word count to 100,000 words instead of the 50,000 words required. So, friend me! :)
Second, there are now officially eight chapters left of Vocare Prabia. I mapped out the end already and I'm... not sure how to feel. Relieved, sad, ecstatic... lots of things. I've written this story for so long but it really needs to end at this point. It isn't the story it once was and a lot of the stuff I'd always thought the story would hold have disappeared in my memory so that I can't even remember what the story was once meant to do. But the point is that it's almost done and I can only say "Thank God." I'll miss the reviews :)
Third, Lunar Expedition will be put on hold until after nanowrimo. I was actually planning to write Lunar Expedition for nanowrimo but I thought I should write Skull Juggler first because it's been calling me since I realized how the first chapter would go (it will be so much fun to write!).
Um... nothing much else. I've been moody lately, probably because I'm not allowing myself to write until nanowrimo. Someone distract me!
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I'm not dead
Oct. 26th, 2008 | 01:04 am
Not much to report at this exact moment. I had a long day between a football game where I got soaked from the rain twice and driving an hour to and from my friend's house only to be soaked at the mall four times, drive in the rain, and pay a lot of tolls.
On a high note, I'm planning and mapping out my second book for nanowrimo. More on that later :) I missed you, LiveJournal.
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Sep. 8th, 2008 | 12:13 pm
mood: 
accomplished
MY BOOK IS ON AMAZON!!!!!!!!!!!
I AM IN PERMANENT CAPS LOCK HAPPINESS!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.amazon.com/Skull-Juggler-Dis
Go!
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Aug. 8th, 2008 | 08:43 pm
mood: 
energetic
I am very excited about all of this! I even have a to-do list of what I need before my book comes out. Query letter, media page... all in the next three days. Woot, go me! :D
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Good Morning Surprise
Aug. 2nd, 2008 | 12:22 pm
mood: accomplished
So I wake up this morning, groggy and disoriented. We had a power surge and so when everything turned back on, the sound woke me up. I'm contemplating getting out of bed or going back to sleep when I decide to check my email on my phone first. I posted the next chapter to Vocare Prabia last night so I know some people will be reading and reviewing. If there was nothing particularly important going on in my inbox, I'd just go back to bed. This is the first message I read:
Congrats! Your story "Vocare Prabia" was nominated for Best AU at The Quibbler Awards. Before your story can be considered a nominee, though, we need your permission. Please contact us on our site or email us!
http://quibbler.this-paradise.com/
I am instantly awake and blinking a little. Nominated? Huh? And then I start laughing uncontrollably. I've been writing that story for over five years now, I started it when I was about 15 years old, and I get nominated now? After being on hiatus forever and a day? So I immediately go in search of someone to talk to about this.
Also? Fanfiction.net is awesome. It just got a new feature called "Reader Traffic" that 1) differentiates between hits and visitors (I have been DYING to know how many people actually read the story, not just those amazing fans who keep checking the website to see if I've updated anything) and 2) WHERE the readers are. So now I know that I have about 405 fans in the U.S., 70 in Australia (what?!?!? That is so awesome!!!), 62 in Canada, 46 in Germany, etc. I have fans in the UK, Malaysia, France, India (a lot from India actually...), Romania, 30 in Singapore (what??!?! insanity!), Brazil, Spain, Panama, Russian Federation, Dominica, Netherlands, Czech Revar, Poland, Philippines, Austria, New Zealand, South Africa, Denmark, Israel, Hong Kong, Sweden, Argentina (yay!), Indonesia, Ireland, Mexico, Pakistan, Belgium, Thailand, Finland, Switzerland, Serbia and Montenegro, Norway, Peru, Chile, Croatia, Mongolia, Portugal, Slovenia, China, Slovakia, Japan, Italy, Brunei Darussalam, Dominican Revar, Hungary, Islamic Republic of Iran, Ukraine, Estonia, Greece, and Columbia. Um... wow, I think the list grew since the last time I looked at it o_o this is so insane.
So now I know that people all over the world for whatever the reason know about me somehow. o_o disconcerting as hell. Hilarious too ^_^ yay!
Edit: er, the numbers I wrote above are wrong. They just jumped way up in the... twenty minutes since I wrote this? I now (at this moment) have 900 visitors to all of my stories in the past TWO DAYS!!!! And I also have 3,560 hits also in the past TWO DAYS!!!! My head is going to explode.
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Aug. 1st, 2008 | 05:35 pm
mood: 
exanimate
Anyway, I was thinking about something that I might write. I think it would be hilarious to write a scene where Jacob Black and Edward Cullen are fighting over who should be the "Big Bad Wolf" in the Little Red Riding Hood. I can just see Bella in the background like "That's the bad guy, there's also the woodcutter who... you know, rescues me and gets to kiss me." But I can see the guys completely determined to have the "dangerous" role XD amusement.
There was another reason I wanted to update this... erm, what was it? Damn... I don't remember. =/ more later I guess...
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Jul. 31st, 2008 | 01:42 pm
mood: amused
Gods I'm tired *yawn* I stayed up till 3 AM last night watching Brokeback Mountain for the first time. I've always wanted to watch it (how many times have I seen practically everyone on my friends list squee over it?) but I just never got around to it. My friends didn't want to watch it with me, I didn't ask, or friends I didn't want to watch it with wanted to go. And I didn't bother to rent it, not thinking anyone would watch with me or let me watch in peace (they'd probably want to watch Larry King or something) so I never did.
Then, lo and behold, they were playing it last night. Better yet, playing it while I was flipping channels looking for something random to watch. So I watched it and enjoyed it a great deal. I was surprised that I did - sometimes if I hear too much good commentary about something, I tend either not to like it because there's too much hype (i.e. fifth Harry Potter book) or I am pleasantly surprised (i.e. first and third Harry Potter books). This also happened when I recently read Huxley's Brave New World. I'd heard so much hype, I was a little disappointed when I actually read it. The writing is a little confusing at time, sometimes I couldn't figure out who was speaking and when I did, I'd been dragged out of the story. The concepts were pretty terrifying though and I enjoyed the read.
So yea... Brokeback Mountain. Very sad ending, very nice love story - the acting was pretty amazing. I was especially pleased with the female performances (a lot of times I notice men's acting usually gets my attention more than women's so I was very happy about it). It was a little quiet sometimes though - not a lot of talking. But the scenes were powerful and the scenery was beautiful. Again, I enjoyed it :)
Now off to work on an idea I have for Twilight fanfiction. I haven't written anything, I didn't think I would... but eh, why not? It'll be short. I have an idea for a longer one but maybe it'll just be a scene from the plotbunny bouncing around in my head :)
- chatting on AIM with some people-
Pip! I miss yooooooou! Good talking to you again! :D *needs to find all her old lj buddies damnit*
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Half-Blood Prince
Jul. 30th, 2008 | 05:13 pm
mood: giggly
Which reminds me... I've been fiddling with writing some short pieces for the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer. I fell in love with her books without expecting to and I am one of the many anxiously awaiting her fourth and final book in the saga called "Breaking Dawn." We'll see when I'll post it. I've also decided what will happen in the future for Vocare Prabia :) and it makes me happy to know!