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"Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone."
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Posted at 09:42 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
I am trying very hard to make the first chapter shorter. Because a lot of unnecessary stuff takes to much place, for the simple reason that the 17 year old me that wrote them in the first place thought that they were fun.
And it's not going well.
Instead of getting shorter, it keeps getting more and more. How do you take away whole paragraphs but still end up with a text that's longer than it was when you started?
*Sigh* I have no idea. But I guess I should know that I was going to have this problem. After all, I've always had a problem limiting myself. "Less is more" has never been the case when it comes to my writing (I suppose that's something I have to wok with).
Meh..my head hurts. Great.
Anyway. I love to write, obviously or I wouldn't go through all this trouble making the story better, so I am going to keep at it until I am at least somewhat pleased.
Take care guys! (^ - ^) Mata ne!
Posted at 04:27 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
It's late. Again. To late. Must be the 5th time this week (out of five days). Just great, I am turning the days upside down. That can't possibly be good, but then again I am a teenager (at least for about 2 months more) so it's all right. And I am a student, and well student's aren't really pro's at being sensible are they?
They say that it's the hours before 12 that's the most important ones, and well...If that's true it really sucks for me, because I haven't slept more than like 20 minutes (tops) before 12 for a very long time. Nights are such a good time for things other than sleeping.
For example, right now I am proof-reading/writing a story I am working on (it's not done, I just have to fix some stuff before I can go on) and it's going quite well. I mean, my overly chritical mind still thinks that it sucks, but that's because I am nuts. Have never actually written something that I haven't thought to be compeletely useless when I look back on it.
Anyway, I am trying to make the first chapter shorter. Quite a lot shorter. Unsignificant events can't take like 5 pages (full word pages, not book pages). IT CAN NOT. And so now I am trying to shorten it. Which is not going to so well. I mean, the things I do write is quite good (at the moment, in the morning I'll probably hate them), but it's not good when you are trying to shorten things and they end up getting longer.
Hence the CRAP!. See my problem? well perhaps not all of you do, but the ones that write (more than blog posts, or not, I don't mean to single anyone out here but give me a break, it's late) should.
I am a struggling writer (yep, I call myself a writer sometimes, because as my very dear friend Michaela says: "a writer is not something you become, it's something you're born as"), and at the moment I am very inspired but also kind of chin deep in stuff that I need to fix. And those things, misstakes I made when I started the story about 3 years ago, aren't always easy to make right I can tell you.
It's now 2.14. I should really go to bed. But I'm not tired. And there's "Scrubs" on tv, so I have something to watch as I contemplate my sanity at age 17. I have at least 30 minutes more (and perhaps there's another episode after that, I don't have the energy to check it out right now).
After all I wanna be a writer for real, and this is how I'd work if I was. I like the night. The night makes me productive, it's good for so much more than sleep. Did I say that? Bloody marvelous, I am starting to repeat myself. Does that mean something? I am afraid it does. "GO TO SLEEP" is what it means. I guess. And well perhaps I shouldn start to think about obeying that voice (no I am not that cazy, I don't hear voices for real).
But I don't want to. Gah! Why is there only 24 hours in a day? Stupid.
Okay so now I am crapping on the universal order or days. Great. Just great. Perhaps I am going crazy or real, I have heard that lack of sleep can do that to you. Although...since I woke up at 12 today it's not really lack of sleep as much as the day turned upside down (I have said that too..geees). I should really try to fix that. And I will. Some other day. Later.
But I think I have to go now. Before I start retyping this entire post again. I might, since the repeat button seems to have gotten stuck in my head, and we don't want that would we.
It's 2.28. Peace out guys!
Posted at 01:58 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
I told you that I am moving last week, right? Well I am anyway. My family's coming on Friday and we're all staying at a hotel, and then we're moving on Saturday. It's going to be so great, I am really looking forward to it (I have come to understand that you treasure spending time with your family a lot more when you don't live with them anymore).
Anyway, I am very busy all of next week, with lessons every day and an assignment that's due on Wednesday (a little one, but still), so I have to start packing this weekend. Even though I didn't bring everything from my birth home I still have a lot of stuff where I live now (I really need another bookcase, the one I have now's full) so I think it'll take some energy to pack it all...
Gah! Why oh why do I have so much stuff. He he, because I like stuff of course. I think stuff makes a place feel like a home, and so I don't think I could ever have to much. I am going to become one of those people whose home's almost overflowing with things, I am sure of it (my great grandmother, on my fathers side, was such a woman, and I think I take after her).
Ha ha, yeah I am a little nuts, I know. But then again, have I ever said that I am not? Nope, I didn't think so.
