Gayest website ever!!!

Okay so the following is a link to the most disturbing website I think I have ever seen!

Check it out!

Grandpa No!!!

http://leatheroaks.org

Gone but not forgotten...

So quick update on me... It has been a blue million years since I've posted... (Though only one person other then myself even looks at this damn thing -- Hi Brian!)

I failed Nanowrimo, but I am going to finish my book - next month. Life is great and as soon as something interesting happens I will tell the world! ; )

Look for more posts in the years ahead.

NaNoWriMo Update #3

Well... I am at the end of day 3 and I have 5287 words. That's right I am now over the 10% mark. Its tough but I do think that my cast has enough to say to fill up 45,000 or so more words. If not... I'll just follow them to the bathroom and we can all prey together that it comes out alright in the end! :)

NaNoWriMo Update #2

Well here it is folks. The first day of Nanowrimo, and as of this blog my current word count is 0 of 50,000! Now I know this sounds like I'm not working, but I am! I am still in the "do I really want to do this" stage of planning. I have my protagonist, my setting, and a general plot direction. I think I am just gonna start writing and see where my protagonist goes! Wish me luck and thanks for the support!

NaNoWriMo Update #1

Okay... So this whole novel writing thing... I've got (in my opinion) an excellent main character, a plight for her to go through, and a main story. Despite all of this I am extremely intimidated by this and I don't really know why! I am currently making notes and trying to get into the mind set of writing 1600 words a day... It hasn't even started and I'm already thinking, "What the hell am I doing."

I just really want to do this. I really want to say I have done it. Nothing more, just to know that I did it is enough.

Thanks for the support! I'll keep you posted.

Someday is next month!

Okay I'm probably nuts but I'm gonna try. November is National Novel Writing Month.(There's a month for everything!) And I have signed up on http://www.nanowrimo.org/ to write a novel.

The basic idea is that you can't start writing until 12:00AM on November 1 and you have to have 50,000 words by the end of the month. What do you win you might ask? Well nothing. Other then the fact that you can proudly state... I have written a novel. Which is something I've always wanted to do but kept saying I'll do it "someday".

Well listen up; someday is next month! Plus with a great deal of luck maybe someone might actually buy and publish my novel, which as of yet is untitled, has no protagonist, no antagonist, no hook, no beginning action, no climax, no falling action, and no plot. Its going to be a long November. : )

Well... wish me luck! I'll keep you "posted" as to my progress!

Read a banned book!!!

So I just finished listening to Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. I had read it once a looooong time ago in highschool, but I don't remember appreciating it nearly as much as I did. Also, I don't remember it being as scary as it was.

We all know the basics of the book. In the not too distant future firemen start fires rather then put them out. And what do they burn? Why books of course for it is against the law to possess books. Our hero, Guy Montag, is a fireman who has lost his spark. And so we follow him as he goes through life wanting to be an individual but not quite having sufficient independent thoughts to succeed. He's a great protagonist even if he's a bit wishy-washy.

Bradbury's future is a bleak one. No one thinks for themselves and everyone is a slave to parlors with 3-wall TVs (plasma I'm sure), and seashell radios that are always in your ears (think iPod). It is actually very close to reality. During the climactic chase all I could think of was how we were all glued to the screen when OJ was on the run!

This brings me to the core of the story, and something that is absolutely terrifying to me. Censorship. The idea that certain thoughts, beliefs, and ideas being censored frightens me a lot. It only takes a few steps in the wrong direction before we are letting someone else think for us. Censorship, above all else is the practice of letting someone else tell you what you should think or telling someone what they should think. We are all intelligent people who can make our own decisions based on knowledge and experience. Does Harry Potter encourage witchcraft? Do Huck Finn and Tom engage in homosexual acts? Does The Origin of Species make a man out of monkeys? Maybe. Maybe not. But do not scream to ban these books just because they make you uncomfortable. Read the book. Make your decision. Tell your friends. But then let your friends read the book too and make there own decision. Don't burn the book just because your made uncomfortable.

Read Fahrenheit 451. Enjoy it. Let it teach the lesson of what not to do, and let it scare the hell out of you as you learn.

Note: For those of you who think I am nuts regarding the banning of books, check out these websites!

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/banned-books.html

http://www.booksatoz.com/censorship/banned.htm