http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:author-girl&section=today deviantART RSS for by:author-girl en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Thu, 10 Dec 2009 03:36:34 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://author-girl.deviantart.com/journal/26768949/ http://author-girl.deviantart.com/journal/26768949/ Sun, 23 Aug 2009 06:38:21 PDT Well, I decided to come back again. Not that I ever meant to go away...
Basically, I had a big crisis of direction and am studying lit now (part time). Will not do a thing for employability/ respectability etc etc etc...
Hehehe, who cares?? On the bright side this means I'll get a lot of writing time.
I have some stuff to post in the next few days More on its way in the next month or two!

]]> ~author-girl http://author-girl.deviantart.com/journal/23150068/ http://author-girl.deviantart.com/journal/23150068/ Thu, 12 Feb 2009 03:36:44 PST
When I was in high school, I can honestly tell you that I was friends with most of my teachers. I'm an intellectual type at heart and was used to being appreciated for being that way, since most teachers are pretty used to being taken for granted.
One, though, who was a replacement for an excellent Japanese teacher, was a clear exception. I hated her. In fact, nearly everyone did. This is why:
- She would tell all us repeatedly that we were stupid
- She WAS stupid (she could barely speak Japanese!)
She spoke Japanese with a clear Australian accent. . THERE IS NO NEED TO DO THAT! Japanese is a phonetic language; there is ONE pronunciation and anyone can learn it in a few hours. Japanese speakers do not say "ay", they say "ei."
- She feared the top kids in the class (including me) and insisted on eroding our self-confidence by humiliating us for such transgressions as my rather small handwriting.
- She directed her lessons at the Japanese kids in our class, who were just there for credit and already fluent (when she didn’t order them to teach the class, mark exams and other stressful teacher roles)
- I was frequently absent from class due to a commitment and would be given incorrect catch-up material that would be repeated in class, and would realise later that I had missed something else important
- Exams and assignments were never about the class content and no revision or quizzes to test our skill were ever given.
- She was the only Japanese teacher, and no one could prove her errors, although all our grades plummeted

To someone who once loved Japan and Japanese, all of this was devastating and frustrating. To this day, I no longer have the same passion for the language and the culture that I had between the ages of 8 and 16.
But the worst thing she did is this: I believed that I needed dux of school to get a scholarship; her terrible, insulting, degrading classes cost me this title! I was equal to another kid, but lost out because of his ‘harder’ subject choices. It would not have been a tie in the first place if my Japanese mark had improved the way my previous teacher had predicted!
And to top it all off, for the first and only year, I did not receive the Japanese subject prize; it went to a Japanese girl who already knew everything we had learnt, because she speaks Japanese at home!

Why would I mention all of this now?

Because, two weeks ago, she showed up at my dance club and has come ever since! It has made me realise that it is very hard to forgive when you have been wronged like this, and even this explanation can't really do it justice. I love to dance, and I dance better than her, but those memories and the stress that she caused me have come flooding back
Gahhh!

*end rant* (everyone breathes a sigh of relief... lol.)

But my optimism that has spanned the last two years continues...
In other, sweeter news, my darling sweet European boyfriend and I celebrated our second anniversary a short time ago. He means everything to me: my best friend, my bandmate, my inspiration, my dance partner, my lover I am incredibly blessed.

To let everyone know, i have recently made a contact who is constantly encouraging my novel writing, which is coming along nicely when i do get some time, which explains the shocking lack of poetry lately

]]> ~author-girl http://author-girl.deviantart.com/journal/22343616/ http://author-girl.deviantart.com/journal/22343616/ Thu, 01 Jan 2009 22:20:35 PST (like last time, please don't hesitate in sending me links to the artworks that you think are most worthwhile for me to check out; I have accumulated about 1000 again and don't have time )
Once again, it's been too long since I indulged my creative side. I should have been here much more often than I have... although hopefully I made up for that with four submissions in a day: stuff I should have posted a long time ago.
I'm getting older and hoping that my writing is maturing with me. My newest brainchild is not actually a fantasy but a darker novel plan in the style of movies like Premonition and The Butterfly Effect
I'm feeling open enough to share a short summary: A teacher aide at a small primary (/elementary) school realises that a young boy's possessive and intense invisible friend may not be so imaginary...
... and I SWEAR this isn't a ghost story!!...
I've kinda hit a block with it at the moment but I know eventually this is going to be excellent XD

