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Wow, I'm falling into weekly blogs instead of daily ones... AHHH!

Ok so, I really want to speed through this last week, so get ready for it, because I promise I have more exciting stories to tell.

Ready...

Set...

Go!

This week I've gone to eat at this Italian place with Summer and got a super huge Calzone that I couldn't finish, I got in an face off with a squirrel (We were walking down this corridor, and were gonna run into each other and stopped. Then proceeded to inch forward, before walking past each other staring the other down as we walked off. Crazy squirrel!), I stayed at the library till 1:45 in the morning doing homework, I was up in my room till 1:45 doing homework, I got a 91 on my Calc test (Only one person got the question right that was worth 8 points, so I feel pretty great about it. Aside from my getting lost on that one it was easy.), I watched Glee (realizing that it's not the same watching the show in a room full of people I didn't know), I've rewritten a poem, I've read some more in The Once and Future King, I've listened to a concert on campus that was towards the end as Summer and I were walking by, and I've... Done so much more, but my stories are more important. =D

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Ok, so story number 1 is for everyone who was at Google.

In my poetry class we were doing a workshop, so someone would read a poem, and the class would critique it. Well, I was second, and it was my revised Google Magic poem (Without the Python). After everyone gave me their thoughts on it the professor asked, "Why did you decide to get rid of the Python? It added so much to it, I thought." I explained to her how when I rewrote it I was still needing to add a few more things before I could implement the Python to make the point I wanted to make.

She brought it up in class that she liked it so much! Well, of course everyone was lost. Only she had read the poem with the Python, and no one else knew it. I got the following questions:
"What is Python?" A: "A programming language."
"Can you draw us a picture?" A: "I can't really draw you a picture."
"What is a program?" A: "Well, it's the thing that tells a computer what to do. So like when you push the A button on a keyboard there is a program that tells your word processor to print out an A."
"Really? I thought it was just like A..." A: "No, it's more complicated than that."
"Can you show us an example."
Professor - "You can write on the board."
"...Ok! Well, I can do a quick, easy one."
I head up the board. (Italics are things I wrote on the board.)
"Well, say we want to add two numbers together using Python."
def
"We have to define the program, and you do that by starting with def."
def add(x,y):
"Basically the name of this is add, and it's going to take two numbers x and y and add them together."
def add(x,y):
   print 
I stumbled for a second trying to decide what I would do, and pulled a Charles.
"Ok, we need a quotation mark, or no, or... no. We want the program to show us what two numbers it is adding. So we won't put a quotation."
def add(x,y):                                   add(5,7)
   print x + "+" + y                        5+7
"If you don't put the quotes then it prints the value, and by adding the values to the plus sign it shows us the number, the plus sign, then the number. For example, when we run this program we would type add, 5, 7. The program would then put 5 in place of x, and 7 in place of y."

def add(x,y):                                   add(5,7)

   print x + "+" + y                        5+7

   print "="                                     =
"Ok, I just want to make it a bit longer than necessary, so I'm going to have it print out the equal sign as well."

def add(x,y):                                   add(5,7)

   print x + "+" + y                        5+7

   print "="                                     =

   print x+y                                      12

"In this last line, since I don't have any quotes it adds the number 5, or x, and the number 7, or y, together and prints it out."

Whew! That was a lot to type out. Everyone seemed really intent when I was doing that, but I'm not sure how many people I lost, haha! Everyone was like:

"I want to know how you put that in a poem!"

So, I happened to have a copy and passed it around the class. Everyone liked it. =D

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Story number 2, is less so a story, as me excited to tell you about this idea. Well, the start is a story. =P

I was sitting outside of my Calculus discussion reading The Once and Future King, and while reading I was thinking, "Ok, so I really like Merlin (Merlyn)... I wonder if I could create a character in my story who has magic kinda like Merlin, and isn't Merlin, but has a name that is witty and comes from his name..."

That's when the name Lynn hit me! I literally shot up, and gasped. I then looked around to see if anyone was laughing at me, and once I found they weren't I got a pencil and some paper to write on.

Here goes the idea part.

Ok, so it snowballed, and I figured out it won't be a part of my story but it's own story. There are two character's Lynn, and Morgan.

I want to tell you that Lynn wasn't inspiration for the name, but the more I think about it the more I can't be sure. Haha. But I can assure you it isn't supposed to be about her. Although... I think if you decide that it is when you read it it'll make the book even better, but I can't say why. =P

Ok, Lynn is a high school student, and she one day finds this magic book in her room. She has never seen it before, and so she starts flipping through it thinking it's all fake. She reads through a few spells before finding one she likes, and says it, realizing it works.

She then tells Morgan, who tries to read a spell. When nothing happens she realizes it is her that has magic, so 

she starts to practice, and hone her abilities.

Oh yeah, Morgan is her best friend in the world. The only person she trusts with everything, and which is the reason why she tells him about it. He tags along for the ride, but I'm toying with writing a few chapters from his point of view. It's either going to be mostly her point of view, and some his point of view, or all his point of view. It works better if I split it though, I can create the characters better through their thoughts. =D

The majority of the book is her playing around with it, and the development of her character as she learns more about magic.

There is a twist. Oh yes, I am throwing a twist in, and I am so excited to get to November so I can start writing this for NaNoWriMo, and get everyone to read it so I can see the reactions!

The only thing is, I need to start researching what I'm going to want the spells to be. I'm going to need A ) A lot so she can play around with a ton of different spells, and B ) Them to be clever, and not just random words thrown together. Also, they won't be English, because what kind of Spells are in English? That's just silly!

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Well... That's what I wanted to tell you guys...

Enjoy, and Love you all!

P.S. I'm sorry if the formatting is whack, I don't have time to fix it now... But I hope it looks better than it did when I first Posted it, like 10 seconds ago.