Hello all! Or anyone who is still around and is concerned with me in the least. I feel like at this point pretty much everyone I know and loved has left minna, gone ghost, or otherwise vanished. I'm the sad to say that I will be joining that mix. I tried to prolong my stay here, but the truth is minna is just the not the place it was and while I'm sad to leave, I think I left when the site...

Hello, hello, it's Jordan back from the dead. I know it's been ridiculously long since I've done basically anything on this site.I don't really have any solid reasoning for that. But let's catch up shall we? We’ll start with the important bit: writing. I want to go on record that my laptop is on its last leg and can't function without being plugged in so my writing mobility has greatly...

This is about to be a mess of blog so bear with me.There's a couple things I want to kinda address/get off my chest. I feel like I've been on this site for forever, something like ten years now I guess. Or maybe that's an exaggeration. And you guys know things about me, like my going out life and things about that, but I don't really share with you any aspects of my life.So here it is, a fact...

I started to write this blog earlier but I was like no one's gonna' really care but to fuel my procrastinating woes I decided to write the blog anyway.So I'm sitting here writing an update for Him & Him, I've been writing this update all week actually, and last night I was really getting places when I knew I had to go to sleep since I had to be up early. But once I laid down, all these words...

YO HEY I'M ALIVE OR WHATEVAH (any and all bretman rock fans plz proceed to my page so we can fangirl over him together)So it's been a few weeks and a lot has happened and I kept telling myself I'd blog to you guys about it but well, I got v lazy and okay, yeah, I've always been lazy. I didn't just suddenly get lazy. Let me figure out where I should begin...Probably I'll address Allen first,...

Okay, so like promised I'm trying to keep ya'll updated on the mess that is my life. While nothing that crazy has occurred, I am in fact going crazy. Since Friday, I have thought/talked/dreamed about Allen (been spelling his name wrong this whole time ::facepalm:) 100000x10^10. It's really bad.Like this is why I have rules. This is why I don't talk/text/snap/chat/get to know anybody of the...

Let me preface this blog with a little backstory on the title. My friend Brooke has always called me Whordan Hopez because my name is Jordan Lopez and its just a funny thing that works. A while back I changed my instagram bio and put whordanhopez.com in it. My friend Dom recently was like yo, I thought that was going to be a link to a really sick blog you run.And then it hit me.All I blog about to...

Or technically it is sucky AF since its only 1 in the morning and that still constitutes as prime fourth of July party hour.Not that I'm partying since I'm home and blogging about it.So let's just jump right into the worst fourth of July ever (which is saying something because last year I was stranded on a street corner for an hour).I decided because of last year I wasn't going to go out this...

Maybe it's just me but one of the things that really inspires me to write (mostly something new) or what I like to look at when I want to start a new story are lists of things people want to see in novels/stories/YA/etc. Probably that's not the right move, since everyone says you're supposed to write for yourself, but if I wrote for myself, really, if I did that, I'd probably just write the...

Dialogue is unarguably my favorite part of writing. I like to think that it's also my strong suit. I know that it's subjective, though. I'm definitely not saying I'm an expert on dialogue or anything. I do wholeheartedly believe that dialogue can make or break a story. Maybe for some realistic and engaging dialogue is what keeps them hooked and reading - it's definitely the case for me.Dialogue is...

I feel like I always blog about my nights out. Like I don't know why I think you guys want to hear these stories, but I don't have many girlfriends, aside from the ones that are with me when I go out, and I can't tell my siblings these stories because as much as I'd like to think we're like the Kardashians there are some things we just can't share.In any event, I'm going to tell you about my last...

I'n drunk it's friday night or saturday morning at this point and I'm drunk and i can't stop thinking about professor hottie because all I do is enthuse that crush which is so stupid of me. But anyway. The class ended officially, he gave us our final before finals week so the class is over. And now that the class is over I can't help but think that this is the perfect time for anything, if...

Guys. I'm drunk and I'm blogging from my phone but I had to tell you all. I went to the club my professor works at. And he was working!I went with my two friends and he goes when I get to the bar, you're not going to tell anyone you saw me here right? And I was like why would I tell anyone I ran into my professors brother and he like smirked at me.So then we ordered drinks and he like walked away...

(Createspace actually did a great job putting the book together, it has a really smooth cover and it only took FIVE days to get to me and I didn't pay for faster shipping so overall quite pleased with this site)There it is. I have my very own copy of Ellis Island. Honestly, I'm so...I don't even know how to put it into words. It is surreal to see it in real life book form and to know I made it...

Greeting my friends.I'm rightfully hung over on this saturday afternoon and here to tell you about my night. This isn't going to be one of my extraneously long stories. I'm proud to say nothing awkward happened. In fact, the only thing I'll be reporting on is a HOOK UP.Yes.A real life hook up.Occurred.Finally.The D.C. dry spell is over.I love this quote. This is how I feel right now. Lebron is...

Sorry, this is a long storyYou guys, I don't even know if I can actually tel you this story without like passing out.This semester I'm taking an Intro. to Criminal Justice class and my professor is genuinely the hottest man I've ever seen IRL. Like he should model. Like it's actually crippling how good looking he is. And I stalked him you guys before the class started. He sent out an email before...

I am in love.I am in love with Rainbow Rowell.At this point in time, I'm not sure if I want to marry her or lock her in my basement with nothing but a laptop and make her write me books.It's really bad, you guys. I think, I think that I'd follow Rainbow Rowell to the ends of earth. I want to fold into her books and live with her characters. it's crazy, I always thought that my favorite was and...

(I don't know if this would go in a forum or not, but I'm fine with it being here?)Welcome to the R&R Book Club (officially named after Rainbow Rowell, unofficially named for Read and Review - works both ways woohoo).Essentially, these book clubs are RAMPANT on Wattpad, and I thought it might be something worth trying on mibba. Perhaps it'll help with A) activity and B) feedback.The...

So on Friday nights I'm scheduled to work at the gym 9-11:45pm which is like a sin in some college universe for a young thriving student. My friend Maggie is texting me throughout my shift about going to one of our fav bars, the Brixton, and how I should meet her and our friends there when I get off shift. I'm kinda on the fence about it but my assistant manager convinces me to go.I'm already...

You know the famous quote from Hemming how we should write drunk and edit sober? Has anyone ever employed this tactic? If so, what was your outcome?I've never written anything while I was drunk. I always think about it but whenever I do drink I get entirely too wasted to sit down at a computer and write.I think if I was more of a downer when I'm drunk I'd probably churn out really great pieces but...