End of The Year

Well, here we are, near the end of December. Goodbye, 2013. It was nice knowing you *sniffs*

I just can't help but wish shows didn't jump the shark. The MLP episode last week was fun, but it still wasn't at the level it was in season 1 or 2. I just thought of that as I re watched clips from funny moments in season 1. The characters, dialogue, and plots just feel…different to me. The show has always been about learning lessons and whatnot, but it feels more obvious now. I don't know how to explain it, but yeah…Just like OUAT and SAB, these shows have dropped in quality. It's always a shame when that happens, but maybe the writers just can't go on with it forever. Oh well…I'm glad it's not like Heroes, where I really didn't like the other seasons that weren't the first one

So as I have said in earlier posts, I am in desperate need of something interesting to read/watch. So I picked up Mary Poppins Sunday and found that I quite enjoyed it! The story itself is, admittedly, sort of random, but the writing style is really good (I've found that good writing styles often make good stories).

I'm just loving these week that I'm getting off. It's nice to kick back and relax.

It's so hard to keep track of the days today! I thought Tuesday was Saturday because I was off. Ah…

It feels so weird whenever I see everyone else celebrating Christmas and I don't :/ I mean I'm totally okay with others doing it, but I guess I just feel like the odd one out (not that I'm already not, with my homeschooling). I did find another friend who said she didn't, so I feel a little less odd. Oh well…I hope everyone has a great holiday! :D

Looking back on the shows I remember, I realize that they were mostly in the 2000s--most of them 2003. They included the following: That's So Raven Teen Titans (which I still enjoyed), What's New, Scooby Doo? (love me some Scooby Doo), Justice League and Justice League: Unlimited (very good series), Winx Club (pretty good), W.I.T.C.H. (really good), Sonic X (don't like it as much now), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (very good), Kim Possible (very enjoyable), The Litter Mermaid, Aladdin, Hercules, and more than I can't remember. (animated series versions of the films),

I also saw reruns of shows in the 90s, such as Batman: The Animated Series, Superman: The Animated series (both were pretty darn good from the episodes I saw), Spider-Man: The Animated Series (very good), X-Men: The Animated Series (also very good), Scooby Doo: Where Are You? (campy but so much fun), The Flintsones, and other shows. Those shows were 10 years ago, and some were even 10+ years ago! Gosh, I feel so old! :O

The screenwriting class is getting difficult, but darn…it's just so interesting! I think it's really going to help me. It gives me good ideas on how to structure my story while also making it engaging.

Speaking of writing, I am kind of still in a gutter, but at least I'm writing! :P I kind of just fell into writing the first book for Enchanted (I think I mentioned this in a previous post). It's fun to write, but sometimes I just feel like I'm going so slow. I NEED inspiration! I've got to get back to reading Mary Poppins and watching Lost (I know I said this before, but I still don't have a book that I crave like Harry Potter or Divergent. And as far as Lost…well, I just need to get my brain ready for that show :P)

Well, I can't think of much else I did, unfortunately. But I'm sure I've forgotten to log some things down. Sometimes I'm just lazy and don't jog down things everywhere. Anyway…see you guys next year!!! (And I really mean it. The next post you'll see will be in 2014 ;)

Holiday Season Stuff

I'm so happy that this break is coming up, but I'm also kind of sad. I know I've said this countless times before, but I still can't believe that the year is almost over! I'll be a senior in high school next year, I will have been dancing for six years, I will have been writing for about four years…so much has happened!  Gosh, the time flies! But anyway, enough of me complaining about my life passing by. It's not like I miss my childhood or enough (*goes to cry in the corner because she wants to be 7 again*)

This Saturday's episode of My Little Pony was kind of…so-so. Not bad, but just kind of eh. It was about the Cutie Mark Crusaders, which was fine, but the only pony of the Mane Six to show up was Rainbow Dash :/ Plus, it just seemed like one of those episodes about them learning a lesson because one of the mean girls (Diamond Tiara or whatever her name is) tried to tempt Scootaloo to do something or whatever. I don't understand why she would even listen to her, considering how snotty she knows Diamond is. But whatever, it was some mindless entertainment to pass by time.

