Vanessa (V.P.) Eboneigh

You Don't Always Have to Murder Your Darlings You don't always have to go so far as to murder your darlings—those turns of phrase or images of which you felt extra proud when they appeared on the page – but go back and look at them with a very beady eye . Almost always it turns out that they'd be better dead. (Not every little twinge of satisfaction is suspect—it's the ones which amount to a sort of smug glee you must watch out for.) ~DIANA ATHILL I have always wondered about this. It would make me so sad when they would kill my favorite characters! PC Cast is one prime example! I love House of Night but everyone kept dying. Same with Harry Potter. No one has no idea how upset I was with Sirius and Remus dying in the books! I was all noooo! Let Pettigrew die not them. I was upset. I began to see a pattern in the books I was reading. What went through my mind was why do authors have to kill the main characters, can't they simply have them just leave the book peacef...

I must not cry while writing this post. This is going to be a very sad post for me. Harry Potter is one of the best book series I have ever read. I am so sad, not just for for the books, believe me I was sad when I hit the last page in the epilogue, but now the movies are over. The wonderful books and movies that turned me into the avid reader  that I am today are now over. I wish Rowling would continue the series with the kids going to Hogwarts.  What I like is how Harry after growing up with so many troubles in his youth got his happy ending.  *Sniffle* Here's the trailer.

So Sara Lane a soloist with the American Ballet Theater spoke out about how Natalie Portman didn't really do much of the dancing in her film The Black Swan. Anyone could tell Natalie didn't really do most of the dancing. Half the times you couldn't see her face in the film. Looking at the time she was cast for the film, and when the movie was released. There is absolutely NO FREAKING WAY she could have been a classically trained ballerina in two years, and the fact that Portman took credit for the dancing is astounding. What I find even worse is how the film didn't even give credit to Sara for the dancing in the film. I trained in classical ballet for years, and let me tell you something it takes years of training to develop all of those skills. The only movie on dancers I ever really liked was Center Stage. The company used real professional ballet dancers from dance companies and didn't have to waste film time training dancers. Natalie Portman is just insulting to...

The Core of Every Good Story is a Character for Whom We Care The core of every good story is a character for whom we care—and not just care a little, but care deeply. This alone is no easy task: Such a character must be likable, but not annoying. He must have virtues but remain imperfect. She must possess the potential for sacrifice, for selflessness, for selfishness, for evil. He may be funny, but not only that. She may be serious, but not only that. He comprises many dimensions but not so many that he seems unreal or unpindownable. ~CHUCK WENDIG This truly is a good quote about characters. In writing, sometimes our characters are based off of ourselves, or someone we knew deeply. One contemporary story I wrote was similar to one of my past experiences. I wrote it as a way to reach out to teens but I'm hoping an agent will want to pick it up. As an author we want our characters to get remembered by the audience who is reading them. In an interview I saw on TV with New York Times B...

I am back! And I really should be updating this blog regularly but I am a student and school is very important. So I'm back with another quote. Unplug the Phone and Close the Door I unplug the phone and close the door and just stick with it. I don’t ever go out for lunch and I don’t take vacations. I like to be awake when no one else is: either just before dawn in the morning or late, late at night. Silence helps. -MONA SIMPSON YES! This is what a writer needs to follow when it comes to locking yourself in the writing cave. My house is always busy, and people are always disturbing me when I'm writing. Also when I wrote for unnameable online communities. I have to lock myself in my room, with soothing sounds of nature in the background so that way I could get some decent peace of mind to write my stories. Sometimes, I'll go to sleep at 7pm just so I can wake up at 4am when the rest of the house is asleep.

I went to see the Black Swan in theaters yesterday. Since I used to be a dancer I will always watch movies dealing with theater, music, and ballet. I had seen the trailers and I wanted to see this movie very badly. I actually really liked the premise for it.  A ballet dancer for the New York City Ballet wants to be the best. The company is doing Swan Lake for their fall show, but the catch was there would be two dancer, one for the black swan, and one for the white swan, so the director puts it to where the dancer has to be able to do both roles. Nina works hard to achieve her goal in becoming the Swan Queen and trying to get the role drives her to insanity. I loved this movie. What I really liked was the film portraying how everything in the performing arts is about competition. In this art your friends are your competition because everyone is vying for the same spot. I didn't like some of Natalie Portman's roles as Nina but when it got to the scenes of her going crazy I felt ...

I tried to do NaNoWriMo for the first time and frankly I just failed badly. I only got 10,000 words written. I think that might be because I kept going back and editing what I had wrote before. Maybe I could take what I have written so far and later on try making it into something much more longer. I guess I will have to see what happens.