tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30987928571584247872025-10-10T17:59:35.750-07:00A twenty-something college student blogs about writing, YA, and the pursuit of publication.Creative Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02960292977608812418noreply@blogger.comBlogger267125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3098792857158424787.post-68062626550209438642013-05-31T10:03:00.001-07:002013-05-31T10:03:16.806-07:00

Hey everyone! I wanted to one final post closing out this blog. It's been...what...*calculates* three months? Or so, since the launch contest? Yeah. And if it wasn't official enough then, it is now. This will be my last post (ever! Sniff!) on Headdesk, so thanks to everyone who's followed me over the years and supported me during those down times and busy times during college. It meant a lot.

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Hey guys! I just wanted to do one last post here on *Headdesk* reminding everyone that my launch contest on the new blog ends THIS THURSDAY. So now is pretty your last chance to enter for these books: Good luck, entrants! Hope to see you guys over on the new blog. Truly and always,-Creative A

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And here it is! Thanks to some surprise twists toward the end of my day (I wasted two hours driving back and forth, only to find out I wasn't going to get to use the equipment I needed) this post is a little late. But it's done! It's up! I'm launched! YAY!Guys, I would super appreciate if you went over to the new blog and checked out the welcome post, and entered the contest, and just helped me

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So in my last post I officially revealed Secret Web Project as my shiny new blog/website, The First Reader, and I hinted that there would be a blog launch, and a Twitter, and other things. This is the post about all those other things. Are you ready? Are you set? Here we go. On the very last day of the month (Thurs,  Jan 31,) as the clock strikes midnight (eastern standard time,) The

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Okay guys. I've been chipping away at Secret Web Project trying to get it ready before this month ends, and I'm finally close enough where I feel I can give it a full reveal. So here goes... I am moving blogs! And turning the blog into a complete author website! With free short stories! And things! And a Twitter! You guys have no idea how big of a thing this is for me. I started

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  All right, guys, if you read my last post, you'll know that today I am SUPER DUPER EXCITED to be here with Emily Meerhan, the editor of Alexandra Bracken's THE DARKEST MINDS. When I had an opportunity to be part of Alex's blog tour for the The Darkest Minds, I literally jumped at the chance.  Emily Meerhan is the Editorial Director for Disney-Hyperion books, and she was formerly

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Hey everyone! This post is going to be a bit random, so bear with me. Mostly I am excited to be back in Delaware now that all the holidays are over. This means I'm done (for now*) with Secret Film Project and I can start work on Secret Web Project again. I was afraid if I talked about Secret Web Project too much that it might make me feel forced and panicky, but interesting enough, it's done just

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Happy New Year, everyone! I know a lot of people post new year's resolutions, and for a few years now, I've been doing that, too. But the funny thing is that everything I might say--wanting to launch Web Project, figuring out graduation, finishing Shutterbug, etc--it's all stuff I've talked about already. But I went back to check what resolutions I'd written for 2012, and instead I found this

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I'm sitting here in the tidy, quiet hometown library, wearing snowboots because there are four inches of snow outside, and the promise of more. Finals are well over. We just had Christmas. New Years is only a few days away. I'm ridiculously happy to be home with my family during all these crazy, wonderful, mad mad holidays.Speaking of madness. I cite my last post: And now it is December, I have

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There is one surefire way to tell how busy a person is at any given time period, and that is to go check out their blog. If they blog is silent, the blogger is busy. If the blog is busy--well, either the blogger finally has time to catch up on things, or they're one of those superhero types who can juggle a blog and a job and a personal life and winter flu while, like, remembering to shower every

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So, WIP Wednesdays are no uncommon thing, and I certainly babble about my WIPs often enough, but I liked the idea of having a structured time and place for that. Author and blogger Anna Staniszewski does these lovely once-a-month-or-so WIP Wednesdays which I liked better than weekly updates, so I thought I'd adopt that concept over here. And the thing is? I LOVE hearing how other people's WIPs

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I was skimming the interwebs the other night when I stumbled upon this article about a self-published novel that hit it big, and the article kind of mentioned that, oh yeah, this novel was about a 22-year old, and they were calling the genre New Adult. New Adult. New Adult! The genre for twenty-somethings that I've been waiting for! The transitional bridge of happiness, rainbows, and joy!

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It's the final stretch of Nano! I don't know about you guys, but wow, it seemed this month went by fast. Super huge congratulations to you Nanoers who've made it this far. Keep going! You can make it! If you need additional encouragement, Sarah J. Mass (of "Throne of Glass" fame) just did a fantastic post over on Publishing Crawl about how to push through those last days/pages. Read it. Then

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It's the final countdown for Nano, so I dug up some of my old favorites for you guys. And this Wednesday I'll be posting some of my current favorite climax songs for the remainder of Nano. If you guys have made it this far--congrats! And don't give up! Go go go!Truly and always,-Creative A

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For something a little more upbeat. Truly and always, -CreativeA

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Was watching Neil Gaiman's speech to the University of the Arts Class of 2012, and was particularly struck by his comment about having envisioned his goals like a mountain, and that if he kept walking toward the mountain, he would be all right. I found myself thinking that this theory only works insofar as you only have one goal that never changes. And the thing is, goals and dreams do change,

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Two versions of a fantastic song. I absolutely adore the original, but the dubstep remix is so chill I just had to include it. Which one do you guys like better?Truly and always,-Creative A

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It's the end of week 2. Congrats to everyone for making it this far! From what I remember, week 3 is where everyone gets their second wind. So take a deep breath, enjoy the music, and good luck!Truly and always,-Creative A

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Starting a new novel always feels a little bit like hope. A sort of feverish and blind hope covered up with copious amounts of justification as soon as the novel starts to be serious enough to maybe work. It's my experience that at first, an idea is just an idea. We writers are often reluctant to take these ideas too seriously. Because how many ideas blow through like a windstorm, gripping us for

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Hey guys! This weekend I thought I'd throw in a couple of amazing indie hits that, if you haven't heard them yet, you absolutely ought to be introduced to. Happy writing! -Creative A

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So I tend to be pretty hesitant about gushing over books before I've actually read them, because who knows if it will live up to expectations? But guys, this time around, I just can't help myself. One of my favorite authors is coming out with a new book in JUST. ONE. MONTH. I'm talking of course about Alexandra Bracken, and her second novel, THE DARKEST MINDS. Just look. Look look look.

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From Ms. Stiefvater's very own tumblr. I'm a little ashamed to admit I forgot about this quote until just now. On top of that, today is the official start of Nanowrimo (this is the point where I normally include the  disclaimer paragraph about what Nanowrimo is, but for your own sake and mine, just pop over to this post where I explained it in the past.) Now, I am not doing Nano this

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Here's a little insight into how writing a novel works. Especially in the beginning, there's a special kind of magic about getting caught up in the story. It's like being swept into a new romance. It's intoxicating; it's all you want. That's how it is for every writer. It's not that your stories are better than any other movie or book out there. It's more like--oh, I don't know. Imagine that

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Just so you know, I didn't actually take this. Or any of these photos. I was too busy being spontaneous to remember my camera. Today being part of what I like to call Chaos Week, but is more commonly known as Midterms, meant that I had to tackle the PHP final project that has been looming over me for the past two weeks. For those of you who don't know, PHP is a web language, but it's not a

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