The journal of Chad Zahara.
Spam.
Due to a massive amount of spam that has hit this site, I have made it so that you must now register to comment. Yes, it is a bit of a pain, but it is better than having your comment buried amongst ones of gibberish and advertisements.
Anyway, this past month has been [...]
My Twenty-First Birthday.
Yesterday was my Twenty-First Birthday and I spent it with my family and pal Stephanie. Well, mostly with Stephanie. She came over after classes and gave me two awesome books and two squishy swords which led to many epic duels; and will certainly lead to more. She also gave me a witty [...]
Plasticine puppets.
I have just come home from my Intermediate Creative Writing class and would like to share what I wrote in it. Our assignment was create a little plasticine puppet, then to write a short narration, dialogue, or monologue for them. We had fifteen minutes to write and, using an old idea of mine [...]
Reviews and analysis leech my energy.
Yesterday I wrote an entry about a book which I had recently finished reading. I wrote it in a rush, not really thinking about what I was writing. The entry turned into part synopsis, part opinion, but accomplished neither well. This has reminded me of how much I despise writing reviews.
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New Year’s Eve in New Orleans
Last night was my favourite New Year’s Eve since 1999. I was going to write up a short summary of the night until I noticed that my guest, Stephanie (not to be confused with my sister Stephanie whom was also there), has already written an entry on it. So I shall link to [...]
Happy New Year!
I cannot promise anything, as I have found life too distracting to blog sometimes, but I will say that over the next year I do intend to write more.
I hope that everyone had a wonderful night; I sure did!
Merry Christmas!
Dear readers,
I hope that you are all having, or have had, a wonderful Christmas! This year’s has been one of my favourites, particularly because I have been home all day; the first Christmas I have ever done so. My family and I slept in, then we took our time opening presents and having [...]
Life update; December 15 2009.
Who knew I could get so busy? I have been itching to post here, but have either found no time to do so, or have been too tired to post anything worth reading. I guess this is nothing worth reading, but It does serve the purpose of letting you all know that an [...]
Story Update; December 4 2009.
My story planning is coming along nicely. I have a good grasp on the theme, plot, setting, and characters. I even have a title, but that will not be revealed until the story is finished in case a superior title comes to me during the writing. Now to begin the first draft!
