Finals, SAT IIs, ACTs, I am going to clown school.

I won my school's creative writing contest! I have 30 pages left in Ulysses! I have like three more weeks of school! I'm applying for a job at Barnes and Noble!

Hi!

So, though I haven't updated here in months, that's not because I'm not writing anything--if anything, it's the opposite. I'm working with my dad, who has a lot of experience in this--ran a literary magazine for a while endorsed by some pretty 'important' people, like two-time Pulitzer Prize winners--Dude, I just found that out like yesterday!--to get some things in small press to put on my college transcript, and posting stuff online can be compromising, copyright wise, for potential publication material.

Just a heads up, and wish me luck!

So I've realized that I've been working on a single story since October, and that I haven't finished an (actual) story since that disgustingly long one back in July. (This one is--yes, I have a serious problem--even longer, and more unorganized). But of course I have scattered around, in various stages of completion (or incompletion) several thousand. I have no time! School is killing me! And I am very caffeinated right now (Turkey Hill's Lemonade Tea, iced of course, very sweetened, very addictive, I have not gone to bed before two in the last three days). It will be done in the next day, or after that, but no later, or I am a failure at life and should just stop trying.

On another note--not really another; school, still--i took the psats, and did well in writing and reading (top one percent and two percent, respectively!) and...well, crappy in the math. But that's okay, right? Right? Well, no, I don't know. It's fine. I might make national merit--as a semi-finalist, not a finalist. As if that's really going to help me get into college ("Look! She did fairly well on a practiced standardized test that we don't even consider in evaluating prospective students!") There are too many parentheses in this journal entry--too many dashes. Oh well.

But I was wondering, just in a general way, whether everyone writes on the computer nowadays. I know I do, and find writing on paper exceedingly difficult; ideas are harder to pin down for me that way. I type as fast as I think, and write much slower. But all the writers I admire, and many of my absolute favorite books, were, of course, written by hand. This has prompted me to dabble in writing some stuff on paper, too, and I was curious if other people prefer pen&aper to this blank blinding computer screen.

And, well, if i was a certain person named Ashley Simeone, reading this or not reading this, I would try to get my ass onto AIM soon, to confirm to a certain person that I am not, in fact, dead, or crushed in a blackhole, or kidnapped or the like. Slut!

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