Alp-tastic

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Hey, all. This is probably the longest I’ve gone without blogging, for which you have my abject apologies. Travel makes the internets hard.

As I’ve said, I’m on a research tour for Leviathan, checking out all the European locations for the novel and, of course, the Zeppelin hangars of Friedrichshafen, Germany. (We’re not there yet, but you’ll be seeing those in later posts.)

My first trick was seeing the Alps from above, straight from the plane on the way to Rome:

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Awesome mountains. I’m so glad I set part of Leviathan here.

In Rome, I finished the Uglies Guide. (Look for that this fall.)

Then we flew to London for a mini-tour of England. Thanks to everyone who warmly welcomed us there, and asked such interesting questions. My favorite: “Did writing Uglies make you see people differently?” Still mulling that one.

Right now, Justine, Holly Black, Maureen Johnson, Cassandra Clare, and I are all ensconced in a 17th-century tower in Bologna, Italy. We’re attending the annual Children’s Book Fair here, where publishers from many lands come to sell and buy translation rights for teen and kid books.

So far I’ve met with publishers from France, Israel, Holland, Germany, Australia, and the UK, some by chance and some by design. Brazil and Thailand are tomorrow. It’s a great way to meet a lot of the far-flung publishing world, and to find out weird stuff about how teens in different places read. Here are a few factoids:

Germany loves fantasy. The magicker the better, so say the Germans.
Holland doesn’t like fantasy or science fiction, but Maureen Johnson rules there.
Manga is so huge in Italy that there’s a teen imprint named after a manga character.
Ugies is a monster hit in France.

Another cool thing about Bologna is seeing all the art. One of my favorite traditions is the huge bulletin board where hopeful young illustrators pin up their work for publishers to look at:

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This photo shows just a tiny fraction of the art here, of course. There are any huge aircraft-hangar sized spaces fool of books and art. It’s an awesome display of creativity.

Less uplifting is the vast Hall of Agents, where agents sit at tiny desks pitching books to possible buyers all day long. My hats off to those who toil in the mighty foreign rights mines:

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Anyway, enough of the business end of things. On Friday, the research tour moves into the Tyrolean mountains, and a week later into the Zeppelin hangars of Friedrichshafen!

Pictures will be posted.

138 thoughts on “Alp-tastic”

  1. Germany loves fantasy. The magicker the better, so say the Germans.

    Germans also love David Hasselhoff. I don’t trust those Germans!

  3. Wow! I am so jealous of you! I would love to go around Europe. Plus you finished the uglies guide! WOO!

  4. SO FAWESOME!!!!!

    ok. so i wanted to say sompthing:

    sorry i havent been on lately. homework. so much of it. but the quarters gonna end on friday and then i have spring break!!! and i swear i’ll come on every day. um…so. im back. but wheres everyone else?

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! πŸ˜•

  5. ooooooooo lizzy-wa’s back!!!
    that is so cool!!! i cant wait for the uglies guide!!! :mrgreen:
    oooooooo i think i’m fifth!!

  10. YAAAY Uglies guide! Not to infringe upon you, Scott-la, but I still can’t believe it’s done and ready for publishing.

    Consider at least one copy already sold. ;D

  11. You were in Israel? ISRAEL?! Why didn’t you anounce it? I would have loved to come and get my copies of Midnighters signed! You are an awsome author, and it would have been an honor to meet you. Not so many authors visit israel at all, let alone awsome ones like you… I’m so sad right now…

  12. the mountians are so pretty
    thats so weird that different countries like different books(i wonder what the US likes)

  17. Whoo! I didn’t know you were actually going to write the Uglies Guide! I’m guessing it takes a certain amount of obsession, mainly found on this site, to buy a “guide to” companion novel. Hope you have fun on the rest of your trip in Europe!

  20. yes! Lizzy’s back from the dead!

    also, yay Alps.

    and that room of agents is creepy. i mean, the actuality of what it is is cool, but that picture looks like some sort of evil megagovt beurorcrazy.
    ….wow, i’m crazy.

    so the Uglies guide is actually coming out? cool.
    though not as cool as a Midnighters guide.
    or a fourth Midnighters book.

