Where have I been?

In case you were wondering where I've been all last week, I had gotten sick, so I couldn't work on the story. So I was pretty bummed about that.

Anyway, I'm looking forward to getting back into the game and hopefully making some progress with the story that needs to be made. It's not going to happen overnight, but I know for sure that whatever happens, I'll be ready for it.

Plus, I should be halfway through the first draft, and I would have gotten there if I didn't get sick, so there you have it.

But I'm not crying over the lost time; instead, I'm upset that I had wasted so much time being sick that I haven't had the chance to catch up with my blog and now it's getting further away from me. I hate playing catch up.

Well, that's all I have for now, and wait for more blog posts regarding the novel I'm working on this month and the months past. I'll be back with more!

Happy 1-year Anniversary to this Blog!

I can't believe it has been one year since I started this blog. During that year, I have rediscovered my love of writing as well as me discovering how best to approach my lack of motivation to keep writing. Thanks to this blog, I have been able to complete Camp NaNoWriMo, JuNoWriMo, and NaNoWriMo in record time.

And I have you all to thank for this successful year and I hope for many more years with this blog.

As for NaNoFiMo, I'll get to it tomorrow.

About Google+, Blogger, and Tumblr

Kristin decided to get a Tumblr account for her 16th birthday, but she didn't start using it until January 25, 2014. (Which was when she had to stop using her LiveJournal blog.) While doing so, she grows into her Tumblr account, using it to post funny pictures and rant about which movies and books she hates (and she has a crapload of them). She starts enjoy using Tumblr when the few friends she makes at Cimarron High School are into Tumblr. Plus, Tumblr leads her to enjoy watching movies and reading instead of bashing books and movies.

As for her Blogger account, Kristin is forced to use that to replace both her LiveJournal and WordPress accounts. Blogger is slightly dated, but she uses it to unleash not only her anger at being forced to give up her other blogs, but to rant about the school in general.

As for Google+, Kristin isn't particularly a fan of using it, as it seemed to be a poor replacement for Facebook. Yet when she is forced to delete her Facebook account and migrate to the site, Kristin realizes that she has wasted a good part of her life on Facebook, especially after most of her other friends abandon her (at the orders of the Northview High School student president). In addition, Kristin's cousin Velvet calls Facebook "poison on the computer". Go figure that one out.

To cut this blog post short, Kristin starts losing everything that once held meaning for her. Not to worry, as I'll be talking about her other online activities in the next blog post.

Regarding Kristin's WordPress Blog

At the start of "And You Thought Your Family Was Weird", Kristin maintains a WordPress blog, which isn't exactly popular as her LiveJournal blog. (In fact, most of her blog posts are just repeats of her LiveJournal posts, with very few original blog posts.)

Well, to make this blog post short, Kristin goes to her new school and is forced to delete her WordPress accounts, posting her blog posts on Blogger. This upsets her because she swears to never use Blogger due to a previous bad experience with that website.

My analysis of Kristin's LiveJournal Blog

In the story "And You Thought Your Family Was Weird", Kristin once owned a LiveJournal blog, which she had since the eighth grade. (That was when everyone learned about Internet responsibility.)

Anyway, Kristin writes on her blog about the things she doesn't like. She doesn't like movies or TV shows and will only read a book if it's for a homework assignment. More often than not, she rants about her boring, uneventful life.

But reading her LiveJournal causes her to reconcile with her cousins, who she hasn't seen in almost 10 years. Reading about how her cousins treated her better than her own parents shocks her into understanding her own issues.

When Kristin gets to her new high school, she's forced to stop using LiveJournal, as the student council banned the usage of LiveJournal (whether at school or at home). With great reluctance, Kristin closes her LiveJournal blog and migrates all her blog posts to Blogger (as everyone in the school is ordered to use Blogger). Yet she vows that her time on LiveJournal wasn't a waste, as it taught her what she learned about blogging.

Kristin's Social Media Accounts

Here's a short list of every social media account Kristin uses in the story:

1. Twitter - MissEnergeticRants
2. Facebook - Cristina M. Fernando
3. Tumblr - journeys&memories.tumblr.com (A Heart's Lament)
4. Wordpress - invisiblevolume.wordpress.com (Another Useless Blog)
5. LiveJournal - notanotherblog.livejournal.com (Not Another Blog)
6. Email (Yahoo) - FlamingDream181@yahoo.com
7. Blogger - thewiredmuses.blogspot.com (I've Got the Write Stuff)
8. Email (Google) - KrisMFern0109@gmail.com (school), WritingThief2@gmail.com (personal)
9. Google+ - Kristin Marie Fernando
10. Wattpad - FernFayeCross

Story of the Month: And You Thought Your Family Was Weird!

OK, while everything else is starting to fall into place, I will explain my story here:

The year is 2014 (I know, how original), and Kristin Fernando is being shipped off to stay with some relatives in Arizona while her parents deal with a bitter and nasty divorce. Kristin is a huge social media addict, with accounts on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Wordpress, and Livejournal. She also texts her friends as often as she can.

But once Kristin gets to Arizona, she is given a less than stellar welcome and finds herself in a new school where the use of social media is not allowed. Due to an incident in her old high school, Kristin loses most of her old friends and has difficulty making new friends. And to top it all off, her cousins aren't exactly the traditional American family that she sees on TV.

But when her online life is exposed to the school, Kristin will have to make a radical change to her entire life or else her life (both online and offline) will end up going down the drain!

This month will be dedicated to not only blog posts about the usage of social media, but about Kristin herself and the world she lives in.

Now you know.

Blog Updates #1

Last night, I made a update to this blog by posting a list of the stories that I wrote for NaNoWriMo on the page "Stories for NaNoWriMo." So far, I have written 8 stories for the annual writing competition. But will I get around to actually finishing these stories?

Hopefully by the next decade; I've wasted enough time with everything else, so why should I waste more time?

I Have Returned!!!

Several years after I quit using Blogger, I decided to come back.

Before we begin, I would like to tell you that I have a history of using Blogger, as I used blogger for most of my Blogging activities until 2012, when I quit using Blogger and began using WordPress.

This time I'm using Blogger to track down how much progress I've made with the stories that I wrote for NaNoWriMo. I began using NaNoWriMo in 2008 and now this is my seventh year writing. Even though I managed to win, I never seem to be able to complete my story.

This year, however, I'm going to change that.

I'm going to be using this blog to talk about the stories I wrote for NaNoWriMo, why I never finished those stories, and what I'm going to do to make sure that those stories are finished and published in a timely fashion. So, you will see a lot of me around.

Now you know.