NikkiNeurotic / Comments

She does sounds a little bit like me. My accent is quite posh compared to the people who live in my area, so if they notice me say Baa-th instead of Bah-th they go completely loopy. And then they ask you to say all sorts of other words. Grass and bugger are apparently extra funny. I don't mind too much, but it's when they start copying you that's annoying.

Well, practise is the key, I suppose!

Woot! I love As. They just look sooo nice on pieces of paper. Bs are good too. And Cs look quite pretty. But Ds are ugly letters. No offense to them. Fs are particularly good for nothing. Lower case fs are good, but nobody ever writes them...

Mmm, I know what you mean. Generally nowadays I either find myself doing that, or not being able to word what I want to say at all...

Eh, they're basically the same. Wordpad has no margins and utilises the full space, so I just feel like it's better for creative writing.

Depends how large your paragraphs are, but I've got 5/6 plus introduction and summary in my essay, which is roughly 1300 currently. 1500 is the standard amount to start off with for our essays at the moment. We write one about once a fortnight, which is lovely... I personally am beginning to hate writing essays. I used to find them fairly enjoyable but nowadays everything has to be written so concisely yet 100% evaluated and detailed. It's extremely difficult not to babble.

That sucks major [insert suck-thing of your choice here]. Seriously. If that happened to me, I'd throw things across the room and cry and curse, etc. That's why I type everything up on WordPad (Microsoft Word is too formatty for me). I just hate when it asks me if i wanna save or not and I get paranoid and think I should maybe read it over one more time to check for things I might've missed, so I intended to click Cancel and click No instead and it all disappears. And it's always when I've done a bunch of work that I'm really proud of. D<

You sound like me!!! I'm meant to have finished a mini-essay (1500 words), my personal statements and completed my UCAS form. Plus done these stupid maths questions which are insanely hard.

Yeah, that tends to happen to us as well, as I tend to be the only person who can be bothered. At least, it does in English. You get the odd strand of genius from someone else, which is always welcome.

No, I think that makes sense. Although, personally, I'd find it really hard to edit anyone's paper but my own. Spelling and grammar would be easy, but you have to find a balance between strengthening the person's writing while preserving their unique style. In my opinion. Beginning writers wouldn't have found that niche yet, so you could guide them with that...

Tis the best teaching technique. Although some people really don't like it. One of my friends gets extremely bossy whenever she's in a pair - no one can stand to be her partner!

Mmm, I like teachers that don't always just talk at the class.

Yeah, well, even I was a little surprised. I was dubious about whether I'd managed to get it all in, but I got an A* for the exam, so I think it worked!!!

Yeah, she followed me. XD
And I followed someone else... it was like a mass migration.

Mmm, I just go with the flow. I reread it if I get at all impatient.

Mm, yes. But I'm good at condensing. I condensed a whole chemistry textbook into 3 pages of notes earlier this year, when I was revising. They are awesome characters - I must admit to nicking some of their traits every so often!

Yup, I've been subscribed to [i]Time Lifts the Light[/i] for a while now - she's an amazing character. I don't think I've found her rival yet. Certainly on TLTL her characters are uncannily lifelike.

Mmm, M&Ms are good. I never get them though, because I do all I can to avoid sweets. I tend to kick back onto the chocolate instead though, which isn't great...

It's great isn't it? I've been there since the start, and it still makes me shiver when Taz publishes something new. I've promised to turn it into a film should I ever reach my dream career of being a film director.

Really? Haha, that's oddly flattering.
I'd like to be slightly famous, not like plastered-over-every-tv-screen, people's-grandmothers-know-who-you-are famous. Honestly, I don't think I could handle fame. I'd start kicking nosy paparazzi in the nuts in under a week.

Okies! that's good:
[i]The Pellinor Series[/i], by Alison Croggon - first one [i]The Gift[/i]. Fantasy type.
[i]The Wind on Fire Trilogy[/i], by William Nicholson - first one [i]Windsinger[/i] ditto above, first is for a younger audience-ish, but they grow up, and all are awesome.
Anything by Garth NIX. I'd particularly recommend the [i]Old Kingdom[/i] books and [i]Shade's Children[/i].
[i]The Foreshadowing[/i] by Marcus Sedgewick.

Oo, don't worry, I've had no internet connection for the past week, so I'm probably a little late in replying myself! I'm trying to do everything now before I loose it again!!

Eee, I can't do that cos I'm not on holiday yet. Only two more days to go though!

Sure thing, er what sort of genres are you into?

Oddly, I actually like timed essays. I perform better when I'm under pressure, and since it's only an hour or so, it's easier to be focused for that one hour than for a week if we do a normal essay, because I know I'll procrastinate. I'm the type of person that actually needs to be under some type of constraint if I'm going to do anything well. For example, I really don't like if we have our class journals and the topic that day is to write about anything we want. I usually end up writing some really embarassing nonsense, or some weird subject like Japanese dolphin hunting and my views on it. Anyway, sorry for boring you there.

One of my dreams is to make a little album of songs I wrote all myself. Not that I want to be a famous musician or anything, but it'd be hella awesome if I could do that. And then maybe play at a coffeehouse. Mm.

Also sorry for the long time it took to reply. Laziness. There's really no excuse.

Oo, rewriting stuff always scares me. I tend to get in a very big mess... chunks of writing get switched round and then the plot doesn't scan, or I switch one object for another and then forget to change one reference... So one minute he's talking about a spoon and the next minute it's a duck...

Hmm lightbulbs just suck generally.

Agh, that happens to me sometimes too. Sucks, doesn't it? I'd like to patent a machine that translates the interactions between neurons in your brain into words so you can write books at the speed of your brain, and a similar machine for composing. I hate when I make up a song in my head and then I have to figure out all the notes for it because I'm actually not very musical. Are you musical?

Oh, and I hate editing, although I'll edit/reread my work relentlessly since I'm so OCD.