An Award. ^.^

My friend Cossy from Endless Ramblings and a Fez, nominated me for the Liebster Blog Award. I've already received the award from my main blog but I like her questions so I'm going to do the blog award, anyways. 

Official rules: The Liebster Award are for bloggers with less than 200 followers. Award winners share 11 facts about themselves, answer the 11 questions asked by the blogger who tagged them, come up with 11 of their own questions and tag 11 more bloggers with the award.

11 facts about me. 

1. I'm surprised that I can write around 1613ish words each day. 
2. I finally have the book, Looking for Alaska by John Green. It was on sale at the library the other day for only a quarter, and it's a good book to read, so I bought it. 
3. I also bought two other books from the library, they are: Octavia Boone's BIG QUESTIONS About Life, the Universe, and Everything by Rebecca Rupp and Mare's War by Tanita S. Davis. 
4. I'm scared/excited [depends on the time and day you ask me] about going to high school. 
5. I'm taking all honors classes this year meaning, more work, and possibly less time to write. 
6. I'm planning on taking AP classes next year. 
7. I have a cat that likes to hang out by my bedroom window. 
8. I think The Fault in Our Stars by John Green is kind of like his other book, Looking for Alaska.
9. My desk is really messy right now. 
10. I'm taking a college math class this year, despite not liking math that much. 
11. I don't like math despite being pretty good at it, for fear of failing. 

In which, I now answer 11 questions asked from Cossy. 

1. If you could own a giraffe, what would you name it? I would name it Bob for lack of a better name to choose from. 
2. Your best friend in the entire world gave you a rock for your sixteenth birthday. No joke, totally the intended present. How do you react? I would be polite and say, "Umm... thanks, I really like it."
3. Why did you start a blog? If I recall, I started this blog because around this time last year, I got an idea to write one story each time I have school. And it worked before Nanowrimo came, making this blog into a writing blog. 
4. What's your favorite food? Any kind of noodles, especially Asian or Raman Noodles. 
5. Can you cook cantilope? I think it can be cooked, but I certainly can't cook it. 
6. Do you know how to spell cantilope, cause I don't. C-a-n-t-u-l-a-p-e, C-a-n-t-o-l-u-p-e, Nope, I don't know how to spell it. 
7. Did you know cantaloupe is spelled like C-A-N-T-A-L-O-U-P-E? Huh, who knew? 
8. Would you ever consider becoming a lawyer? Nope, I don't have the arguing or the speaking skills to do it. However, my older sister is on her way to becoming a lawyer, that is if she enters law school first. 
9. Have you ever had a dream where you went to a public place in just your underwear? I'm pretty sure, I never had dreams like that. 
10. What is your weirdest dream? I have too many weird dreams to count, but the weirdest would be... I don't even know. 
11. How are you? I'm good how are you? 

11 questions asked by me. 

1. What is on your bucket list? (Things you want to do before you die)
2. If you had to have lunch with any fictional character(s) excluding yours, who would it be and why? 
3. What would you name a newly formed star and why? 
4. What is your opinion on the whole, world is about to end thing? 
5. What book would you want to see on the big screens and why? 
6. If you're a writer: Do you talk to your characters? If you're not a writer: Did you have imaginary friends when you were younger? 
7. Name one thing that you're extremely proud of. 
8. What is your happiest moment in life? 
9. What is your favorite country and why? 
10. Can you type out the word, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, with your eyes closed? 
11. Why are you answering these questions? 

People I tag. 

Anyone with under 200 followers. 

So, if you have under 200 followers you can take this award, if you want. Or you can carry on in your day. 

See ya later, 

A quoteful kind of day

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Beautiful People ~ Echo

“Respect your characters, even the minor ones. In art, as in life, everyone is the hero of their own particular story; it is worth thinking about what your minor characters’ stories are, even though they may intersect only slightly with your protagonist’s.”

Sarah Waters

Beautiful People, is a blog event created by two people: Sky and Georgie. They post ten questions each month, for you to answer about your character[s]. So you can know more about them. This is helpful if you want a well-developed character people can relate to, in a way.

