So where did October go?

Reasons why I haven’t posted much this month:

1. My sister’s sixteenth birthday — and if you know her, you understand the implications.
2. My grandparents’ 60th anniversary
3. My grandparents’ 60th anniversary weekend, which encompassed my entire Fall Break weekend
4. Homework, homework, homework.
5. …and totally awesome Phil’s Special Friends t-shirts.
6. Playing Oprah at school.
7. Talent Show, which I am in charge of.
8. Grounding.

Number 8 is what’s preventing this post from being longer.

However — NaNoWriMo info next post!

Cover Designs

The cover desgin for The TECH Project is underway.

I got a few samples in — you can check them out at www.myspace.com/thetechproject, where there is a photo album called “Book Cover Gallery”.  There are four or so covers that might be used in the project.

Well, I have a science paper to write, so I’ll leave this as a short post.

Twilight Survey

Usually, I don’t do this sort of thing.  But I saw this survey on my friend’s Xanga, so I thought I’d do it.  I put it below a break because it’s long…. read on if you dare.

Teen Writing Contest – YVA Speak Their Muse

For the 2008 Young Voices of America Speak Their Muse contest:

Poetry is a wonderful forum for expressing emotion.  Poems can be lighthearted and fun or they can be dark and foreboding…. Poems can appeal to the very young or the very old.  They can inspire, inform, or entertain.

This quarterly contest, sponsored by The Young Voices Foundation, is a contest for high school students in the USA.

In the YVA Speak Their Muse contest, submit poetry with your teacher or parent’s approval.  You can find more information at http://youngvoicesfoundation.org/writingcontests.html.  All poems must be original, and “Obvious re-writing by an adult will result in disqualification.”

Public, Private, and Home-Schooled students are all eligible.  There is also a category for students in 3-7th grades.

September Wrap-Up

Stats for September:

Top Post: The TECH Project: The Prom

Best Comment: Jaden’s.  In general.

Biggest Surprise: A lot of people found this blog when they Googled something related to “The Dew Breaker” by Edwidge Danticat.  Which may have something to do with the review I wrote of the collection of short stories.

I’ll be posting a little more later.  Check back soon.

- Feliza