]]> ~author-girl http://author-girl.deviantart.com/journal/20499266/ http://author-girl.deviantart.com/journal/20499266/ Mon, 15 Sep 2008 01:55:00 PDT I have written a couple of decent ones over the past few years but I've never submitted them because I'm worried that unless you've studied Drama, you wouldn't really get them that much; some of the techniques are a little obscure.
One is about a marriage of convenience where the wife is constantly abused by the husband. I had to cut the guts out of it because of word limits but I think it's still alright.
The other one is one I'm really proud of. It's inspired by an awesome, very dark playwright called Samuel Beckett whose plays resemble works of art rather than theatre. My shot at it is about a clown and it's a really weird metaphor for life. I'm not sure if it matches my usual work... it's very, very strange but if there's interest, I'll post

]]> ~author-girl http://author-girl.deviantart.com/journal/20032963/ http://author-girl.deviantart.com/journal/20032963/ Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:42:20 PDT I keep meaning to come back here more regularly and keep an eye on this page. This time it took the flu to get me here but I really do want to stay. It's inspiring to be in a community of creative people and I should take more advantage of it.
Some fantastic deviations I've seen around here... and also I like the new way this site works. It got me through a lot more of those devs
Anyway... no new offerings yet. I have been so busy. It's kinda sad really but that's that. Hopefully I'll have something soon.

]]> ~author-girl http://author-girl.deviantart.com/journal/18026975/ http://author-girl.deviantart.com/journal/18026975/ Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:55:13 PDT
I've been really really busy lately, and I still am, but I decided to come back here
I have a bit of new material that I'll be posting over the next week or so. I suppose I've missed a fair bit of important dev stuff, but oh well.
Gah. This is like being a newbie again.
I'll also be looking through your deviations but I can't guarantee looking at everything. If you've got something that you're proud of that you've made this year, please comment and tell me about it, especially if it's something you think I'd like.
I feel kinda guilty for disappearing/reappearing and all, but I'm much too studious for my own good.
So yeah. That's it. I feel awkward. :/

]]> ~author-girl http://author-girl.deviantart.com/journal/15896162/ http://author-girl.deviantart.com/journal/15896162/ Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:48:31 PST
Second, as many of you know, I'm Australian. On most counts, it's a fairly unremarkable country, considered by many to be a smaller form of America with less snow and more desert. I'm also politcal. I actually met someone yesterday with whom I had a wonderfully enlightening conversation. This person put a nice new idea in my head: we are a collection of people of so many different ethnicities and yet we are a peaceful country with freedom of speech and a strong-enough government not just by appearances but in reality. If it is possible to meet and associate with a Japanese person, a British person, an Indian, an Austrian, a Lebanese person and a family from Saudi Arabia in one day...
doesn't that make world peace seem possible??
Not necessarily an academically credible idea but I like it.

**don't desert me, dev friends, I'm writing a novel!!**

]]> ~author-girl http://author-girl.deviantart.com/journal/15371242/ http://author-girl.deviantart.com/journal/15371242/ Mon, 05 Nov 2007 03:29:48 PST
"If we do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams." - Yann Martel

]]> ~author-girl http://author-girl.deviantart.com/journal/15196416/ http://author-girl.deviantart.com/journal/15196416/ Wed, 24 Oct 2007 01:04:09 PDT (too bad she committed suicide when she was 30)
But her kind of poetry is the stuff I'd love to write one day. So if you like my stuff, you'll probably love hers. Her best is probably a poem she wrote about Wuthering Heights but check her out and make up your own opinion.
And POETRY, seriously, is a better words than 'lyrics' for Tuomas Holopainen's masterpiece, The Poet and the Pendulum. Whether or not you actually like Tuomas (guy who writes Nightwish's stuff), you should really read the lyrics to this song.

I would also like to thank you guys for your support when I was a bit down lately. I'm kind of half-over it now. Burdening everyone else makes you feel better

]]> ~author-girl http://author-girl.deviantart.com/journal/15082093/ http://author-girl.deviantart.com/journal/15082093/ Tue, 16 Oct 2007 02:00:48 PDT

When I first met a mentor very precious to me, she said to me that I write like an angel. I never forget a compliment like that, from someone whose intelligence strikes awe into my inky heart.
Today, I thought about that; it was two years ago. Then, something surfaced in my mind: a Nightwish song called Angels Fall First.
And I cried.