The Little Mermaid came on ABC Family Sunday and I watched the full thing! Gosh, I can't believe I still love that movie after all of the years I watched it as a child (I was, am, passively obsessed with it. I can practically recite the scenes in my head). Thank you so much, Disney, for making this movie, for making me obsessed with mermads. My childhood wouldn't have been the same without it ^_^

Once Upon A Time season 3's mid finale was just…"Huh?" to me. Felix is kind of randomly killed, the Blue Fairy's death is kind of just glossed over until she suddenly comes to life, they Peter Pan character is way too powerful for his own good, Rumple is "killed" (I don't believe it until I see what's going to happen in the next episode), but worst of all, they just went backwards to season one's storyline! Except now, Emma is the cursed one who doesn't remember anything! Okay I don't want to be rude, but just…did they run out of ideas? This is almost exactly what happened in season 1! I'm just so disappointed that a show I once loved has now jumped the shark. Before I was just "meh" about it and hoped my opinion would change once they got out of Neverland, but, now I've lost that hope :P I'm still going to watch it when it returns in March, but…it's just not the same as it was before. I'm sorry, writers. I think you should have just stopped at season 2 if you were running out of ideas :(

I just realized why my writer's block is so bad--I haven't been watching any shows I REALLY love lately! Once Upon A Time, Switched At Birth, and My Little Pony have all dropped in quality for me, unfortunately. I was never really into Agents of Shield and just feel so-so about it. I'd better get back to watching some of the shows that I was more interested in to overcome this horrible writer's block :P Back to Lost and Doctor Who it is!

In my writing, I have kind of been everywhere. I started randomly writing the first draft for the first book of my magical fantasy/adventure series, Enchanted. The weird thing is that I have written/come up with ideas for later books, but it's taken me five years to come up with the first novel (granted I only came up with the idea for the first Enchanted novel in 2008, but I was never hit with an idea for the pilot then. This is definitely one of my favorite projects to work on, and I feel like it's just getting more and more layers due to the length I've spent on it. The characters are feeling more fleshed out than my newer ones, the plots I'm coming up with are a little more concrete than others, and I even have a small universe forming (I've always wanted to create my own universe, just like Star Wars and Harry Potter have their own :)

In addition to Enchanted, I have some ideas scattered here on there. The second book planned for the Hyper-Monkey series (the superhero action/adventure) has been playing in my head recently. Already I already wrote down an outline for it awhile ago, I feel pieces of dialgoue in my head falling into place. One thing I learned from the book I got for young, aspiring writers is to write down every piece of dialogue you can remember so that you can possibly write it down in a story, so that's what I'm doing. Hopefully I'll then have some complete scenes and will be able to slip them into the story with some ease :)

I'm finally going to (or will try VERY hard to) write a what-if fanfiction for Star Wars, set during Revenge of the Sith. It's going to explore what could have happened if Anakin hadn't turned to the dark side and overcame the temptations much earlier on than he did in the films. It's a project I have been wanting to work on for about 8 years now, ever since I saw ROTS. I was so heartbroken by what had happened but it really inspired me as well, with how meaningful it was. So anyway, I'm working on that and plan to write it sometime next year, probably after I write the second Hyper-Monkey novel.  I'm already writing down a few outlines and some dialogue I hope to include, plus I read so STUPID good fanfics on Fanfiction.net and will probably (unintentionally on some) borrow ideas. But I will also add my own to make it more original. Not that a fanfic is original, but whatever…I'm so excited for this project. It's probably going to be my most dramatic, meaningful, epic fanfic EVER :)

So apparently we're moving to another state or city…yep, I just found this out a week or so ago. The city they're talking about is pretty far from here, but the state is even farther. I'm not mad that we're moving, but I'm just not prepared for this! I literally JUST moved to my new house about 7 months ago, and now they're talking about moving a year from when we moved here? Oh well, I'll just have to be prepared…and purge…and get ready…It's so crazy how my parents want to move so often. I remember moving at least eight times in my life (we've moved more than that), but it just feels like we've never been everywhere for long (except the house that I moved to in 2005--that lasted for about 4 years). But whatever, I'm sure it's for the best.

Since I loved Charlotte's Web so much, I decided to read another one of E.B. White's famous novels--Stuart Little. It wasn't Charlotte's Web for me, but I rather enjoyed it. The writing style of White was very good, and I think that's what originally pulled me in to Charlotte's Web. It did end kind of abruptly, but it was still a very nice read and probably the best book I've read in awhile (I haven't read anything I've really loved since Legend, which was a few months ago).

