Still that Girl

The following song really reminds of Olivia McCarthy for some reason.....

I really love this song, from the first time I saw it on YouTube until right now where I'm listening to it off my computer.

"Still That Girl", by Britt Nicole.

(It gets kind of addicting to listen to.... =P)

(And, yes, I'm listening to this song right now.......)

I really like this song, and not only because it makes me want to go and write a story about a girl who feels like she's the last person on earth who anybody's ever going to love and then she finds God (which, by the way, makes me want to go and write......), but because it seems to speak to ME, too.

(By the way, if you get bored by my song ramblings, why don't YOU tell ME what YOUR favorite song(s) is/are???)

I don't know if I told you guys, but I'm in the process of trying to write a book about a girl named Piper Leap. (Awesome name, right?) Anyway, it's going to be called September Piper (please don't use this name), and it's about this girl, Piper, who lives in this town. She finds out from her friend, Casey, that Casey's going to be moving to New York. Casey has overheard her parents talking about this to each other, though they haven't personally broken it to her. Piper's horrified. What's she going to do without Casey?! Not to mention that she pretty much gets forced into having to take a computer class--computers have always confused her--and gets paired with her least favorite boy in the world. It gets even more complicated when people start coming to Piper for help with their problems...

I don't want to break all of the secrets, but that's part of the plot. Piper's just a Christian girl--kind of like me, but a little bit more like what I'd like to be (actually, she's quite a lot like me)--who's confused and sad that her friend's moving to New York and is trying to help her prepare herself for the separation of the loss of her friend. I've lost friends before, and I pour that feeling into this book. I really hope that you guys will like it if I ever get it published. :)

By the way, I haven't got really any news about the magazine publishing thingy about Connie. I had to send in a little bio and of course the book. I'm really excited about this. Please pray that people will be blessed through my writing. I really want God to work through me. I'm not the most bold person, but when I'm writing I can get a clear message in there. I just hope that I'll be able to bring somebody to Christ through the words that I write.

Well, I've already written like three huge paragraphs, and you guys probably have lots of other blogs that you're wanting to visit, so I'll bid you guys farewell. Thanks so much if you read the post!!! :)

Later gator.

Over and out.

Some updates, and a name change...?

Dear Readers,

I didn't mean a name change of this blog, so it's OK. Really. :) I meant like instead of Piper. I really do need a different name, especially since I'm now thinking of myself on this blog as looking something like this:

Yeah. So I was thinking something more like... I don't know... magical? Princess-like? Anyway, if you have any ideas, please talk to me.

Anyway, so the reason that I haven't been posting for the two days is...

... I was puking my guts out on Wednesday. Yeah, not pretty.

Actually, it wasn't that bad. It was bad, but not that bad, I'm saying. Yesterday I mostly just had a massive headache and watched movies all day. Yep. Pretty much confirmed that The Adventures of Tintin, Lord of the Rings, and How to Train Your Dragon (I had watched Tintin just a few days before and our LOTR movies were being loaned, so amazingly I only watched the Dragon one =P) are some of my favorite movies.

Yeah.

Have any of you guys watched HoodwinkedToo? Well, I got to, and I didn't really like it. They all looked different, their personalities pretty much changed, and... well... let's just say that I would describe the story line as "dark". Yeah.

So--

What have you guys been doing? ;)

Love,

Xxxxxx

('Member--talk to me about a new name ;D)

For those who lost their lives yesterday

Dear Readers,

I was heartbroken to read about the 27 kids who died in Connecticut yesterday. I couldn't believe it. The thought of the shooting reminded me of all the shootings that have happened this year. Already there have been three major shootings this year--this 2012. This year of the triple 12s. Yesterday night I watched The Hunger Games and it just reminded me of that--kids being killed. It's horrible. Pray for the kids' families. I can only imagine what it's like for them.

Love,
Piper

Hola!

Dear Readers,

I didn't get any name ideas in the last post, but for now, I'm going to call myself Piper. If you guys hate that name or have another name idea, please come and tell me and then I'll consider changing Piper. OK? OK. :)

Sometimes it's so hard to think how to create a story. Know what I mean? Like you have this really great idea, and then you start writing on it, but then nothing ever comes out of it. What are you supposed to do? I've done this lots of times. In fact, a lot of my stories were like this. Even my story Rubberboot Girl kind of happened like that. I had all of these great ideas and then they just got sllllllllllllooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww............... But then one day, I just went on there and started writing again. And then before I knew it, it was finished. Some things just happen like that. Usually what gets old story ideas alive is just more ideas.
As you live life, more ideas just keep on coming. And, some how, you can fit those into those stories that maybe you've put up on the shelf for awhile because they're just not quite right yet. But when you do get them right, they might just be your greatest story yet.

Sometimes it's also kind of hard if you have like several projects going on at one time. At the moment, I have about three to five live projects going on, and then I have those "other" stories that I skip over to if I get really, really bored and I just can't keep myself concentrating on the story that I'm trying to write on. (It's always good to have those kind of stories on hand, that way if you just kind of need a break you can have it and then, when you're back and juiced up, you can get working harder on your story then you ever did before.) And of course I have about several hundred "dead" stories that I probably should at least TRY and work on. But sometimes it's kind of hard.

How was YOUR day?

Love,

Piper