What I've Been Doing:

Ugh, migraines completely suck. Literally. They suck the life out of you. That's what happened yesterday, and I'm actually thinking seriously about just going home and sleeping because the screen in front of me is kind of blurry and pulsating a glow of ickyness. It's that bad. Blech.

These past few weeks when I've had a blogging break, I haven't blogged because I'm kind of branching out on this story that I started last year at school. I don't want to jinx it, but honestly, it's not a very good one. The story is pretty predictable, but there's no huge conflict, either. I love writing the story, and I have shown it to a few people, but it's not a big huge thing that a publisher would want. But see that's the thing: I know I am writing it for myself, but something deep inside of me wants this to become a novel that people would actually read.

The story revolves around these two characters: Emily and Matthew. Emily is literally a princess (I tried really hard not to base her on Mia from Meg Cabot's stories, but it kind of ended up that way) of a small nation that borders Matthew's country. Matthew is the son of one of the leaders of the country and is kind of in line for his father's seat. The idea of the story is that they meet and fall in love, happy ending and everything.

I guess my point is that I wanted to write a story not of 'star cross'd lovers' but of a situation where it's kind of expected that they fall in love. I think that's the conflict that Emily and Matthew face; they do fall in love, but not because they're supposed to. To the world around them it's a no-brainer.

That's where my problem comes in; it's not exciting to read/watch two people who are from similar backgrounds, have personalities that compliment each other, and are SUPPOSED to fall in love. That's too much like ordinary life to most people.

So in short, that's one of two reasons why I haven't been blogging much. The other reason is based on the fact that a lot has been going on and a lot of it is stuff that I shouldn't talk about (mainly, what's going on at work), and things that I'm unsure of. My life is kind of a mess at the moment, so blogging about it seems like I would be misrepresenting some things. The people around me know what's going on, and that's enough for now. Although I probably will be saying my side of the story some time soon.