Romanticism, realism, and all the other stuff

    I really hope that someone reads it, considering the amount of work that I am about to put into this blog post. I have a feeling that this is going to be really long, just because I want to edgamacate ya'll. I should probably tell you what this blog post is about. It's about different literary styles, like romanticism, realism, and naturalism. I am going to focus on those mainly today but if there is anything you want me to talk about on my blog about writing, feel free to ask me. Tomorrow I will also put up a poem!
   So the first topic is romanticism, which I have dealt with quite often because it just so happens to be my favorite style of writing and I write a lot in that style. (duh, it's my favorite)
   Romanticism first originated in the second half of the eighteenth century. It was strengthened more by the industrial revolution. Romanticism mostly deals with the theme of true love, knights in shining armor, and other stuff like that. It is highly fictionalized. One genre that stems from this is the Gothic Romance, which is what Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is, a gothic romance. Another of example of the style of romanticism is Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes.
   Now on to the style of realism, possibly the worst style of writing... at least in my view. I only think it is horrible because all of the books I have read in this style of writing have to do with war, and they are NOT made to make you feel good about yourself. Realism is the style in which the writer writes in the way the world really is, they do not embellish, they do not make it heart warming. They seem to make it cold and dry, and most of these books are very sad, which is NOT MY THING!! The only book I have read that was written with realism is The Red Badge of Courage. I read it in a day, and it's probably the worst book I've ever read besides the Twilight Series.
    On to the next style! *waves to next slide* Naturalism. I have not dabbled much in this style but it has to do with science and nature and stuff that I am not intelligent enough to explain to you. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley also fits into this category!
    I hope I was able to enlighten you all a bit on a few different styles of writing. My attention span is fading very quickly for some reason tonight.
    For now, I bid you all adieu for I shall see you with my next blog post!

The editing process begins today.... where did my attention span go?

     I usually do not read old stories that I write. Why? I will tell you why, because they are embarrassing! The stories I write reflect my views at the time I write them and sometimes they are downright awful. That is not exactly the case with the book I just wrote for National Novel Writing Month, but it still isn't the work I'm most proud of.
   About an hour ago I decided that I was going to be adventurous, and I was going to start editing my novel. Boy was I stupid! I started reading the first chapter and all the while I was thinking,"What the fudge is this? What was I ON?!" That is some of the most romantic crap that I have ever written, not in the lovey dovey sense, but in the style. Ever heard of romanticism? Even if you do I will tell you in my next post anyway about the different styles of writing, just for fun! Yeah... so I was reading over it and I almost threw up, that's how awful it was. It's some of my best writing but the way I wrote it was just really bad. I had to clean a lot of the scene up so things actually made sense. I have a tendency to write very choppily and I confuse even myself sometimes.
   So yeah... today I started editing, it was a mistake on my part clearly, and I don't have enough attention span to finish this blog post... goodbye.
   I bid you all adieu for I shall see you all again with my next blog post.

When did the new year happen?

*runs into the room with a panic and a flurry of everything you can possibly imagine*
      Guys... yeah... HAPPY NEW YEAR! It's a new year, full of new possibilities, and more chances for you to listen to my rantings on a blog! So yeah, happy new year and I hope the rest of the year is great and... I finished my book! You probably didn't think  could finish it, but it's okay because I didn't think I would finish it either. I finished writing it on Wednesday and now I have to go through an extensive editing process because let us all just face it, all first drafts are crap, and you cannot deny that either. I'm scared to read what I wrote a little more than a month ago. So maybe when I get the guts to edit it, by the end of the summer I shall have a wonderful novel for you all to read, and of course I will self publish it just because it is immensely cheaper.
     Since I stopped writing my novel in November(only to finish it this past Wednesday) I have been writing a lot of poetry. I have a lot of good critics, and I have been able to read their(her) poetry as well which is equally, if not more, amazing as mine. I am going to make it a habit to post here a few times a week, because you know... I need a job and blogging is a full time occupation. Some of my poetry has been really sad, but some are really funny and are me in pretty much a nutshell. So once a week, in one of my posts I will give you a poem, if I happen to write one for that week. So... until I start up with writing more poems, here is one poem for you all called "Group Projects".

Group Projects
The same feeling of rejection is there
every single time the words,    
"We are going to have a group project, but you can work independently."
escape my teacher's lips.
This means I have no choice,
not to work independently.
I may seem standoff-ish,
but... you don't want to work with me anyway,
do you? That's what I thought.
So here I am,
sitting in a corner of the classroom,
working independently on a group project.

       I see this as a poem of self expression of how much I freaking hate group projects. I absolutely hate them because like the poem suggests, I always work by myself because no one has the guts to ask me to work with them! I'm not a mean person guys, really, I just don't want to do all the work! I'm gonna go in my little emo corner and cry now, thanks.
      When I started writing I really didn't want to be one of those writers, you know the ones that write multiple stories all at once? I know writers like that, and I love them to death, but I could not bear to put myself through that kind of stress you know? Well... I've done it, I've ruined my life. I am coming up with ideas for stories. I have two ideas for stories at the moment that are brewing in my head. The first one is called Temperance. It is about a girl who is a drunk living during the Temperance Movement. If you do not know it, do some research on it! The second story I am working on ideas for is one that I have wanted to work on for a long time. It's called Belinda's Society of Less Than Creative Anachronisms. It's about a girl who lives in a slightly more modern world somewhere in the future, and the past keeps coming back to haunt everyone, and not just her. Ever heard of Paul Revere's Midnight Ride? Well... she has to deal with it every night, how is a teenage girl supposed to survive with that on her plate? Other parts of history repeat themselves, but I am not sure which ones yet, so we shall see!
I bid you all adieu, for I shall see you all again with my next blog post!