"Write a new blog post," they say. Like it's that easy. Like it's that simple.
And what if I have nothing to talk about? What if there is nothing I WANT to talk about? Don't I get a say in any of this? Doesn't my opinion MATTER?
And of course the Twitter people are nudging me. Every. Single. Day. I can't escape them. They're getting into my head.
They're in my DREAMS...
I'm all achey. I've had a long day and I'm tired. All I want to do is go to bed- and yet going to bed before 2 AM always seems like a waste of time. Like there's something I could be doing, some work I could be getting done...
33,000 words done on Book 8, by the way.
This time last year (January 6th) I started KOTW. I had been hideously delayed because of work to the house I'd been having done, and the deadline was fast approaching. So this year, having 33,000 words done by this stage is something of a relief. I am, of course, assuming that I can continue writing at the same rate. So, er, hopefully I can.
Wrote a cool scene yesterday. It involves Fletcher. It involves blood. It involves AWESOMENESS.
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«Oldest ‹Older 2001 – 2200 of 4871 Newer› Newest»That sounded creepy, didn't it?
Only a tad.
Maybe a little...
Eh, it's fine. We're all mad here. :)
Not at all!
:)
Gosh... My story just may end up with multiple endings...
Oh, definitely mad!
Twinkle twinkle little bat
How I wonder where you're at
Up above the world you fly
Like a tea tray in the sky...
Hiya
*hugs everyone* *gives Em another hug*
[is hugged]
Ok, I think now is a bad time to write... All I'm getting is really depressing poetry.
At least depressing poetry is something...
*stares at word document*
Why you no give me ideas for story?
Then again, it's actually semi-decent poetry, unusual for me.
Yeah. Writing humour right now would be sort of pointless.
ok guys- I think it's bedtime for me. I love all of you. Stay strong. *gathers everyone into tight embrace* *squeezes Em extra hard*
How is a bat like a tea tray?
I usually get ideas from places I've been in real life, aka a behind the scenes museum tour makes me want to write a scene that takes place in the unseen parts of that museum.
Night, Aretha!
Goodnight Aretha.
I haven't the slightest idea.
At least your trying.
Night Aretha.
Val, sorry I have no ideas. Maybe when Ghastly wakes up after the remenants and someone has to tell him what happened to Tanith?
Uh. Anyone there? You've all disappeared...
I'm here. Hi.
[sings]
When you try your best, but you don't succeed
When you get what you want, but lose what you need
When feel so tired, but you can't sleep
Stuck in reverse
When the tears come streaming down your face
When you lose something you can't replace
When you love someone, but it goes to waste
Couldn't be worse
(Coldplay, I think)
I am here.
Oh, I'm trying to write my story about my character, Ivy Animosity.
I guess Ivy just really doesn't feel like killing someone right now. Shame on her.
Yes it's coldplay. Fix you.
I danced to it today...
Thrust has never killed. His hands are shakily clean.
In BALLET class. The whole world has gone topsy-turvy
My neighbors are crazy.
I'm playing Viva La Vida in my orchestra...
My characters have killed, when necessary.
I love that song!
I love that song. I always sing it, and I think the words are so perfect for what's happened to me (Ok, that sounds too depressing)
Guys, I think Em is gone to be with her family.
Fabi, I don't know how to make paper cranes, but I make wishing stars. I'm on 963. I was going to give my friend the thousandth one, but now I think I'll wish for Em to get through this, and to be okay. I only met her yesterday, but it's strange how quickly you come to care about someone.
Hey, I was watching the new and there's a big thing about protests in Northern Ireland. I wonder if Derek will write a blog entry about it?
I've just started playing a piece called 'In Ireland'
Em went to sleep a while ago, she's in the UK.
There's a really cool Lego video for viva la vida on YouTube.
It's cool playing Viva La Vida, because it sounds so awesome.
And cellos have a really cool part.
I love that song, and the video. I watched the video too many times.
I'm not in a band... Is it fun?
Viva la vida is an awesome song.
Have you seen the Lego video?
I like Lego videos, by the way.
Don't think so...
There isn't a Lego version of 'In Ireland' I checked.
ALOHA!
Hi, Missy.
