plot & paper update - 93 days left!

hayloo lovies.

i've been busy working on a paper in english, so i've been using my extra time in computer apps to work on that.

update on the whole asking-someone-to-the-dance thing?

breanna refuses to tell me if he has a gf until 7 period TODAY.

grrrrrr meanie.

if not, i'm asking him tomorrow or forever living in shame.

p l o t ♥ a n d ♥ p a p e r ♥ p r o j e c t

according to asheyna , there are 93 days left until the end of the plot and paper project.

i am currently somewhere in the middle of chapter two, and on about page 27.

i feel like i'm doing well, avoiding distractions for the most part (i do not qualify twitter (or castle or glee) as distractions. they are research tools.)

i'm writing pretty much every chance i get, in place of people watching after i get done in class.

(re)learning is kind of a typical young adult romance novel, though i like to think that, though it's a stereotypical YA, it's different. a lot of YA novels that i DON'T like have boooring dialogue that is "correct" way to write it.

real teenagers don't talk like that.

real teenagers conversations are fast, quick-witted, and innuendo-filled.

we don't talk just to pass information.

we talk to talk.

we use slang, made up words, and use regular words to mean other things.

girls sometimes give guys codenames like "yahoo" or "google" or "lovah boy" (i hate you, leila. jk. luvvs yew :P)

teenagers don't always say what they mean.

and i feel like many novels capture that.

during all of my fast-paced dialogue, coffee-dumping, slap-facing action, i have alluded to asheyna.

a few weeks ago, when a certain person called me a femi-nazi ignorant etc., she mentioned to me that once, a(n) (ex)boyfriend had called her a Soul-less Ice Queen.

Excerpt:

"As soon as she walked away, I muttered under my breath. 'I thought I was supposed to be the soul-less ice queen extrodinaire!'

'Darling, you still are. She just gives you a run for your money.'"

end scene.

you see, that is how my friends and i talk. we don't use proper grammar, we say words that don't even exist!

and that is how i make my characters talk.

♥

i am a strange person. i hardly ever have any homework, except for bigger stuff, because i mostly get it done at school. i have a mandatory 30 minute study hall (which i mostly use for writing), and i typically have a lot of time during class. which leads to me not having homework.

mainly because i don't talk that much during class.

unless zoey is in there....

*waves at zoey next to me*

gotta go!

xoxo,

rissa