100 Themes

Hellos -

So Summer is coming...well it kind of is Summer, but anyways - I'm going to be doing a lot of Photography in the month of July but I want all or at least a good share of my Summer to be spent behind the camera! Or reading or something along those lines, and so I was looking at this blog, and the blogger had posted something about 100 themes but for writing. I took that list, and like 3 other lists and made my own list. I am going to start June 1st and end (how I manged to do this I have no idea) on my birthday, which is in September! I'll try to post each one here everyday, but if I forget, please leave a comment and I'll post them!

I'm going to try to get some in black and white, but I have put down in the list color names, so a few will be in color. You can see my list for yourself here, and if you'd like to do this also. I need a link to your blog cause I want to see what you come up with! :)

-Olive

hmm.

So it's been slightly a busy week. If you can call it busy. I doubled up my school work, as I only have 6 weeks left. And yes I know most people are already on Summer break, but I usually don't get Summer offs. This year is like my first Summer off and I'm pretty excited! I already have a bunch of stuff I'd like to do! Anyways - I doubled up my work, and altogether if I had done it all at once I would have been done in about 2 hours or so. To sum it up, I wasn't that busy this week.

NaNoWriMo - for those of you who don't know - gives out that Createspace thingyyy if you win, and so I finished mine! It's 56 pages of poetry. Sorta bad poetry, but poetry all the same~ And so I'm looking forward to getting my free copies!

There isn't much else to talk about today.

Kind of out of it tonight.

Hope you all have a great night~

-olive

b&w Images!

Afternoon!

So today, I don't really have anything else to do, so I'm going to show off some black and white images! Since b&w is sorta where I got the blog title from, why not share some? So last Sunday we went to the national park and being in the woods obviously produces wood-like-images.

I usually keep most of my images in color, but I've been obsessing with the whole b&w look. As a friend and I proceeded to say in a comment conversation on Facebook:
me: They like...I have no idea how to explain it. It gives it like /more/ then it does with color.

 

her:  Exactly! I'm not sure how to put it in words either. There's just a certain depth to it that's so beautiful.

Which I realize makes pretty much no since, buuuut. It does explain how b&w images feel to well us. Black and white images have something about them that color images can't give. At least I think so.

Thoughts?

Rambling

I decided to write something small today. As 1) it's Saturday 2) I woke up an hour ago 3) which makes it 2:48 PM where I live 4) which is a very hot place. Also I have to write something small because I'm not exactly supposed to be on the computer at this time of day. *cough* I'm a very normal teenager alright! Kind of. Okay not really normal at all. Conceding the fact that I write about dragons and humans at war. Actually that was when I was 12. I've aged some since then. Okay like 3 years. Shhh.

Well that was kind of stupid. As was my last post. (I totally did not already write up a response to that post pftt what are you talking about?) And my humor sounds so much better in real life. Just sayin'. So I was going to stay up all night last night, but couldn't stay awake any longer at about 4am. My sister was also staying up with me, and went to bed when my dad went to work. She has a lot of energy okay? Plus us teenagers like sleep. At least I think. I know I like sleep.

One thing I really would like to do right now though is go to a concert. @_@ I've been to 2 already this...wait...last year I went to 2! This year I have the joy of having gone to none. AND the one band I want to go and see my dad won't take us too! (Us being my sister and I) Why you ask? Because "they are liars and aren't Christian." ....Dad....some people view the lyrics differently...? Either way can't talk my dad into seeing them live again (might I add the first time was AMAZING). Which sucks. Greatly. Because I love them so.

Anyways, I'm rambling. I don't even know what I'm writing this for anymore. Hmm. Oh! So apparently I've sent 10,853 text messages.

...

I'm so lucky I didn't die last night. I am so lucky we have unlimited text messaging. My dad said *cough* it's like 300+ a day which means 30 messages an hour, as I'm only awake say 12. ....I'm not sure how this happened.

Okay I'm pretty darn sure how it happened, buuuuuut yeah.

Oh, and so this magazine I sent pictures too still hasn't responded and its making me mad. I sent one back at the start of May, and I forward it to them again a couple of days ago. They usually respond by saying they go the email and will let me know if they chose any of my images. They haven't even done that yet. I'm not exactly worried about it, but I would love to have another picture in the magazine. I guess I'll have to deal. Which I don't want to do. I should probably just research some magazines that are looking for nature images.

Anyways, I better get going. My grandparents are coming over later tonight (like every other Saturday) and we're celebrating my dad's birthday, as it was yesterday~
Hope everyone has a good weekend!

-Olive

Character Development

Character development, one of the key ingredients needed in a story of any sort. Or maybe it’s not the development itself but the characters. Characters are a key element. They hold the story together; they are the glue to a piece of plot.

Characters are not only in stories or novels.

They are also in reports, and poems. Songs included. How?