Everyday my dream seems further away...

]]> ~author-girl http://author-girl.deviantart.com/journal/15009216/ http://author-girl.deviantart.com/journal/15009216/ Thu, 11 Oct 2007 00:57:35 PDT For the first time in history, Nightwish is coming to Australia! To my city actually!
I have waited and waited.
I have shipped CDs from FINLAND!!
I have waited half an hour to download videos to watch poor-quality gigs.
I have google-searched info about them weekly.
I have stuck with them even when they sacked the beautiful Tarja Turunen.
I have listened to interviews, lyrics and press conferences in Finnish (or tried).
Loyal fan yes?
I CAN'T BELIEVE IT!
I have never felt so excited... and yet SO LET DOWN! It's not an all-ages gig. I AM ONE YEAR TOO YOUNG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR RRRRRRRRRGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How could they DO this to me?????????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

]]> ~author-girl http://author-girl.deviantart.com/journal/14993515/ http://author-girl.deviantart.com/journal/14993515/ Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:01:13 PDT I feel so trapped
With bars between what I really want to be
And me
Surrounded
And trapped.

For my own good of course...
Kept away from the dangers
Of my castle in the air.
Under siege by reality
And trapped
By time
Foolish choices left me
Trapped.

I am a complete misfit these days.

]]> ~author-girl http://author-girl.deviantart.com/journal/14775888/ http://author-girl.deviantart.com/journal/14775888/ Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:00:34 PDT But naturally it has an upper word limit of... get this... TWENTY THOUSAND WORDS!!! Who writes a novel in TWENTY THOUSAND WORDS??? That's like, only slightly longer than a short story!!!
But, being a meek and obedient type, I reduced my wonderful work of art to twelve main points and rewrote around the framework. And you know what happened? I lost the characters! How can I write love scenes, parting scenes and scenes of intense hatred when I haven't had words enough to establish the relationships? Because the part that goes, when word limits demand, is the journey. It becomes "and we walked for days, staying in some places, avoiding others, always fearing..." So you basically have the orientation, a few pages of initial action stuff and suddenly it's the climax. Does not work!
How can I show the changing relationships and tensions? How can I have a threatening undertone? It's very frustrating! I don't like my story as it stands but I really want to enter this competition!!
Maybe I should stick to 'real' short stories and poetry anyway...

]]> ~author-girl http://author-girl.deviantart.com/journal/14597625/ http://author-girl.deviantart.com/journal/14597625/ Tue, 11 Sep 2007 23:34:18 PDT
Sorry to the person whose comment I accidentally deleted just now. Stupid net.

Random subject jump: Is it strange to kill your protagonist?? Especially when writing in first-person??
I'm just trying to get my head around the idea of death... it's bothering me at the moment... so I thought I would vicariously experience it through my rather weak protagonist. But is that weird? I've never read a story that actually DOES that (which makes it better for originiality! yah!)... but that's not even to mention she spends a large of amount of story time being batted around by her allies and enemies and the surroundings...?? I think she's too much of a victim.... hmmm... Maybe I just put her out of her misery XD

I am also thinking of investing in a decent photoshop program so I can start making photomanips, my favourite type of art, and express my stories through images as well as words, so I've been bothering a few of my favourite artists about it... It seems actual Photoshop is the way to go.

Finally... on the topic of music... OMG I LOVE TARJA TURUNEN!!! Seriously she is AMAZING and I loved her in Nightwish (and still love Nightwish without her lml) but her new song is beautiful. So is she. And my boyfriend sings like her.

]]> ~author-girl http://author-girl.deviantart.com/journal/14570295/ http://author-girl.deviantart.com/journal/14570295/ Mon, 10 Sep 2007 03:15:09 PDT 1. Each person tagged must post 8 random (hopefully interesting) facts about themselves
2. Tags should write a journal of these facts
3. At the end of the post 8 more bloggers are tagged and named
4. Go to their page and leave a comment telling them that they're tagged


[1.] I play keyboards in a rock band that TRIES to sound like Nightwish I have learnt classical piano since the third grade.

[2.] I volunteer at a Nursing Home

[3.] I'm fluent at Japanese and also learning Chinese and German (bad at German!)

[4.] I hate maths. I hate maths. I HATE maths.

