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I seem to have gotten lazy when I got down toward the end of my "neopets measurements list", because I went with a lot of TNT canons. :P

 

Thus, I have 1.31 feet listed for the Peophin...or 39.93cm for the metric folks.

Creative writing (in high school) was an easy A for me...one of the easiest grades I've gotten! I don't want to brag, but the only way I could've failed that class was not doing my homework. I love writing that much!

 

(I took English 9-11 {no English 12}, creative writing, world lit and AP English...I believe drama also counted as English. ^_^ | the only subject I took anywhere near as many classes in was science. :D )

I couldn't find a good place to put this, so a thread with Neopets randomness is probably the most appropriate.

 

I don't know why I haven't looked at old AC prizes before, but now I have a whole shopping list!

 

 

And I wonder how Yooyus feel about being bought and sold?

I've always wondered how kikos handle the gaming, since they're just floating ovals with arms. Just fine, last I checked. xD

R14!

 

650 games of SSD in the bag...

 

Goals Scored 6,449 Goals by Luvea Trivon 1,988 Goals by Vonde Cayle 1,779 Goals by Rhee Solters 1,393 Goals by Derbi Azar 1,289 Saves by Leera Heggle 2,654 Number of Wins 713

 

I'm 551 goals away from 7k...but I do 594 goals a day, so I'll be there tomorrow. ;)

 

Luvea should have his 2000th goal tomorrow. :D

I stopped watching the Not Literally stuff several months ago when Ginny left. I watched her "I'm resigning" video and it was so over-rehearsed that I could tell she had a fight with Dana. :P

 

It sucks, but life goes on.

By the way, Kay, you're a lovely girl. ^_^

(And woo, 'cause you can't be afraid of heights to do the silks! *quiver*)

 

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You heard about the Badgers video? Have you seen "Sorted this Way"?

 

 

I think the aerialist isn't in until some of the final chorus scenes, but it's pretty cool, anyway. :D

When I was younger, I used to think that the silks were specially strengthened...I don't know what changed my mind, but I'm pretty sure now that that's not the case. O.o

 

I think being able to do the silks is/are great (that's part of what makes my favorite Hufflepuff video so special is the gal on the yellow silks!), but do me a favor and don't become a hairealist (sp?) like those gals that crashed a couple of months back. O.o

Tiny Writer's Grumble: when you use a historical figure and there's an insufficient amount of information, such as birth/death dates.

 

I don't mind making things up (why would I? hee hee), but I'm such a perfectionist that if there's facts to be had, I want to use them. xD

I can never get the idea factory to stop spinning. In fact, I'm starting to wonder how long it's been since I laid down (for a nap or regular sleep) and didn't brainstorm for my current piece! Sometimes, I do it far too frequently and have to tell myself to quit. :P

 

I've noticed a lot of famous (or rising star) writers say, "Read, read, read!" That's never been an issue for me...I was a bookworm long before I started writing! I'd say my writing efforts started in earnest about 1996-97 and I was reading Babysitter's Club books by the end of Kindergarten/beginning of first grade. It's weird to think that I've been writing as long as some of y'all have been alive! :laughingsmiley:

 

*checks profile ages* In the case of Duskitty/Loop, I've been writing about three years longer than she's been around! O.o

Staples button! (I do so adore Kacheeks. ;) )

Ooo! No one's mentioned gender-swapping in the history of theatre! Yay, Daya the Walking Encyclopedia! :laughingsmiley:

 

When theatre was first introduced to the general public, it was considered inappropriate for women to be on-stage, so men played women with regularity. Some all-male theatre groups still exist today, especially in Japan, where onnagata (males who play female roles) are still prevalent and respected. (I believe it was Lesley Downer's book Geisha that said that female actors were too enticing, so the government eventually outlawed it.)

 

Conversely, ladies play male roles in opera and theatre from time to time; they're known as "trouser roles" or travesti. In fact, one of the most well-known trouser roles to the modern American public is Peter Pan! (Mary Martin, anyone?) According to Wiki, Sarah Bernhardt spent a lot of time as a travesti and starting around the 1830s, women of the corps de ballet would step into male parts. (Julius Caesar is also considered a trouser role in opera...I just had to throw that in there. :D )

 

 

Even though all the other posters made a great case before me, you can tell your sister that there is a historical precedence in theatre for females playing males and she can go fly a kite! (I have a feeling you've been waiting for an excuse to do so, anyway. ;) )

*borrows one of your rusty spoons to eat that up with* Wow, that sounds interesting!

 

Charlaine's books are what the series True Blood is based from. Vampires, werewolves, shapeshifters, fairies, witches...oh my! (There may be more...I stopped reading before the end of the series and went to start over again and am just reading everything else instead! :P ) Oh, and the main character, Sookie Stackhouse? Not only does she later discover she's part fae, but before she's informed of that, she struggles with telepathy.

 

 

The thing I struggle with most isn't so much cover design (although that can be difficult)...it's writing the "back blurb" that describes my books. :P

Whew, Naamah...I'm guessing it's not like Charlaine Harris's "Southern Vampire Mysteries", then either, is it? O.o

I forgot that Water was recently introduced for the Kacheek, so I was able to do a female (as I like). I don't know what I would've done otherwise, since I didn't want to do a Maraquan something. Just picked a pet and hoped for the best, I guess.

