Let Summer...BEGIN

Heya friends and critters,

Being home from college for the summer has been great so far (it's only been two weeks) - I've been able to do a lot of sleeping (ohhhh yes) and have finally started knocking things off my to-read and to-watch lists. While at school I didn't really have enough energy/time to start reading/watching movies leisurely since there were so many other things I was meant to be reading/doing (Creative Writing major probs) so it has been wonderful to be able to kick back with a thick book and not care that I have an eight page research paper due in the morning - because I DON'T!

My reading list consists of the following titles (in no particular order):

Inheritance (of the Inheritance Cycle by Paolini)
The Girl who Played with Fire
The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
City of Bones
City of Ashes
City of Glass
City of Fallen Angels
City of Lost Souls
City of Heavenly Fire
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
The Return of the King
Clockwork Angel
Clockwork Prince
Clockwork Princess
Man's Search for Meaning

My movie-watching list consists of the following (also in no particular order):

Legion

The Fountain

The Road

Saving Private Ryan

Deja Vu

The Possession

The Island

American Psycho

500 Days of Summer

(new) Tron

Scream Team (re-watch)

Road to El Dorado (re-watch)

Swan Princess Trilogy (for old time's sake; I was obsessed with these movies as a child!)

Cats Don't Dance

Dinosaurs: We're Back!

As for my "serious" to-do list, I'm mainly going to be editing the living daylights out of my most recent novel and once done with that, I'll be moving on to write the next book in the trilogy. Exciting!

Pre-revisions, this recent one is sitting at 85,257 words. I'm only currently on (Word doc) page 35 out of 179 of revisions, but I'm not peeking at the word count till the end! Besides, that is not what's important here - if I ended up below pre-revision word count, but felt the quality climbed a few rungs in the ladder, I'd be more than pleased! Overall, though, I do feel like there's much more to tell and lots to elaborate on that I didn't take the time to do while writing through it the first time. I'm just so happy to have the time to give my baby some long overdue attention.

Perhaps this plan seems a little ambitious, but what the heck! It's Summer! I've got three months and a week or two to get all these fun things done, and if I don't, oh well - they'll be waiting for me next year! The most important things that must be completed are 1) editing my most recent novel and 2) writing the sequel - even if it's the roughest draft I can come up with, at least it will be written. 

So, let us see just how much I can get knocked off these lists in the next little while, hmm? 

Huzzah!

Onwards!

V

P.S. the City of Bones, Ashes, and Glass I want to read by the time my lovely cousins Kylie and Richy grab a train down here to visit so we can talk about them FINALLY (: (Which will be either mid-June or some time in July. Seems doable.)

Failure

Lately I've been wondering if anyone reads my blog. I'm thinking 100% absolutely not. No one reads it. I have two followers (ooh, two followers!) and I'm pretty certain they only "followed" me out of pity or obligation and that they never care to read what I put out. No matter, though. I don't really care. My life isn't all that interesting and I don't tend to write about it anyway. So if anyone likes random snippets of story ideas, then this blog is for you. Otherwise...I guess just tip your hat and carry on.

It's like a pitiful version of Facebook. Everyone posts statuses and expects everybody else to read them, but let's face it people, that just doesn't happen. Facebook is all about the person who's name is in blue bar at the top right corner of the page. It makes people incredibly self-centered. Instead of posting pictures just because you want to, you post pictures and have an expectation in your head that it "needs" to be "liked" within the first half hour of posting it or else it sucks or you're not pretty or whatever comment you're striving for.

Facebook is a big fat life-waster and ego-inflater. And I absolutely despise it's addictive power.

Yeah.

So I thought, what the heck? What if I posted some of my deepest, darkest thoughts on here? Still, no one would read it. Maybe that's what I should do, though. Since no one pays any mind to these blocky, virtual journal postings, it wouldn't make any difference.

Still, though, I won't do that. If I posted that sort of thing, someone may, by chance or destiny, stumble upon the blog and seriously consider whether I belong in the looney bin.

So, adios, I suppose. I'm sure I'll write soon.

Or probably not.