Meemaw came Wednesday :)

Okay, so I recently looked up the films that were coming out in 2015, just out of curiosity, and I was incredibly shocked at how many highly-anticipated films were coming out that year. Here's a list of some of them: Avengers: Age of Ultron, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2, Star Wars Episode VII, Avatar 2, Bond 24, Man of Steel sequel, Terminator 5, Jurassic World, The Fantastic Four, Independence Day 2, Minions, It's A Wonderful Life 2, Pitch Perfect 2 to just name a few. I'm planning on watching at least 5 of those films mentioned, and believe me, I rarely watch more than 2 or 3 films in a year. I think 2015 is going to explode from all of the films coming out that year XD

The screenwriting course is still very engaging. It's harder on some parts, when they talk about making compelling story lines and characters, but it really helps you realize why you love some movies and you don't others.

I can't believe that, at the end of the year, I will have had my blog for one year. Almost exactly one year (I started my blog in January). Gosh, I can't believe this. I forgot how long I've been doing this. I didn't used to blog regularly, but now I've become so used to it that it's become second nature. I just love getting down my thoughts and occasionally looking back at my post. It's like having an online diary :)

Countdown to 2014

I couldn't come up with a better title, so bare with me :P Nothing extremely interesting has been happening this week, but some interesting things did happen. It's amazing how you can find little things in life that are interesting. Not to get all physiological. ANYway...

I watched My Little Pony last Saturday. Even though it isn't as good as it used to be, it's still loads of fun. Last week's episode involved Rainbow Dash's favorite book author actually being the super heroine counterpart she wrote about. So Dash and the other ponies go to help the pony deal with her enemies. It wasn't really one of those "OMG THIS IS SO GOOD!" episodes but one of those that's just fun.

So my dad's got a business trip this week, and he had decided to take the whole family as a sort of vacationing trip. I didn't usually enjoy those trips because I spend a lot of time in the car (I get emotion sickness :P), but I was a little excited for this one because we were going to pass by a state where one of my online friends lives. But it didn't work out because of timing and a whole bunch of other stuff I won't get into :p lol anyway, I just thought I'd mention that to have something to blog about…

I'm finally glad they're back in Storybrooke now in Once Upon A Time. The Peter Pan character is still getting on my nerves, but at least they're showing what the other characters are doing now :) I still hate it when shows jump the shark, but I suppose after awhile writers run out of ideas :P Maybe they should just cancel the show before it gets that way. Anyway…

The Little Mermaid came on Disney Channel Sunday! I'm so happy! Since OUAT came on at the beginning of the film I only got to see the last thirty or so minutes of it, but I'm okay with that :) I have watched that film so many times that I can practically recite it ^-^. Ah, childhood memories…

I actually *gasp* SAID something to someone at dance class Monday! :O Haha, anyway, class was fun. I really liked the choreography we did this week. One thing that's cool is that my teacher introduces random short choreography every week or two. Reminds me of this jazz teacher I had at my old dance studio who was very hilarious XD

I decided that it'd be cool to make a timeline of the years in my life :) I miss my childhood SO much and just love to reminisce the memories. I feel like my childhood is slipping away from me WAY too fast. Next year, 2004 will be ten years ago! I remember 2004! I remember being seven! :O

If you remembered, last week or the week before last week, I cut out my hair. The reasoning for it is because, well, my hair just keeps falling out. I don''t know what's wrong with it, but I don't think I've been caring for it as I should (I'm trying to, but I don't know how to take care of my hair, if that makes any sense). So I'm going to get my locks cut out and maybe restart them in a year or so. In the meantime, I'm going to put yarn inside my hair instead! I know it sounds kind of odd or just different, but it looks just like hair! I'll have to show you some pictures whenever I get it in my hair.