No, but there is one for viva la vida..
Haven't seen it.
And Houdini by Foster the People.
Same maker.
Those two are the best.
But the OFiciAL music video for Houdini was EPIC.
I've danced to Houdini!
[demonstrates. Realizes no one can actually see]
Sometimes I wanna disappear...
Fletcher and blood. Either Valkyrie decides she hates his new girlfriend and murders her in front of him (That old chestnut), or Fletcher is murdered by a new villain.
Or neither, and I could be completely not right.
(I am never wrong. Not always right, but never wrong.)
If you had one wish, what would it be?
Probably something stupid...
Embarassingly, that's one of the only songs I know the words to. I ha a project on a song, and I ended up picking that one, an listening to it a hundred times.
The weird thing though is that no one actually knows the lyrics because they're so hard to hear in the song. All the lyric site had them different, and all the videos too. Then I found the aucoustic somewhere on YouTube,so now I'm pretty clear on most of the lyrics.
I would wish that no one I love would ever have bad luck/ misfortune ever again. Gtg, I'm sorry. Nice to meet you other people :)
Bye, Saph!
Yeah, the lyrics are hard to hear.
If I couldn't wish for magic, I'd wish to be taller. Like, a lot taller. That way I would be the one towering over people. But I'd want to get there gradually, not all at once. 5'4 isn't really working for me.
World peace would help. Understanding eachother..
No, I mean a selfish wish.
Ahah
I might skip July 2011.
Then again, it's a little late to wish it didn't happen...
That's a pretty selfish wish..
But I know what you mean.
Sigh.. Okay.
Hiya, Ember!
I used to always be the tallest in the room... Now Tani's little sis is taller than I am!
HEYA Fabi!
HI EMBER!
I don't need to be taller.
In my last year of Primary School, I was the tallest of every single kid.
I don't really need to be taller, but being dwarfed by someone three years younger than you is kinda annoying.
Fletcher and blood.
Either really quite good or bad-enough-to-make-all-the-minions-leave-their-overlord bad.
We shall see...
Well, I'm off to bed now. Night!
*curls into a ball with the odd stuffed animals on bed (Derek-lizard, Valkyrie-lizard, Fletcher the giant hedgehog, and Charles the Cat)*
Night!
[Should really follow Val's example...but not yet]
Night Val!
HI PORKY!
Okay. I'm going to bed. Night everyone!
Night!
Wbd, need to finish before can sleep.
Night Thrust!
Ok, I think I am going to sleep now. Night, Miss Cain!
Night Fabi!
Hello
Anybody there?
Or is everyone asleep?
Did the blog give out some free chloroform or something. That's probably what happened.
Predictable old blogs.
I'm about to go to sleep, but...
AGH, WHY COULDN'T SIRIUS BE IN THE BOOKS MORE?! I love his character so much!
*is wearing a shirt with the wanted posted for Sirius Black on it for pjs*
I'm fairly sure this blog is about Skulduggery Pleasant, not Harry Potter
HI DUCK!
HI VAL!
Sorry, distant...
Very distant
But then again, so am I
*sighs*
Boredom is boring...
Bored of being boring because being boring is bored
Sooooo.......what's up
Before I went to school, I just wanted to say hi...
*disappears again*
Hi Maralie
Even though you've disappeared already
HI/BYE MARA!
Well, the sky...
Hello there Random Fire Hand. Nice to meet you. *curtsys* *falls over* *disappears once more*
*sighs*
I did practically none of my jobs today...
Wbd.
HI LAV!
*tacklehugs*
Oh, and hey Miss Cain :)
*BANG AND THE DIRT IS GONE!*
*is tacklehugged*
Hi.
*manages a small smile*
*smile fades and sighs again*
No matter what happens in life, it keeps moving. Even if you don't want it to...
I know exactly what you mean, Lav...
*rereads the comments on the post when I joined to try and lighten my mood*
*laughs at my first comment*
I was so clueless back then, it's embarrassing now.
February 22 is my blogversary. One more month and I'll have been here for a year.
Although, it shouldn't count cause I haven't been on for almost half the year.
It still counts, Lav.
*frowns*
I've got to try and find my first comment...
It will be my Blogversary in May,
Cool. May's my birth month.