  21. ooo fawesomeness! can’t wait till fall!
    also very pretty picture!
    hope ya have fun on the rest of your trip! πŸ˜€

    and Lizzy-wa is back! πŸ˜€ …very happy-making.

  23. Whoo! Uglies Guide! Very excited about that. A Midnighters Guide would be cool too. And, I agree with Serafina Zane- A fourth Midnighters would be cool. Hm. You know, I’ve seen you say that so many times, and yet I’ve never said that I agree. How rude of me.

  24. Thanks for the Europe tour! Awesome picture of the Alps. I want to go there.

    ~ You-Know-Who

  26. Hey Scott, is the Uglies Guide really gonna come out? Because if it is i am totally going to buy it , i have so many unanswered questions about the uglies trilogy. Have fun on your trip!!

  27. oh and could u plz dedicate it to…say…maybe…your dedicated fans on the westerblog who gave awesome ideas 4 this guide?? :mrgreen:

  33. YAY! You finished the Uglies guide! Hooray! Thanks for making a book to clarify things about the series! I am reading the Midnighters currently. I am in the second book! Yay! It is so cool! I heard good things about it, so i read the first one! And it was really good! U R an awesome writer! Keep up the good work! Yay!

    πŸ™‚

  34. omg yay! i cant wait for the uglies guide.

    and goshh! i am so jealous of you, scott-la. i want to go to Germany! that’s where my descendants are from.
    NON circa- nazi time.
    haha.
    :/
    me no nazi.
    but anyways,
    TAKE ME WITH YOU NEXT TIME!
    :]
    please?

  35. i cant wait 4 the uglies guide!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  36. Lucky you, getting to travel and have talent at writing. πŸ˜€

    The Hall of Agents sounds (and looks) vaguely dystopian to me…sensing some 1984 or A Wrinkle in Time…

    The mountains are gorgeous and I love how you wrote “fool” instead of “full”. xD It’s so great that you get to see where your books are taking place.

    And in response to “what books do the Americans like”: most of us like books with sex and clothes (which is kind of ironic or something when you think about it….), but it’s such a big and varied country, it’s hard to say, I suppose. Teen gal novels and biographies. NEVER MIND! I am totally screwing up my answer…

  37. YAY UGLIES GUIDE COMING OUT! I’ve been saving the gift card to my fave bookstore that i got for my birthday (cough I spent a little of it cough cough) for the guide, and as long as the gift card isn’t a stupid expiring kind CONSIDERED ANOTHER ONE SOLD!
    Another thing, Scott-la… —–> “There are any huge aircraft-hangar sized spaces fool of books and art.” FOOL? What was on your mind at the time?!
    Oh, and uh, voldemort-la, two things- 1.) It would be Voldemort-WA and 2.) YOUR ON THE WRONG WEBSITE lol. No offence tho…
    My library is absolutely evil. It doesn’t have the stinkin’ Midnighters books! Neither my school OR closest public library does (that I know of…), i have to special order it from ANOTHER library when I find the time. *sigh* It’s so tragic.
    Anyone there? I’m bored and wanna talk to someone…!

  42. OMG. I’m so excited for the Uglies guide. I’m sad that we have to wait until fall though. But I had a dream that I lived in your world the other day. It was wierd. I kind of wish that the world was like that. I don’t know though. It’s really controversial, you know? Anyway, thanks for completely changing my life, not even kidding! ~Hannah-la~

  43. Ooooooh, prettyful mountains πŸ˜€

    UGLIES GUIDE YAY!!!!