I’ve seen it around a few blogs a couple of times and looked at the questions once or twice. It wasn’t until now that I’ve decided to do the writing meme. The only reason why I wanted to do it was because I’m bored and I want to get to know my Camp NaNoWriMo characters better. Plus, I’m quite curious about what their favorite color/book/flower/etc is.  

For this month, we got to choose our own questions by either making up our own or using a set of past questions that were already used in their archive, because Sky and Georgie were busy over the summer. So I decided to use the very first set of questions that they posted, considering that, I’m new to the whole thing. So without further ado, ladies and gentlemen, here is the first character.

Quick info on the story world: In the year 2200, America is literally silent. You get rich for having no words come out of your mouth but if you talked you go into poverty. The chitchats* are tired of it so some of them starts riots while others slip in and join the tawel** community determined to break down the silent system on the inside. Meanwhile, the tawels are also doing the same thing; trying to break the chitchat’s system down by sending some of their own to join the chitchats community. So it’s a constant war between those two using technology that are far too advanced than our modern ones and something else, something quite wrong.

1. What is their full name? Echo’s full name is Anastasia Amsel, but she would rather be called Echo.
2. Does his or her name have a special meaning? Echo’s real name Anastasia doesn’t have much meaning other than the fact that her parents wanted to name their daughter after royalty. Her nickname has special meaning though, from Echo repeating questions and phrases back instead of answering them.
3. Does your character have a methodical or disorganized personality? That’s a hard question considering that I don’t know Echo that much, but if I had to guess, her personality would be somewhere in between. She breaks down at night when no one is watching but during the day she’s kind of snarky but she hides it by being charming especially with this certain guy. ;)
4. Does he or she think inside themselves more than they talk out loud to their friends? (more importantly, does he or she actually have friends?) It depends on the friend but she is more likely to think to herself than to actually talk out loud.
5. Is there something he or she is afraid of? The two things that I can think of right now are spiders and her mom. She’s afraid of spiders because they’re small and can easily crawl up your leg without you noticing it. She’s afraid of her mom because of certain reasons but she’s angrier with her mom than scared because of the things that she did in the past.
6. Does he or she write, dream, dance, sing, or photograph? Out of the choices listed here, Echo is more likely to dream than dance, sing, write, or take pictures. However, her dreams are more nightmarish than the happy, odd, and/or normal dreams.
7. What is his or her favorite book? (or genre of books) She doesn’t really read but she likes to look over the latest fashion magazine.  
8. Who is his or her favorite author and/or someone that inspires him or her? She doesn’t have much people that really inspire her but one of them would include a girl named Lana (a tawel).
9. Favorite flavor of ice cream? She likes this zebra striped ice cream that has blackberries and vanilla in it.
10. Favorite season of the year? Echo really likes autumn because of the slight chill in the air and the need to wear jackets that aren’t too heavy or too light.

Well that’s it, also if you want to know what Echo looks like go here. The drawing was drawn by fudgemonkey from the YWP Nanowrimo forums.

*Chitchats – People who talk.

**Tawel – People that is quiet. (The name may change)

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Camp Nanowrimo ~

Camp NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) - A writing event that is like NaNoWriMo only it is held in the summer months of July and/or August. It is where you try to write 50 thousand words in a single month.


Today is day four of Camp NaNoWriMo, and today I'm supposed to have about... 6452 words according to the calendar that I made.

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And right now, I currently have about 8,061 words. It's not a lot for those who has done Nanowrimo before, but it's a lot to me. I'm pleased with myself for even having that much words in just a short amount of time, considering that I've never tried to write 50 thousand words before.



And Camp Nanowrimo or plain old Nanowrimo lets you do that. Just write fifty thousand words of your novel (or poetry, or script, or whatever), without really worrying about what is going on the page. It's nice because the book that you have been wanting to write for years is now suddenly out on paper free from your  head. So if you love writing and want a book that was written by you, then I recommend doing Nanowrimo, and if you're a bit impatient and want to start now, then start now. It isn't too late to join Camp Nanowrimo, though you'll have a lot of words to catch up on.