Famous Tea Parties

People don’t have tea parties anymore do they? I have never been invited to a tea party and I have never ever heard of anyone that has. Never heard of anything like that, getting invited for coffee sure but that’s not a tea party. Why not? Sound like fun. People have tex mex parties, plain old dinners, sex and the city evenings but no tea parties? Strange…

Boston Tea Party, not an actually tea party but still… Why destroy all that tea? I would have taken it and have an actually tea party, that would have been nice, invite EVERYONE and have tea and talk about it instead.

A Mad Tea Party, illustration by Arthur Rackham… Poor Alice looks so bored… Not a very good host is he. I love the hare in that picture, big black eyes, looks stoned doesn't he?

Just because

I think this ridicules haircut is sort of cute. I would never get it but I like this on her. Or maybe it’s just the picture I like? I could have this on the wall. The hair looks like Cate Blanchett in the new Indiana Jones movie. It’s Louise Brooks by the way.

I should be cleaning…

But I’m not, instead I’m spamming or something. I liked this little story, I so have to do that too. And then this looks just like Sweden, people always say that Swedes and Canadians get along because we like hockey and beer but it could be that the nature is similar.

PLANS FOR TODAY

1. Get off the computer. Spending way too much time doing nothing… just looking at pictures and day dreaming. Having a hard time leaving Susanna’s Sketchbook.

2. Clean my room (?). It’s a complete mess and I think most of the stuff is just junk that I never use or is actual garbage like socks with hole in them and balled up paper.

3. Making an inspiration wall above the desk, fill it with things to make me work on my story (so so close on giving up on it, again.)

4. Laundry (and try to remember to read on the back and make sure not to use more washing powder than necessary)

5. Find flowers for June-July, there is nothing in bloom right now. My peonies are too small to blossom…

Picture from Susanna's Sketsbook

Found this picture by accident…

The kid in the middle is not only giving me the creeps, it looks a lot like my neighbor, The Demon Child! Seriously, the look he’s (I think it is a boy) giving that little girl is something from a horror movie, scary!

Found it here

Day 25

Everything was going pretty well until I finished my first rough draft, I wasn’t at all pleased with it. The story was all messed up and I really didn’t like the guy, he was such a cutie, such a goody goody and everything too damn nice, ew! So I had to start over and now I just don’t like anything, the story sucks and I can’t get it to work at all. I’m supposed to have this, 1, a commitment (…sort of yeah, I guess, whatever…),2, a working schedule (sure, kind of) 3, a story idea, (maybe, but it’s not a very good one) 4, a cast of characters (I do) 5, a detailed plot of the entire story (yeah right) 6, a short description of what your novel is about, (no).
This is not going very well… should I give up, again, and perhaps work in some short stories awhile? Do my four pages a day on something else and do this later? I don’t want to give up, I know all about quitting, I want to try something else and stick with something for a change.

Day 25

“…every player must have a reason…”

Day 13 Not sure that is the case for me right now. And I don’t know my characters as well as I want to. Right now I’m close on getting stuck… starting to doubt myself. I sort of finished a first (very rough) draft. I’m not finished by far but I kind of know where I’m going with the story, how it begins and how it ends. There’s loads of junk that need to get sorted out, changes to make… lots to do. Ah, just thinking about it makes me freak out. There’s no way I can write four pages when I’m rewriting, I should be glad if I can make one… feels like I’m failing. I need mood music or something… ah, I don’t know what I need…

Maybe I’m getting too old…

“A great and terrible beauty” by Libba Bray. I didn’t like this book, it didn’t suck or anything but… You could tell that the author had done some research but that managed to get in the way for me at times when it’s explained why this and that isn’t appropriate or whatever, doesn’t feel like a natural way of telling things. And it gave me a lot of “Heavenly Creatures” vibes… and there were no surprises at all…

Last read book

I didn’t like it, it’s a teen book and it was just one of those dull books where nothing happened. Got a little “Catcher in the rye” vibe on one part of the book and that part almost felt like rip-off even if that wasn’t the case. Dull dull dull… And it was a little too cute at the end; people were so understanding it was sickening. I was almost rooting for the guy to kill himself.

Tagged

I’ve been tagged by Sarah

The rules of the game get posted at the beginning.

Each player answers the questions about themselves.

At the end of the post, the player then tags 6 people (Yeah, like I have that many friends…) and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know they’ve been tagged and asking them to read your blog.

Let the person who tagged you know when you’ve posted your answer.

(Did this yesterday but managed to forget to post it)
a) What was I doing 10 years ago?

Teen years ago… um… how old am I? Crap, having a crises, I can’t be that old!? I was in school, meat eater back then and had ten more kilos to carry around, having a silly crush on a silly guy that looked like a lollypop. He was way out of my league and that was why I liked him so that nothing would ever happen.