[5] I am an intelligent type and love politics

[6.] I am terrified of thunderstorms

[7.] I adore wolves, werewolves... all of that kind of thing.

[8.] Guess what? I am way too dumb to think of anything else. Actually, I know: I skipped a grade in English when I was in Year 9 because the teacher thought I was that good at poetry

]]> ~author-girl http://author-girl.deviantart.com/journal/14374589/ http://author-girl.deviantart.com/journal/14374589/ Sun, 02 Sep 2007 23:44:10 PDT YEAH TOTALLY!!

(I'm a little cranky today... for undisclosed reasons... nothing to do with dA.)

Okay guys! The first 10 people who comment in this journal get what I believe to be their best 3 works featured (i.e. I will provide a link to three of your works if you comment- suggestions are welcome, of course). The only thing is, you MUST post this same entry on your deviantart page.

1.) is a very talented digital artist!! I wish I could do this kind of thing... check out his stuff!! [link] [link] [link]

2.) is a very nice person . Her gallery is small but awesome, and she shares my love of wolves. Very worth a look at, especially: [link] [link] [link]

3.) , like me, loves his fantasy and has quite a talent for photography too. I should have been watching him ages ago and so should you. [link]
[link]
[link]

4.) deserves a special mention as a skilled photographer and as my first DA friend [link] [link] [link]

5.) does what we all should do as artists once in a while: traditional art!! His cartoons are great. [link] [link] [link]

6.) makes a great friend for any deviant, especially if you need stock (not me)! She also takes/adjusts many beautiful photo's. These 3 are truly amazing!
[link]
[link] [link]

7.) http://author-girl.deviantart.com/journal/14374577/ Tue, 28 Aug 2007 03:05:06 PDT 's journal.

[x ] I like skinny jeans.
[x] Music is life.
[x] I write poetry/song lyrics.
[x] My hair covers part of my face.
[x] I wear band shirts.
[ ] I know who Jeffree Star is.
[ ] I wear/wore converse.
[ ] I wear/wore vans.
[x] I wear/wore eyeliner.
[ ] I have/had my lip pierced.
[ ] I listen to Saves The Day, Emanual and Saliva.

Total: 6

[x] I'm in a band. (And loving it!!)
[ ] My screen name had an x in it.
[x] I like My Chemical Romance.
[x] I also like Green Day.
[x] I know what "mosh" means.
[x] I sit in corners.
[x] I hate MTV.
[ ] I take pictures of myself a lot.
[ ] Especially ones where you can’t see my whole face.

Total: 6

[x] I am lost without a CD player/my iPod/mp3.
[ ] I have/had thick rimmed glasses.
[x] I love to skate. (but I'm really BAD at it!!!)
[x] I hate the president. (because Political Theory teachers reckon he's wrong)
[ ] I have/had a mohawk.
[x] I've worn black nail polish.
[x] I like Slipknot.
[ ] I hate where I live.
[x] Black is a great color.

Total: 6

[x] Right now I am listening to music.
[x] MySpace (kind of)
[ ] Hot Topic doesn`t scare me.
[x] I wear/wore studded belts.
[ ] I've cried while listening to Hawthorne Heights.
[ ] For girls: I have madeout with another. (EEWW!)
[ ] For guys: I have worn girls jeans.
[ ] I have dyed my hair black. (no but I'm thinking about it)
[x] I cry a lot. (I'm a Drama Queen)
[x] I write on myself. (compulsively)

Total: 5

OVER ALL TOTAL = 23
Multiply your answers by 3.
Re-post this as "I'm 69 % emo."

]]> ~author-girl http://author-girl.deviantart.com/journal/14234713/ http://author-girl.deviantart.com/journal/14234713/ Tue, 28 Aug 2007 02:39:02 PDT
1.) is a very talented digital artist!! I wish I could do this kind of thing... check out his stuff!! [link] [link] [link]

2.) is a very nice person . Her gallery is small but awesome, and she shares my love of wolves. Very worth a look at, especially: [link] [link] [link]

3.) , like me, loves his fantasy and has quite a talent for photography too. I should have been watching him ages ago and so should you. [link]
[link]
[link]

4.) deserves a special mention as a skilled photographer and as my first DA friend [link] [link] [link]

5.) does what we all should do as artists once in a while: traditional art!! His cartoons are great. [link] [link] [link]

6.) makes a great friend for any deviant, especially if you need stock (not me)! She also takes/adjusts many beautiful photo's. These 3 are truly amazing!
[link]
[link] [link]

7.) is amazing. Another wolf-lover, her specialty is beautiful fantasy poems. Also check out her longer story and beautiful sketching. [link]
[link]
[link]

8.)...

