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Sweet Valley High: The First Year
Created on 2008-11-09 17:03:36 (#17114744), last updated 2008-12-11
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Basic Info| Name: | secretdiary137 |
|---|---|
| Birthdate: | 01-09 |
| Location: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
BioI actually started this LiveJournal so I could post a recap of Sweet Valley High's Elizabeth's Secret Diary Volume II as it was one of the few books I owned that 1bruce1 had not had the pleasure of a summary as yet. Perhaps I should put Sweet Valley High in my "books" interested in section, but then that would defeat the purpose of my being a closet Sweet Valley fan right? Even though I'm confessing all here anyway.
In fact I'm doing NaNoWriMo and I'm actually writing a Sweet Valley fan fiction (you must write a 50,000 word novel in the month of November - it doesn't have to be good [thank God, given my subject material] you just have to get it out and you can edit it all later for all those authors who think too much and write too little). In my ideal world they would have picked the Olsen twins for Sweet Valley covers (before the Olsen twins started doing stupid things to their hair) as I think Jessica and Elizabeth should look cute not constipated. You can see my SVH novel fanfic progress here: http://www.nanowrimo.org/user/400269 - the novel is not called "You don't want to know", I just gave it that title because to call it "Sweet Valley _____" ... well I think people might like to keep up their intellectual perception of me.
An article on the philosophy of fanfiction
. . .
Okay, so by request I am going to post my fantastic fiction here. Anything that does not come under Francine Pascal's copywright (ie. anything that I've created) is protected by a Creative Commons licence. Out of respect to Ms Pascal, I tried to keep to the preferred style and format shown by her ghostwriters. If you would like to hire me as a ghostwriter (doesn't have to be about Sweet Valley), please contact me.
Sweet Valley fanfiction by Naomi Bicheno is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Australia License.
Based on a work at www.randomhouse.com.
Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://creativecommons.org/.
Please start reading here:
Preface
Book One: Double Trouble
And a quote to finish:
"Ten good lines out of four hundred, Emily--comparatively good,
that is--and all the rest balderdash--balderdash, Emily."
"I--suppose so," said Emily faintly.
Her eyes brimmed with tears--her lips quivered. She could not help
it. Pride was hopelessly submerged in the bitterness of her
disappointment. She felt exactly like a candle that somebody had
blown out.
"What are you crying for?" demanded Mr Carpenter.
Emily blinked away the tears and tried to laugh.
"I--I'm sorry--you think it's no good--" she said.
Mr Carpenter gave the desk a mighty thump.
"No good! Didn't I tell you there were ten good lines? Jade, for
ten righteous men Sodom had been spared."
"Do you mean--that--after all--" The candle was being relighted
again.
"Of course, I mean. If at thirteen you can write ten good lines,
at twenty you'll write ten times ten--if the gods are kind. Stop
messing over months, though--and don't imagine you're a genius
either, if you HAVE written ten decent lines. I think there's
SOMETHING trying to speak through you--but you'll have to make
yourself a fit instrument for it. You've got to work hard and
sacrifice--by gad, girl, you've chosen a jealous goddess. And she
never lets her votaries go--even when she shuts her ears for ever
to their plea. . . . Emily, WHY do you want to write?
Give me your reason."
"I want to be famous and rich," said Emily coolly.
"Everybody does. Is that all?"
"No. I just LOVE to write."
"A better reason--but not enough--not enough. Tell me this--if you
knew you would be poor as a church mouse all your life--if you knew
you'd never have a line published--would you still go on writing--
WOULD you?"
"Of course I would," said Emily disdainfully. "Why, I HAVE to
write--I can't help it at times--I've just GOT to."
"Oh--then I'd waste my breath giving advice at all. If it's IN you
to climb you must--there are those who MUST lift their eyes to the
hills--they can't breathe properly in the valleys. God help them
if there's some weakness in them that prevents their climbing. You
don't understand a word I'm saying--yet. But go on--climb! There,
take your book and go home. Thirty years from now I will have a
claim to distinction in the fact that Emily Byrd Starr was once a
pupil of mine. Go--go--before I remember what a disrespectful
baggage you are to write such stuff about me and be properly
enraged.
