Wow, its been forever since I've updated this. Since then, a lot has happened, and also not very much at all.

I'm back at school. My roommate this year is a million kinds of awesome, and also a little eerily like me at times. But not too much, so its a good balance.

Other major 2009 events (some you might know of):
-Finished "Seventy Times Seven"
-Began "Of Two Evils" (The sequel)
-Finally came up with the full plot and ending of the 70x7 series (and oooh, boy, are you all in for a ride. I won't reveal anything, but just know I'm a daring author who won't pull punches just to make readers happy.)
-Revamped the plot of my first attempt at book writing (kept the characters, ditched the cliches and came up with something even more compelling than expected)
(Now to the non-writing-ish front)
-Joined a Biology Honor Fraternity to remind myself just how much of a contradiction of interests I can be, and then rose to the rank of Secretary to remind myself interests don't have to be exclusive.
-Got my FIRST B in an English class, and am really damn proud of it!
-Got an A in my first really creative-writing English class, which helps me feel better about my pursuits.
-Got in a car accident that I still don't know how I managed to wind up so well out of (you know those writing-imitates-life moments? Sometimes I wonder if it inverts, on occasion...)
-Had my first surgery because odd-numbered years hate me passionately.
-Learned that my Grandpa is going to be married, as well as my cousin, and my best friend, and half my sorority. Already preparing to overload on sappy romance, and will probably be killing off many characters to compensate for the overload of fluff.
-Went an entire year without a single romantic entanglement or complication (which might sound depressing, but is also really fine by me since... complications suck).
-Got an accurate diagnosis for one of my chronic health-ish problems, and have been working on treating it.
-Started shifting the balance so I have more close guy friends than girls, which is fine by me.
-Had my mom find out I'm a Witch, and she actually took it surprisingly well.

However, I've found the last bit of the year especially exciting for two major reasons:

1) I got an acoustic guitar for Christmas! I have named it Harry, after the late, awesome musician Harry Chapin. I suck at it, currently, but as soon as I finish building up callouses, I'm going to be playing constantly.

2) I got another new book Idea! Yes. I know. I'm not even writing the ones I have fast enough... but it happened on accident, I swear. So... I'll elaborate on this last point vaguely.

The concept arose when I noted to my friend how it seems sometimes Automatic doors blatantly ignore me, and I have to wait for others to go through them to get out... and this combined with the fact that no matter how much I talk in classes, I'm always the last name/face teachers learn, if at all. Which led me to wondering if I had an extremely limited, annoying version of invisibility. And when I commented to a friend that it makes me think maybe everyone has a superpower, its just that they're so random, pathetic, annoying, unbelievable, or simply downright unnoticable that most people don't recognize them... well, that's when the lightbulb went off.

Shortly, I determined the idea would be limited to only a handful of people with sucky superpowers (cause otherwise people would be constantly asking "what is this person's power? And this one? and frankly, I'm not going to define the powers of everyone down to the mailman, thanks), and that, for the sake of plot-building and drama, this powers would be able to defy reason slightly and evolve into something of more superhero-quality, and that the discovery combined with the evolution would make up the core of the story.

So, after I write the first chapter(s?), I will be putting them up. You'll hopefully soon meet Dana, Tristan, Wesley, Chloe, Bryce, and Adeline, who have abilities that I'm referring to as "Ignorability," "Empathy" (the closest to a true superpower any have to start), "GPSing," "Colorcoding," "Thermacontrol," and "Stalkability," respectively.

This series will hopefully be rather humorous (the concept alone was born out of a sarcastically humorous self-observation) but also have actual plot and also dramatic twists. I want it to both slightly parody the genre and also fall into it easily at the same time. With that being the case, any comic-book-esque plot needs some sort of "bad guy", but since this will also be a character-driven work and no one is really that natural of a supervillain, I think I'm going to go with the more obscure and moldable "bad guy" being "The Man". Cause who doesn't love screwing with the government and people's fears of it?

Anyhow, I'm rather excited for starting to develop that idea (I've got a few major plot points, but the whole plot hasn't revealed itself yet since I'm still working on the characters), but it should straddle a fine line between character-driven drama and almost-campy action-and-twist-driven humorous plot. If I do it right, it should be a smooth bit also stomach-churning emotional rollercoaster, and the entire series won't get written until I've perfected my skill a little more via Seventy Times Seven and its sequels.


So, here are my major goals for the year (to be started STAT):

-Finally write a query letter for Seventy Times Seven and send it out (after much deliberation, I put it off, because while I don't really do superstition often, even numbered years are usually far luckier for me than odd, and in this situation I need all the luck I can get).
-Learn guitar, and how to play several songs well on it.
-Finish another book.

So... wish me luck! We'll see where this year takes me.