9.)...

10.)...


PS: I'm bored of my avatar-less-ness. If anyone can/wants to/is so bored as to want to make me one, could you please please note me???

]]> ~author-girl http://author-girl.deviantart.com/journal/14112771/ http://author-girl.deviantart.com/journal/14112771/ Fri, 10 Aug 2007 23:13:40 PDT

1.Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 18, and find line 4.
"Hither, hither, from thy home": Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (Jo March is my hero!)

2.Stretch your left arm out as far as you can. What do you reach?
Massive dictionary

3. What is the last thing you watched on TV?
Repeat of Chaser's War on Everything on Wednesday... funniest best show in the world!

4. Without looking, guess what time it is:
4:00

5. Now look at the clock. What is the actual time?
3:56

6. With the exception of the computer, what can you hear?
Nightwish's Tarja Turunen fronting another band for some song I just found

7. When did you last step outside? What were you doing?
Around one to have lunch with my family.

8. Before you started this survey, what did you look at?
My friends' dA work.

9. What are you wearing?
Black singlet and stripey miniskirt with heart-shaped earrings.

10. What did you dream last night?
I dreamt that the competition I want to enter my novel into was also entered by Isobelle Carmody... not actually possible but I cried about it in my sleep... I WANT TO WIN!!

11. When did you last laugh?
Yesterday on the phone to my boyfriend. I found out that Running Up That Hill by Within Temptation was originally a Kate Bush song!!! I was a bit upset until the humour hit me!

12. What are on the walls you are in?
Posters of Sharon den Adel, Greenday, Tarja Turunen, Amy Lee and South Park, and photo's of Japan.

13. Seen anything weird lately?
Uh... a boy wearing a lacey dress.

14. What do you think of this quiz?
If I wasn't very busy right now I might be enjoying this.

15. What is the last film you saw?
Harry Potter V. It was alright but I was burning up with jealousy the whole time.

16. If you became a multi-millionaire overnight, what would you buy?
Tickets to Within Temptation, Nightwish and Evanescence concerts, a trip around the world and a self-publishing deal enough to make me famous!! But then, if I became a multi-millionaire, it'd probably be from my writing and I'd probably give at least $1 million to charity.

17. Tell me something about you that I don't know.
I sense strange things about houses sometimes, like if the last owners fought a lot, or someone died in the house, you can feel it. Or if the house was a stable place, a happy place, that is tangible too.

18. If you could change one thing about the world, regardless of guilt or politics, what would you do?
Eliminate world poverty!!! (but getting rid of abuse right now would have to rate)

19. Do you like to dance?
Uhm... my favourite game is Dance Dance Revolution. You can guess. I have actually always wanted to do Latino dancing.

20. George Bush:
Is determined to not admit to his mistakes.

21. Imagine your first child is a girl, what do you call her?
Claire (or maybe not because I named my favourite character in my first novel Claire and then she kind of went evil.... I didn't want her to but it happened.)

22. Imagine your first child is a boy, what do you call him?
Stephan

23. Would you ever consider living abroad?
Definitely! Either Japan or Austria most likely.

24. What do you want God to say to you when you reach the pearly gates?
I've read your novel! (actually I would like him to say "come in" first)

25.Tag six people who must also do this in THEIR journal:
ballerinette
9eberra1
Vince-V
DarkAeonity
Quietstorms
catwoman-revenge

]]> ~author-girl http://author-girl.deviantart.com/journal/14023720/ http://author-girl.deviantart.com/journal/14023720/ Sun, 05 Aug 2007 03:28:55 PDT Especially when you pour a lot of chemicals into them.