Reports have to be about somebody. That somebody has just become a character in your rough draft. A poem can be wrapped around a figure, and so that becomes a character. Same with a song. Your dad is a character in your life, and each word or thing he does will affect you in some way.  Just like your main characters dad’s actions will affect your MC’s life.

Characters are simple. Then again, they’re not.

Characters have to have names, and personalities. These characters are the key to a successful piece of writing and you have to get them right. This takes time though, so no freaking out. Characters. They are flawed creatures. All in all, they are human, in our minds, in our brilliant minds these characters are a piece of us and so to us, they are more than just a person to read about. They are human, they have flaws like us, they have favorite foods and colors, and they have things they do and do not like. They are paper versions of humans.

I think one thing authors really have to work at in their books, is character development. If your character can walk through anything, and have no fears then that isn’t a character. Well it is, but your reader isn’t going to feel bad for that character later when it loses its final battle, which is apparently this characters only existing fear. Characters should have human emotions. (Unless of course you’re writing something sci-fi and decided that that Vulcan should not show emotion when it comes to anything as that is not logical at all.)*

My characters, for me, are pieces of people. I know, I know you’re not supposed to base characters off of real people, but how else are people supposed to be inspired to create a character as unique and brilliant as that? I think each author (and I could be completely wrong) takes something they like about someone and (unknowingly?) make it a part of a character. I think some do it on purpose and from reading a friends work, where she based *cough* a couple characters off of 1) herself 2) myself and 3) other mutual friends, it takes work to cover up the fact that that character could indeed be based on Edward Cullen.** I’ m quite certain that writers can pull this stunt off. And I believe that is something all writers are going to have to work at. Because when someone at work or school makes you mad and you go home, you sit down at your desk, couch, whatever, and start writing. Okay that’s a lie and we all know it.

 First you’re going to sit there and mope. Then you’re going to surf the web and waste countless hours because, why not? Then after eating five tubs of ice cream, and when the cookie jar is empty (this means Saturday will be spent cooking instead of writing.) you will set up whatever program you use, and start (finally) writing. And say, your villain comes in, or you don’t have a villain so some random stranger is going to start yelling or whatever at your MC because that’s simply you letting your frustration out because someone yelled at you. And when you read that over, you might not see it at first, but give it a couple of days, and you’ll be able to tell that that piece of writing happened because of what you were feeling that day.

Tip!*** You should erase all emotions that you are feeling, maybe go over what you last wrote, get into your characters brilliant mind, and think like said character! Get your creativeness going, and write based on what your character is feeling. Not you.

*If you just understood that, I love you.

** I don’t read those books or watch those movies or anything to do with sparkly vampires. It was the first thing that came into my head.

*** Don’t listen to my tips, I don’t do them myself. These are just ideas popping in to my head at the same speed my fingers type this up, which after somewhat non-thought-process took me about 10-15 minutes to write.

Hi there!

I'm not so good at these introducing myself kind of things. So um...hi. I'm known as Olive~ Which is actually a real name. In fact I read a book that had this town in it named Olive. It was very interesting to read about. And since the last time I was on blogger a lot of the stuff changed. It's actually kind of neat. I like it. So um some simple facts you should probably know about me, cause I'll probably post about some of those things.

I like to read, write, do photography, watch TV and I like food, depending.
Oh and I like music. A lot.
So the T.V shows I will probably talk about the most are 1) Doctor Who 2)Sherlock and 3) some random show we're starting to watch. yup.

Hmm...what else to share...

What I write - mainly fantasy, because I can't seem to stay away from elves, dragons, dwarfs, and/or super-un-natural powers. I also write some poetry, which I may or may not share here. And I write short stories but I haven't done that in a while.

Photography - pretty much whatever looks cool.

what i read - pretty much anything. yup.

music - (copyed and pasted from my YWP page)
Owl City, Taylor Swift, The Band Perry, Three Days Grace, Linkin Park, Avril Lavigne, Mumford and Sons, Bruno Mars, Iris by Goo Goo Dolls, Skillet~ Panic! At the Disco, The Wanted, Fun., Chasing Cars - Snow Protal, Kelly Clarkson, TobyMac, Paradise, The Scientist and Princess of China by Coldplay, Gotye, A Fine Frenzy, A Thousand Years and Jar of Hearts and Arms by Christina Perri, Superchic[k], Facedown and Your Guardian Angel by The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus. Gym Class Heros, Plain White T's, Dog Days Are Over by Florence + the Machine, Adele, Love liek Woe by The Ready Set, Katy Perry, One Direction, Break Even by The Script, Sail and Not your Fault by Awolnation, Train, One Republic, Tenth Avenue North, Demi Lovato, The Call by Regina Spektor, Stronger - Mandisa, John Mayer, Scars by Papa Roach, and Collide by Howie Day oh and The Fray~

So yup, thats pretty much it. I'm gunna post about character development tomorrow because I'm weird. Now I must go to bed. Night~

-Olive