Scripting...

April is rolling around the corner, and although this is the second year I've known about it, I'm still not sure if I should do it. (I found out about it from HPFF, and then I might've found a link to NaNoWriMo from there, or from HPFF again).

Is scriptwriting as fun as novel? Does it mess up your writing switching between the two? Should I just follow along with a book? Are there any specific plots you would want to have in a script compared to novel? I'm not sure about it... I already wrote a script, and know the format, and have a scriptwriting program... but it still wasn't the greatest fun.

Anyone have any advice?

Also, on another note, I haven't wrote much in... well, forever. VERY bad bits and pieces about random different things.... I never knew you could miss a story this much. It's heartbreaking, with nothing to do in my spare time. When people ask me what I do in my spare time, instead of saying my usual writing a novel... well, I'm left speechless. It's tragic.

I think I'm just.. intelliectually blocked at the moment. :S
- Sarah

Book Covers!

I found this awesomely cool site! It makes a "movie" cover for you - but if you don't fill out a few fields, it works just as well for a book cover. I made a cover for Tyvven and Empyrean, which are shown here.

As for the whole writing bit, I've been stuck doing homework - or trying to cuz I have complete writer's block on everything I'm supposed to do. I have a write a sports article - VERY hard if you don't read sports articles or even watch the games - and a speech on why cats are better than dogs (that one's pretty easy, but I just can't seem to figure it out). I'm stuck with doing my non-computer/Word related stuff, like painting, but I can't get off my computer.

So glad it's a long weekend. I'm actually going to work today. Ugh.

And as for the Empyrean poster thing, the picture in the background is "the school". In Tyvven, it's just a random picture I thought worked well.. maybe somewhere in Tyvven (which is the name of the parallel world).

Well, off to try to do something productive...

Sarah

P.S. here's the link for the poster thing: http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/poster.php

Tyvven

- - - NEW STORY! - - -

I'm so happy! I finally thought of a new story, and one that I can keep! I can't believe I've never thought of it - the idea's been in my head for ages. But it never really surfaced. Well, now it has. Here's the zero-times-edited, subject-to-change beginning.


Tyvven

It was a cold, crisp, clear day. The whole world looked like a perfect autumn picture, leaves lining the ground in almost every fall colour, a crisp wind stirring through the partially bare and looming trees. At the moment, it didn’t look at all scary. Now, when I think of it, I’m terrified. Maybe that’s because of what happened just after, or just something I missed. I was preoccupied, trying to capture my escaped cat as I struggled to understand what had happened on the math test I’d had previously. Now, things like math tests seem trivial.

Very, very trivial. Back then, I was so different. A grade below B and I’d cry my heart out. The faintest wisp of gossip, and I was drawn to the source like a fly to honey. Now, I know worse, and because of that, I’ve been changed forever.

But back in the forest on that perfect, autumn day, I’d just spied my cat hiding in a prickly bush of thorns. Now, I thought, was the time to get out those cat treats. I brought them out of my pocket and shook the tin, opening it and setting a few of the smelly fish-and-beef biscuits on my hand.

“Bailey… come her Bailey… want some treats?” I asked her, “Well you gotta come here.” I knew my cat couldn’t understand a single word I said - except maybe ‘treats’, but nonetheless, she came bounding towards me. I reached out to grab her, just half a meter away from me.

As soon as my hands touched her soft furry coat, a harsh, metallic clang filled my head, and I screamed as I realized the cold, leaf-covered ground was fading away, I, falling right through it.


Please say your opinion! :D thanks.

Sarah

Currently Nothing..

<-- That is my adorable dog, Odie. I love him. He's about 4 months right now, but that was taken about 2 months ago (do the math yourself). He's adorable, and since no one else in my family is puppy trainer (and my sister screams whenever he licks her) I've solely by myself taught him to Say, Sit, Laydown, and Wag His Tail (the last one was the easiest). He's adorable. I'll get more pics of him soon.

Oh, and in the background, that's me. I'm wearing a really baggy sweater.. so I'm not.. obese.

There hasn't been much going on lately. I finished the script for the movie due in.. may, and my teacher and I talked a little about my story. I ripped out pages from my old sketchbook and glued them in my new one to finish it before it was handed in, and have to draw and life-sized portrait of me for grad.. who I have currently named Sally, because she can't be me, because I'm not that ugly. I hope.

I'm doing Red Maple, which is a reading thing my library has. Important people (old geezers) pick good books they like, and we read them, vote from all over Ontario, and the winner gets an award. This year, the old geezers picked the worst possible books ever. One is even about those standard act-older-than-you-are girls who walk around in malls 3 feet high wearing abercombie and miniskirts. Luckily, most people were warned about the book... unluckily, I was the person warning them, and I'm scarred for life. (She's in love with her teacher, and every single guy she meets!) So far,the winner seems to be a book about a boy becoming obsessed about the make-belive "King Arthur" game. Interesting eh?

Yesterday, on an unexpected snowday, I saw Inkheart with my boyfriend (yeah, I know, but it's the hold-hands-at-recess type of thing, and niether of us wear abercombie or fitch). It was pretty okay, but really, what they need in the movie is some great fight scene. Add Matt Daemon as a blackjacket, and let Mo fight out his life. If they had that, I would've loved it. But no, they didn't have any fighting what-so-ever. If I hadn't read the books... I really don't know what I would have thought about it.

I'm trying to start writing a totally romance story called "A Changed Story" because of how many times I've changed it. I've ran out of names like "Empyrean". The problem is, with ACS, it's more of a learning story. I'm trying third person, multi POV and romance being the main headline of the story. It's hard. I think I'm going to have a really real narrator... something somewhat like that. I'll update you if I get anything, but I don't really have a clue yet.

And, on a sadder more personal note... ahhh!!!! I used to only occasionally get these moments of extreme depression where the sky was falling and I'd fallen into a deep hole with everything crashing down.. now they are happening at least twice a day. I feel like Harry Potter with the whole angsty thing going on, except mine isn't acted.

But hey, that's not your problem. It's mine, and how I seem to have inherited every bad trait from my family.

Sarah