I started my online screenwriting course Wednesday (which is called the introduction to screenwriting course), and it's very interesting so far! It's given me some pretty good tips on how to structure a story, characters, plots, etc. And I took the quiz and got all the answers right! I don't wan to brag, but…I think I was born to be a writer :)

I stayed at Meemaw's house Wednesday, which was pretty cool. I always like spending time with my Grandma :) We started talking and stuff and she made us some dinner (baked beans and hot dogs--delicious!) So yeah, that was fun ^_^

Some pretty annoying things happened to my parents on Friday. Something happened with my Dad's car not working and then his debit card didn't start working, and my Mom had some issues with helping him and something about getting ObamaCare…anyway, it was just as if everything wasn't working the way it should. They're fine now, but jeez…I mean, it's one thing when something bad happens to you one time, but when it's one thing after another goes wrong…ugh, I just hate that! I'm telling you, it was because of Friday the 13! At least Jason didn't come out…

Well, that's pretty much it for this week. I'm so hyped for this Christmas-New Year's break--I don't even celebrate Christmas but I really need a break lol :P But seriously, I just love taking three weeks off from work. Granted I may still do some math if I need to catch up with it, and I still have that online course, but other than that I will be free from school (YESS!!! LOL JK). I think I'm gonna spend my time reading some of those books I never read during my crazy library booksale buyout (*cough cough* Eragon *cough cough*) Bye!!!

Dearest December

I don't know why I came up with that title, exactly. I just wanted it to have to Ds starting at the beginning of each word ("Dearest", "December"). But whatever…I still can't believe it's already December! Do you know that there are less than 30 days left in this year? We're almost in 2014! :O

We downloaded a bunch of Lego video games on the Xbox. Marvel Superheroes, Pirates of the Caribbean, Batman 2: DC Superheroes, Indiana Jones, and Star Wars: The Complete Saga. I just love how fun Lego games are and am amazed at how good they are. I mean no offense, but I didn't expect so much from a game that was meant to advertise the Lego merchandise.

Once Upon A Time, I realized, will probably not be as good as it was during its first two seasons, but I still enjoy it. I'm just so upset about last night episode's end, though. When we think they've FINALLY saved Henry (it's taken 11 episodes for that to happen), it turns out that Peter Pan has really taken over his body! Stupid Peter Pan -_- He seemed kind of cool and mysterious before, but now that he's Rumple's dad…I don't know. I mean, it's not like it's the worst possible twist they could use, but it's not the best, either. They don't have to try and connect every single character together. But at least the acting is good and the storyline is engaging enough. I particularly enjoyed the flashback with Regina adopting Henry. It was sweet :)

My sister Imani tried dance class with me. I don't think she liked it as much as I did, but she may take it or another class at the dance studio. To be honest, I do like the choreography and stuff we do in class, but I mainly go because of my teacher and my classmates. The environment there is just nice :)

I signed up for an online screenwriting class through the local community college. But I'm so nervous. I've never taken a college class before, and I'm afraid it'll be too hard for me :P But I'll try my best. I really really really want to become a screenwriter in the near future (possibly after I become a writer, if that ever happens). I have literally been creating stories since I was about 7 and started writing them down in story form when I was about 13. It's not always fun, yeah, but overall I love the outcome. So anyway, I just said all of that to say that I think I will enjoy this writing course and will try to do my best :)

You guys, someone recently asked me to co-write a story with them on Movellas. I am SO. Excited. I have never co-written a story with anyone before, but it sounds so cool. I mean, imagine if you had writer's block (if you're a writer, of course). Your partner author could help give you some tips, and vice versa! I know you won't be able to do EVERYTHING you want on a story, but I don't mind compromising :) Anyway, I'm so glad that the person wanted to write a story with me :) And they called me a great author. I'm just so happy right now I could die…

I don't think I've told anyone this before, but I started exercising either year ago or this year. I know it's not fun (unless it's dance class, of course! XD) but the benefits are great for you. Not only have I heard that it helps regulate your weight and stay healthy, but I also can tell a difference. I have more energy now, I don't think I've gained a lot of weight, and I think I've been getting some muscles. But what I really love is feeling accomplished. I did something hard and I tried my best at it :) So if anyone feels discouraged about exercising, I'll tell them this: it is hard, but it is so worth it. You don't even have to work out that long--my mom and I only work out for about 15 minutes--but you must PUSH and PUSH yourself until you are struggling and feel like you can't go on anymore. But anyway, I'm gonna end my exercise rant now…

Okay, well, that was kind of random stuff I threw at you guys. But you know, all of my posts are random! I just try to log down things that I find interesting everyday and then post the ones I like on here. So anyway, that's all for now. My Little Pony's coming on today, so I'll be watching that. Bye!!!