So i noticed that i have a lot of page views, are any of ya'll going to comment or am i just talking to thin air? So these past few days i have spent a lot of time editing, even though i'm not done writing the book. You see i am all over the place on where this book is going, i will say things at certain points and never revisit them. I know that some things should be deleted and i just didn't bother to remove them. I want to change my outline slightly because i just don't like the way it's going. So I decided to take a break from writing (that and I am grounded from my iPad :p). I am on my second revision of my first chapter and it's going well, i am hoping to give it to my editor ( a good friend of mine) fairly soon. OH!!!! COMMENT IF YOU WANT TO BE A BETA READER IN A FEW MONTHS!!! I would prefer teenagers since this is the age group it is geared toward. Okay now to get back on what i was talking about, editing. All in all it sucks, but at the same time it's fun because you get to see your novel evolve and improve :).
So for as long as i can remember i have had trouble sleeping, at one point i thought i was nocturnal. Turns out mild insomnia runs in the family *shrugs*. For about 6 years about every 6 months i had to move my mattress to the floor then 6 months later back up to my bed. At my boarding school i attempted to sleep on the floor once or twice and they flipped shit on me *smirks smugly*. So lately i have been staying up until one or so writing and editing, which helps because i am able to get ahead. eventually get nauseous, dizzy, my vision gets fuzzy, and i start stumbling around. When that happens i fall asleep as soon as i hit my mattress. I think i actually get better sleep when i wait to get to that point.
Okay so when i moved to this new state i ended up at my 4th high school, because of this my credits were all messed up. Since i moved mid semester i wasn't supposed to get credit for half my classes, yet some of those teachers think i am getting credit! I was finally accepted in to the tech school that i will go to for half the school day next semester and next year as a fifth year senior, bleh. My counselor decided not to reschedule my classes around this and so i had to go to my original counselor, my new counselor, then my ROTC instructor forced me to go to another counselor i don't even know to figure it out. Thankfully this guy was actually productive and he is going to get it all done and figured out, i like him a lot.Schools are messed up, i think we need a whole new education system, i have actually thought this for a long time.
So i don't like my new Jr. ROTC that much, have i ranted about this yet? *shrugs* i don't know, but anyways i am pretty much completely sick of it. There is no discipline and they are completely different, well it is Air Force instead of Marine Corps (Semper Fi!) We get lectured at a lot, never do PT, and have a bunch of study halls, personally i think it's a bunch of bull. That and we can't even drop the cadets for push ups! Oh if my name was mentioned before and you saw that, i am taking it down so i can remain anonymous. I decided to quit and not do it anymore, because really my MC ROTC made me love ROTC, this one led me to despise it. My loyalties lie back in my old ROTC and with the Marine Corps, and they always will.(don't get me wrong i love the military and the air force has done a lot for us and i admire and respect everyone who has served)
Home life, oh the life at home of a teenager. If your a teen you know how it is when dealing with your parents, it sucks. You get grounded for the randomest things that you think they should understand, some are sent to phsyc wards and treatment because they are acting like a teenager, rebellious. (for those who have gone to treatment i understand that for some people it helps, i went my self for depression, same for mental hospitals, nothing against you). Academics and grades are a big deal, most of the things we are learning wont help us ten years from now because technology is quite literally taking over the world. My wrists hurt and i have to go to my other class, i will finish this in a couple hours *blows kisses and prances off on a Thestral*
I'm back!
Now on to the military, sorry i am ranting so much. Okay so it has been my dream since i was like 5 to be in the navy and become a Navy SEAL. Which females are almost officially allowed to go into the SEALS. Now i have been on med's for a long time, been diagnosed with a few disorders, been to therapy and been to treatment.I have been told all my life that i would never be able to go into the military. Well i finally accepted it 9 months ago, well a navy recruiter came in recently and i asked purely out of curiosity. He said i could go in and my dad said he lied. I am currently on Navy live chat trying to confirm some of these things and i am trying to be patient, but it's hard.
Okay, my blog won't be like this all the time, but it's the life of a teen, plus added stress of writing and editing a book. Let me tell you that writing and editing a book is not all sunshine and rainbow farts from unicorns, it's hard work. I consider this my second job, and i work on it as much as i can, so like 5 hours a day at least. Just wanted to put that out there.The recruiter is typing, cross your fingers i can go in! And he said treatment is disqualifying but after being off med's for a year i may be able to get a waiver from my recruiter, i just hope it wont keep me from the SEAL's!!
Thank you all for being patient with me as i ranted. As a reward i will post my first chapter by Christmas, and my second as a Christmas present!!
Okay i'm off to go clean a bathroom then hopefully edit for a bit! Bye guys!
~Lonestar
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