Why Some People Are Annoying

I wrote this little short story during seminary some time after Christmas. There was this kid somewhere behind me that was driving me nuts! (actually, he was driving the entire class nuts) I wrote this to kind of dispel my annoyance and it ended up just being kind of fun:

Once upon a time, there was a little boy named Ennoy. He was often caught doing things such as making stupid comments, getting off task, and doing things he supposed were funny, but weren't. Like tripping people, flicking things at people, slamming lockers shut (yes, they had lockers back then), placing gum in areas your sure to touch, etc. No matter what people said, he never stopped.

When he was old, he was eating some gruel by the fire when he said, "I must find a way to pass on my skills." (No one would marry him. Surprise, I know) So he put aside his gruel and went to the long journey upstairs to visit his mother's uncle's brother's wife's sister's son's dog's Grandmother (needless to say, she was a witch). She cast a spell that caused all of the village inhabitants to become like him. Then those two died.

The people of the village idolized Ennoy and dubbed themselves "The Ennoys". As time went on, the Ennoys passed on their skills to their posterity and each generation spelt it differently. Finally they are just called "Annoying". The saying "You are so annoying" was brought about by these people and is referring to the original "Ennoys".

The End

26 Things I Will Never Do

This is inspired by a post my sister did about things she would rather do then get up at 5:30 in the morning. I was thinking about it today and I was getting slightly bored so I came up with my own little list of things I will never do. :)

• Stand in a crowded place for five hours
• Dissect a full cow stomach (blech)
• Step on a thumbtack (and then it gets stuck . . . )
• Listen to a three hour Biology lecture
• Go without writing for a week
• Watch an entire golf tournament
• Wear dusty contacts
• Stand on the top level of the Empire State building
• Wear bright pink
• Actually look for a needle in a haystack
• Paint my room bright pink
• Eat chocolate bread
• Raise a leech
• Understand politics
• Skydive
• Write a Symphony
• Eat sushi
• Go scuba diving to look for sharks
• Hunt the Lochness monster
• Become a teacher for teens
• Fight a Klingon with a pain stick
• Have a staring contest with a frog
• Go by the name Hepzuba
• Go on a date with Quark from Star Trek: DS9
• Raise a flobberworm
• Become a vegetarian

I Have No Idea What I'm Doing

How many of you reading this are my age and have finished a book? . . . let me rephrase. How many of you reading this are my age and have finished writing a book? Well, I salute you superperson because its just sunk in entirely that that is something I haven't actually done as stupid as that may sound.

Is it even possible to finish a full out book in three months? On my negative days I some times wonder if its even possible to finish a book at all. But seriously, I don't know how to write a book. Well, I do, but I don't. Sure, I've finished reading books and seen plenty of movies and such, but how does a new writer go about writing their first book? How do you build up to things? How do you know when to put certain things in? So many questions, so little time.

I don't want this to turn out like another one of my ranting posts about my incompetency, that'd be boring. But hey, welcome to my head!

But running off the tangent and jumping back into the point - I am a very new writer and have problems with expecting too much of myself. Some times I judge myself at a professional level which I know isn't fair to myself considering I'm still pretty young, but it just sorta happens some times. The fact that I'm not the best plotter doesn't exactly help either, but that's all right.

Anyway, I write my book and it flows, then I remember this is a book and not just a scene in my "Random Scenes Book". That makes it a little harder. So how do I go about fixing this? My ideas thus far:

• Find a time when I can really shut everything out and focus completely on the story at hand.
• Forget about making it good now and just write, fix it in the rewrite.

And . . . that's pretty much it. Yeah, not a very exciting list, but hey, I'm not very experienced yet. Maybe in six years it'll be cool and stuff, but for now, I'm leaning to the second one. However, I still don't know if I can finish it by the end of the summer. We shall see . . . .