Improving myself

Is it bad that I don't know how to title posts anymore?

(As you can tell from my title, this is no longer the case.)

On a better note: Two blog entries in one week! Woot!

I've made it on of my resolutions to blog weekly, and I've already succeeded this week, twice!

Also, my iPod decided to go all wacky on me and froze up on me on Saturday, so I got it fixed today, but they had to wipe my hard drive :( This means I've lost some important notes, but more importantly it's working again. I guess this is a good thing? I haven't decided, but I will mourn my notes.

R.I.P Roxanne's Notes

There was a huge funeral, they were widely mourned, and many tears were shed.

Not really.

I ran into a upsetting issue while Rping today(yes I do rp). I found that one of my characters had turned out a lot whinier then I intended her to be, or least that's how she came off to me as, I don't know if the others felt the same way, so I spent most of the day musing over how to fix it as well as move along the plot as it had been static(on my part anyways) as well as set up for future romance for her.

English class is a huge eye opener for me. It's not just the books we read, though those do have an effect on me, it's the way my fellow classmates act and how they view things. For example we were reading Ray Bradbury's interview he did at comic con on his book and he said that he came up with the characters, but they told them their stories, not him making up the stories for them. As a writer, I could totally relate, but nearly all my classmates just couldn't wrap their heads around it, even though I tried to explain it to them, but they just didn't get it... It was then that I realized HOW different I am from my classmates, and even other teens. I shared this to my friends as well and only the really artisty ones and the writers understood(which are like 3 out of my inner circle of friends). Another issue is cell-phones and social interaction. As an introvert, I don't like hanging out with people, but they don't understand this, and it blows their minds that I can't text. Sometimes I feel like I live in the wrong place, and it amuses me.

Another resolution I have made is to be more assertive and write at least seven hours a week. So far I'm falling behind on the later one, and I just made the former one.

I just realized how short my posts are. Huh. Well, hopefully I'll get better as the year goes on.

HAPPY TOLKIEN DAY!

"Not all those who wander are lost."

~J.R.R Tolkien

~Roxanne

Welcome 2013!

How even worse my habits are becoming! I see now that it has been nearly a year since I last posted, isn't that just dreadful? Well, as least I'm not as bad as Jo from Little Women!

I'd give you a life update on myself, but I feel like that isn't really necessary, as this is about writing, not my life! But I would like to mention that I've become a fan of Doctor who, and yes, I did go see the Hobbit, and I found it to be fantastic.

Being a writer as well as an artist and actor, I have a hard time watching T.V shows or movies, especially if they're based off books. This is mainly because it they're not based off books, I can guess what's going to happen and that takes the thrill out for me. The book based shows and movies bother me for one or two reasons, one is because they don't follow books, the other is that the people who JUST see the movie think they know what they're talking about.

Fans are also a huge issue with me. They drive me crazy. For example, BBC's Sherlock. I LOVE that show, I think it's well written, well produced, and the acting is wonderful. However, I hate the fact that a lot of the fans(mainly the female ones) pair up Watson and Sherlock as a gay couple, when in the books, and show, that is not how their relationship works, they are each others best friends and practically  brothers. There's merely the running gag that they are gay.Also, in both the novels and the show, Watson has proved that he is interested in women, and the only person Sherlock showed romantic interest in was Irene Adler. I hope that one day when I get famous that I don't have fans who take my work the wrong way(which will not happen), or that I have the grace to handle them well when they do.

I've thought of a new character. His name is William Drake. I won't tell you much about him in fear of someone stealing him. Perhaps one day you will see him in a book :D

I have discovered this year that I have a problem of not sticking to one story. However, I have made a new year's resolution to finish one full rough draft of a novel, which will be my 2011 NaNoWrMo novel, which I have started typing up as that way is much easier for me to work on and my on paper draft was quite horrid.

I wish I had the kind of mind to be able to write inspiring quotes, or the person with the words to make people rise up in action, I wish my works could change the world. Maybe they will. We'll just have to wait and see.

~Roxanne

A little fun:

My first post: I write like Cory Doctorow

Second Post: I write like Cory Doctorow

Third post: I write like Cory Doctorow

This post: I write like Arthur Conan Doyle(Isn't that Ironic? XD)

Click here to find out who you write like!