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enamouredAm so very very wiped. I can't even begin to explain it.
Work today was brutal. I got a chance to use the scant Spanish that I could think of to try to help a lady: "Tengo seis, no tengo seis y media." And my feet started hurting again. Then I get home and kick off my shoes and the veins in my right foot are all poking out. I might be imagining that, but still--not good.
I feel like one of the last people who hasn't seen Dead Man's Chest yet, and it feels like the whole world is currently in the throes of having a massive pirategasm. I've given thought to stealing the Captain Jack cardboard cutouts that Waldenbooks and Barnes and Noble had set out. And at work, they have a t-shirt with "Dead Men Tell No Tales" that I was eyeing, until I saw a cooler version at Torrid. Good grief. Tuesday? Needs to get here now.
I went and read about half of the runner-up stories from this past year's Seventeen fiction contest. The winning story (it was called "To Devotion") was... uh, it wasn't bad, but it felt kind of overwraught and I wasn't feeling it at all, really. The second place story had good intentions, but it felt rambly and a little clunky--it kind of seemed like the writer was channeling Meg Cabot, but in this really awkward kind of way. My favorite was honorable mention story "Smashed".
I wonder if Seventeen has ever put together an anthology of all their contest-winning short stories, because I'd love to see more of them. The one that won the 2002 contest was this semi-bizarre story about a girl whose mother ended up melting the girl's sister, but it made total sense. And the one that won in 2003 or '04 was another favorite of mine. I used to keep tabs on them.
I wrote a story a few weeks ago that I've thought about sending in for the contest, but it's a couple hundred words too long, and it needs some reworking, but I actually like it. The thing is, I've never really been able to properly write a short story. In school, when we were given writing assignments, everyone else would do their three to five pages, and I'd go on for seven or ten. And the entries should be 2000 words, and I'm at like, 2175 or something, trying to determine if I really need an extra "and" or "or". But I like the concept (I got inspired by DeadMalls.com).
Annnnd, in talkng about writing: lately I've been thinking of an old story plot I had, one that I'd mentioned here. The one about the girl with the father who goes missing. And reworking that... God, like I need another story idea for NaNoWriMo this year (what?! I write 3/4ths of a novel and you expect me to give up now?).
Work today was brutal. I got a chance to use the scant Spanish that I could think of to try to help a lady: "Tengo seis, no tengo seis y media." And my feet started hurting again. Then I get home and kick off my shoes and the veins in my right foot are all poking out. I might be imagining that, but still--not good.
I feel like one of the last people who hasn't seen Dead Man's Chest yet, and it feels like the whole world is currently in the throes of having a massive pirategasm. I've given thought to stealing the Captain Jack cardboard cutouts that Waldenbooks and Barnes and Noble had set out. And at work, they have a t-shirt with "Dead Men Tell No Tales" that I was eyeing, until I saw a cooler version at Torrid. Good grief. Tuesday? Needs to get here now.
I went and read about half of the runner-up stories from this past year's Seventeen fiction contest. The winning story (it was called "To Devotion") was... uh, it wasn't bad, but it felt kind of overwraught and I wasn't feeling it at all, really. The second place story had good intentions, but it felt rambly and a little clunky--it kind of seemed like the writer was channeling Meg Cabot, but in this really awkward kind of way. My favorite was honorable mention story "Smashed".
I wonder if Seventeen has ever put together an anthology of all their contest-winning short stories, because I'd love to see more of them. The one that won the 2002 contest was this semi-bizarre story about a girl whose mother ended up melting the girl's sister, but it made total sense. And the one that won in 2003 or '04 was another favorite of mine. I used to keep tabs on them.
I wrote a story a few weeks ago that I've thought about sending in for the contest, but it's a couple hundred words too long, and it needs some reworking, but I actually like it. The thing is, I've never really been able to properly write a short story. In school, when we were given writing assignments, everyone else would do their three to five pages, and I'd go on for seven or ten. And the entries should be 2000 words, and I'm at like, 2175 or something, trying to determine if I really need an extra "and" or "or". But I like the concept (I got inspired by DeadMalls.com).
Annnnd, in talkng about writing: lately I've been thinking of an old story plot I had, one that I'd mentioned here. The one about the girl with the father who goes missing. And reworking that... God, like I need another story idea for NaNoWriMo this year (what?! I write 3/4ths of a novel and you expect me to give up now?).
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Date: 2006-07-10 05:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-10 05:35 am (UTC)I submitted a story to the Seventeen contest once. I think I was like 15 at the time. I'm sure it sucked, I can't really remember. Heh.