Hi guys<3
Sooooo yeah I haven't blogged in a thousand years. YOU HAVE DIED EVERYDAY WAAAAAAITING FOR ME! DARLING DONT BE AFRAID IM BLOGGING NOW AFTERRRR A THOOOUSAND YEEEARS!! Let's all pretend that never happened, Kay? Kay.
So in my absence I changed almost all the characters' names... And somewhat changed their personalities too. Hahahahahahaha yeah. And I went to Sears for the first time and I bought a ton of clothes. I also did homework, watched YouTube videos, and ate foods.
After I tell you all the new names, I have a weird deep thought/ rant to ramble. That should be fun. :D
Ok. In order of the series it now goes:
Book 1
The Goings On in the Mind of an Internet Kid
Main character: Stella Eve Cambridge
Book 2
The Goings On in the Mind of an Ex-Twin
Main character: Mackenzie Maria Canton
Book 3
The Goings On in the Mind of an Orphan
Main character: Kaleidoscope Rainbow Burgstaller
Book 4
The Goings On in the Mind of a Tomboy
Main character: Lelah Jolynn Carter
Book 5
The Goings On in the Mind of an Exchange Student
Main character: Beatrix Marisol Brinert
I changed some of their last names so they could be "the kids who just stay in their alphabetical seating even after the second week of school."
I have a few quotes from the book that I haven't actually included yet because I haven't started writing it yet.
I finally finished each character's fashion profile in Pic Collage today. Basically I googled pictures of stuff each character would wear, screenshotted it, made a collage of the images so they look like one image, typed the character's full name in the closest font to their handwriting, and describes their style in three words under their name. I reccomend the technique to writers.
Ok here's the deep thinking/ rant ramble thingy:
If you kept someone entirely secluded from the outside world- no tv, no books, no stories whatsoever- then told them to write a book, that book would have elements to it that have been done already. Even thought it was 100% original.
This was proven when I got the idea for Stella to run a Grav3yardgirl fan page on instagram through which she meets her best friend Cloe. I came up with the name "grav3yardfangirl" and I was suuuuuper excited because it was literally perfect. Then I thought to check if it had been used before and sure enough there was already a "grav3yardfangirl" a "grav3yard.fangirl" a "grav3yard_fangirl" and other variants.
It was a completely original idea, but it was somebody else's original idea too.
Weird huh?
Another example of this is the other day in language arts, we had to write an essay. Because that's what you do in language arts. The teacher talked about not using words like "good" and "stuff" etc. so I asked her if my use of the phrase "too good to be true" was ok. Nope. She said it's too unoriginal and I shouldn't copy. So I used all 5 minutes of time we were given to take our rough draft to a final copy finding a synonym for that phrase. Turns out there isn't one that means the exact same thing.
And there is a movie called "Too Good to be True." I garantee its been used in books, TV, essays, and magazines. YOU CAN'T PATENT PHRASES! There is a big difference between copying and pasting from something's and claiming it as your own, and using a PHRASE!
Like I'm all for original writing, but I was really proud of that sentence! And the one that said "there are two sides to every story." She isn't going to like that but I had no idea so I didn't edit it out the night before, and she gave us like 5 minutes to edit the was she wanted us to.
Do you agree or am I insane?
I shall speak to you again Friday or Saturday or idk Sunday maybe? ;)
Peace
~ Lilah <3