olaf47 | I am going to be a writer (Reply)

Only one month and then I'm halfway through college. That just seems so weird.

It seems that my spring break has taken all the college age need for intoxication out of me. It was fun and all, but I don't need to do it every weekend. Plus, it's just kind of a waste of calories. :)

So I'm sitting around by myself on a Friday night, reading fanfiction that I've already read. I flew through Leah Kate's In Hiding earlier in the week and am now most of the way through On the Road. It's definitely an amazing story, both of them are. The writing's not as good as I remember it being, which isn't all that disappointing. It's not bad writing, it's just not brilliant, but I'm still enjoying it immensely. It's amazing, how she sets everything up chapters and chapters in advance. It's obvious she planned everything out, or at least a lot of things out. I wish I had a story that I could plan in advance, that I knew where it was headed. Instead my characters just sort of go, and whatever comes out comes out.

I also am so jealous of people like Leah Kate and

leiascully. I mean I know it's fanfiction, so maybe that doesn't seem as important to some people, but they are known. If people are looking for good Skate fanfiction or good Huddy fanfiction (and maybe others for

leiascully, but that's the only fandom of hers with which I'm involved), they'll get directed to IH and OtR and basically anything by

leiascully. That's just so impressive to me. I want that sometime, fanfiction or not. (ETA: I accidentally wrote "anything but" at first, instead of "anything by", and that was obviously wrong. Sorry. Hah. )

In other writing news, I met with my Creative Nonfiction professor regarding a piece we had just written. She told me there were a couple of places where she would tweak or maybe cut, but she thinks I could submit it for publication! I almost fell out of my chair. To have a writing professor say something like that to me--I mean, I can't even explain it. I've been writing since I was about 7, maybe earlier. I started my first attempt of a novel at 8 or 9. It's always been in the background, something I just expected to do for my entire life. But now I want it to be what I do with my life, and to have her say something like that--it just makes me think that maybe I have a chance after all. It's exhilarating.

Other parts of my life, in brief:
I'm no longer a Science Olympiad coach, which is a long and stupid story. But I'm still in contact with a couple of the girls and they have made me feel really great and really appreciated, something I never got from the coach. So that's nice.
Wicked was good but not great. Elphaba was excellent, but Glinda and especially Fiyero left much to be desired. Still, it was culture, which made me happy.
I'm thinking about what Hunter always says about how my friends are bringing me down. Maybe they are. I'm sort of trying to branch out, but it makes me afraid that I will branch away from the Boyfriend, which I don't necessarily want to do. *le sigh* We'll see what comes of it. I'm out of here in a month anyway, and then summer and then Africa, so I suppose a lot might be different by then.
There's a boy from home who I think might be pursuing me. We've been facebook chatting late at night. It's quite flattering, as I find him immensely cute and he's rather gentlemanly and plays a mean piano. And I mean, a mean piano. So that's flattering anyway.
I miss my darling Deb, as I feel we have not been talking as much lately, and now she's on a posting hiatus and might not even see this. But if she does ♥