Warning! Spoilers for Percy Jackson and the Olympians and the Mortal Instruments Trilogy (and apparently, Shadow is forced to add halfway into her journal writing, her own novel Becoming Calypso. Don't know if that's allowed, technically. Hmm)1
Bored, not wanting to do anything in particular. Just finished reading City of Bones (Book one of Mortal Instruments trilogy)- twas a good book. Had a love triangle.
My thoughts on writing a love triangle- there should be a really hard decision for the character. Readers should want to pick a side (hehe, team Edward, team Jacob). On the other hand, there should be some obviousness as to who is the better choice. Of course, better choice is hard to describe.
I have a love/hate relationship with love triangles. In my mind, passion should rule. That gut connection should snap into effect and WHAM! there's something there. I used to feel bad for unrequited love, but at this point, I totally don't. There's something about soul mates that thrills me forever.2
Incest of the Luke and Leia kind... so not cool. I'm still praying for the miracle that says - just kidding- affairs all around. You're not really related at all! Which is weird, I guess. Anyways, need the second and third books, but shouldn't go out and buy them, especially because I'm pretty sure one of them is only in hardcover. Nevermind, just went on Amazon and bought them. They'll be coming in two days!!! I hope 
I'm dying already, and I only just finished (11:11, make a wish) the first one a couple hours ago. Probably what made me all crazy tonight at dinner. I love getting lost in other worlds- hate coming out of them.3
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I also just bought the fourth and fifth books in the Percy Jackson series. They should be worth the two day wait. I sold my soul and got an Amazon Prime membership.... eek! I'll have to quit before the free trial ends, but after I get my books. Got a good deal on them, at least. 
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The Percy Jackson books are incredible, by the way (she says to the MULTITUDE of people who will actually read this- not). Both of these book series... um... serieses? are brilliant, though for the teen and under group. I was always a bit fast when younger- I read fourth grade books in first grade. I guess that makes up for me being slow to leave the Teen or Young Adult sections. Not that I don't enjoy a good book that is technically for adults (or the ones that are absolutely for adults- nothing like settling down with a good Nora Roberts book if you're bored... yummy *swoons*) but I do like those books written for teens. I don't know if I'll ever grow out of it. Perhaps when I feel more like an adult and less like a teen. I'm only a few months out of that label after all...6
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But yeah, Percy is good. Sense a love triangle there too. I was thinking about it- I hate when authors give us this BRILLIANT guy/girl for their main protagonist, then WHISK them away and replace them with so-and-so, who might be awesome, but wasn't the one that was there originally! It goes back to the soul mate thing, I'm sure, but it's annoying as anything and I wish it would stop happening. Sure it's life, but I don't want to read about life. It might just be me, but I want a happily ever after. Don't I deserve one???8
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It was as I was cursing Mr. Riordan for putting Other-girl in Percy's path that I realize I've got Callie headed straight for that exact fate, and I'd had her on that path since before Nate was even created (back when Nate's position as the cute guy who may or may not be right for Callie was taken by the clairvoyent Irish gypsy Connor O'something-or-other. He died in the great laptop crash of Just-After-Christmas, and wouldn't you know it, he was never ressurected?). Anyways, I know that Callie is destined for Zach, but she doesn't want him, and she won't until she realizes her definite attraction to him in a smoldering scene that is destined for book three at the earliest (I'm not giving myself the pleasure of writing it until book one is done). Now I ask myself (because I had planned on killing the romance between Callie and Nate, but keeping Nate in the story until the end of book 2), is it fair to my readers? Or, since apparently it's a theme nowadays, should I make the relationship LAST. Should I be totally cruel and just... whoa... have a Team Nate/Team Zach thing going on for poor Callie. That was the plan with the poor late Connor.10
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Really only musing here. Not exactly looking for answers, though if you have a suggestion, feel free to reply. I don't know what Journaling entails, just FYI. 12
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Huh. That feels better. I mentioned the crazyness, right? well... it's gone now. I wonder if that's because I just put forty bucks down for four books, or because I needed to talk about Callie to someone (mom thinks I'm obssessed, rest of the family hasn't read it, and Amy has deserted me for other friends, which is her right considering I had her all to myself throughout the school year, when we were roommates), or because I needed to talk about the whole I-Want-Two-Siblings-To-Not-Be-Siblings-So-They-Can-Be-Together-For-Always thing (which would be creepy to discuss with anyone who hasn't read the book). And now, even though I'm pretty sure (and looking back, half-hope) no one will read this, I'm happier than I was. Hmmm. I'm still stuck on Callie, but I've got some ideas now. Time to go watch an episode of CSI:NY and go to sleep. Gotta work tomorrow.14
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See ya!16
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