Take care guys! (^ - ^) Mata ne!
Posted at 07:54 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Yesterday was the first day of the Chinese New Year. The Chinese year 4707 is the year of the ox. What's your Chinese zodiac animal and what does it say about you?
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Take care guys! (^ - ^) Mata ne!
Posted at 11:19 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Nothing on tv what so ever. Just to have something to look at I am currently watching "The Hills", which I don't really like at all (I know it's real people and all, but their problems are just so blown out of proportion and silly). But I guess I have myself to blame for not being able to just sit quietly in front of the computer (a quiet room makes me kind of crazy, and for some reason music doesn't do it in the same way).
Anyway. I am now waiting for "How I met your mother" (yes, the timetable for the tv rules my life), which as I am typing this starts in 40 minutes. That is way to long for me. See I absolutely hate to wait. For anything. It makes me annoyed and bored beyond what's rational (but then again, emotions aren't really rational, are they?).
But whatever..I guess I'll have to learn how to deal with it sooner or later. After all, I am growing up, and a part of that is to learn how to manage the things about yourself that's childish (yep, manage I say, because I never wanna stop being childish completely, no matter how "grown up" I am). Right?
(You guys should know see, because you are older than me. Perhaps not adults though. I am more and more starting to believe that people never really grow up for real. One day you just wake up having to accept that fact that you're not a kid anymore. Oh...I don't look forward to that day.)
Ha ha! I am getting of topic again. I tend to do that, quite a lot, but I guess it has to do with my sometimes very confused mind. And now I am doing it again.
So. I am planning on doing some exercise when "How I met your mother" comes on. The fight to get my life and figure back in order after Christmas and New Years has finally gotten started. Late I know, but I am a bit slow when it comes to getting on with things like this (I suppose it has to do with the fact that I don't find it entertaining in any way, so I procrastinate), and well I think like this: Better late than never (a lso, I am moving in 2 weeks, and I want to arrive to my new apartment looking good, just in case there are some hot neighbours).
My show's now on in 20 minutes (this post took a little longer than I thought it would).
Take care guys! (^ - ^) Mata ne!
PS: Find me on Facebook (Sofia Nilsen, my page's in Swedish but I guess if you have it in any language you pretty much know the layout).
Posted at 05:41 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
So I am being housy today. Cleaning and ironing and washing's on the program, not to mention making lunch and dinner (nope, I haven't had lunch yet, since I woke up at 12).
Boooooooring.
But it has to be done, because I am a little bit of a slob sometimes and so if I didn't clean once a week my apartment would end up looking like a dump.
Ha ha, that's the bitter truth.
So, I guess I'd better get back to it (because if I pause for to long, I won't get back it...ha ha, yep I am lazy).
Take care guys! (^ - ^) Mata ne!
Posted at 03:05 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
I know it's quite late, and that I should sleep, but...I'm not tired at all. So no matter how sensible it is I am not going to go to bed just yet (ha ha, I am not that great at doing things just because they are sensible, which I think we have established by now).
Anyway. There's absolutely nothing on tv at the moment. Nothing. Haven't been for quite some time actually (and by quite some time I mean like 3 hours or something), so I've gotten bored like 50 times already (see I get bored, then I'm not, then I get bored again...and so on and so on).
I think CSI is on at 1.50, so I'll watch that I guess (which is never wrong of course, but it'd be better if I didn't have to wait for it for so long). A good murder in the middle of the nigh is never wrong (as long as it's not to scary, because then I can't sleep, I am a little bit of a chicken).
Meh...this episode better be good.
Take care guys! (^ - ^) Mata ne!
Posted at 01:39 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Watched the rerun of the 2009 show just like an hour ago, and I absolutely loved it once again (have seen it before, as you understand, but it was just as great this time as it was the first time). So beautiful and sexy, all that I (and I guess about every other girl in the world) aspire to be.
*Sigh* well I guess sometimes all you can do is to dream for a while.
Posted at 07:36 PM | Permalink | Comments (6)
Sitting at the Historical institution alone for an entire hour, just because you have to take the early train not to be late, is just not that fun.
Not that fun at all to be honest (and it's also very tiring).
At time like this it's lucky that the world has coffee. A good cup of the black gold (yep, that's what I see it as) makes things a little less boring.
Thanks Espresse House close to the Historical institute!
Don't really remember how long it has been since I started drinking it (like 3,5 years or something I guess), but even though it's an addiction I am happy that I did.
YAY for light addictions.
And that was all for today i think (ha ha, yeah I know that "all" wasn't really a whole lot, or important, but still).
Take care guys! (^ - ^) Mata ne!
Posted at 06:42 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)