Thursday, July 19, 2012

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

Okay, now I am going to start playing around with what I like when I write. For example, the story I was going to post was full of popular culture no one cares about. I don't think people find that truly interesting. I am starting to find politics truly interesting.

I hate this transformation, kind of a "I hate myself for loving you" situation. I love watching The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report, I have always loved those, but now I have fallen to the ranks of This Week, The Newsroom and Meet the Press. By the way, The Newsroom is awesome. The f bomb is in there at least once or twice every episode, as a warning. Since it is HBO they don't bleep it either. But if you can, watch it.

But this didn't inspire me to change what I am writing. Those gears have been playing around in my head for awhile, but I saw a piece on HG Wells. He is the author of The Time Machine, War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man and a couple others. The show was explaining the science behind each book and how the science to make HG Wells's dream into a reality. I saw how much the face of humankind was changed by those books. I discovered I wanted to write something important.

I have not gone the route of HG Wells, he was fascinated by science. I am fascinated, but researching science would not be a labor of love. So I went the Orwellian route, politics. George Orwell wrote Animal Farm and 1984 which both in a nutshell explained Communism and what its future effects may be. I have not quite gotten a hold on what I am going to write, but it will be interesting.

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Friday, July 13, 2012

Moonrise Kingdom Trailer



This gives a better idea of what the movie Moonrise Kingdom is about. It inspired this story, so go see it if you can. If you can't, watch a bunch of trailers.

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Chapter 1 Warnings

This is all about Red Vines and failed romances. My real life person who I normally call Marc in my stories, is not really any part of this character. Yeah, Marc is the boyfriend, but not the serious boyfriend.

This story has many more pop culture references. For example, Chapter 1 is all about Red Vines (which if you don't know them are like fatter, thinner less sweet versions of Twizzlers, and brace face approved) and Moonrise Kingdom. I believe it is still playing in theaters, I still see ads for it. Totally worth it. Wes Anderson.

Moonrise Kingdom is my favorite movie and here is what you need to know. It is referenced all over the place in the book. Sam and Suzy love each other, they have been writing letters for a long time but they are both twelve. Sam keeps getting moved from foster home to foster home. Suzy is misunderstood by the parents she has (one of which is Bill Murray). Sam and Suzy decide to run away together. Sam is running away from the Khaki Scouts, where all the rest of the kids treat him as an outsider and Suzy is running away from a family that just doesn't really care about her.

Adeline narrates most of the story, but it will mainly switch between her and Beck. Beck is supposed to be grumpy. Adeline and Dr. Mc Intire are both great characters. Dr. Mc Intire can be spelled like that or how it is in the story, in the original draft, everyone called him Atticus, but the possessive is hard with names like that.

Enjoy :)

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Chapter 1 : Red Vines and Failed Romance


Chapter 1: Red Vines and Failed Romance
            I bit off a piece of Red Vine while Beck and I were walking home from the movies. We saw one of those movies that made you think, one of those movies that cold change your life. We saw Moonrise Kingdom. The theater was practically empty, since the movie came out May 25th and we ere going July 2nd. It was the story of how Sam, a Khaki scout and foster parent reject, and Suzy, a girl who has not-so-good parents and can sometimes go crazy, run away together, which also forms a search party. It was funny to find they knew what they wanted more than anyone else. It made me consider my current love life. Sure Marc is a great teenage romance, but I could never truly love him like those two, and they were twelve!
Before I allow you to plunge deeper into my psyche, I think you should know who I am. I am Adeline McIntire.  My last name was inherited from my guardian, but I will tell you more of him later. I can read minds and histories upon a first glance. If I hear someone and don’t see him or her, my power is useless. I can know everyone in a single moment.
Now back to my love life. When I was looking for someone to be with, I noticed most teenage boys weren’t…suitable for my tastes. So, I chose the one whop repulsed me the least with their thoughts and feelings, Marc. I did love him, even in a romantic way, but that had long since faded over this summer. Our once burning love now left burning embers in my heart.
I was contemplating this as I was eating my Red Vines. My brother, Beck walked quietly beside me. He was eighteen years old and I was sixteen. He was probably thinking about his girlfriend, Colette.
Colette was a sweet girl. She was smart, but not smart enough to see the obvious. Beck had few things he loved, and she was not one of them. Colette was named after the character in Les Miserables, since her father played Jean Valjean in a local production of the musical. He just didn’t recognize the poor girl’s name was Cosette, not Colette. Her father became famous. Her mother was already ripe with fortune.  The beautiful, blonde-haired, blue-eyed, rich, French girl was any man’s dream, but not Beck’s. Colette wanted him to love her, but his heart was in the logical. Any girl who could get him out of that would be the one.
Any boy who could trump or feed my love of movie romance, bacon, true romance and Red Vines would be my true love.
Red Vines broke the silence. “You know I really love Red Vines.” I admitted, taking another bite.
“Twizzlers are better.” Beck responded.
I shook my head. “Red vines are softer and less sweet than Twizzlers.”
“Say what you want, Twizzlers are better.” Beck replied.
“But Twizzlers don’t turn your tongue red!” I stuck out my tongue so he could see.
“Ew! You know I hate germs! And the human tongue is a germ factory.” He responded.
I still kept my tongue out. He backed away. I mildly tortured him with my Red Vine tongue for about ten minutes. My tongue was actually red it was cool.
When the time to be immature was over, I asked “So how did you like the movie?”
“I can’t believe you dragged me to that thing.” Beck responded. “It was so girly. It was a freaking love story.”
“Yes, but about a Khaki Scout and a tortured teen. It conveyed deeper meaning, it provoked thought… feelings.” I responded
Beck remained silent for the whole rest of the walk home. When we reached our house’s front stoop, he turned to me. “I don’t feel.” He spoke simply. He unlocked the front door afterwards.
Dr. McIntire (my guardian) greeted us at the door. Beck swiftly made his way to his room. I just sat on the sofa.
Dr. McIntire asked, “How was the movie?”
“Really amazing. You and I have to see it again.” I responded.
He laughed, “Well I never saw a Bill Murray film I didn’t…”
“The one with the underground city that made no sense.” I countered.
He stopped laughing and gave me a smile. “Well, I never saw a Bill Murray comedy I didn’t like.”
I laughed. I bit off another piece of Red Vine. He laughed again.
He told me “Give me one of those.”
I handed him a Red Vine. He bit the top off, and then pulled both sides of the Red Vine apart. That blew my mind. Red Vines could have double the awesomeness!
“I need to go to sleep, I am tired.” I told him, still with a huge smile on my face.
Dr. McIntire nodded. “See you in the morning.”
I snuggled up in bed. I turned on my music and drifted off to sleep. I fell asleep wondering if my Suzy will ever find its Sam.

NEW STORY!!!!!

I am just sitting down to start typing my new, unnamed story which I can't reveal anything about without giving away the whole story.

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Thursday, July 12, 2012

Forget the short stories

I HAVE SOMETHING BETTER!!!!! Actual NEW story. BRAND SPANKING NEW!!! And it will be coming at you sometime this upcoming week.

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