Both my mom and grandmother were writers, and my mom would make me fix things so much that I just naturally edit while I'm writing the story.

Actually I was writing short stories way back in second grade, and started on screenplays when I was in only the third grade. >w< Not very good at the screenplay thing though. Hate writing like that.

My mom and granny are both artists, also my mom and my other granny are always making things. Mom and I are the only ones that write anything... Started writing short stories in elementary school, but mostly wrote poetry. XP

Screen plays take a different mind-set and frankly... Kill the brain to write like that on some days. XD But you are lucky to have been taught that! I'm jealous. lol

>w> Actually I attempted learning that on my own. Just started looking it up one day just to see what it would be like, and if I had what it took.

Screenplay writing is something, admittedly, I will never accomplish. Tried and failed. XP I love reading it, though. *Is a theater techie. * XD

I can't wait to read your stuff. ^^

And managed to tick off me kitty by not allowing her into the dining room to explore.

Lmao
My kitties haven't come to bug me all day, they've been lounging too much for that. Silly little things. ^w^;; and thanks for that lol.

No problem, 'tis the truth.

XD My kitty and I are fighting over the space in front of the heater. So far... She is winning. >.> Darn fat cat. She needs to go on a diet.

sounds like my Louis. That boy isn't even a full year old yet, and fat enough to be mistaken as a much much older cat. -w-

I miss writing. I've been trying so hard to get back into it, but over the years the passion for it just kind of died, or more like I've just become afraid to express it. Like, I guess my writing is very dark or something, 'cause I've had peers say "Stop writing that weird shit" or have teachers say I need therapy because of what I write. o____o;

So now I'm scared to write anything. Dx

And kittiesss. <33 I have a dog. He's so fat. owo; He's seven years old though.

Even if you feel like you can't show them anything, you can always put what you say out under an alias on the internet. :) That is what my mom does.

And don't worry what other people say anyways, for some of my poetry they say that stuff- well, what they see, anyways.

Tika, Panda, and Freya are all over weight, Naptra... She is underweight but there is a medical reason to it. Have to feed her special food. But I loves fat kitties. XD

Oh Kaci I know how you feel. College did that to me, but it can't take away something I love with all my heart and soul. Won't let it. *protects talent and passion.*

Blahh I'm writing a memoir for school. >.> I have no idea what to write. I'm writing on the most depressing moment of my life - well, one of them at least since I have no idea what else to write. My memories aren't exactly vivid. :/

Ironically, I'm much better with writing stories for school than myself. Since if it's for school, I'm able to censor myself. If it's for myself, I just run wild and it turns out to be weird. :S

WE MUST PROTECT OUR PASSIONS. DX -guards his viciously-

Lmao

No it cannot!

>w> I never censor myself, my teachers sent me to therapy and all that. I even got escorted off school campus once, but fuck man why should I pretend everything is rainbows and farting unicorns when it isn't?

Agreed, Staralight. Go you! ^^ Getting escorted off campus? You are my new hero. XD

Censoring... Meh, not in my vocabulary.

*cough*
Well I wasn't exactly the sweet mary sunshine...>w> and yet none of my teachers ever hated me, just thought I was strange.

Aw, *Pinches cheeks* Sure, you were. XD They were just blinded by the awesome-ness.

I had problems with a good portion of teachers, thought extremely strange by them, but then there were teachers that loved me. The Latin teacher, Earth Science teacher, Astrology teacher, and Art teacher are the main ones.

>w>
I was the really silent goth girl in the back always reading books way out of 'range' for her grade, and looking at the teachers like they're fucking retards. Some of the times I would edit their lesson plans, or sleep.

One teacher actually gave me a 'come to jesus' speech because of how dark I would be in her class. She stopped doing that after I informed her she was technically breaking the law.

Same here, for being the 'silent goth girl reading books way out of range,' but most teachers left me be... Except for my one History teacher. XD We actually had polital arguements in class and she was the only teacher that ever told me I was smart. And then she followed it with an insult, as was tradition for her. She was awesome.

Oh, that kind of thing... Yes, and I am glad you got her to leave you be. One such teacher took away my tarot cards in middle school (at lunch) and gave them to the office because they were 'satanic.' She also tried to make me apologize to the homeroom class for saying the typical "Oh, my god" phrase uttered by everyone at some point-in-time.

Edit: I has brownies and tea. :D

As pathetic as it sounds, I've become so good at censoring myself that I don't even know how to stop it anymore. I even censor myself from myself. D8 wtf who does that.

A lot of my teachers couldn't handle me, since apparently I'm "emotionally disturbed" and would have random panic attacks and nervous breakdowns in the middle of class quite frequently. :/

Nah, they just sucked (to put it simply.) :)

Censoring yourself from yourself? Sounds like you are too much into the habit of censoring. Then again, it makes for a good cover- The Batman song comes to mind for some reason. With the cover, you don't face as much ridicule in public or when people rifle through your things, should that ever happen. I don't know, there can be many pros and cons to censoring yourself...

Sorry, I think I lost any form of a train of thought on that last paragraph. >.<

A long time ago my mom told me 'shit happens then you die, what people think of you can't matter over what you think of yourself. If they can't handle you, screw them.'

My grandmother was the same way. She lost her mind because of what people thought. Back in the early 40's when 'different and emotionally disturbed' were considered the same thing. Well the drugs they put her on ate away at her brain until nothing was left of a very brilliant woman.

I can never allow anyone to take away who am because I'm not what they consider 'normal'.


*cough*

Agreed, and that is a good mind-set to have. Sorry to hear about your grandmother, though. I am well aware of the practices of times before and have studied them a bit. It is horrifying what they did to people, and frankly... Still do to people. We actually have the abandoned building of a sanitorium that closed down just in 1997. Turned into a children's sanitorium in 1978. The director of which it was named after was a complete *insert explicit term here.* He was known for involentary labotomies, sterilizations and even unauthorized euthanizations. Anyways, quite a bit of the graffiti created since the closing are made by former patients returning.

Side note, you may be interested in a musician named Emilie Autumn.

Gr... Menewsha signed me out in middle of typing this. Feeling I left somethin' out...

We used to have a place like that called Sunny Land, it was a disgusting Hell hole to put it mildly. It's been abandoned for years, but there is still blood and crap on the walls. Or was. Finally after a decade of standing there, they tore it down. >w> (The place was haunted, now those condos have had reports of being haunted)


Anyway really? I'll check her out at some point.

That is exactly what they are trying to do with the Dejarnette Sanitorium, turn it into condos, I mean. It resides on what is now the Fronteer Museum's land and strangely... The project to turn it into condos stopped rather suddenly. There are no written records of why it stopped and there is definately not a financial problem evident. (Had a hard time researching because records of this place tend to be buried for some odd reason.) They keep scheduling demolition and then cancel all plans at random for no reason.

Personally, I think all sanitoriums are hell holes.

There are a couple of reasons you might like EA, one is that she is one hell of a poet. She has been in sanitoriums and has a family history of it. She bases her style from the Victorian sanitoriums (hence why her forum and book are refered to as "The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls."

oooooooo very very nice. ^w^


Same. My mom has threatened to send me to the only one near here still open, and a friend of mine has been sent there. He did not come back the same.




OwO Love her music.

>.< I feel sorry for your friend. Mental asylums are in no way, shape or form a true asylum. The term 'asylum' denotes safety, while mental asylums... Purely institutions for an excuse for mankind to exercise their want for torture with the patients being considered as 'not right.'

Hope your mom never sends you to one.