ColdplayingfromKansas Posted December 31, 2011 Author Share Posted December 31, 2011 :stunned: Yeah, I can see that . . . :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColdplayingfromKansas Posted December 31, 2011 Author Share Posted December 31, 2011 EDIT: Nvm, I was looking at the wrong day :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxRide Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 I'm an obsessive schedule and list-maker. :nod: Oh, and here is...teh plan! :charming: The Ultimate Plan Sleep -Go to sleep at 10:45 PM, if not earlier. -do evening yoga an hour before bed. -start getting ready for bed 45 minutes before bed. -brush teeth and and do face treatment within 15 min. -do bible or other reading for 15-25 minutes before bed. -...then go to sleeep. -Make my bed every day. -do this right after waking up -Buy or download white noise onto my iPod. Education/Learning and Academic Endeavours -Become as advanced in math as possible. -take an online Algebra II course -continue to do well in Geometry. -using textbooks, teach myself the foundations of trigonometry and precalc. -do as well as possible on the Charter placement test -read Pomm's Number Theory book -Learn several languages -Esperanto: Use Learnu for at least four hours every week -Russian: GET MOM TO FINALLY TEACH ME – at least 2 hours every week, if not more! -Latin: Find Latin I and II textbooks, and teach myself as well as possible. -Spanish: Continue to attend Spanish classes for all of Middle and High School -All of the above (besides Latin and Esperanto): LiveMocha -Read every book on my “list of books to read.” -This means that I'm only allowed on the computer for up to two hours a day (unless I am doing homework). -Read every waking moment that I'm not either eating, at school, doing homework, or sleeping. -Start with the books on “my list.” -After reading “my list,” start with the shortest books on the normal list. -When I have finished the entire list, learn about classic books and read all possible. -Read a minimum of 100 books per year. -Do bible reading EVERY DAY! (to understand Christianity) -Teach myself how to play the guitar. -Practice chords daily for at least 10 minutes daily -Practice any songs I have learned for at least 10 minutes daily -If I can't do practice in any one day, add 50% of the practice missed to the day that I can. -'Conquer' my list of bands to listen to. -Request available CD's by the band at least two weeks in advance. -Listen to at least one band every week.(all of their output – albums, etc) -Listen to all albums at least twice, if not three times. -For bands I am really interested in, learn about and listen to unreleased/rare material. -For Classical music, start with the pieces that I have heard before, and work up to the unknown pieces. Also, include 'modern' classical musicians. -If I haven't listened to a band/artist's album at least two/three times, listen to it only (don't do anything else at the same time that requires distracting my attention). -For bands I really like, find their fansites and become a real fan. -Continue to play the piano. -concentrate my full attention on each piano practice – do not multitask! -do at least fifteen minutes of practice immediately after each lesson. -Learn as much about science as possible. -read any books (the more complicated, the better) about science -Write -keep a writer's notebook -take a CTYOnline writing course every school year, starting freshman year of high school. -write at least ten minutes every day, and up to two hours every day. -brainstorm for my 'superhero novel' and write rough draft. -take half a year to write the rough draft of the 'super hero' novel -take half a year to edit and finalize the 'super hero' novel. -Join in NaNoWriMo in November and start work on the novel about Silenia. -Write the 'girl's love' book. (I will outline my plan for this next New Year's eve) -(not as related, but) Read through the whole dictionary to improve my vocabulary. -History -read every advanced book on history in the library and learn about everything that has happened in the history of the human kind up to the present. -read about current events for at least twenty minutes every day. -remember to draw every day! Nutrition -2 cups of fruit, 3 cups of vegetables, 4 ounces of grains, 5 ounces of