Young Writers Society

Doing the same thing with all of my wall posts after spending this lazy Sunday morning doing a "spring cleaning" in my room. I felt like I boarded a train straight through my memories. Most of the time it's uncomfortable, or cringy, others I want to tell my younger self it's going to be okay, but some of the times it's sweet. It's also interesting to look back at how I felt in situations that I've since covered with a nostalgic coat of paint.

What was most interesting to me is a post I made after the first weekend of R&J; as much as I hated that show, I much rather would have done it then go to work.

I might go through and purge when I have more time, but rather than be ashamed or embarrassed because my past isn't perfect, I have to use it to keep moving forward. Everything I've gone through has made me into the person I am now.

Elinor wrote:Memory is a strange and fickle thing. I've been sitting through 11+ years of my blog entries from high school, college, and my cancer battle. I read through each and every one of them, and then I realized them. It's interesting what seemed so important and all consuming to me at the time that I didn't really even remember. I've made a lot of mistakes over the years and have behaved in ways that I regret, but the past is the past. Now, it's time to move forward.

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Another one that will always be relevant.

Elinor wrote:👏🏻 There 👏🏻 Are 👏🏻 Many 👏🏻 Ways 👏🏻 To 👏🏻 Spell 👏🏻 My 👏🏻 Name 👏🏻 But 👏🏻 Elanor 👏🏻 Not 👏🏻 One 👏🏻 Of 👏🏻 Them 👏🏻

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I think I'm in love.

Going through old posts and I found this. It will never not be relevant.

Elinor wrote:My family when my cousin, now in her first year of college, has a sporting event: Time to plan a road trip! We must support her in everything she does and shower her with love, support and affection!

My family, when I'm *the lead* in a play, or otherwise pursuing some sort of artistic project that it's important to me:

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In which I'm going to write thirty poems from the perspective of a boy in love with a girl in the late 90s. This will be fun.

she's just a picture

I finished You Season 4 earlier today and first of all



That all being said, Penn Badgley is straight up iconic in this role, and by the end of the show I think Joe Goldberg is going to be cemented as one of the most iconic TV characters/villains of all time.

Can't wait to see how it all wraps up, and then go back and rewatch it from beginning to end, it's also kind of wild I've literally been with this show since Season 1 and watched every season as it aired. I can't say that about too many other things.

My dad's dog of ten years just crossed the rainbow bridge. It was her time, she's been sick and suffering for a long time. My dad informed that this was going to have to happen earlier this week, but he is still incredibly distraught and seeing him this way is making me emotional because he never gets like this. And I really loved this dog, she's been a part of my life for the past ten years too. I had a feeling that the last time I saw her was going to be the last time, and this isn't even my first rodeo with losing pets, but -- it never gets any easier.

#NaPoGoals So, I do want to do NaPo this year, but it feels odd because I've done it in 2018, 2020, and 2022, which means this year would be my off year. I usually freewrite based around a loose theme, but this year, I'm highly considering doing a project that will help me with one of my WIPs. I keep going to back to "Cole's song ideas" or "Cole's notebook" or whatever Cole from All Our Yesterdays would call the notebook where he scribbles down song ideas. In current drafts of the novella, I write around the music that propelled him into super stardom since I am not a musician.

I'll have to take a few leaps to write from the perspective of a guy writing about a girl, but these characters all come from me anyway. Even if it doesn't change anything in the story right now, it will help me develop his character too, and if/when this would ever become a film, it might help whatever musician I'd work with to have some sort of basis for what I have in mind. The reoccurring note I keep getting from beta readers is to define the type of musician that Cole is; I see him as Joe Jonas if he'd been a solo artist. We'll see how this goes!

The R&J audition is booked. It's a week from Monday. I already have a monologue ready to go.

Memory is a strange and fickle thing. I've been sitting through 11+ years of my blog entries from high school, college, and my cancer battle. I read through each and every one of them, and then I realized them. It's interesting what seemed so important and all consuming to me at the time that I didn't really even remember. I've made a lot of mistakes over the years and have behaved in ways that I regret, but the past is the past. Now, it's time to move forward.

Today's been kind of a shitty day, but only because I'm going back, and there was a lot of insanity with my flight that really wore me out. Now I'm gross and tired and I want to be home, but there isn't much to look forward to except my job and my banged up car. The trip last May was vacation. The trip last October was a few days to explore the city (and that time, I had to be back for GWCTD tech week so that kept me busy and occupied) and this time... I really would have been okay not going back. It's easy to forget just how many of my friends out here, and how much happier I am. I did manage to have lunch with Alex and she said at one point "it has been a long time, but being here with you again, it also feels like no time at all" and I definitely was on the same page. Four years and we picked up right where we left off.

I miss the life I had and the life I'm building. I'm nervous that I'm not as good of a position that I want to be for the move, but Alex was also saying that at a certain point she had to commit to doing it because she got caught in a trap too where she was from, and it was hard for her to save or really progress because she was depressed and not in alignment with what she really wanted to do.

I know Boy is going to be there for me when I get back...

It'll be okay. I just have to roll up my sleeves and get to work. I've got a feature to make and (maybe) one last play. <3

Funny how I pretty much wrote my current predicament into existence with the end of STARLIGHT about a year ago (minus the murder case, of course)

Why is The Little Mermaid trailer so dark? Like dark as in it's physically hard to see what's going on. The movies themselves have always been ugly and unfocused, but this just takes things to a new level.