    Whats the betting that it will be out in AMERICA in fall, and i will have to wait till next year? I hope not Scott-la, make it come out in England at the same time. Otherwise tis no fair πŸ™

    ALSO. Idea up there ^^^ Dedicate the Guide to your fans! We gave you the idea ofcourse by asking all our silly questions about the books, so i think we should be acknowledged πŸ˜€

    xox

  44. ya, i luv the cakes thing…then u should have a more…promising title for the next book *cough* hint *cough* hint *cough*
    heee heee then it could be an inside joke :mrgreen: only TRUE uglies and whatnot fans would understand… :mrgreen:
    well…gtg…………………………..it’s pretty nice out–like in the 50’s (at least last time i checked)

  45. By the way, I’m glad that Holly Black is accompaning you. I’ve noticed that most of my favorite authors know each other one way or another (Libba Bray told me congrats on liking Scott Westerfeld books) and how another one of my authors thanked your wife in their acknowledgements. . .

  46. haha
    I’m partially German.
    :/
    You need to take me with you next time, Scott-la.
    It’s so pretty-making.

    Cant wait for the Uglies Guide!

  47. Ok, did he post this yesterday. If so, then your telling me the one and only day i dont come on, he posts somethign new! Wow, that makes me madder than i already am. Why am i mad? More like frustration, im being weird cause…..its not important, quite silly actaully. I’m just gonna forget it. moving on…..

    I’m reading this book called Heart Breakers. Pretty good so far. i told this guy in my class that if he ever broke up with anyone i wouldnt talk to him ever again. Then we watched a cowboy movie for history and i said that if he ever broke a heart OR became a cowboy i wouldnt talk to him. Then he didnt say “thank you” so i said if he ever broke a heart OR became a cowboy OR didnt use his manners i would never talk to him again. Then…..jking! ok but he got tired of me saying that and we made a pickie promise (after begging him to just wrap his pickie, boys) that i wouldnt ever ever ever ever never ever say that to him again. And you no what, he better never ever break a heart, become a cowboy, or not use his manners.

    That was pointless yest i told u anyway.

  48. wow! You get to do fun research Scott-la. No fair. Oh well. I suppose I’ll get to go to Europe someday. *sigh*
    Those pictures are pretty. In the good way. I can’t wait for Levithan. But no pressure or anything.
    I am really sleepy. My life is really insane right now. Track, karate, youth group, track, piano, track, violin, track, more violin. Its starting to pile up on my head. I just have to keep reminding myself that “stressed” is just “desserts” backwards.

  49. woooooah… i never knew that. …thats crazy Bri-la! hope things calm down for ya!

    i had a good day today. in history me n my friends played hang man and go fish. i kick butt at go fish by the way. cuz we thought yesturdays assignment was do today so we were already done with it. and it turned out we had all class today to do it. but this was more fun. and in c/a we watched youtube videos (my teacher is the bomb! she let us get on her computer to watch them. lol. cuz they are blocked on the regular computers.) i found out who i’m roomin with for my band trip. and another one of my friends was p.o.ed that they asked me to room with them instead of her. πŸ˜€ (and i just have to smile at that cuz this girl is quite a bad word. hehe. cuz she acts like your friend and then doesn’t give a crap about you.) and um… let see… o yeah i got spanish student of the month. not that big of deal. but i do get this cool little poster on my locker for the next month and it has this cute little dog on it. plus i’ll be able to remember which locker is mine now. and i don’t really have much homework. so it’s all good!

  51. comment 50. hehe. don’t i feel special!

    okie dokie. well i is goin to bed. night. night.
    (p.s. earliest i’ve been to bed for a couple months! yay! go me! i love sleep! -10:28 here-)

  53. Emily-wa:

    1) I think it sounds cooler with a “la”.
    2) Who says I don’t like Scott Westerfeld as much as (more than!) J.K. Rowling?

    lol.

  54. guys this is scary-making.
    we got out of school early
    cause there’s a bunch of tornado warnings.
    Not happy-making.

  55. Is anybody else sleepy? I am. Which is odd, considering It’s only 5:30 here. Ah well. Just felt like posting randomly. And now, I must go eat dinner so I can get to the school dance on time. Whoo! Toodles all.

  56. I always get tornado warnings. No biggy. they never happen. Ok, so there are small ones but not by my house.

    It is 6:16 here and in am a little tired too. Its a friday thing. All you want to do i go to bed nice and late……and wake up 3 days later!