My name is Dayanara, but people call me Daya for short. (My Neopian profile is missing a comma...it should read, "Daya, CPhT", because I'm a certified pharmacy technician. :) ) Well, online they do. In real life, it's usually just D. (I've been cheating and looking at everyone's Neopian profiles for their real names. :D )

 

 

Anywho, yes, I do. I have an accordion folder with a bunch of unfinished manuscripts in it and a file on my computer that has some that aren't even in the accordion! My mom told me a long time back that I should stop chucking them out, so I did. At least until it got as bad as it currently is, at which point, I went through the accordion and tossed stuff I didn't think I'd ever write. I did that with the computer folder a few months ago and put the stuff that I liked--but didn't want to get rid of--into a folder entitled "Books That May Not Ever Live". (It's a subfolder of "On Hold".)

 

Ophelia, I'd been working on since about 2002...too many times writing fanfic, starting over and just working on other manuscripts. :P (I found an old FF.net profile the other day and I mentioned some manuscripts on there that, about twelve years later, I have no idea what they were even about!) I finally finished it on my mom's birthday in 2009. Long story behind that one.

 

Broken Road, I started in 2011 after I got out of the "funny farm" (self-check-in) and published in the spring of 2012. (My entry into "The Garf", as they call it, was submitted in 2010.) That was supposed to be the prequel to a rather adult oriented novel that I still haven't finished! (It's so steamy--or the second one is--that it's not even under my legal name!)

 

Barefoot on the Couch was a compilation of about fifteen years of poetry. Fortunately, I'd published about a half or a third of it on the internet when I was younger; so between that, what I had stowed on my laptop and fresh material (which was about a half to a quarter), I put together fifty poems, found photos on the internent to go with them (and cited them in the back in APA style, so I wouldn't get in trouble for thievery!) and made a book out of them. ^_^ | BotC is my favorite cover, even though it's so simple.

 

Early One Morning is probably the shortest I've ever written--and the first "vaguely Christian" book I've ever published. But that's why it's a novella.

 

 

I do my own covers and editing. I've even done a couple of book trailers, too. :)

Mmm...it's more, "*starts writing* There's no spark. Dang. *moves onto another one*" and so forth. I don't know how writers with traditional publishing contracts force them to stick on one manuscript until it's done. Probably because they're guaranteed money and have editors breathing down their necks and I don't and I'm not. :P

 

I'd link you to my author page on Amazon, but I do not want to get into more trouble. So I'll just say, "My debut novel, Ophelia, in 2010; a poetry appearance in Olivet College's Garfield Lake Review in 2011; a second novel, Broken Road, in 2012; a poetry anthology, Barefoot on the Couch, also in 2012; and a novella, Early One Morning, in 2013.

 

WHEW!

You have five months to decide, Lia...I think you'll be fine. :D

 

 

I'd just like to get a book published this year. I've done one every year since 2010 (with the exception of Eleven, but even then, I appeared in a literary guide), so to be on June 13 without being halfway through the first draft of something is horrible! *laughs*

 

I'd like to do an annotated edition of my poetry anthology, but I just haven't been able to move myself in that direction. (Addicted to a non-neopets game. :P ) My second compilation is poetry, letters to the editor, blog entries and essays (even though I don't have any of the latter yet)...I could work on the introductions/notes that go with each of those so far, but I haven't gotten there, either.

 

I can't help but wonder if I'm legitimately stuck, or if it's just because a psychic put it into my head last summer that I'd have a hard time writing until about July and I just can't get it out. x_x

NAtional NOvel WRIting MOnth, wherein you try to write a novel of at least fifty thousand words during the month of November.

 

I think I was originally planning to participate last year and work on Exilium all that month, but it didn't end up happening.

 

There's actually a NaNo website and writing bootcamps and everything! I've never had a local group, but I've had friends tell me that in college towns and major cities, there are big groups that get together solely to write.

I noticed there was a NaNoWriMo thread last fall, but there doesn't seem to be a dedicated writing thread, so...

 

 

I'm definitely inviting Angelo to contribute, since I know he's into writing. (Yay for the NT avvie!) And...I don't know who else...Leverhelven, maybe, because I like her to come along for everything? *laughs*

 

I know more people will come out of the woodwork when I post this, and then we can talk about whatever kind of writing we like. (So long as it's appropriate, of course!)

 

 

Who wants to go first?

Yay for still catching mice! I somehow thought that cats couldn't kill mice without claws, but I don't know where I got that silly idea...ours play with 'em and scare the tar out of 'em and eventually they die. *laughs* (Which is good, 'cause the sonic doohickey I put in my outlet just rousts them out of the walls where Lauren and Ani can get to them...they don't actually go away.)

 

I haven't seen a dedicated dog thread yet, but there's always the Fuzzy Friend Appreciation Thread that Angel started. ^_^

I can't see any other measures other than lowering the caps.

I thought new score system and then I, too, thought they might be dumping it. Soo...mysteries!

I think Lauren has me wrapped around her paws...a lot of times, she doesn't have to say anything...I just know! :laughingsmiley:

Since water is in the lead, I'm already working on my entry...I'll save it to my DTI account and have it ready to post when the time comes. :laughingsmiley: