Yep, I just created my account at NaNoWriMo. It's going to be my first time participating!
It seems like a pretty cool activity, so I thought I'd try my hand at writing a novel in a month!
I have an idea all planned out--thankfully. Now, to prepare to put everything onto paper...

Please, if you're a writer who has been scared of challenges like ( Read more... )

If I could invent one thing and make it a reality, I would make Lightning, a mysterious Olympian God my overactive imagination created, a reality, so he could be real for me to love forever and ever.
Overly romantic? Yes. But it's what I'd ultimately want.

Whenever I envision comfort, I see a simple scene in my Mind's Eye. There I am, sitting in a Panera with a half-finished baguette, some coffee that's in a polka-dotted ceramic mug, and a laptop opened to a good story that takes me half the day to finish reading. My iPod is softly rolling out the beginnings of a delightfully depressing Maroon 5 song ( Read more... )

she is ( Read more... )

by Desinere

Whenever Chad looks at Ryan, he feels his stomach do strange acrobatics. He thinks his heart skips a beat and flies out of his chest. His voice goes slightly raspy, and he blames it on a cold he never had. Troy asks him what’s up with him and Ryan, and Chad says nothing; he just shrugs and walks in the other direction.

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Personal Drabble Challenge:
8.Dollies

Desiree Danforth was a very innocent, protected-from-society type of girl.

Her mother insisted on home schooling her, saying that she didn’t want her little daffodil to be a tainted, a-buck-a-night hooker like a lot of girls these days were condemned to be, whatever that meant. She was banned from watching ( Read more... )

Here you all go, my poor, poor readers: a follow-up to my dreadful Secret Santa! xD
Since it was too long for LJ, I posted the link to my FanFiction version instead. Click the link below to view!!
{ A New Resolution }

 Secret Santa

A Holiday Fan Fiction,

Written by Desinere

Secret Santa No More- -

December 24, 2007:

Many people found it odd that they had school on the day of Christmas Eve, but they paid no mind to it. There was no classes that day: everyone just came to school for half of a day to exchange presents, watch old Christmas movies, have a wonderful ( Read more... )

Secret Santa

A Holiday Fan Fiction,

Written by Desinere

A Festive Evans is Scary- -

December 21, 2007:

Ryan couldn’t remember the last time he felt so… cheerful! He was never a Christmastime Scrooge, but he wasn’t one to deck the halls with boughs of… well, you get the point. But still, when he woke up the next day, he felt like he was made of ( Read more... )

Secret Santa

A Holiday Fan Fiction,

Written by Desinere

A Sweet Kiss - -

December 20, 2007:

It was homeroom on Thursday, and Ryan felt so tired. He was seriously overanalyzing this whole shenanigan! Ew, he sounded like some kind of old, fruity grandpa… Try that once more. He was seriously overanalyzing this whole sitch!

…Eh, he figured that sounding ( Read more... )