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My name is Jordan. I am 20. I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Fandoms: Kingdom Hearts | Supernatural | Doctor Who | Sherlock | Disney | Star Trek | Star Wars | Harry Potter | The Wheel of Time series | Reign of Fire | My Little Pony | Dreamworks |
Oscar Wilde said that if you know what you want to be, then you inevitably become it - that is your punishment, but if you never know, then you can be anything. There is a truth to that. We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a person who does things - I write, I act - and I never know what I am going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun.
Stephen Fry (via existenti-al)
Does anyone else call Moab “Mobe” just for fun or is that just me? Cuz Moe-Ab is strange.
Although there’s an entire song dedicated to all the weird names of cities or towns in Utah so there’s that.
Read Kanab as Kolob. #MormonProbs
Ikr? There are so many cities here named after BoM characters. Nephi, Lehi, and I think there’s a Mormon and Moroni Utah too. It’s nuts. xD
Sometimes I look at a map of Utah and realize that my life has been lived in like the upper part and that’s it. I’ve been to Goblin Valley twice, Zion’s National Park once, and Kanab a few times. I’ve been to Moab the most, I think. 4-5 times.
Animorphs was always a war story. Wars don’t end happily. Not ever. Often relationships that were central during war, dissolve during peace. Some people who were brave and fearless in war are unable to handle peace, feel disconnected and confused. Other times people in war make the move to peace very easily. Always people die in wars. And always people are left shattered by the loss of loved ones.
That’s what happens, so that’s what I wrote.
Katherine Applegate (and Michael Grant)
Change of plans. Christian and Colton are planning some kind of swimming party at Colton’s at 7 so we’re going there instead on the chance that there’ll be a lot of people Buggie hasn’t met. I’m glad she brought a swimsuit. I’m pretty sure this’ll be fun. :)
When I write a very witty text post and only 1 person likes it
The most common refrain from those of us who are grappling with sluggish stories and dwindling mojo is that we’re just feeling Blah. Our stories are Blah, our writing is Blah. We’ve spent the last two weeks mining our creative depths, and many of us have emerged with too few diamonds and way too many lumps of coal.
Trust the process. If you’re doubting yourself or your story, just keep moving forward. Every year, authors who press on to 50K are treated to the electric moment when the tangle of plots and people we dropped into the first half of our books end up forming unexpected connections. Themes develop. Arcs emerge. Things crackle, then hum, and, at the very end of the month, enough circuits connect that the whole story lights up with a bookish glow.
Chris Baty, on writing through the “blah”s. (via lettersandlight)
The oldest person alive was born on April 19, 1897, meaning that April 18th, 1897 was approximately the last time the Earth was inhabited by an entirely different set of people and if you don’t think that’s the realist shit ever then you can get right on outta town.