protein, and 3 cups of dairy daily. -do NOT eat granola bars, or any snack whatsoever! Only eat food that complies to the above nutrition plan and is as healthy as possible. -drink at least eight glasses of water daily -two before and after breakfast, two at lunch, two at dinner, and two in between meals and before brushing my teeth. -gradually become a vegetarian by avoiding all meat. -never drink juice, lemonade or any alcoholic beverage. Exercise -GET A SIX-PACK AND GET IN SHAPE! -do one more pushup and sit-up (v-shape variation after fifty days) every day. For example, do one the first day, then two the second day, and so on. -add one second to a plank position every day from five seconds. For example, hold the plank for five seconds the first day, then six seconds the second day, etc. -do yoga every morning and evening. -Exercise daily (plan below, not including daily yoga, push-ups, and sit-ups: -Sunday: Walk/run for at least half an hour, practice taekwondo for 10 minutes, practice fencing for twenty minutes. -Monday: Fence for at least an hour and a half (if I don't have a lesson, one hour). -Tuesday: Rest day, besides normal pushups, sit-ups, plank, and yoga. -Wednesday: Walk/run for at least half an hour, practice 30 minutes of taekwondo/fencing. -Thursday: Walk/run for at least half an hour, practice 30 minutes of taekwondo/fencing. -Friday: Walk/run for at least half an hour, practice 30 minutes of taekwondo/fencing. -Saturday: Walk/run for half an hour in the morning, practice one hour of taekwondo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxRide Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 EDIT: Nvm, I was looking at the wrong day :P Nope, I go to a regular middle school. Unfortunately. *cough stupid people who can't do pre-algebra cough* ...or not. :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxRide Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 Arthur C. Clarke: The 2001 Series Caroline Alexander: The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition Breena Clark: River, Cross My Heart Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness/Lord Jim Jennifer Armstrong: Photo by Brady: A Picture of the Civil War Stephen Crane: The Red Badge of Courage/Maggie: A Girl of the Streets Marc Aronson: Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado Margaret Craven: I Heard the Owl Call My Name Ismael Beah: A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier Charles Dickens: David Copperfield/Oliver Twist/other works Tonya Bolden: Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl Bertie Doherty: White Peak Farm Ben Carson: Gifted Hands/The Big Picture/Think Big Michael Dorris: A Yellow Raft in Blue Water Jill Ker Conway: The Road from Coorain Sharon Draper: Forged by Fire Eve Curie: Madame Curie David Anthony Durham: Gabriel's Story Joan Dash: A Dangerous Engine: Benjamin Franklin, from Scientist to Diplomat Umberto Eco: The Name of the Rose George Eliot: Silas Marner Annie Dillard: An American Childhood Deborah Ellis: Sacred Leaf Michael D'Orso: A Team, a Tribe, and a High School:Basketball Season in Arctic Alaska Ralph Ellison: The Invisible Leif Enger: Peace Like a River Russell Freedman: Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott Laura Esquivel: Like Water for Chocola E.M. Forster: Passage to India/A Room with a View Jesse Lee Kercheval: Space Neil Gaiman: Stardust Jon Krakauer: Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster John Gilstrap: At All Costs Mary S. Lovell: The Sound of Wings: The Life of Amelia Earhart Pete Hamill: Snow in August Carla McClafferty: Something Out of Nothing: Marie Curie and Radium Thomas Hardy: Return of the Native/Tess of the d'Urbervilles Rigoberta Menchu: I, Rigoberta: An Indian Woman in Guatemala Ernest Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms/The Old Man and the Sea William Least Heat-Moon: Columbus in the Americas John Hershey: Hiroshima Jim Murphy: The Real Benedict Arnold S.E. Hinton: The Outsiders Rol Van Der Ruud: Anne Frank, Beyond the Diary Will Hobbs: Go Big or Go Home: A Novel Michael Schuman: Barack Obama Kimberly Willis Holt: When Zachary Beaver Came to Town Beatrice Siegel: Marian Wright Edelman: the Making of a Crusader Zora Neale Hurston: Their Eyes Were Watching God Peter Sis: The Wall: Growing up behind the Iron Curtain Henry