To Become Authority One Must Do Research

First of all, I want to say I'm sorry for not posting anything the entire week. A FULL WEEK! It's just that I was busy with quite a few things that were out of my reach. You know how that is, right? But now, I'm back. :)

So this entire week, all we have been focusing on is research and of course finding an interviewee. Seriously, I thought, finding someone to interview wasn't going to be difficult, but as always... I was wrong!

So I've been trying to get a hold of a few YouTube Gurus (a very important part of my story is base on it), but :sighs: for some reason, I still haven't heard from at least one. I'm not asking for a two-hour interview, just thirty minutes tops.

Now this assignment is due tomorrow. Not the interview, just the confirmation of actually having someone to interview. So yeah, I was stressing. Believe me, I tried emailing and even used Twitter :laughs: Now, I understand that they might be busy, or maybe they just don't check their emails frequently. I don't want to assume that they were just ignoring my email because I don't know them in a personal level.


So what did I do?

I emailed my instructor and asked her if I could switch my subject for the interviewing phase. She is very understanding, and I was able to do that. So yay!

I'm interviewing a fellow classmate who has worked as a waitress <-----all this is for my story!

I finished typing my research paper that's due in a few hours and all I need is to revise it. Believe me... it needs it!

I'm going to cut this short for tonight, but I will blog tomorrow about something I did this past week. I find it pretty cool :).

Hope you all have had a wonderful weekend.

Till next time,

Eva


P.S.
Just because I wasn't able to reach one of them for an interview doesn't mean I will give up though :smirks:

Happy Belated Thanksgiving and a Long Post on Books

:waves: Hi everyone!

Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving break. I know I did! :grins:

I actually decided to just take it easy the past few days. All my deadlines for this week were moved to next Wednesday, but of course, I was diligent and did all my work.

I CAN'T get behind.

Although today, I went back to work-mode. One of my assignments was regarding dialogue.

Basically, I had to spend at least an hour in a particular place and listen to people's conversation. If a dialogue caught my attention I needed to write it down. Now, I needed five of those, and well, we as human do have short attention span, so I found my own way of sustaining those dialogues.


It was interesting and I am considering on doing this again. As a writer (and this goes especially for those trying to become writers themselves), one NEEDS to pay close attention to the way people communicate with each other. Not everyone will speak the same, there are times when the environment determines the type of dialogue. 


For example:


If you are the type of person who hasn't stepped into an Arts and Crafts store, by all means, go. Walk around for at least 30 minutes and just listen and observe. For many, this might sound like if we are stalking...but seriously... we are not. This, my fellow writer, will prep you for what is to come. It is after all, research, and every writer does this. I'm not kidding. 


So make sure you do your research.




On A Side Note


Yesterday I received:

I haven't read DeathNote or PandoraHearts v.2 but I so DID read My Girlfriend's a Geek. 


Seriously my dearies! I recommend MGG if all you need is a good laugh. 


So...what's the story about?


Glad you asked. Basically PENTABU is a guy blogger who wrote about his relationship with a geek...well I should say, a Fujoshi geek. And even though it is hiarious, there are times when his girlfriend gets me upset. I mean, yay! he accepted your hobby, but give the guy a break :shakes head: 


Oh well, who am I to judge.


But for YOU to have a good laugh there are a few prerequisites:

1. You are a fujoshi
2. You know a fujoshi
3. You know what fujoshi means
4. You are/have dated a fujoshi

Do you meet any of them?

If you did... get the book!

If you didn't...yeah...don't bother... it won't make sense. But if you want to give it a try, by all means.

But I did warn you....

Now yesterday I was browsing around...searching for BN discount coupons and I found one my friends :'D. A 30% off coupon! 30%!!!!!!!

Anyways....

So what did I get... I got this!!

I did go on a book shopping spree didn't I? :sighs: oh well. As long as I have no regrets then its a-okay!

Till next time,

Eva

Just One of Those Days

So today I sent my professor the logline for thesis. It took me a few hours to work on it, but I finally wrote it down. It does look promising so :keeps finger cross:

Now, my problem is that as I was writing my character bios for this one story, I was thinking of another story I want to work on. Ya, it's a pain.

Thesis?


So basically at the moment, I'm considering my thesis to be a comic. So if any of my LJ friends are reading this...I might send an email and hope for somewhat of an interview. Of course I will explain why in the email so don't worry :).

So once the logline was submitted and everything else was finish, I decided to create three character bios...yeah, I just finished the last bio :laughs: and so far they look okay.

I just hope my characters come to life and tell a story of their own.


:sighs:

This class is pure research. I still have to think of a place I want to go to and observe. Ya...I shall stalk a few people in a few days. All for information and dialogue :D.

But...
I have no clue where to go though


And the research continues.


Hmm...now that I look back, this seems rather a boring post... Sorry ^^;;;

Guess, research is boring even when blogging about it.

Blah!

I hope to bring great stuff next time!

Till then,

Eva

Is This Hyperventilation I'm feeling?

You know...I knew...I JUST knew it!

Knew what?

Well, that the deeper I get into the program, the more stress, the more sleep deprive I would get...

.....I was hesitant

But I did it anyways......

I logged on to the portal and looked.

Because of the Thanksgiving weekend, our first week's assignments are due till December 1st. I should celebrate, no?

:face palm: I have so much work to do! And, and...

I need to send my professor a LOGLINE!


You guys know how much I've come to hate loglines, but she wants to know what our "thesis" will be and since the interview is this month.  (I have no idea how the interview will be done...all I know is that it is through a video.)  I need to prepare.

Plus, I have to start on my research. You know...go here and there. Do this and that <----- I still don't know what it is I have to do :laughs:

Anyhoo...


This will be an interesting month my friends....and to top it all off, some of my fellow peers have started to drop. Yeah, this is hardcore...

But I will fight and continue! So wish me luck!




Till next time,


Eva