The comments are contagious back there. Sparky was so... Fun.
*reads the time when she and Robin were fighting Hollow Men*
*smiles*
*thinks of the poem I was going to show earlier*
*remembers what happened after*
*sighs again*
Okay, Miss.
Back!
I love apple pies...
Wb, Miss.
*smiles again*
Still reading the comments from the old post. Derek said hi to me the first day I commented, and I wasn't even there to appreciate it.
*laughs*
What a minion I was. :P
Apple pies are my favorite type of pies.
YES.
THEY ARE THE BEST.
*is reading previous comments from May*
Interesting... and hilarious...
I think I'm going to read May's posts next.
Sorry, Miss. I gotta go to dinner. Be back later. Maybe.
Pfft! Apple pies! What about meat pies! No other pie can beat a meat pie.
My blogversary is today, you know, if anyone wanted to know.
And Derek hasn't said anything this entire blog :(
VICTORY!
I'M PRETTY SURE I'VE FOUND MY FIRST COMMENT!
My God, I was so weird back then...
What do you mean, it's your Blogversary today? You only joined this month.
I'm pretty sure you've always being weird
Well I suppose it's in exactly a year
Yeah, I was just weirdER back then...
On May 20, 2013, 10:48 AM (Irish time), it shall be my 1 year Blogversary.
Morning everyone... if anyone is still around.
HI EM!
*tacklehugs*
Did anyone get any sleep last night...
I didn't in the end...
Yeah.
I got sleep.
Oh Miss Cain... you don't know yet...
Um... Chase passed away early this morning...
...
Oh my God.
I'm sorry...
I know it's a lot to take in...
Well, at least I know.
Hey Derek I love your books and was wondering could you involve a character I created into one of your new books, his name is insomnia kane and has dark brown hair, tall and he's also a vampire but he takes the same serum dusk used so he doesn't change and my thoughts were something like he tried to avenge caelens death but falls in love with valkyries reflection but when she tries to kill him he tracks down skulduggery and they reluctantly join forces but has a hidden motive.....
Those are just a few of my ideas and I hope you use insomnia kane in one of your book.
thanks
Insomnia kane
Hey Derek I love your books and was wondering could you involve a character I created into one of your new books, his name is insomnia kane and has dark brown hair, tall and he's also a vampire but he takes the same serum dusk used so he doesn't change and my thoughts were something like he tried to avenge caelens death but falls in love with valkyries reflection but when she tries to kill him he tracks down skulduggery and they reluctantly join forces but has a hidden motive.....
Those are just a few of my ideas and I hope you use insomnia kane in one of your book.
thanks
Insomnia kane
Hey Derek I love your books and was wondering could you involve a character I created into one of your new books, his name is insomnia kane and has dark brown hair, tall and he's also a vampire but he takes the same serum dusk used so he doesn't change and my thoughts were something like he tried to avenge caelens death but falls in love with valkyries reflection but when she tries to kill him he tracks down skulduggery and they reluctantly join forces but has a hidden motive.....
Those are just a few of my ideas and I hope you use insomnia kane in one of your book.
thanks
Insomnia kane
Hi. I'm here for now.
Not sure who else is though.
Wbd, reading past post comments.
Oh, and see Duck? It's been almost 2 hours. Sometimes no one is on for a while.
Especially when they have school. (Engiminions)
Right, well... It seems like no one is coming on(and I've actually been refreshing the page every ten minutes) so I'm just saying- I'm very distant. And might disappear. Not suddenly, as I'm distant in the first place and won't comment all that much, so can't really say msd...
*doesn't think that makes sense*
Oh well.
I think reading the comments of the past are affecting my way of speaking... I haven't talked like that in a while...
*still continues reading them*
Lav, if you're here....is like to hear your poem.
*I'd
Hi. I'm here, for a bit.
Hi Eve. Hi Kes.
The one about Sparky?
HI, Lav. You wrote a poem about Sparky?
Yeah... I was going to show you but right after I asked... That was when Em came. Which is why I didn't.
If you want to hear it now, I can show you.
The poem you wanted to show us. Whichever it was. Yes, is like to hear it. :)
Okay. It's more like a cheer though. :P
Sparky Braginski
Sparky is the greatest
She is blogfamous!