]]> ~author-girl http://author-girl.deviantart.com/journal/13991870/ http://author-girl.deviantart.com/journal/13991870/ Thu, 02 Aug 2007 19:55:03 PDT Don't be over-critical of my photo's... remember it's only a hobby... I'm not serious like I am about my writing. anyway, hopefully I'll be well again soon.
I have joined together the two story ideas I have been toying with so they are now just one novel. I think I'm nearly ready to put my head down and work, work, work for a little while and produce another full story

]]> ~author-girl http://author-girl.deviantart.com/journal/13882821/ http://author-girl.deviantart.com/journal/13882821/ Thu, 26 Jul 2007 03:46:24 PDT
It is also two weeks until a day I want to remember and forget at the same time... shows through in my work, no? It's not fun remembering, but sometimes things come back...
Sorry for the cryptic but I will leave it at that. Glean what you will.
The lack in deviations at present is largely due to my renewed focus on my novel, what with ideas coming out faster than I can write them! It's so much better than Writers' Block, but it means especially my usual contributions to poetry have kinda disappeared temporarily. Nothing like jealousy of JK Rowling to get your creativity back on board...!!! I mean, I love her work but...!!!

]]> ~author-girl http://author-girl.deviantart.com/journal/13868900/ http://author-girl.deviantart.com/journal/13868900/ Wed, 25 Jul 2007 03:44:23 PDT [x] I can do my own laundry.
[x] I can cook for myself.
[x] I actually enjoy intellectual conversations.
[] My parents and grandparents have better things to say than my friends. (My friends are funnier!!)

Total So Far:4

[x] I show up for school MOST of the time unless I'm sick.
[x] I always carry a pen in my pocket/purse. (I'm a compulsive writer!)
[] I've gotten a detention.
[] I've watched talk shows.
[x] I know what credibility means without looking it up.
[x] I try drink coffee at least once a week. (I don't really try... it HAPPENS!)

Total So Far: 8

[x] I know how to run the dish washer and/or do the dishes.
[x] I can count to 5 in either spanish//French /German/Italian/Serbian/or your native tounge besides english (SEVERAL languages!!)
[x] When I say I'm going to do something I do it.
[] My parents trust me. (That's harsh)
[x] I can mow the lawn. (Grudgingly)
[x] I remember to water my plants.
[x] I study when I HAVE to. (compulsiovely AGAIN!!)
[x] I pay attention at school. (sometimes... zzz..)
[x] I remember to feed my pets.

Total So Far: 16

[x] I can spell experience without looking it up.
[] I clean up my own mess without my parents telling me. (I like mess!)
[x] The first thing I do when i get home is eat.
[x] I can go to the store without getting something I don't need.
[x] I understand jokes the first time they are said.
[x] I can type fast.

Total So Far: 21

[] I have realized that the weather forecast changes every hour. (really??)
[x] I realize that no one will take you seriously unless you are over the age of 25 and have a job. (this is the most frustrating thing in the whole world!)
[x] I can read a book and actually finish it. (love to read!)

Total So Far: 23

[x] I knew that the alphabet and twinkle twinkle little star have the same rhythm (and corrected the spelling of whoever started this)
[x] You just checked
[] you actually watch the weather (YEAH RIGHT!!)

25!!! hahahahahahhahahahaha actually probably 2!!!

]]> ~author-girl http://author-girl.deviantart.com/journal/13727895/ http://author-girl.deviantart.com/journal/13727895/ Sat, 14 Jul 2007 01:34:25 PDT Absolutely speechless.
Brace yourself for an onslaught of capitals:
I HAVE JUST BEEN GIVEN A DIGITAL CAMERA!!!
Wow!!! Wow!!! WOW!!!!
It is the most wonderful thing!!

And as for the comments on my latest work, it WAS rushed and I appreciate the comments, I really do, because I want to know what people like and don't like so I can improve my writing I would like it a lot if you would offer me advice on how to improve, because I'm sure you're thinking about my shortcomings- I'd like to know. I'm a very very biased person with my own work. This is unlikely to change. Hopefully some of you who actually look at my stuff will also like my photo's, now I will soon be able to share them with you too, but my writing is my first love, and basically I would prefer to focus most of my attention there.

But I am over the moon
This is INCREDIBLE!!!

]]> ~author-girl http://author-girl.deviantart.com/journal/13667341/ http://author-girl.deviantart.com/journal/13667341/ Mon, 09 Jul 2007 05:24:47 PDT I can't think at all
All of my projects
Hit a brick wall
I'd love to write something
But nothing sounds right
It'd not be worth reading
It's made me UPTIGHT!!
Look at this poem!
It's the worst in the world

...
See what I mean???
I am so so so brain-dead today!!
I can't think and I can't write and I really really need to try and do something important so i feel creative again!