  57. 3 days later, lol. I’ve been through one tornado when I was at my Aunt’s house visiting but she lives in a different state. I thought my little brother was gonna pee his pants cuz he was soooooooooo scared!

  58. I went to Borders and got a new copy of Uglies cuz my friends trashed my other one…And I got Marked, Betrayed, and Chosen all by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast. Anyone know if they’re good? I’m gonna start reading them now.

  59. I’ve seen them….not that that helps at all but they look good

    Ughh….I’ve been reading tons of different types of books (I got like 8 of them at the store on Monday-Thank you “Easter Bunny”) and I’m stuck on the Book Theif and I have no idea why lol It feels like the story’s never going to end! (Or that might be because I haven’t read much this week and I’m only on page 200 something out of a 550 page book)

  60. Oh and just a question: Does anyone else like the Outsiders by S.E. Hinton besides me?

    My book discussion group has to read it and everyone’s going “This book’s stupid, I don’t wanna read it” and I’m about to kick someone if it doesn’t stop lol

    I would have suggested one of Scott’s books if it wasn’t for the fact that I knew no one would want to read them, like with the Outsiders

  61. yo all!!!!!!!
    it’s 9:12 here, but i’m not tired AT ALL. i’m in the mood for a 3am night (morning?) then a noon morning (afternoon?).
    COUNTRY MUSIC ROX!
    sry i had 2 scream that, but mom is putting lil’ kids 2 bed, so i’d be like grounded for months if i did.
    well gtg :mrgreen:

  62. i loved the Outsiders! it was one of the best books i’ve ever read. how can people not like it?! ….that is some serious crazyness!

  63. I know all about those tornado warnings it not as scarry-making as they make it sound, if they even touch gound (vary rare) they only last a few moments. Hurricanes aren’s as bad as they sound either if you are prepared for them. I should know I live in Florida and was here when all 4 hurricanes hit. Charley I think was the worst (i got my braces on the day before ( now off) ). It was torture with no electricity for 3 weeks. It was super hot and humid too not happy-making

  65. Omg! I’m super-excited for the Uglies guide! πŸ™‚ It’s awesome that you got to go around Europe, though I do wish some of your novels were published in Asia and Eastern countries

    ~i

  66. weird. i got this strange voicemail message on my phone this morning. and i thought it was just my friends pranking me but it’s odd cuz it didn’t appear as a restricted call which is usually what my friends do. and i didn’t know the number. and it was a different area code than usual. strangeness.. well i is gonna go google the area code. see if i can remember who lives there.

  71. lol i hope this isn’t someone i knows cuz giving it out online would probably p.o. them. but oh well 337-401-0223.

  73. it was really hard to understand and the person said like half of my last name and then they were mumbling and they they were like it’s 7:30 and were boosing up on the boose (did i spell that right? idk. alcohol. that’s what it is.) and then they were like give us a call back at the number i just gave you.

  74. i can think of this one girl who is from Mississippi (which is right next to Louisiana) that just moved here last year and she is in my spanish class. she is semi-friends with one of my semi-friends. so maybe they hung out last night and decided to prank me. idk. only explenation i can come up with.

    ugh… i just found out band camp is the same exact week as softball 2-a-days which is going to be hell. cuz i’ll have to wake up at 5:30 go to the softball fields run until 7 then take a shower go to the highschool to march and play my insterment from 8-12 then go home and rest till 2:30 so i can be back out at the softball field at 3 to practice until 5. omigod. i will die. last week i almost didn’t survive 2-a-days alone and that was an entierly different week then band camp. now they are just trying to kill us cuz usually after the morning conditioning i can’t move. my legs get all shaky and i have a hard time walking. and now they want me to march for 4 hours right after. wow. this is going to suck.

    ok well i gotta go clean the house. πŸ™

  75. My grandma has no freakin computer or, obviously, internet
    so I was stuck in the middle of Nowhere, Florida for days without internet or anything to do
    okay it was only two days
    then we went to do things
    but I’m not someone who can live like that

