The 365 Picture Project

These are newest to oldest.

The 365 Picture Project

Here are the newest photos. They're newest to oldest.

Graphics, Graphics, and More Graphics!

Here are some graphics I made.

(Sarah, Coalhouse, and the baby from Ragtime.)

(Crutchy from Newsies.)

(Gavroche from Les Miserables)

(Words from different songs that Christine sings in The Phantom of the Opera.

The 365 Picture Project

These are the photos from newest to oldest.

Blog Award

Proper Hannah gave a blog award to me. Thanks muchest!

1. Tell you seven things you don’t know about me

2. Name seven other blogs to receive this award

3. Leave a comment on the other blogs I have nominated letting them know that I have given them an award.

4. Thank the blog that gave you the award!

1. Hmmm...I have to drink a certian kind of tea to keep me from getting sick as often.

2. The first time I saw "The Princess Bride," I could quote along with it and would follow Lizzie around poking her with a pencil or something and quoting at her.

3. I read classics faster than 18 year old Kelsey does. (Haha!)

4. I'd drink coffee all day long if Mom and Dad would let me.

5. I have the stupidest cat alive.

6. Once I gave the whole family the flu.

7. I can't stand reading anything by Edger Allen Poe.

Okay...Here are who they are for:

Mom

Kelsey

Ruth

Kayla

Joseph

Nina

Natalie

Writing Reports

Here's a writing quiz.

Do you have a pen/pencil collection? How many of those are chewed?

Kinda...I really like the pens from our old church, but am running out of them. Noooo. My cat is the one who chews pencils.

Do you prefer handwriting or typing?

Typing. On the typewriter. My handwriting is waaaaaaaaaaaay to messy and it hurts my whole arm to handwrite for too long. (Sadly, that's the way I write on trips...)

How often do you get inspiration?

Depends on the day. I probably drive my friends crazy because they'll say something that gives me a good idea and I'll have to dash off to write it down.

Do you get inspiration more in the early morning or late at night?

At night. Which isn't good as I always have to go to bed.

Do certain movies/books/music inspire you?

Yes. The first time I watched "The Village," I was up three hours writing about it. And any time I go to see a movie, I get ideas. Same with books.

How do you incorporate God into your stories?

Depends on the book. In "Call of the Past," Ruth and I have to put in God because the climax is Rachel and Ian going back in time to the death of Christ.

Do you kill off your villains or make them repent?

I like killing them off in ways that are rather...interesting. Or just letting them be and having them die of old age or something.

Are the majority of your characters magical beings, humans, halflings, or something else?

Humans. Although, I'm starting to write a story where people are half-humans....Yeah...And I'm starting to wonder about Verity's sanity. (Notice the large stack of books that just flew past my head--that'd be her having a temper tantrum.)

What genre of writing are you most comfortable in? If you were to step out of your comfort zone, what would you write?

Fantasy, science fiction, and historical fiction are what I'm most comfortable in. Some are a mix...Like "Call of the Past," where the characters time travel from about 20 years in the future to main historical points. "The Iatar Mountains" is really fantasy-ish. Jack's parts in "Brontide: The Rumble of Distant Thunder" is slightly sci-fi because he works for NASA.

Do you work better alone or with someone else?

I like writing with other people--things actually get done that way. Haha. Sometimes I just need to write a whole slew of characters alone. Depends.

Are your characters mostly Renegades, Peacekeepers or a mish-mash?

Mostly renegades. One is a peacekeeper and several more are mish-mashes.

Are you a sucker for good grammar?

Yes. Sometimes. I can find minor mistakes in signs, but not in my stories.

How is your handwriting?

Messy, medium, and cramped. Few people can read it.

How evil are your villains?

Depends...In "The Iatar Mountains," the villains is just really the envormint that the characters are in. (After all, plants the size of a man who swallow you alive and you get dissolved from the acid in the plant, doesn't actually count as a human/halfling villain...does it?) In "Call of the Past," who knows what the villains are? (Rachel seems a bit like the villain...She's just mean to Ian, is why.)

Are you long-winded or succinct?

Depends on the story. I put in waaaaaaaay to much irrelevant stuff.

Do you have typical writer traits such as ink stains on your fingers or a pencil behind your ear?

Aha....Yes....Ink stains on my fingers (and sometimes on my face, too, and once on my toe). And I shed paper scraps. They show up wherever I've been. And sometimes I have dark shadows under my eyes. Pencils don't stay behind the ears because of glasses.

Would someone walking past you on the street consider you normal?

No. Not many people wear skirts any more, and I'm normally muttering under my breath or burst out laughing for no apparent reason. And at the library, I often walk around with a big armful of books for people older than 13.

Do you write mostly poetry, stories, novels or a mixture?

Short stories. I get the story over with before it's even a novella. Co-writing helps to make novels, and not novellas, too. I write a bit of poetry, but not much.

Do your characters vary in accents, appearance and attitude or are they mostly the same?

I have trouble making them all different. "In the Garret"--they were ALL THE SAME! *groan* Verity and Rachel are the two most different characters so far. (Rachel is a typical outlandish teenager, and Verity is a mix of conservative and barley-un-outlandish.) Dmitri is pretty different, too....More quiet and gets mad easily.

Do real people and/or places inspire your writing?

Oh yeah. I put a typewriter in "The Iatar Mountains," and have slightly changed other modern things so that they'd fit in the story. It's hard in sci-fi to invent real working objects for the technology.

What is your favorite character? Or do you choose to remain unbiased in case of a revolt?

OUCH! *gets hit by all of the characters, who are all asking to be the favorite* Ummm....I don't know.

Do you talk to your characters? Do they talk back?

Yes. They jabber endlessly, hence the constant music.

Are you more comfortable with female or male main characters?

I understand girls more, but am pretty fine with males...It depends. Some characters I've written in 1st person have told me that they were boys when I thought they were girls. It's very annoying when that happens.

Do you follow basic plot lines with new twists thrown in or do you depart from the norm all the time?

Ummm...A mix of both.

Do you feel God has called you to be a writer/poet? Will you grasp the power of the pen?

Yes to both.