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August 25, 2008

I've just realized my goals are crazy. And I'm getting closer to achieving them every day.




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42. Forty-two. Yup.

"But nothing can get you lost faster than a map." - Percival Everett, after a lengthy discussion of how he has to outline every paragraph of every chapter of every book

Prose is my one true escape in life. If I only had more time to get away...

People who know me call me an optimist; people who know me well call me an optimistic cynic. I love being an oxymoron...

"Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet." - Bob Dylan

"Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss." - Douglas Adams

Life is a wonderful high, and it has no ill side effects. Except death.


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I recently started graduate school for plant biology. I love it to pieces, but there is a rather large part of me that misses taking English classes that require me to write creatively and interact with others who are interested in writing.

This means that everyone on Storywrite has officially become my peer writing group. Critique my stuff as if it were crap written by the nerdy kid who sits next to you in biology class.


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Check out my novel in progress, Ironink. Or one of them, at least:

Ironink I
Ironink II
Ironink III
Ironink IV
Ironink V
Ironink VI
A Future Chapter (Caution: SPOILERS!)
A Bio of Morrigan


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If you like the Bermuda Triangle, check out my 2007 NaNoWriMo story in progress...

Prologue
Part I: Tess's Cruise
Part II: GeorgiaAnn's Crush
Part III: Lora and "Spiffy"
Part IV: Siobhan the Cynic
Part IV.5: Jiro's Interlude
Part V: The Real Trick
Part VI: Looking for Water
Part VII: Too Much Water
Part VIII: Rocks and Revelations
Part VIII.5: Ringing
Part IX: Men Who Can't Fish
Part X: Black Hair
Part XI: In the Rain
Part XII: Time
Part XIII: Joe's Interlude
Part XIV: Wildlife
Part XV: Poetry and Music
Part XVI: A Dream and a Waking
Part XVII: Swimming
Part XVIII: Rumbles
Part XIX: Tempers


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I'm experimenting again...*laughs* Thanks to a prompt from ssmm, check out my newest serial - a noir mystery that's not quite sure what to make of itself. I'd really like some insight on this one, since it's a new style to me... *bats eyes*

Jazz Blackside and the Case of the Cliché Charlie
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4







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    I'm new and don't have a clue what to do? would you like to look at my new story?

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    Thank you very much for greeting me Irish. I have posted one of my quick works, its not a story. Please if you can tell me how i have written. This was the result of my thought writing on as is how is basis. I will try to write proper story or essay in the near future. I have got confused ideas mixed together that you will probably judge in my current essay. I like you to help me in this please.

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    *whistles* Shiz, you write alot I wish *I* could write that much ^-^
    Um, okai, so, I kind of have a predicament here ^-^; My best friend and grammar specialist, Sarah, has gone away to the Fierce Camp of No Return for a whole month! *cries* So now I was wondering if pretty please with love on top, if I could ask you my questions on grammar while she's away. 'Cause you write alot, and you seem nice, and I reeaalllly don't wanna end up with wonna those really scary grammar subs who are like, grammar dementors. (Just in case, I'm armed with a ";" patronus XD ) So pretty please? O.O *bats eyelashes* I promise that my grammar isn't really that horrid, and you don't need to edit things Just answer my questions. *cough*whichisometimeshavealotof*cough* ^-^ So yeah! Please!
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