James: Portrait of a Lady Sara Suleri: Meatless Days Angela Johnson: Heaven Rebecca Walker: Black, White, and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self James Joyce: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man William Warner: Beautiful Swimmers Daniel Keyes: Flowers for Algernon Jack Weatherford: Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World Rudyard Kipling: Kim/Captains Courage Elizabeth Knox: DreamHunter, DreamQuake Eudora Welty: One Writer's Beginnings Ursula LeGuin: The Earthsea Trilogy Jim Whiting: The Life and Times of Plato Juliet Mariller: Daughter of the Forest Simon Winchester: Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 Yann Martel: Life of Pi Tobias Wolff: This Boy's Life: A Memoir Victor Martinez: Parrot in the Oven Stephanie Meyer: Eclipse and other titles Karel Capek: R.U.R (Rossum's Universal Robots) Walter Dean Myers: Monster Paul Fleischman: Zap Beverly Naidoo: The Other Side of Truth William Gibson: The Miracle Worker Han Nolan: Dancing on the Edge Sylvia Kamerman: Plays of Black Americans Grace Paley: Little Disturbances of Man Arthur Miller: The Crucible Edgar Allan Poe: The Gold Bug//Narrative of A. Gordon Pym Moliere: complete works (e.g. The Doctor in Spite of Himself/Tartuffe) Mark Salzman: Iron & Silk Jean-Paul Sartre: No Exit Dorothy L. Sayers: any work (mysteries, but real novels in themselves) George Bernard Shaw: Pygmalion/Major Barbara Gary Schmidt: Wednesday Wars Richard Sheridan: The Rivals/School for Scandal Michael Shaara: The Killer Angels Tennessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie Mary Shelley: Frankenstein Alexie Sherman: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart Suzanne Staples: Shabanu Sherwood Anderson: Winesburg, Ohio John Steinbeck: Grapes of Wrath/Travels with Charley/Of Mice and Men Jane Austen: complete works (e.g. Pride and Prejudice/Persuasion) James Stephens: The Pot of Gold James Baldwin: Go Tell It on the Mountain Robert Louis Stevenson: Kidnapped/Treasure Island Marion Zimmer Bradley: The Mists of Avalon Amy Tan: The Joy Luck Club Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre J.R.R. Tolkein: Lord of the Rings series/The Hobbit Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn/Tom Sawyer/A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Orson Scott Card: Ender's Game/Ender's Shadow Vineeta Vijayaraghavan: Motherland Willa Cather: complete works H.G. Wells: The War of the Worlds/The Time Machine Cervantes: Don Quixote Rosemary Wells: Red Moon at Sharpsburg Tracy Chevalier: The Girl with a Pearl Earring T.H. White: The Once and Future King Gennifer Choldenko: If a Tree Falls at Lunch Period Connie Willis: To Say Nothing of the Dog Kate Chopin: The Awakening Jacqueline Woodson: After Tupac and D Foster Sandra Cisneros: The House on Mango Street Paul Zindel: The Pigman Amity Gaige: We Are a Thunderstorm Alejandro Gac-Artigas: Yo, Alejandro Peter A. Barrett, ed.: To Break the Silence Isaac Asimov: Asimov on Chemistry Peter Benchley: Shark Life: True Stories about Sharks and the Sea David Attenborough: The Living Planet: A Portrait of the Earth Ray Bradbury: Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales David Bodanis: The Secret Family: Twenty-four Hours Inside the Mysterious Worlds of Our Minds and Bodies Martha Brooks: Paradise Cafe Anton Chekov: The Lady with the Pet Dog and other stories Gillian Bradshaw: The Sand Reckoner Robert Cormier: Eight Plus One Edward Burger: Coincidences, Chaos, and All That Jazz: Making Light of Weighty Ideas Isak Dinesen: Seven Gothic Tales and other stories Gerald Durrell: The Amateur Naturalist Rudyard Kipling: Plain Tales from the Hills Martin Gardner: The Ambidextrous Universe/Science: Good, Bad, and Bogus Philip Pullman: WhoDunit: Detective Stories Stephen Jay Gould: The Panda's Thumb/Bully for Brontosaurus Isaac Bashevis Singer: A Crown of Feathers and other stories Allen Hammond: A Passion to Know: Twenty Profiles in Science Robert Silverberg: Legends: Short Novels by the Masters of Modern Fantasy Godfrey H. Hardy: Mathematician's Apology Marilyn Singer: Face Relations: 11 Stories about Seeing Beyond Color Susan Sales Harkins: The Life and Times of Pythagoras Gary Soto: Living Up the Street Stephen Hawking: The Universe in a Nutshell Dylan Thomas: A Child's Christmas in Wales Stephen