Uncreated Conscience

Remember this video White-Harp made for Maggie Stiefvater SHIVER?

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I used to want to be an animator.

NOT ANYMORE. No wonder traditional handdrawn animation became passé. Even drawing the scant 25 frames in here almost drove me batshit insane.

I procrastinate a lot. I often procrastinate from doing creative things by…making other creative things. In this case, I’m trying not to look at the flaws Scrivener keeps pointing out in my manuscript.

Mostly I’ve been inspired by Maggie Stiefvater who, in addition to being a wonderful writer, is a multi-talented woman. I just loved her stop-motion trailer for SHIVER that I decided to have a go at something similar myself. White-Harp has also been pestering me for ages to make her into a famous internet star and gladly jumped at the opportunity to make her opinions known via video blog.

Sometimes I feel as though I have two distinct blogging selves: the nerdy, YA-bookish half and the laid-back, adrenaline-junkie skydiving half.

I’ve given my skydiving self some good blog time, so I figure I’ll let the YA-bookish self come out to play. I have read a lot of new books in the past few weeks and I ought to review them for you.

Last week I spent the last of my birthday gift card and within two days, had already finished the entire stash of new books (in addition to re-reading all 7 million pages of the GEMMA DOYLE trilogy by Libba Bray). Reviews of the last two to follow.

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