  79. Hahaha! No internet! that always sucks. It has happened to me! i Dieed and then came back to life!!1

  81. there are softball camps. but this isn’t one of them. see we have a school team that starts up every fall and to make the school team you have to go to summer conditioning at 9 a.m. and then 11-1 practices every day in the summer but those are pretty easy. but then the week before school starts we have 2-a-days which means two practices a day and those you have to be out at the field at 5:45 a.m. and it’s basically pure sprinting until 7 a.m. and usually i get to go home and rest and sleep and strech until like 2:30 so i can be all energiezed to go out and practice softball skills at 3 until 5. and it really does suck. i mean there was this one day where i had decided i was done and didn’t wanna do it anymore cuz it sucked so very much. cuz at conditioning that day i had started hyperventillating and it was just really bad. but eventually i changed my mind, and convinced myself to stick it out. but that week was awful. and now this year instead of having band camp 2 weeks before school starts they’ve decided to have it the week before school starts which is the same week as 2-a-days. which means i will have to go to conditioning, come back, shower, go to band camp for 4 hours, come back, rest, strech, go to practice again for 2 hours. it’s going to be very suckish. i can hardly wait. *says in a sarcastic tone*

    today was a lot of fun. we went to the lakes and hung out with all my fawesome fam. and had a bon fire. and made smores. but my eyes burn with fire. cuz the smoke irritated them. well i think i’m actually gonna go watch a movie instead of reading. very strange of me. cuz i’m addicted to the Private books. everybody go read them. they are very good.

  82. Wow fun filled day, I ended playing with my rec team because u cant play w/ ur school & rec team (cuz my schools rules sucks). any way my day is wake at 5am at school till 2 on the bus till 3 and then work from 3-7 and have practice/games about 2-3 times a week from 7-9 then i have the privlege to do my homework, the funnest part of my day(sarcasm there). Im glad u had a good time w/ ur family

  87. Wow, I had started to give up hope on Scott-sama ever posting another entry. I don’t know if I’m going to like the new Uglies guide, because I think most of the fun of books like this is leaving some things to the imagination, but oh well I guess I’ll check it out.

    Has anyone else noticed that conversations here always start as about what Scott-sama was writing about and then about halfway down the page, people forget why they’re here and start talking about themselves to each other? it’s kind of cute.

    Because I will totally make the Top 100 πŸ˜‰

  89. so very bored. writting a journalism report. well….procrastinating writting a journalism report. lol. hehe.

  90. yipes that phone call would be creepy……….probly some drunk dude or something.
    last night my dad and uncle heard like, a loud rustling in the woods, and my older sis heard a noise on the other side of the house, and this morning we checked and there were footprints like in this mud and nobody’s been there after this big rainstorm, so we called the police, and he says he thinks it’s just some teenagers or something, so ya. it still’s sorta creepy…..o well (i hope).
    i’m sorta paranoid now, and i keep thinking someone’s gonna grab me from behind or something so o well. mom and dad won’t let us out by ourselves but dad let me out by myself cuz it was still light, then when it started getting a little dark he called me in…..don’t blame him tho…..
    sigh this is wierd. we live on this big BIG hill so we dont get many…visitors. make that none at all.
    it could make a good story plot tho: stalkers from a drug dealer and think that u know something so they kidnap you….something like that. o-]-< dunno

  92. YEAH!! Besides being my normal book reading, liturature loving, novel writing self (i like that!) i i like to get on the computer. And as we all know there are some really fun games to play. Well……theres this game that came out about a year or so ago and i fell in love with it!!! there the original version called The Sims but they came out with the new one (again) a year or so ago and its called The Sims 2. anyone ever played it? have it? LOVE it? Well if you didnt say yes to any of those you need to go to

    Sims2.com

    It is awesome. And yes i no it isnt a link above!! Basically, you make people and you play there life. I always make me because i love me!! and becaus its fun to play urself. You get married ahve kids and your kids have kids and you die and there kids have kids and it keeps going and its awesome. there tons of all these expansion packs to make the game play better too and i just had to tell you about that becasue i finished playing it about an hour ago and my toddler became a kid. Shes so cute!