-- "Emily of New Moon" by L.M. Montgomery
In fact I'm doing NaNoWriMo and I'm actually writing a Sweet Valley fan fiction (you must write a 50,000 word novel in the month of November - it doesn't have to be good [thank God, given my subject material] you just have to get it out and you can edit it all later for all those authors who think too much and write too little). In my ideal world they would have picked the Olsen twins for Sweet Valley covers (before the Olsen twins started doing stupid things to their hair) as I think Jessica and Elizabeth should look cute not constipated. You can see my SVH novel fanfic progress here: http://www.nanowrimo.org/user/400269 - the novel is not called "You don't want to know", I just gave it that title because to call it "Sweet Valley _____" ... well I think people might like to keep up their intellectual perception of me.
An article on the philosophy of fanfiction
. . .
Okay, so by request I am going to post my fantastic fiction here. Anything that does not come under Francine Pascal's copywright (ie. anything that I've created) is protected by a Creative Commons licence. Out of respect to Ms Pascal, I tried to keep to the preferred style and format shown by her ghostwriters. If you would like to hire me as a ghostwriter (doesn't have to be about Sweet Valley), please contact me.
Sweet Valley fanfiction by Naomi Bicheno is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Australia License.
Based on a work at www.randomhouse.com.
Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://creativecommons.org/.
Please start reading here:
Preface
Book One: Double Trouble
And a quote to finish:
"Ten good lines out of four hundred, Emily--comparatively good,
that is--and all the rest balderdash--balderdash, Emily."
"I--suppose so," said Emily faintly.
Her eyes brimmed with tears--her lips quivered. She could not help
it. Pride was hopelessly submerged in the bitterness of her
disappointment. She felt exactly like a candle that somebody had
blown out.
"What are you crying for?" demanded Mr Carpenter.
Emily blinked away the tears and tried to laugh.
"I--I'm sorry--you think it's no good--" she said.
Mr Carpenter gave the desk a mighty thump.
"No good! Didn't I tell you there were ten good lines? Jade, for
ten righteous men Sodom had been spared."
"Do you mean--that--after all--" The candle was being relighted
again.
"Of course, I mean. If at thirteen you can write ten good lines,
at twenty you'll write ten times ten--if the gods are kind. Stop
messing over months, though--and don't imagine you're a genius
either, if you HAVE written ten decent lines. I think there's
SOMETHING trying to speak through you--but you'll have to make
yourself a fit instrument for it. You've got to work hard and
sacrifice--by gad, girl, you've chosen a jealous goddess. And she
never lets her votaries go--even when she shuts her ears for ever
to their plea. . . . Emily, WHY do you want to write?
Give me your reason."
"I want to be famous and rich," said Emily coolly.
"Everybody does. Is that all?"
"No. I just LOVE to write."
"A better reason--but not enough--not enough. Tell me this--if you
knew you would be poor as a church mouse all your life--if you knew
you'd never have a line published--would you still go on writing--
WOULD you?"
"Of course I would," said Emily disdainfully. "Why, I HAVE to
write--I can't help it at times--I've just GOT to."
"Oh--then I'd waste my breath giving advice at all. If it's IN you
to climb you must--there are those who MUST lift their eyes to the
hills--they can't breathe properly in the valleys. God help them
if there's some weakness in them that prevents their climbing. You
don't understand a word I'm saying--yet. But go on--climb! There,
take your book and go home. Thirty years from now I will have a
claim to distinction in the fact that Emily Byrd Starr was once a
pupil of mine. Go--go--before I remember what a disrespectful
baggage you are to write such stuff about me and be properly
enraged.
-- "Emily of New Moon" by L.M. Montgomery
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