A character she made for the book,
Hayley Skirmish*, Derek took!
I'm so happy, I'm so proud
To know her as a friend.
I'll whisper it, I'll shout it loud!
Sparky is the greatest!
*For those who don't know, Hayley is an actual friend of Sparky's. She let her use her character for the competition way back when. Her character was used in a short story at the end of The End of the World.
I'm thinking of writing something like that(though maybe not as cheerful) for other Bloglandians.
If I can. Sparky's just came off the top of my head- last night was it? Seems like two nights ago...
Dem rhymes. XD
Great poem! Yeah, you should write some for more Bloglandians, they'd like that. *no hinthint*
I completely forgot I was here.....
Anyway, I have to go now, bye!
Bye Kessie!
Msd.
Bye Kes!
Thanks Eve. :) And yeah, I'm starting to work on it.
But I might run out of words for all of them. I don't want say the same about them, I want each poem to be unique. Like they are.
Okay, Eve.
Adding to what I just said:
Which is why I might run out of words. But I'll still try. :)
Hey, teacher! Leave them kids alone!
/awkwardly dances like a jellyfish to the bass
hello friends I am here!
Hi Vestige. I don't think we've met. I'm Lavender, but you can call me Lav or Hope. Nice to meet you. :)
Right, well, it's getting late and I'm a bit tired... So I'm going to go to bed now.
Good night, Eve, if you didn't disappear yet.
Bye Blogland.
Well, I'm sorry to say, Mr. Landy, that you don't... OFTEN get a say when it comes to rabid fans and lack-of-news-from-fan-collecting man, which is you.
But look on the bright side... At least our hungers will be sated for... oh... maybe two more days? Then we'll and they'll start asking again... or rather... demanding....
Still, bright side. ~nods~
Well, I just wrote a scene involving Mr. Raines, and there was blood in that as well, but he was affectionately remembering his first kill with his new revolver. ~shrugs~ I'm assuming Fletcher wasn't in that state of... reverie.
Next I think I'll... hmm... I'll have to get the good guys on the flying ship and gather more information on this mysterious note-giver in the night who seems to have possessed Debra... And then I have to have so-in-so fall off the ship, because that's what I've been planning since the beginning of the fan-fic. ~smiles~
Should be fun. Don't know how I'm going to rescue him yet, haven't gotten that far yet. :P
Ooook, enough rambling. "Enough rambling"? Why did I day that? I NEVER ramble enough. Rambling is fun- and Ooo, I want to name someone in the FF Persephone, after the planet. I like that name... Persephone... And Paradise... and the more usual name of "Common." I think those are very good story names. Yes... indeed... only I haven't a clue who can be Persephone since I already... basically have the plot set out..., but I don't have any bad guys [ or rather, girls ] as of yet. So yes, Maybe I'll make one and call her Persephone. Makes me think of Safron. Innocent on the outside, conniving on the inside. Perhaps I'll make her a redhead. Evil innocent females are always redheads in movies. I should probably stick with the theme. Besides, there are far too-few redheads on this earth. The least I can do is throw some into a story :3
Speaking of stories, you know what you should do? You should post about what books you've been reading recently and what you think of them. I seriously enjoy talking about books, and I do it online somewhat excessively. However, that's because I'm deprived of talking about books 'in real life' [I definitely need to come up with a better term for it than 'real life' since I consider this extremely real].
And even more, I like hearing about books and discussing what I think of what other people like, because that opens a whole field... a while CITY of possibilities, which means I've decided you don't get those two days, at least not from me. [Apologies, sincerely]. Because I would very much like a new blog post... ABOUT BOOKS this time. See? I've made it easier for you. You already have a subject. You don't have to think of something to say, although I think if you rambled like I in a post of your own, we minions would find it extremely enjoyable, because we're insane, and just about anything the fan-collecting-man says is interesting, but mostly because it IS interesting because you have a habit of being interesting, which you should take as a complement, since I did mean it that way. ;]
Goodbye friends I am gone.
:'(
I read what happened this morning...