    You should look at the site cause it shows you some awesome stuff!

  93. ha yeah i love the sims2 too. very fool. it came out awhile ago though, cuz i had it before i moved. and that was like 3 years ago. the day it came out me and my brother both bought our own. and during the move mine got lost in all the boxes and whatnot. so i haven’t had mine for 3 years now. and now my brother has lost his too. so now no one in my fam has one. kinda suckish. but i might go buy another one sometime.

  94. Yeah!!!! I got my dad to buy Sweeny Tod!!!!!! I am so excited. The only reason he bought it though is because he is starting a Tim Burton collection.

    I love Superman/Tom Welling!!!!

  95. What up peeps? I’m Back! I was gone, of anyone noticed…or cared…so I have my first Softball practice tomorrow! Excited much! It’s gonna be really fawesome!

  98. Okay, so it’s the first day back from spring break
    I shouldn’t have too much homework, right?
    WRONG
    I have roughly 50 math problems and homework in every other subject.

  99. we lost our sims 2 cd and my dad went to washington DC, but he never loaded seasons on my computer so I can’t use that cd either and I’m probably making no sense.

  101. hi guys! well at least you get a spring break. i get a spring day. yep. that’s what i’m gonna call it from now on. ok so today was just plain funny. in band my teacher was reading the announcements and he read the part about a day of silence and he was like Maddi you need to go to that. (she always talks. but she’s hilarious. and he was just kidding.) and then she said something and then they got on the topic of sign language. and then he starts waving his hands and pretending to do sign language. and then he flipped her off well it was the thing where you take your right arm and put it up and then your left arm and put it inside your right arm and then push your right arm up…. if that makes any sense at all. lol. and he did it like 5 times. but it was soooooo hilarious. i laughed so hard i cried. and then in spanish my teacher gave us an easy day of just 2 wkshts and she told us stories about when she was younger and traveling…. also very funny.

    and i started my first official job today. see my family owns a business and my parents figured out that if i start working now and put like $500 in this tax free account once a year then i’ll have 2.5 million when i’m 50 to retire. yeppers. pretty exciting.

  102. hey guys!!!
    totaly xited for the uglies guide!!!! that sux that u only get a spring day or something kay-wa. my spring break doesn’t start for another week and a half, or something. well it starts on the 19th so i think thats a week and a half but i dont feel like counting. πŸ™

    me and my friends are starting a book club at school for uglies cause we’re all OCD about it and stuff, lol. idk exactly what we’ll do there. i think we’re gonna read the series, cause me and my friend jess r the only ones in the club (so far) that have read the series. we came up with the idea a few days ago. it opens in like, a week if mrs. bachman will let us use her room (which i’m sure she will cause she rocks) and plus u get tons of extra points for starting a club. but i’m totally phsyced for that. and stuff…..yeah, just thought u guys should no i guess πŸ™‚

  103. Wow, I got my Spring Break two weeks ago…BUT I HAVE A TOTALLY FAWESOME IDEA FOR A NEW STORY!!!!! Sorry had to get that out of my system before I go into a writing coma…

  104. Aloha! So i have a ……. question. You see, when i went to my friends house, there where these guys that live on her street that are…..cute….but there older, like 17 and 15. And so we were outside one night and was talking to the 17 yearold and he was talking to us and at first i felt uncomfertable but then i started acting like me. Being crazy and silly and talking a lot and laughing and at one point he said ‘Wow, your really hyper.” and i was kindo wanting to say “No, i always act like this!” but i didnt i just laughed. so at thew end of the night at like 12:30 we had to go inside so when he left……he smeemed in a hurry…..

    At school the next day i asked my friend to ask him what he thought of me. i was curious, and have a bad vibe about what he thought and i wanted to to no. So my friend told her neightbor (who is her friend) to ask him. So they were all at side when she said “What did you think of her?” and he said……and this is what made me writw this….. “She was annoying” and “i would never hang out with her, cause shes 13.”

