New Year's Eve, Bracelets, & An Odd Game...

Okay, New Year's Eve: Today is New Year's Eve! Everyone knows that, but I'm exited. Tomorrow is 1/1/11. That is a lot of ones.... Anyway, tonight I'm staying at my Grandma's apartment, and we are going to stay up until midnight. I actually can't remember a year when I didn't stay with my Grandma on New Year's Eve and we DIDN'T stay up until midnight. I'm really exited. What I'm NOT exited about is going back to school on Monday. I never should have said I wanted to go back to public school! Well, I guess that's not true. If I didn't go to school this year, I wouldn't be a safety-patrol, and I wouldn't have the opportunity to go to a middle-school where I can have things on my level. And I wouldn't have made a good friend. Well, I'm getting off track, so let's get back on.
Bracelets: My dad taught me how to make Hemp Bracelets last night, and now I've gone crazy! I made one for my little brother, but I think he thinks it's girlie. I think that once the matching one for his Teddie-Bear is done, he'll want to wear it. He seemed really exited last night when I said he and Teddie could have matching bracelets... I'm not sure what he thinks now. I got started with the bracelets when my dad made me one. It was really cool and I've wanted to learn how to make them for a while now, so when I knew he knew how to do it, I jumped at it.
An Odd Game: Last night, we played this game called 'Befudiom'. It is CRAZY. And we made it crazier. Your have a card that has different phrases on it and you roll two dice. You have one die that has these pictures on it and the pictures mean different things. One picture means 'Act It' where, obviously, you act it out. Like charades. Another one means 'Draw It' where you draw pictures and you try to guess what they're drawing. Another one is 'Write It' where you're only allowed to pick four different letters from the phrase and put them in the correct spot. It's kind of like hang-man, but you can only guess what the phrase is, no letters. And then there's 'Describe it' where you can describe the phrase, or the words in the phrase, without actually USING any words in the phrase. Then you have 'Choose It' where you choose what you do. Simple. The last one, I can't remember what it's called, but someone else chooses what you do. Then you have a regular die, and whatever number you roll, that's what number phrase you do.
Anything Else On My Mind: My mom is using this website called 750 words. You write three pages and the average word count for three pages is 750 words. It's a brain drain. I'm not sure if you have to be a certain age or not. If you don't, I think I might try it. My mom did a little more explaining on the website, so it's sounds pretty cool.

Happy New Year!
-Emma

Some New Things Going On

I just read an article that really helped me. The people who know me, know that I want to be a writer. The article that I read was on 'Writetodone.com' and it was called 'A Guide To Becoming A Writer For Kids And Teens'. When I read the title as I was looking over my mother's shoulder when she was on that website, I thought it was for adults who wanted to write for children and young-adults. But when I found it in my e-mail this morning from my mom, I knew that it was directed and kids and teens who want to be writers. It had some really good tips and it showed me how I can practice more and get my writing read. If you're pretty young, like in Elementary, Middle, or High School, I think you should read the article. I'll include the link at the end of this post if you're interested. There were three main things to becoming a pro writer. I have done two of those three things. The three things were, 1) Start a blog. 2) Try writing your own novel. 3) Get some freelance practice at your local paper or school paper.
I have obviously done the first one, started on the second one, and next year, when I go to middle school, I will accomplish the third one!
I think I'm about to go read or do some research for my novel(one of them!)so here's the link:
http://writetodone.com/2008/09/17/a-guide-to-becoming-a-writer-for-kids-and-teens/#more-367


Goodbye!

-Emma