I expected myself to spend a day being depressed. Instead, I cried for twenty minutes before remembering the promise I made to Chase late last year. And I remembered the conversation we had; never must you say goodbye, it's merely a see you later. Yes, what happened is tragic but Chase asked for me to be there for Em, because there was nothing he wanted more than her happiness.
(my moodswings have been worse than normal, though. And sleep was ridiculous. I probably sound so horrible now:(!)
Em, if you read this, I'm here for you. I wish I could be there for you, however. Sadly, I'm stuck in England wanting to be there to hug you and make you smile. Smiling might seem impossible, right now, but Chase will never leave you. He told me he wanted you to be happy and live a long life. I told him I'd do everything I could to not disappoint him. Which is even more reason for me being here for you whenever you need me. I'll do everything I can to help. I promise.
YOLO
46.3 x 75.4 + (968.42 - 463.5) =
... Evil homework.
Wbd.
Msd.
Hey Maralie
Oh my God.
I... I didn't know that...
Chase will always be in our hearts... God may have decided it was his time, but he will never be forgotten. Emerald, I hope you're okay. I'm so sorry to hear the news. *hugs* I'm so sorry.
Hey Chloe *hugs* How're you? x
*squezzes the life outta Mara*
Im great, u?
whats wrong?
It's good to have those speeches at the top of the page. Thank you Kallie and Luce. [hugs]
Hi Mara!!! [hugs]
Hello, Chloe. [hugs or waves depending on what Chloe is comfortable with]
[Sings, adagio]
Sitting here,
Not knowing how I can
Keep myself from crying
Hope to tears,
I say that I'll be fine
But know that I'm lying.
If you look
Inside my deepest dream
Maybe then you'll see.
Every word,
Don't care how small it seems,
Means so much to me.
I gtg now. Au revoir.
Bye Fabi :)
Chloe, Chase passed away this morning. He was a Bloglandian.
oh.... how sad
byii fabi p.s i dont mind on the greeting
I'm torn between thinking I should be cheerful to make people feel cheerful again, or not being cheerful because it seems disrespectful and uncaring . . .
Em? I can't claim to know Chase really well, but he always seemed really nice to me. I swear on whatever you want me to swear on, I'm not just saying it. He seemed like a genuinely good person. Whatever your beliefs, most people think that being a good person gets you rewarded in the afterlife. Can you think of any reason why Chase would be condemned to suffer hell or wherever? No? No. He was a nice person and many of us liked it. So he'll get repaid for that. Yes.
I doubt I can say anything worthwhile here. Some of these Chase speechs are brilliant. Some (MINE!!!!!) seem a little pointless.
I feel like I haven't helped or anything, you know? If you ever want me to do anything (within reason - not jumping into a flaming pit of lava. Damn pedantry), I'm here. If not, if you just want to ignore me, just ignore me. :) Whatever you like. I am, in a sense, partially yours.
So yeah.
I flippin' can't end speechs, however crappy. Damn speechs.
soz have to go
...Hello?
Star, Chase was a good person. He was always there for me despite not knowing me that well. He was, no. He is an amazing person. And I'm honoured to have known him for the little time I did. Matt was perfect and he and Em, as you guys know her, were even more perfect together. Mind the saying, but it's better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all.
They're lucky to have found each other. One day, they'll find each other again<3
I APOLOGIZE FOR MY MOOD, BECAUSE THIS IS REALLY AFFECTING MY MOODSWINGS AND I'M REALLY HYPER EVEN THOUGH I JUST WANT TO CRY BECAUSE YEAH. SORRY:(
*sighs*
I can't POSSIBLY say Blogland is dying with the enourmas amount of activity here these past few . . . past few whatevers, but amazing, people STILL aren't here after (my) school. :P
I've only chatted to Chase once, and he seemed so kind and nice...
HI SCÁTH!
Dammit. I always say people aren't here juet after somebody is.
Long response shall appear in my next comment.
Hi Mara!
Okay, my NEXT NEXT comment, then. Which is now ny next comment. Gah.
Msd + wbd. Doing homework.
