Monday, January 30, 2012

Reviving this thing, because study time.

It's amazing what you can get away with in study time. So long as you have some sort of wordy document open, or are typing something out, they don't bother looking closer.

In other words, for those like me who enjoy text-based games and writing/reading fiction, it's actually kind of easy to get away with all sorts of stuff.

Like writing this post, for example.

Admittedly, I usually just continue working on my entry for Beyond Words, which is at least somewhat productive. In a fun side project kind of way. Even so, I need to stop doing things like writing this post/messing with PHP/messing with Java/random not-really-school-related stuff, and get back to writing it.

On a side note, it's amazing how many cliches I can justify putting into it with the excuse of "I'm writing YA. It's supposed to sell, not be a classic." On one hand, I want to write a mindscrewy piece full of subtle red herrings and plot hints, but on the other hand, there's no way that will win, so I've gone all the way around and started writing crappy cliched teenage romance fiction with a hint of fantasy instead. Or something.

Anyway, back to actually writing it instead of this.

Aha~n.

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Still-very-dead blog

Might un-deadify this blog sometime soon. Except that nothing substantial will actually be posted, and by "un-deadify" I mean use the blogskin as a PHP testing ground.