]]> ~author-girl http://author-girl.deviantart.com/journal/13572449/ http://author-girl.deviantart.com/journal/13572449/ Mon, 02 Jul 2007 02:36:28 PDT - The last elf (you'll have to see it!)
- Shadow Part 2 (nearly done- very scary!)
- A snippet from my fantasy novel (only a little- protective of novels)
- AND from my first ever novel I finished four years ago (same as above- this one's pretty funny- fantasy send-up)
- Inside the story (thanks to Ballerinette's discussion with my werewolf ^^)
- Another short story (this one's about a cousin I wanted to know better than I ever got the chance :/)
- Poem about creativity (why the future would be bleak without it- sci-fi)
- Another love poem ^^
- Something deep about the inner child (poem)
- A brand new fantasy about coming of age, where things are mirrored... (I know it makes no sense just yet but it does to me )
- A tribute to Sabine Dunser, the lead singer of Elis, who died on July 9 last year, and deserved to live to be older than 29.
Busy busy!! I want to get the last one out on July 9, cause it seemed fitting, but I don't have deadlines for anything else. ]]> ~author-girl http://author-girl.deviantart.com/journal/13554690/ http://author-girl.deviantart.com/journal/13554690/ Sat, 30 Jun 2007 17:37:12 PDT
"Heehee, I can see it now:

Angie: Come on, werewolf, can I PLEASE get in your mind?

Werewolf: Go away or I'll bite you.

Angie: Ok.. if I can guess what you're thinking, will you tell me?

Werewolf: I'm not kidding, I'm VERY hungry..

Angie: Okkk *writes this down* Irritable and hungry...

Werewolf: I am NOT irritable!!

Angie: And you're stubborn....

Werewolf: AM NOT!

Angie: You're very grumpy; looks like it's time for SOMEONE to take a nap!!"

Brilliance! I have the world's best idea!!

]]> ~author-girl http://author-girl.deviantart.com/journal/13547045/ http://author-girl.deviantart.com/journal/13547045/ Sat, 30 Jun 2007 02:41:51 PDT It's like a story.

]]> ~author-girl http://author-girl.deviantart.com/journal/13531831/ http://author-girl.deviantart.com/journal/13531831/ Thu, 28 Jun 2007 22:23:18 PDT Going on a date tomorrow though :sweet:

]]> ~author-girl http://author-girl.deviantart.com/journal/13502700/ http://author-girl.deviantart.com/journal/13502700/ Tue, 26 Jun 2007 19:02:06 PDT (and am close to giving up on this damned assignment!!!)
Don't expect this second story to be as good as the first but, and it does take a little while to think it through. Poems are a bit more spontaneous

]]> ~author-girl http://author-girl.deviantart.com/journal/13501922/ http://author-girl.deviantart.com/journal/13501922/ Tue, 26 Jun 2007 17:55:52 PDT She'll end up an evil character in one my my stories for this Author's revenge!!

]]> ~author-girl http://author-girl.deviantart.com/journal/13494437/ http://author-girl.deviantart.com/journal/13494437/ Tue, 26 Jun 2007 05:23:28 PDT
But I shall return... and I shall write some more

]]> ~author-girl http://author-girl.deviantart.com/journal/13494367/ http://author-girl.deviantart.com/journal/13494367/ Tue, 26 Jun 2007 05:11:50 PDT But I'm happy that people are finding and liking my work ^^!!
I've always wanted to have my work read... yay!!

]]> ~author-girl http://author-girl.deviantart.com/journal/13490626/ http://author-girl.deviantart.com/journal/13490626/ Mon, 25 Jun 2007 20:44:36 PDT
]]> ~author-girl http://author-girl.deviantart.com/journal/13480156/ http://author-girl.deviantart.com/journal/13480156/ Mon, 25 Jun 2007 03:16:44 PDT I added a poem. I don't actually write poetry a lot but this topic, as I said, is pretty important to me.

]]> ~author-girl http://author-girl.deviantart.com/journal/13476773/ http://author-girl.deviantart.com/journal/13476773/ Sun, 24 Jun 2007 20:02:53 PDT I'm new here and I think I just discovered a place where I will be welcome as a writer I've known of deviantart for a while but I thought it was just for visual artists. Well, I've just submitted my first...!

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