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Regarding Doughnuts

By on 23 Jan 2012
  • JJ: For the longest time I’ve spelled it “doughnut” but everyone said that was archaic and/or wrong. “Donut” still looks weird.
  • WICKED COOL RILEY: I only use “donut” because of Dunkin Donuts. I sort of prefer the archaic spelling.
  • JJ: I’m almost positive all doughnut places spell it “donut”. But I think there was a book I read as a kid that spelled it “doughnut”, so it stuck in my brain that way.
  • WICKED COOL RILEY: Homer Price?!
    WICKED COOL RILEY: (probably not).
  • JJ: YES.
    JJ: THANK YOU.
    JJ: IT WAS!!!!
  • WICKED COOL RILEY: AHHHHH
    WICKED COOL RILEY: I did the BEST DAMN DIORAMA EVER MADE as a book report for that book. I did the doughnut scene (obviously) and used cheerios for the doughnuts. I glued them eeeeeverywhere and it was amazing.
    WICKED COOL RILEY: I was so mad when my mother made me throw it out.

And this, my friends, is why everyone needs a Wicked Cool Riley in their lives.

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On Teenage Love

By on 13 Jan 2012
  • WICKED COOL RILEY: When I was a teenager declaring my love there was a lot of mumbling and short, declarative sentences.
    WICKED COOL RILEY: And idiotic grinning.
  • JJ: I never declared love to anyone as a teenager.
    JJ: I didn’t believe teenagers had the capacity to declare love.
    JJ: Even when I was 16.
  • WICKED COOL RILEY: I did, to one boyfriend, but only like, two months after he’d first said it to me.
    WICKED COOL RILEY: And I can recognize now that what I felt wasn’t love, and I think I knew it then, too. But I couldn’t think of another word that encompassed what I felt.
    WICKED COOL RILEY: Which was something along the lines of delusional obsession.
  • JJ: HAHAHAHA. “I am delusionally obsessed with you.”
  • WICKED COOL RILEY: I CARED about him a great deal, and that part was genuine. But I care in this mix of maternal and like, dog walker.
    WICKED COOL RILEY: And was mostly just very swept up in the drama of it all.
  • JJ: OMG. BEST DESCRIPTION EVER.
  • WICKED COOL RILEY: IT’S TRUE THOUGH.
    WICKED COOL RILEY: I CARED ABOUT JOE CLARK LIKE I WAS HIS DOG WALKER.
    WICKED COOL RILEY: Which I pretty much was.
  • JJ: I less than three you SO MUCH, Kelly Riley.
    JJ: SO MUCH.
  • WICKED COOL RILEY: Is this going on your blog?
  • JJ: YOU BET IT IS.
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It’s True I’m a Research Junkie

By on 18 Oct 2011
  • JJ: (long rambly complaint about feeling compelled to know every possible detail about her characters’ backstories, particularly one who turned out to be Welsh because of the surname she decided to give him) It’s the little details. WHY MUST I KNOW THE LITTLE DETAILS?
  • WICKED COOL RILEY: You are like a drunk girl texting her ex. STEP AWAY FROM GOOGLE.

If there was any doubt I was a Ravenclaw, then this should eliminate it entirely.

Also, did you know there is a dearth of information about the Swansea accent on YouTube?

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Resist The Urge To Google

By on 16 Jun 2011
  • JJ: I wish I could write stuff that didn’t require 10 hours of research for two sentences. This is probably why it takes me so long to write anything.
  • JJ: Why can’t I write something simple, fluffy, and contemporary?
  • Wicked Cool Riley: Because even then you’d find something strange to research. Your protagonist would be a speed Rubix Cube solver or something, and you’d have to research exactly how to do that in minute detail. Researching is in your blood.

Ain’t that the truth.

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Wicked Cool Riley Is The Best

By on 6 Jun 2011
  • JJ: I am 700 words into this article and I still haven’t made my point. Also, why can’t I write fiction this quickly????
  • WICKED COOL RILEY: Because non-fiction has been drilled into you because of all the papers you had to write in your academic career. Even narrative nonfiction has a clear structure. Fiction is like the knot in Maniac Magee.
  • WICKED COOL RILEY: You have to tease it and coax it and then it clamps even tighter and you start all over and you take a nap and have a snack before you have to face finishing.

And this is why she is the best writing partner EVER, folks.

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