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so contrary to what the evidence might suggest, i have been writing (minimally, but still). and now, the rundown (cherry bomb noises)

July 8th: dialogue exchange bones of unrequited people that live in my head, the final line is "i can't bear to be without you any longer"

July 11th: 3 mini poems. the first one doesn't have a surviving line but the second one's is "I nod along to your stories and feel bad for exercising active listening out of your sight". The third one is absolutely gut wrenching because of the context (that you will never know)(but you already do because i'm the only one reading this hehe) "i wonder / who held you after she beat you". it hurts.

anyway after compiling this (short) list, i realized i haven't been writing as much as i thought i have been. *shrek face* um i think i'm gonna write something super quick rn k bye

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hola. i have resorted to the age old trick of simply trying to write everyday with the help of a random noun generator. the name of the game (and the document) is anything goes! a scene, dialogue exchange, free write, poem. whatever my little beating heart desires.

today's excerpt: i get soooooo

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women of the world (aka me), i am back.

i am now faced with God's greatest gift to humanity-summer break. which i am starting to realize comes with terms and conditions that perhaps make it less than ideal but i don't want to admit that.

anywho i want to make a short film. and i have an idea. today i did (a very minimal amount of) research. however comma i am afraid of my own laziness and with 6 weeks left i fear how much i'll actually be able to get done as well as my own abilities (and therefore limits). will i ever have the motivation and plans to do anything or will i merely dream my life away? find out on the next episode of total drama world tour.

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im back. now i am faced with God’s greatest gift to humanity--summer break. this is a great time for writing, but i don’t know what to write so i will vaguely explain to you all of my options.

- webtoon screenplay. there is a crime “webtoon” that i really like, but i felt like it wasn’t very fleshed out and had a lot of dramatic potential, so boom screenplay. season two just started which is awesome because i didn’t even know it was getting a season 2. (technically writing a screenplay for this is illegal becuase i don’t own the rights for it but let’s be real i’m not optioning this anyway)

- wattpad teen movie parody. a normal girl wakes up in a wattpad era teen movie and has to find a way out. she thinks that doing all of the expected things is the way she’s going to get out, but it’s not.

- wpopular ya novel screenplay. one of my fav ya novels that was all the rage in like 2018 but screenplayified. this would require me reading the sequel that i never read but i <3 the first book. i am going to start my reread of the first book tomorrow (well technically today bc its like 1am) and i am very excited.

so um yeah. all of these options include screenplays but do i actually know how to write a screenplay? absolutely not. but i can learn. and plus most of these are adaptations so the formatting is already figured out. but also there are some setbacks. well this first one isn’t a setback but ive been writing a lot of poem lines recently. so if my heart desires i could end up writing poems instead of screenplays which might be easier because of problem 2. problem 2 is i will be booked and busy this summer. i’ll at least be working, have a social life, and potentially trying to actually do my podcast on top of trying to write. last summer and the summer where i volunteered at the place i might be working at were both times where i planned/wanted to do a lot of writing but didn’t end up doing it sooooo poems would be easier because of the lack of commitment/ quicker nature compared to really sitting down and grinding out a draft of literally anything else.

anyway i probably won’t even end up doing any of these but that’s kinda where i’m at now so we’ll see what happens the next time i come back on here!

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day 4 of vlogmas even though christmas is over. so today i completely changed the plot of dad of boy and actually gave it a plot. so now i’m gonna be working on that with the intention of finishing that

no excerpt today because i mostly just planned. instead i offer you this:

you’re welcome.

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day 3 of vlogmas even though it’s been two weeks since my last post. but i digress. a lot has happened. i wrote two poems, decided on a screenplay idea i would be interested in and then proceeded to write nothing, worked on a seperate screenplay scene, and wrote a 600 word scene two days ago. today i did nothing. as you can see the name of the game is juat to write anything. reciept time!!

poem lines (i can’t put excerpts because that would be the whole poem neither of them were very long):

never have i looked at a chicken and thought

i think i’m supposed to be scared/when you tell me to put my hands up,

yeah that’s enough of that now for the actual excerpts

1: untitled

2: sweet dreams

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day 2 of vlogmas. today i finished the scene i started 2 days ago. it was like pulling teeth because i hate writing action like i swear i will never write novels because describing action is like nails on a chalkboard. like why would i do then when i could just be watching it?? exactly. anywho i don’t have an excerpt for today :( blame the action scene (aka the root of all my problems)

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hello future me. today is day 1 of my trying to write for 6 days a week during break. so going into break i was debating on working on yet ANOTHER scooby doo fanfiction or Not Outer Banks but then today when i went to write i didn’t feel like working on either of those so i went to a scene i wrote forever ago that i started to rewrite but never finished. as the days go on i’ll see where my heart takes me.

excerpt: depends whos asking

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may 2

wow i did more writing today. i wrote 800 words somehow? i definetly need to plan before my next session because i’ve just kinda been making it up as i go which is not how i like to do things

excerpt: songwriting 101 with daphne

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hi i am back! this time with another scooby doo fanfiction because i have a one track mind. i’m not gonna give you any context except for the working title which is ‘battle of the bands’ which is actually a lot of context. the tag name is gonna be bob the builder because i think that’s funny. also the original inspiration for this was ‘10 things i hate about you’ which is actually a lot of context.  now onto the writing post.

may 1

i wrote the opening section. it’s pretty decent. it’s also 300 words (319 to be exact) so that’s fun. 

excerpt: fred becomes a fangirl

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okay well it turns out outfits are hard and i did not dedicate any time to the other outfits so. goodbye all (for now)

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james baldwin, giovanni’s room

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first up is aqua! her style includes a lot of dresses, shirts, and crop tops. the most important motif of hers is bright colors.

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hi i am back for my next sporadic string of posts! this time i will be giving you moodboards of outfits that characters would wear. this is definitely not for my own version of power rangers because that would be so embarrassing and weird. also i will give you no deeper insight into their characters because it’s more fun this way! let’s begin

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ahhhhh i did it. 21 pages and however many words later, here we are.

exceprt: clapping

wow that’s big

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hello i have now finished part 2. also i condensed it into 3 parts so we are decently close to the ending.

excerpt: milk & (i literally forgot)

(also i will now be changing it to milk and mediocrity because that would be better)

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i’m about to start writing. last night i decided to cut the amount of parts in half so i could actually finish it this weekend. also maybe i should add some plot stuff right now because it is currently all funny no plot.