writing quotes that I love

Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning: I wanted to know what I was going to say. ~Sharon O'Brien

I try to leave out that parts that people skip ~Elmore Leonard

If there is a book you really want to read, but has been written yet, you must write it. ~ Unknown

The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible. ~Vladimir Nabakov

Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe, shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish. ~John Jakes
Writing is am exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go. ~E.L. Doctorow

Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save them selves, to survive as individuals. Don Delillo

why I write

I love writing. I love that you start out with nothing of importance, a piece of paper and a pen, and in the end you have something beautiful. Something that is unique and special, that can touch people and change lives. I love how the words flow out of me like silk and turn my thoughts into something real and tangible. I love the feeling of accomplishment when you finish something you've been working on for what feels like forever. I love all of the worlds it opens up to me. When I write I don't have to be me, a normal, every-day, little girl who hasn't done anything really important (yet) from a town no one has ever heard of. When I write there are no limits or regulations, no expectations, and nothing to hold me back. I can be any one and any where I want to be. I love the power it gives me. The power to shape and change lives, even if they are only pretend lives. I love the escape it gives me. I love all the raw possibilities you have when you stat with a blank page that is just waiting for you to fill it.

I'm sick of being sick

well this is me, sitting at home, at 10 o'clock, on a Thursday, throwing up and covered in an over all feeling of gross sickly-ness, as I am starting to think is normal. It is not normal, at all. At least not for most people. I guess I am just special. Oh well.

St. George

So this week me and my family drove down to St. George to surprise Kelsie for her birthday. When we knocked on the door she was so shocked that she didn't even recognize us for a minute, but when she did she tackled all 5 of us to the ground. We went inside and she had 3 little kids sitting in the living room, for a minute I was worried that she had kidnapped them but then she told us that they were the neighbor kids and she had paid them to come over and play with her because she was lonely. Poor Kelsie. They left, and we all got caught up and went to dinner. Kelsie got Fettuccine Alfredo and I got a hamburge and we split them and I was so glad that she would still do that with me even though she is all grown up and pretending to be mature.
Saturday morning we went to se How to Train your Dragon and I decided that I love it because the dragon reminds me of my doggie. When we got back from the movies we walked down to the park and attempted to play volleyball but we gave up after a while because we realized that we are all very bad at volleyball. That night we went to see Grandma and Grandpa and we didn't fight so it was ok, then the next morning we went and saw Sarah and the kids, Jack Jack and Nick were both at their grandma's house and I missed seeing them so I am glad that we will be back for spring break!
I love going to St. George! (especially because it is warm!)

last wek wins

Last week I was sick Wednesday-Saturday and it was still the best week of my life! Monday Me and mom went and got my permit! Finally! And I have officially started to drive, you may want to stay off the roads!
But that is nothing compared to Tuesday morning!
Mom, Dad, Kelsie, Gracen, and Me all went to the temple and did baptisms for my grandma Sherly, Great grandma Shannon, and Great great grandma. It was amazing, and one morning that I will not be forgetting ever! I am so grateful that I am a member of the church and can do that for my family!

Epic

There was question on the word epic and as I attempted to answer said question I ended up writing a comment that was epic, but was nearly as long as the post I was commenting on so I decided that epic was an epic enough word to get it's own post!
The dictionary.com definition of the word epic is as follows: heroic; majestic; impressively great; unusually of great size or extent.
I disapprove of this definition. While it is true that the word epic defies all definition I believe they should have tried harder to fit this word into a 5 to 6 word sentence that basically sums up this wonderful word because that is an epic fail.
Epic is 'heroic, majestic, impressively great, and usually of great size or extent' but it is also much more then that. Epic is a way of being. To be truly epic you must be amazing, superb, lacking in nothing except for a down side, and in all other ways wonderfully, astonishingly, perfect.
EPIC people: Me (of course), every one I associate with, a few other people!
EPIC things: the weekend, Popsicles, days off of school, summer, the first snow of the year, a few other things!
EPIC places: St. George, that place which you call home, the place you feel safe, any where you are loved and love being, a few other places!
Taylor Lapp's definition of the word EPIC: anything, and everything that you deem to be perfectly enjoyable in every way. I hope that clears up any confusion on the word EPIC! ! !