Oh my golden god. I finally write something halfway worthwhile, then my phone freezes?!?
bbs, dinner. Gah. *is so annoyed*
Hi
Is anyone here
*runs round frantilcy*
Hello where is anyone I have a feeling thst in book 8 Fletcher will die, I also like calling Myra Myra muffin
*laughs*
A voice in my head says yes
I'm here. Just got on. Hi everyone! I made a thousandth wishing star last night guys, and I want to wish tht Em will make it through this and be okay again. Do you think that's good? Or should I change something? It doesnt seem quite right to me...
I get what you mean, Star.. (Even though you're gone) I don't know whether to be cheerful or not.
I might go
Does anyone go on my two blogs
Dooon't goooo! Are we the only two here?
Mara, were did you go?
I meant 'where'
I was joking
I'm very distant, sorry. Homework...
Is star still on
Sapphire I was just joking
Scáth, you are so correct that this is the only way I can agree with you without repeating you. :)
I've forgotten what I was saying before this, but I was saying, we all have a purpose. Even if our purpose is just to read the newspaper, and with billions of people reading the newspaper, we cause something significant.
Most most most probably, if you didn't exist and so didn't read the newspaper, the great plan wouldn't be changed, because there are plently of other people reading the newspaper.
But we also make unpurposeful, unscripted, significant changes. Even if your original purpose were only to read the newspaper, then you could have in fact changed the world so much just by being friends with a certain person or something that if someone went back in time and killed you then went back to the future, the future would be massively changed.
Maybe these things are all purposes too. Maybe they're all scripted, entangled marvellously, all these overlapping little plans. So complicated, it's amazing.
Maybe they're all planned, yes. But maybe you only have one purpose. To read the newspaper, say. But just because you're boring and ordinary and have a rather simple purpose that could amke you feel rather worthless and unspecial doesn't mean that
a) your purpose isn't important. It is, or you would not have it. Even if all your purpose is is to read the newspaper, you are still helping in the great plan. "I realised then that even though I was a tiny speck in an infinite cosmos, a blip on the timeline of eternity, I was not without purpose. And as long as I had a part in the music of the spheres, even if it was only a single grace note, I was not worthless." Ultraviolet, R J Anderson. All our purposes matter.
b) Our unscripted moments can shape the world. We can pick things and even though we may feel that we have done nothing, we could have done many things, just by existing. "Even the hurts that seemed most senseless, the mistakes I would have done anything to erase - nothing could make those things good, but good could still come out of them all the same." Ultraviolet, R J Anderson.
Chase changed the world. Not in an extreme, noticeable, worldwide way, but he changed it. We're all equally special. He is special. By existing, he made the world better. Even if he only affected a few compared to the billions on the planet, but affected them. Every little helps. I'm being serious. Everybody makes the world better in a way. Even Hitler. Not in the short term, definately not, but he had a purpose, I believe. I believe that good came out of there being a Holocaust, even though it was so horrible. There is some good in everything and in the long term . . . it all adds up to goodness.
You guys on here? You all make the world better. And Chase did too. So whilst we may mourn his passing, please be safe in the knowledge that without him, the world would be worse, and be glad he existed for the time that he did.
Star what happend to Chase and Scath
. . . I WENT ALL FORMAL. D:
Hi people.
That was amazing Star. *hugs*
Star what happend to Chase???
Brad, he passed away this morning.
What happend to Chase
Thank golden god. Hey, DEREK LANDY. i'VE GOT A MESSAGE FOR YOU SO LISTEN. Can you write a blog pst for Chase? I think he deserves one. PLEASE, DEREK. PLEASE *puppy eyes*
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I am very sorry for this great loss and he will be greatly missed
Please do, Derek...
Yes Derek write a blog post for Chase
Chase died yesterday.
He was married to a Bloglandian (Emerland Melody).
:'(
Sorry for my bluntless.
*hugs Mara back* I'm glad. Because . . . I think people should know, like, about the purpose stuff. And if it was apparently amazing, thne I got my message out better. *nods*
I could insist that it wasn't amazing, but that always seems a bit pointless to me, so whether I agree or not, I'm not going to argue because pointless arguing is pointless.
I am feeling very sad
If Derek wrote a blog post for Chase, that would be WONDERFUL. :) *big smiles*
Chase deserves a blog post.
Yes Chase was a great person despite not knowing him I am very sad.
:'(
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