Hawking: A Brief History of Time Eudora Welty: short stories Douglas R. Hofstadter: Gödel, Echer, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid Budge Wilson: The Leaving J.E. Hopcroft and J. Ullman: Introduction to Automata Theory Bernard Jaffe: Crucibles: The Story of Chemistry Samuel Katzoff: Twists and Turns and Tangles in Math and Physics Morris Kline: Mathematics: A Cultural Approach John A. McPhee: The Curve of Binding Energy/ The Control The Norton Anthology of Poetry, the Oxford Anthology of American Poetry, and the Oxford Anthology of British Poetry are particularly good resources. Some twentieth century poets are grouped, roughly, by period: of Nature Katherine Applegate: Home of the Brave Peter Medawar: Plato's Republic: Incorporating “The Art of the Soluble” and “induction and Intuition in Scientific Thought: W.H. Auden, Hart Crane, e.e. cummings, T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Langston Theoni Pappas: The Joy of Mathematics Hughes, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, Dylan Thomas, William Carlos Gyorgy Polya: How to Solve It Williams, W.B. Yeats Carl Sagan: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark Raymond M. Smullyan: The Lady or the Tiger? and other logic puzzles Elizabeth Bishop, Loise Bogan, Robert Lowell, Randall Jarrell, Theodore C. Stoll: The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze Roethke of Computer Espionage Lewis Thomas: The Fragile Species/The Lives of a Cell Marvin Bell, Lucille Clifton, Rita Dove, Louise Glűck, Robert Hayden, Alvin Toffler: The Third Wave Weldon Kees, Galway Kinnell, Denise Levertov, W.S. Merwin, Frank Jearl Walker: The Flying Circus of Physics O'Hara, Marge Piercy, Sylvia Plath, Donald Justice, Adrienne Rich, Muriel James D. Watson: The Double Helix: A Personal Account of Rukeyser, Mark Strand, Nancy Willard, James Wright the Discovery of DNA Steven Weinberg: The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe Stephanie Hemphill: Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath Victor F. Weisskopf: Knowledge and Wonder: The Natural Naomi Shihab Nye: Honeybee World as Man Knows It Humor and Essay -- Robert Benchley: any work Rick Riordan: Percy Jackson and the Olympians/Heroes of Olympus/The Kane Chronicles Eric Bronson: Baseball and Philosophy Gerald Durrel: My Family and Other Animals/ Birds, Beasts, and Relatives/Fauna and Family/The Bafut Beagles Scott Westerfeld: Uglies Series/Midnighters Graham Farmelo: It Must Be Beautiful: Great Equations of Modern Science John Green: ALL BOOKS! Russel Hines: We Are One: A Photographic Celebration of Diversity in America Rudyard Kipling: Stalky and Company Stephen Leacock: any work Michael Storns: A Starfarer's Dozen: Stories of Things to Come James Thurber: The Thurber Carnival/My World and Welcome to It P.G. Wodehouse: any work – My Books Laurie Halse Anderson: Seeds of America Series Roderick Gordon/Brian Williams: Tunnels Series Anthony Horowitz: Alex Rider Series Erin Hunter: Warriors Series Jacqueline Kelly: The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate C.S. Lewis: The Chronicles of Narnia Greg Mortenson: Three Cups of Tea Tony Mott, ed.: 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die ..this list doesn't make any sense at all, hold on a moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColdplayingfromKansas Posted December 31, 2011 Author Share Posted December 31, 2011 dang, you've put a lot of work into this, haven't you? :P A tip about the writing: Don't assume that it will take you half a year to plan out the rough draft of your novel and then another half year to finish it. Speaking from personal experience, it's taken me three years just to build up my scenery, languages, characters, etc. I've only actually written about ten chapters in the novel :P tl;dr - Don't get upset/discouraged/angry if your writing plan doesn't adhere to what you have written on your schedule :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coldplayfan_115 Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 :o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColdplayingfromKansas Posted December 31, 2011 Author Share Posted December 31, 2011 To add a few more to your list: 1984 - George Orwell Animal Farm - George Orwell All Quiet On The Western Front - Erich Remarque And lots