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Draft 3

Sat Sep 19, 2009, 7:41 AM
  • Mood: Zest
  • Listening to: The Beatles. Lots and lots of the Beatles.
  • Reading: Put Your Dream to the Test by John C. Maxwell
  • Eating: Biscuits and Gravy
  • Drinking: Orange Juice
Draft 3 is finally out. I'm pretty excited. I've still got a lot of work to do because I've got vision for this novel. I just hope I'll have the strength to keep at it and not let it fall through like all the others.

I've only ever finished one novel, the original manuscript of which I gave to my father for his birthday. Heaven only knows where it ended up. That was a long time ago.

But this is different, I think. It combines all of me-- my humor, my curiosity, my beliefs... everything. In so many ways, this is my story and not just something I happen to be writing. For the first time since I was thirteen, I feel wholly committed to something.

Wish me luck!

Penguins,

Amanda

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I am burning with a need, a desire to know Something More Than Myself. I've seen a mankind that desperately needs fixing and I would like nothing more than to help fix it.

One of my many passions is creating. If I hear a good song, I want to write a good song. If I see good art, I want to make good art. If I read a good book, I want to write a good book.

I love my friends and family so much-- they make my life so much more possible.

I'm a pop rock/punk rock fanatic and, to me, the most important thing in any song is good, soulful, heart-felt lyrics, lyrics with a heart beat. My favorite band (though this changes like the seasons) is Switchfoot.

My favorite movies are comedies, musicals, Disney movies, and Burton films. I love Hairspray and RENT and Sleepy Hollow and Finding Nemo.

I am a computer nerd. I am an close to an expert at the entire Microsoft Office Suite. I know how to use Photoshop CS2 fairly well and I'm currently learning Illustrator CS2. I know basics in CSS and HTML and have dabbled in Flash.

Current Projects: writing a yet untitled novel and working on some theological art pieces with a friend.

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"I must find a truth that is true for me... the idea for which I can live or die." --
Soren Kierkegaard

"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?"-Mahatma Gandhi

"The duty of youth is to challenge corruption."- Kurt Cobain

"You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted." Friedrich Nietzsche

"Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be."William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)

"My religion has no temple or philosophy. My temple is my heart and my philosophy is kindness." -The Dalai Lama

"It is, rather, a matter of faith. By this I do not mean the denial of rationality, but the kind of reasoning appropriate to a mystery which can never be captured by human mastery, and which requires an encounter with the personal to perceive."- Simon Barrow

Devious Info

  • Current Residence: Texas
  • Interests: Reading, writing, photoshop, computers, philosophy, existentialism, quakers, theology, God, talking
  • Favourite movie: RENT
  • Favourite band or musician: Muse, Five Iron Frenzy, Fall Out Boy
  • Favourite genre of music: Pop rock/punk rock/whatever you want to call it because apparently no one knows
  • Favourite artist: Picasso
  • Favourite poet or writer: Gregory Maguire, George Orwell, John Knowles, J.K. Rowling, Melissa de la Cruz, and Stephen Chbosky
  • Favourite photographer: Henri Cartier-Bresson
  • Operating System: Windows XP
  • Favourite cartoon character: Speedy Gonzales
  • Tools of the Trade: Paint Shop Pro, Photoshop CS2, pencil, paper, eraser

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:iconsf314:
Thank you for the fav!
:iconjaggedrain:
Wow, thanks for the watch! Right back at you. :D

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Who do you fight when you don't know what you're fighting for?

:peace: :music: :heart: :earth:
:iconatlantisblakes:
Of course! You're fun. :)

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My soul yearns for you in the night;
in the morning my spirit longs for you.
When your judgments come upon the earth,
the people of the world learn righteousness.

Isaiah 26:9

Theos ein agape
:iconatlantisblakes:
Definitely-- you're one of my favorite typographers. :)

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My soul yearns for you in the night;
in the morning my spirit longs for you.
When your judgments come upon the earth,
the people of the world learn righteousness.

Isaiah 26:9

Theos ein agape
:iconsf314:
Thank you for the fav!
:iconatlantisblakes:
Of course!

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My soul yearns for you in the night;
in the morning my spirit longs for you.
When your judgments come upon the earth,
the people of the world learn righteousness.

Isaiah 26:9

Theos ein agape
:iconstacyleeart:
Thank you so much for the fav! God Bless!

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