As mentioned in my last post, I have a new literary love. It is the Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins (Hunger Games, Catching Fire and Mockingjay), and it is what I hope to someday be able to create. Immediately upon finishing it, I wanted to pick up the first book and start again. I… Continue reading The Hunger Games
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The books…
...they are eating my time. I promise to post a real blog just as soon as I've finished reading the Hunger Games. And it will probably be about the Hunger Games. Ravenously yours, M.M. Jordahl "May the odds be ever in your favor." -Effie Trinckett, Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Rethinking Stories
Would it be too late to completely re-write Bottom of the Garden? That's a stupid question, I know. How could it be too late to re-write a story I haven't even finished writing? But here's my thinking (warning: if you know nothing about the plot of this story, none of this is going to make any… Continue reading Rethinking Stories
I’m a bad person.
More specifically, I'm a bad blogger. I would blame all of you for being bad enforcers, except that I've been writing about entrepreneurship at work, and you can only read so many "take responsibility!" and "go out and achieve your dreams!" blog entries on inspirational websites before you start feeling like all your failures are… Continue reading I’m a bad person.
Nerdiness
Well, it's official. I am the nerdiest nerd I could possibly be. I have come into this questionably awesome title by way of my boyfriend, and his nerdy, nerdy friends, and their decision to organize a Dungeons & Dragons campaign for the summer. Drew is the DM, and somehow I've ended up being co-DM despite… Continue reading Nerdiness