How does everybody like it? I think that I am finished with it! Now to the dedication and summary…
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We need to write the dedication for the End-of-the-Year Book today because it is due tomorrow, so please tell me whom you would like to dedicate it to as soon as possible, so I can write it up!
| Mr. Gifford | Mrs. Nelson | The Readers | God | Zac Demars (MHS Freshman with Cancer) |
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| Votes | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Here is what I have so far, but remember that this is just my basic outline and I am far from done. Please help me decide on colors, and tell me how you like it so far.
With colors, I have decided to color the dragon a deep maroonish-red, but am still unsure about the stomach scales and the webbing of the wings.
Mr. Gifford, I need to know the size of the cover art that we are choosing. Are we doing a full cover picture, a medium-sized one in the middle, or a large one taking up almost the entire bottom half?
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Okay, so the cover art is due like this Friday I think… I need to know some things. What do we want on it? Do you want me to do a variety of things such as the different genres on our “logo”? Should I do just one like a dragon or something? I need some ideas and I’m kind of freaking out right now due to all the work I have right now, so sorry about this messed up post, but gaah! I am really frustrated and I just want to get away from it all right now…
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I got an idea now! How about this, a dragon curling around a large hourglass with space in the background and butterflies and flower petals pouring in the hourglass rather than sand. I’ll throw a quill pen in there somewhere.
How does everybody like this? Anything you want added or taken away?
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I have finished the basic outline and am about to start coloring it. What colors should I use?
“Great Expectations” by Charles Dickens
I would just like to say that I am not disappearing from Magic Pens, although it may look that way right now.
This entire week from April 22 to April 28, 2007, I have been so busy with so much work that I have only been able to scribble down 745 words off of Magic Pens. I feel so tired as I write this due to the fact that I have not done anything “fun” since last Saturday. I am not kidding when I say that this entire week, every single day, I have woken up, gone to school, came home, did homework, and gone to bed. Even on this weekend and last Sunday, I have done nothing but homework… I have just been so swamped with work that it’s ridiculous. Well, I just finished now at 5:00, after working so long, (staying up to 3:00 in the morning on Saturday just to wake up at 10:00 today and start working again,) and am proud to declare that I have some free time! Sorry to say that I will not use this time to write…I’m just not in the mood. Right now I am so unmotivated and am just in a really cruddy, grumpy, and crappy mood, like always when I work too hard.
As for reading, (for homwork, might I add,) I have read 77 pages of Great Expectations, written by Charles Dickens.
Now, to do something fun…but crap. I have to draw our cover art…Let me get started on that.
“Great Expectations” by Charles Dickens
This week from April 15 to April 21, 2007, I had plenty of time to write and was not very busy, yet I still didn’t get a lot done. I immediately wrote No Longer in Darkness Chapter 4 on Sunday, but found that nobody read it and commented, (Hannah did today. Thanks Hannah!) so I got really unmotivated and just didn’t write.
I have a lot of art requests that I have been doing too. I drew a monkey, a lion, finished my guild’s layout, finished Mr. Gifford’s dragon, and still have to draw an elephant, horse, and swan.
So, this week I wrote 3, 524 words on Magic Pens and read 72 pages from Great Expectations written by Charles Dickens.
I hope that I get motivated to write this week, so wish me luck!
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For the end of the year book, (check Meeting Overview: April 20,2007 for more information,) I heard of an awesome idea from Elizabeth.
Right now, we are currently going to submit whatever we feel like with one random theme. What if we do this but have one guideline? Every piece that is submitted into the book must have this one particular item in it; the item may be the main point of the piece, or may just be sitting on a table in the background. This would make it fun to search through each piece to find the item and would keep the book a little themed, but still wide open for anything at the same time.
There are many items that we can choose to be the one item, but here are a few that we were brought up.
- hourglass
- quill pen
- feather
- apple
- globe
My favorite is the hourglass which I think would be a cool idea. If you have any ideas or have a favorite, comment and I will add any new ones to the list. Hopefully we can decide on one so we can start making arrangements for our book.
If we do decide to do this, then I have an awesome idea for the cover art. I could draw the one item, whatever it is, and have whatever else around it. Currently I am picturing a dragon curling around an hourglass, but whatever we choose will effect the picture.
I don’t know what you all think of this idea, so please comment and share your thoughts!
We actually had a pretty good turn out at the meeting that was held on April 20, 2007, with fourteen members, but unfortunately Mr. Gifford’s eldest had pinkeye and needed his father at home with him. Due to Mr. Gifford’s absence, our meeting only ran about 20 minutes long or so and we took a brief run through of some topics.
“Great Expectations” by Charles Dickens
Don’t ask me why I didn’t get much writing done this week. I really don’t know why. I didn’t have much homework, and I was only a little bit sick, so I really have no excuse.
This week from April 8 to April 14, 2007 I accomplished a total of 1,027 words, (most of it unpublished.)
As for reading, I read 39 pages of Great Expectations, written by Charles Dickens.
I really feel like writing about Ratorin, a character from my story, The Horse From the Woods, but he doesn’t appear until Chapter 3, so I may write some more on that story this week. Other than that, I really don’t know how much I plan to write this week. There is a meeting this Friday though, and meetings always put me in a good mood. Hmm…
I actually drew a lot of pictures this week, going for a more realistic approach towards animals on some of them. I drew this one last night, and I am really proud of it. Tell me what you think of it please.
“Great Expectations” by Charles Dickens
Well, as many of you know, I was sick from Thursday up until now, (I am still sick,) so I didn’t get a lot of writing done as I had hoped. I was so looking forward to this vacation so I could get a lot of writing done, but instead I have done nothing.
This week from April 1 to April 7, 2007, I have written a total of 2,214 words.
Sadly, I only read 53 pages of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.
I haven’t done anything all Easter Break and it sucks. Hopefully I will feel better and write more this upcoming week.
I am sorry to say that I am very sick today (and also yesterday,) and I feel like crap. I usually do not write when I am in this state, but who knows, I may surprise you. I am just here to say, don’t expect anything from me today unless I start feeling better.
Seeing how nobody ever comes to my blog and I receive a very low amount of comments, (if I receive any comments at all,) I have decided to quit Magic Pens forever and never return.