Macbeth engrossment for 8CLA

So, um, hey...
                         I have been watching a modern version of Macbeth in Drama this morning and I thought "wow, Joe (Macbeth) is sharpening that knife with out even looking at it". Lol...
Anyway, the reason he doind that (whilst SINGING!!!) was because he was head cheif and Duncan got the credit for Joe's 3 star cooking. So Joe goes stabby, stabby then Miss tells us to leave because the bell
is going.
Anyhoo, I liked it and all of the class were sat engrossed. I looked around and thought "WOW, wow, Shakespeare has done THIS to a group of (kinda rowdy) tweens, Krystian, a boy who isn't the sharpest knife in the box, was like "No....no... don't kill him, don't be tight." and I was all like 'Shakespeare has touched him, touched us all'.
I have promised before and I promise again I will eventually do a blog on the Bard!

I forgot to mention that 8cla is my form, formed from our form tutor, Catriona Lawrie's intials, and because some teachers share intials, the first two from her last name.

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I now have agirlwhowrotestories.tk.

Poorly Alby = Poor me

So, Hello!!
I'm exhausted. Albany keeps waking me up in the middle of the night, crying!!! It's the pain of her throat infection, but she refuses to go get her medicene. Leaving me to crawl from my nice warm snugglely bed to go get her dad. Poor me.

Well, as I metioned before, I will be doing a Greek myth twist, but my twist was just got a whole lot better. *wink, wink* I'm not telling

Harris' vampires and cancer jabs *ouch*

Ok, so, I've decided to read the Southern Vampire Mysteries novels by Charlaine Harris, a.k.a the TruBlood novels. But they're only know as TruBlood due to HBO.
Anyway, I went to the Libary (one of my favorite hangouts) and asked the lovely Mrs.Loy about Dead until Dark, the first novel. Mrs. Loy is the libarian, she's an ambrosial little woman with short dark hair and a beaming smile. Who ever came up with libarians being scary obviously hasn't met our lot. So she's got Dead Until Dark for me...
It's awesome. I can hardly put it down. I'm hooked. I'm only on page 55 of 326 and plenty has gone off!!! A real page turner so far. It's taking my mind of my acheing arm due to my cervical cancer jab.

YES! They gave me the last one of three this morning. It feels like being stung by a bee but now my arm aches terribly. But at least I won't get the three deadlist cervical cancers... Wait a minute, that means there's more we can get, and I still have to have a yucky 'smear test' every 5 years when I'm older. This is not what I signed up for 'sigh'

Death by Boredom

I am so bored. BOOORRRRRREEEEEEEDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Youtube has taken over my life!
I find myself singing THE KEY OF AWESOME parodies. That's how bad it's got; I know the lyrics of Youtube songs. I need something to do before I die of boredom.
By the way, THE KEY OF AWESOME is a really funny group who make hilarious videos. You should watch them.
Luvs ya Amy xxx

Happy Easter

Happy Easter! Are you all enjoying your chocolate? You can see some chocolate facts, on my earlier post 'Chocolate...".  Anyhoo, I am hoping to finish my first novella soon :)

Oh, yes... I have just finished Going Postal by Terry Prattchet. It's a very good book and Mr Prattchet should be proud of his work. I would recommend it to all 12+

The problem is that when the maker looks upon their creation, they will always find imperfection. They don't realise the only perfection in life is love, and love involves looking past the flaws-Amy Young, 2012

I have started to stress out over my novella as when I, myself read it, it seems like total rubbish, yet everyone else praises it. I know these people are they lying?

So to develop my seemingly cruddy writing skills, I have decided to rewrite The Littlest Mermaid by Hans Christian Anderson and the Greek legend of Hades and Persephone. I shall twist up the legend, maybe chuck in some kiddie-winks (YES, YES, The youthful Goddess of Fertility doesn't have any kids in the Greek myth but Hades is meant to be infertile, dead people not haveing kids 'n' all that jazz).
As for The Littlest Mermaid, I won't do Disney's happier version, but twist the original. Also, I won't rip off Disney with "Ariel", even though they kinda stole that from Shakespeare. (blog on the amazing playwrite later)

This means I do need to read more fairytales, but that's no chore. I love Hans Christian Anderson and The Brothers Grimm.
*pulling Jacob's and Wilhelm's cheek* You little con men, you.

Also surfing the web for inspiring fairytale pictures, which also spark my own stories.

Stress over writing, crying over music

The worst thing about writing is that when you have none of the basic facts and you have to STUDY!!! I do that enough at school... *sighs*

Dunh Dunh Dunh!!!
I do I that?
hmm...

Thought one does think whilst trying to figure out your plot, transform it into a script. Plus who the heck is going to perform it/ make it into a film?
I mean,  it maybe slightly sci-fi but my story is not Spielberg's cup of tea...

Deeeeeeeeeeeepppppppppppp Brrrreeeeatttthhhhhhs, sssssssllllllllooooooooowwwwwww reeeeeeellllllllllleeeeeaaaaaaaaaasssssssssssssseeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyhoo, to cheer myself up, I am listening to New Rock music that makes me want to cry *smiles unbelievably*

I need to talk to my Goth friend Grace (no seriously. I'll get a photo eventually). She's good at writing and being annoyingly pedantic.

Back on the subject of New Rock, I have now become addicted to it. It's, like, the only thing British people can sing... Maybe because it fits with our miserable lives and weather. (Weirdly, weather is the most talked about English subject, blog on that later).

Grace won't talk to me *sad face*
 So I'll talk to her dog instead *happy face*