Wally-world-third-person-sprekening(speaking for those none germen understanding types)-new-moon-watching-epicness

Well, obviously I had a good week end and I am assuming you all did also because if I assume you have had a bad weekend then you would be sad and that would be lame. Heather came home with me and we hung out with my familia making quilts and then went to walmart and bought a fabulous dinner of frozen pizza, potato chips, Mountain Dew, and skittles, then we found our friend Emma and she came home with us and ate food with us and we had fun just being us, because us is epic. Then after a while Emma had to leave and me and Heather started writing because we are writing a book together, right now it is called Anything But Perfect and is completely wonderful. It is about this boy, Forrest Evergreen, and this girl, Meghin Smith, who fall in love and they are both just the coolest peoples we ever did create.
Well obviously writing takes a lot of brain juice and finger stretching because after we were thoroughly worn out at around 1 in the morning I said that my fingers hurt for an excuse to stop typing and some how this got us to thinking about how it would turn out if all the charactors of all the books that the two of us were writing (both together and separately) and ended up talking for them for about 3 hours and because we were saying things such as 'Tristan is offended," or "Nathan says that is stupid," we ended up talking in the third person and it made us laugh and then we realized we sounded crazy and went to sleep.
Then my padre had to wake me up and ask me to clean out the fridge and freezer. SO I was and then I was putting away the groceries that he brought home and I dropped a can of corn on my big toe and it hurts reallllllllllyyyyyyyyy bad and my toe nail is the color of blue froot loops, which I am guessing is not a good thing.
Well because my toe hurt so bad we decided to go to the dollar theater to watch new moon with Emma and Cody (my toe isn't really why we went it had been the plan all along) so we ran to wal-mart in the snow (we is heather and I) and bought a bunch of candy and Cody's dad came and drove us to the theater. It was really fun mocking Edward and the cheesy-ness of it all while at the same time loveing Taylor Lautner's abs and teasing Heather and Cody because both of them like each other and both of them know it but they won't admit it because they don't want their friendship getting weird so they both decided not to admit they like each other untill they are sixteen, which is good but they would be such a cute couple and I am so excited for them to just admit that they love each other! Well when the movie was over we were waiting for Cody's dad to come get us and they all attempted to teach me how to be gangsta but I fail epically at being gangster so we gave up on that and then we went home and I hung out with my sisters, it was all pretty epic.
and that is my weekend of wally-world-third-person-sprekening (speaking)-new-moon-watching-epic-ness in case all of you were wondering!

ello!

ello,
it is the time of night that I get very tired and i was about to go to bed but then I heard the word blog on the television and was like, "Hey I have a blog! When was the last time I posted something? OH, I should fix that!" Well now that I have told you what I said to my self I will give you my opinion of valintines day
I think it will be swonderful when I have a boy who loves me and takes me out to dinner and buys me flowers and all that but until then I think I will tell every one that I think it is a made up holiday created by the candy and card indistries meant to make money and crush people when the love of their lives forgets it. Really, I don't get why people need a special day to tell someone they love them, if you love them you should tell them every day not just once a year! Gosh. Well I am tired and that tends to make me more judgemental of things.
night

2 months

I am sorry to say that I have failed as a blogger. I just get busy and forget about it. I guess I will give you a quick recap and try again.
In the last 2 1/2 monthsI have:
sent kelsie off to collage
started the ninth grade, and I am loving it
turned 15, still don't have my permit
started writing a new book, it is coming along amazingly
and I think that is basically it. And i am pretty sure no one ever reads this, because i never post but I have decided that I don't care and i will keep posting randomly so that when i get bored I can come read the random things I have said.

Stake dance

Last night I went to a stake dance (my first one) and it was AMAZINGLY fun! A ton of my friends were there and I had so much fun pretending we knew how to dance! Then Aubri, Julie, Megan and I ate about a million strawberries and then I saw like the whole cast of it runs in the family and it was so much fun to get caught up with them! I am offically excited for school to start so that I can see every one every day!

GIRLS CAMP!!!

For girls camp we drove up to Altimont (a camp up in American Fork Canyon) and we had so much fun! The theme was peace and we got the coolest sweatshirts, they are green with the out line of a VW bus with the words peace spelt out in it. (I will post a picture as soon as I get one) We spent one day at the lake and the was super fun and my favorite part was singing camp songs and running through the sprinkler they set up with Serena. And Gracen and I brought up a duffel bag filled with candy and it was way fun trying to eat all of it in 3 days.
And I am really tiered even though it has been 4 or 5 days because I had a sleep over with my friend Heather and we stayed up late and heather would not let me sleep so we stayed up until 5 or 6. it was fun because we rode bikes to smiths and ran around for a few hours then we got back to her house and watched Ever After, The Princess Bride, Monty Python and The Holy Grail, and Never Been Kissed. It was awesome! Hooray for summer!

Cini, 4th of July, and mom's surgery

So Cini was here for about a week and that was sooooo much fun. I really miss having her around! And on the 4th of July we drove up to Travers Mountian and looked out over the vally and watched all the fireworks that we going off. It was so cool and pretty but I missed Coldasac of Fire. We definatly have to do better next year. And mom's surgery was on Friday and everything went fine. She is in the ICU still but will hopefully be coming home in about 5 or 6 days so that is good. And I went to my friend Heather's birthday party and it was so fun because Nolle feel asleep and Heather and I pulled an all nighter. We spent like 6 hours looking up people on facebook, it was so much fun! And that is all I have to say right now so. . .
bye