    Ok, its one thing that u didnt like me…..i mean, hey, i dont like a lot of people. But to be stupid enough to saw it to my best friends face…..that annoys the crap out of me. He could have lied, that would make me happy, but to know that when i make a first impression on people and they say ur annoying AND ur just some little kid. Well, your messed up.

    I hope he ruins his nice little car!!!! Is was nice…..

  105. Oh, the question was…..

    What would you do if someone told your best friend that? Even if there just being ‘guys’.

  108. Bran-la. Here’s the deal. It would have made you feel the same, if not worse, if he lied and said you were cool even though you are 13 and you found out it was a lie. If somebody isn’t going to except you for just being you then that person just isn’t worth it. I hardly think that “just being a guy” is an excuse. I’m a pretty hyper person too but ther are a lot of guys that are my friennds and stuff anyway. You probly don’t rub everyone that way so I would say that you just have to accept that this guy and you just clash and move on.
    Does it really matter whether he said it to your friend or some random person? Either way he was just saying what he thought.

  110. sorry for the spastic moment
    that is creepy having someone lurk around ur house u better b careful.
    I have and love to play the sims2 so fun-making
    u guys best enjoy ur spring break mine is over =( i dont have a day off for like 6 weeks!!!!!! not fair.

  111. YAY!!! For Erica-wa! *throwa confetti*
    Dude, Bran-la don’t let it bug you, you just have to let it go and forget about it. Sometimes some people are just like that and well if they are you just have to deal with it, you know? Just don’t let it get to you.

  113. and Bran-la, I sorrees… but 17 year olds tend to be all holier-than-thou and think they are so cool because they’re older.
    :/
    (I is 15.)

    stick to 13-year olds and the such, is my advice.
    and poo on that dude.
    *slips on cool-cat sunglasses*

  115. thats pretty suckish bran-la. but dont let it bug you. it was just some 17-year-old guy that you’ll probrably never confront again. or atleast not for a while. i dont no u, but he’s probrably missin out! πŸ˜› πŸ™‚

  118. Haha, thanks you guys! I havent thought about that moment all day, in fact when i wrote this last night, ever since i havent thought about it. and yeah, i can see how being 13 can be an issue with the olders ones. i mean, i dont hang out with 7 year olds or anything…….
    And yeah he did miss out on somethings! But im happy with who i am. I hate boring old “what did you do today” “nothing” people, i mean, whats the point in life? I mean seriously? Obviously its not to be all dull and look down on life. i lov being goofy and silly and having fun. And even when that dude totally bumbed my mood, i had to take my head, place it an inch from the wall, and smack my hand agianest the back. Resulting in, the face plant. And you know what, i got over it, but im still a little sore…..
    I hate how i make big deals out of things sometimes. Got. to. Stop. Doing. that.!!!

    I know i havent got on in a while in talk but my freakin teacher decided to give us home work stacks the size of mt. Everst so until i can unbury myself, i will be randomly commenting.

  119. Hmmm…I wrote a poem…
    Here it is:
    I was just another face in the crowd,
    but I chose to stand out,
    I chose to succeed,
    I chose to jump up and shout.
    To the sky?
    Who cares? I just needed to SCREAM!
    To get out of the routine of things,
    To change something for once,
    To have caused a domino effect.
    Pretty soon, other people will stand for what’s right.
    It’s the perfect chaos, don’t you think?
    I chose to set free the spirit inside of me.
    I chose,
    chose to live!

  123. Ok, i put it on, hope thats ok with you, if not, i can always delete it!!! Oh and i credited you by saying “from T&Z” cause i didnt want my friends bugging me about who tally and zane were so there gonna have to deal with the initial!!!