Same old same old… in many ways my life hasn’t changed that much in teen years, that’s pretty sad.

b) What are 5 things on my to-do list for today:

· To write my four pages
· Have some stuff to do in the garden (defiantly more than five but there’s no way I’ll manage all of them today)
· Do some laundry (but there’s no rush really, I just added it so that I would look good)

c) Snacks I enjoy:

Too many! All I eat is snacks, chocolate (bars, ice cream, cake, cookies…), doughnuts (!), raspberries and blueberries (is that a snack?), candy!! Now I’m getting hungry, and there’s a big bag of candy upstairs, not good.

d) Things I would do if I were a billionaire:

(Me and my friend talked about this yesterday) I would pay off mom and dad’s mortgage on the house, I would buy my entire neighborhood and throw all the idiots out. I would probably have a house made from scratch, a small cute one with a large garden and a HUGE green house. I would go shopping; buy lots of books and movies. I would travel and I would most defiantly give my brother a large sum of money, I probably owe him half a million already.

e) Places I have lived:

I lived in a grey tall building for my first six and a half years and then we moved here where we belonged. Same area and all but…

I'm tagging Aimeé

A week of writing

And it’s been going pretty well but now it’s the real test, trying to find the time to write during the football. I have had a little trouble writing the four pages and wanting to make it to three pages per day but so far I’ve managed to stick with it and I intend to continue. Feeling pretty good, I usually don’t stick with things. Even the days when I have been busy with something else I have been writing some even if it hasn’t been four pages.

I made a little list of events that is supposed to happen in the story so even if I don’t know what to write I know it’s supposed to be something creepy for example so I have a little guideline and that really helps.

Day six

Almost been a week now and I have been writing every day, not four pages when I have been away doing other things but I have been writing and that’s the important thing. Today I was given a task, I’m supposed to take my favorite book in the same genre that I’m writing and read it, se what I like and why and so on. But I don’t have a favorite. In fact, I haven’t read a book similar to the one I’m trying to write so I guess I should look for some and read them.

Know any good teen books with spooky mysteries in them?

Poppies in bloom

Finally, after a long wait (sort of my fault because I mistreated them) my sowed poppies are in bloom! Not that pleased with the orange/red color normally but now I don’t care, I love him, he’s such a cutie.

The smaller unknown poppies (update, it's Welsh poppy) are in bloom too, don’t like yellow flowers but… they are such easy plants. My plan for next year, or perhaps fall is to but ALL poppies I can find (at least the perennial ones), I want to have more of them. It’s very easy to start collect flowers.

(The yellow one is the one I have seeds of Aimèe (or anyone else) in case you want some. Need photoshop on this computer...)

Four pages is kind of a lot…

Especially when you don’t really know what to write… I don’t think I will be able to do four pages per day and then I will feel like I failed and get upset and not write at all, maybe two pages is better? It’s better to write a little than not writing at all.

Day three (a day at the beach)

I think I have decided which story I should write and I’ll bring a pen and paper with me to the beach today when I’m off with “Elizabeth”, her baby and her mom. Then there’s something for me to do since I’m too lazy to shave my legs and haven’t owned a swimsuit for ten years. I’ll try and make a list of events for the story, sort of like a schedule so I know what to write later. (sounds like good idea right now)

My Compis is here!

And he’s working! I thought I had to wait to get internet but my brother fixed it right away. I defiantly need a new chair; I think I’ll mess up my back with this one. Today I have to figure out when is the best time for me to write and, “Be realistic in the time you plan, and then live by it.” Sticking with things has never really been my strong side I have to admit.

Evenings or midmorning… tricky. It’s less chance of interruptions in the evening but then there’s the chance that I stay up too late (I sound so old). Maybe I should try midmornings… I’ll write now and then I do the midmorning thing… crap, got plans tomorrow… So I’ll try the midmorning thing on Wednesday instead. But that’s the thing if I’m busy I’m most likely to be busy during the day so evenings might be better. I just have to get some self-control and not stay up all night long.

Evenings, write for at least one hour, and at least four pages per day. Let see how it goes and if it’s realistic.

How many times have I tried this?

I think it’s only two but it could be three… but let’s try it one more time. With my Compis (computer) arriving tomorrow (hopefully) I might get some peace and quiet to be able to do this. My main problem is just, which of all my stories should I work on? I wonder how many I have now; let’s do a quick count… at least 25, probably more.

This is day one and I have to make a commitment to write every day, to do my very best to finish this once and for all. But what story to work on…? That’s really tricky and I don’t know, maybe I should read what I have so far and see which one I feel for the most right now and stick to that one? I can work a little on the others as well but have one as my main priority.

I should clean my desk properly now, all the draws and everything so all I have to do tomorrow is to get the compy to work, that will probably take me all day. I hope my brother will be around to help me…

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