  126. TZ that is freaking FAWESOME! i loves it. so inspirational! mah fave you wrote so far!

    ok so i just got done with dance practice and i’m PUMPED! so very PUMPED!! we finished our dance today and omg it’s amazing! it’s to the song “I Want It All” by Queen heres the link if ya wanna listen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOdWxf1tRmI and like the ending is so fawesome we like are in this tight little group and then the front row throws their arm out like to grab something and then steps back in the tight group and contracts with their wrists crossed and head down and then my row does it, and then the last row and it’s to the “I WANT IT!” at the end of the song. and then we walk with attitude to our fianl spots and pose with like our hands on our hips like “yeah you wanna mess with me?” lol “bring it.” it’s fawesome. can yous tell, i’se a bits excited!! πŸ˜€ πŸ˜€ πŸ˜€ …sorrys if somes of that didn’t make sense.

  127. woo-hoo
    i got a new book
    its been a week i thought i would die
    its good too “bloodtide”by melvin burgess(id hate if i had the name melvin)
    but its a PULSE book too
    whoo im hy-per

  128. Bran-la u no wat about ur question on the 20th of april i am going 2 b 17 (yeah me!!!) anyway i would sooooo hang with u because u sound like u like having a blast like all my friends. tell the guy that he might as well live under a rock(nice u) or tell him that he is a waste of life that cant function in normal society (mean u) and i dont mind if u want to tell him that ur 17 yr olod friend sends that message personally! sorry just venting 4 u =)

  130. Bran-la- do you know Kate Brian’s e-mail address? pleaseeeee say you do. i’se trying to enter this contest thing on her site and it won’t let me. so. very. confuzzled.

  131. Aww, you guys rock! I’ve got tons more, but I can’t really put them up, cuz I’m working on getting them published, it’s not that I don’t trust you guys, its just all this legal crap…Wow, me is sooooooo excited!

  133. Bran-la,
    Well, (even though I have come to the conclusion that no matter how cute they are all guys are idiots…which I kinda already knew) that was pretty stupid of him.
    Seriously, he should of known they would tell you.
    Sounds like beef jerky (yeah, that’s a weird sentence…huh.)
    I’d probably pretend that they never told me and just act normal…not like Ò€œnormalÒ€, but like you know…like we act on here with all of our randomness.
    You know you’re not annoying, he’s just being dumb. (which proves my conclusion, stated above.)
    Erica-wa,
    I have to wait 3 more years to be able to drive…much longer for a car, lucky.
    Though, you had to wait as long as me…you’ve just lived longer.
    Bran-la,
    this is a place for venting…it helps…a lot
    haha that’s funny, we use Scott-la’s board to post about our girly problems.
    What torture we put him through.
    Seriously, i couldn’t stand the kids in my tech class.
    They would give me weird stares because they’re all freaking depressed or something so they thought it was weird to talk fast and laugh and have fun even when I cut myself with the freaking saw (which is my life in a nutshell.)
    So while they were talking to each other about their boring lives and talking about their babies (what in world has happened to this world? 7th grade people!!! 7th GRADE!!!!!!) I was annoying them with my oddness and insanely k@@k@@ laughter, inside jokes, and pointing out that it really isn’t funny to smoke (to which they ignored.)
    TZ-la
    You should start a fanlib account for your poems, they’re really good.
    Kay-wa
    What kind of dance do you take?
    My dance routine is very crappy
    oh well
    Erica-wa,
    It’s really weird…like on here, we all like the same kinds of things but there are even adults…creeptacular
    TZ-la,
    ask your library about publishing
    my friend entered a contest at a library and got her poem published.
    Erm, sorry this is so long…

  135. Softball has started!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Let the running and batting begin!!!! I am on my aunts team

    I love Superman/Tom Welling!!!!

  136. that’s fool Reagan! i play on the girls softball association-(fast pitch), for my parents business. and then in the fall i play on the school team. it’s pretty freaking fawesome. can’t wait to start hitting. i can wait to start running however. hehe.

  137. I start softball on saturday too! And I’ll look into the fanlib and library thing too, thanks! And you didn’t think I was one of the adults did you? Cuz I’m not…not even close, but I’ll be graduating jr high this year,lol…

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