of Poe. Lots and lots of Poe :nod: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxRide Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 Yeah. Again, I'm an obsessive list maker. :lol: -hold on while I edit the list above your last post so that it makes sense to normal human beings- Oh, trust me, I already know what my story is about. I basically wrote it four years ago. Except it was utter crap, so I'm making it better! :P BUT I HATE NOT ACCOMPLISHING ANYTHING :disappointed: Especially when I really, really, REALLY suck at writing. (comparing my skill at writing to my skill at math, anyway. :P) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColdplayingfromKansas Posted December 31, 2011 Author Share Posted December 31, 2011 :o :nod: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxRide Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 :o Well, hello. I'm an obsessive list maker. *deadpans* :blank: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coldplayfan_115 Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 Can I ask how you have all this time??? :o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColdplayingfromKansas Posted December 31, 2011 Author Share Posted December 31, 2011 Yeah. Again, I'm an obsessive list maker. :lol: -hold on while I edit the list above your last post so that it makes sense to normal human beings- Oh, trust me, I already know what it's about. I basically wrote it four years ago. Except it was utter crap, so I'm making it better! :P BUT I HATE NOT ACCOMPLISHING ANYTHING :disappointed: O rly? :P :lol: Sounds like what I went through :hug: It sounds like you'll be accomplishing a lot! You are leaving time for personal enjoyment / relaxation / hanging out with your friends, aren't you? :uhoh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BerrymanGirl1 Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 To add a few more to your list: 1984 - George Orwell Animal Farm - George Orwell All Quiet On The Western Front - Erich Remarque And lots of Poe. Lots and lots of Poe :nod: Animal farm and 1984 :nod: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coldplayfan_115 Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 I make lists too. But not like that. Wow. :lol: (I have a list of every book I've read since third grade :P) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColdplayingfromKansas Posted December 31, 2011 Author Share Posted December 31, 2011 Amy! *glomps* :hug: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColdplayingfromKansas Posted December 31, 2011 Author Share Posted December 31, 2011 I make lists too. But not like that. Wow. :lol: (I have a list of every book I've read since third grade :P) :lol: Nice. I have a list of songs I need to buy, and a list of all my random ideas for novels :freak: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BerrymanGirl1 Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 Amy! *glomps* :hug: Alex! *glomps back* :hug: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coldplayfan_115 Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 ^^ Me too. :) I can never have a day plan, either I get sidetracked, or I do random stuff for other people. :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BerrymanGirl1 Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 There's only one thing on my list: Learn how to make better lists. :| Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coldplayfan_115 Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 Strangely, at the wise old age of *almost 17, I have a bucket list. :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coldplayfan_115 Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 There's only one thing on my list: Learn how to make better lists. :| That's a good plan. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxRide Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 Can I ask how you have all this time??? :o I have no life. :nod: O rly? :P :lol: Sounds like what I went through :hug: It sounds like you'll be accomplishing a lot! You are leaving time for personal enjoyment / relaxation / hanging out with your friends, aren't you? :uhoh: I won't if I do the same thing that's happened for the past three years I've written lists like this...nothing. :P And no, not really. :blank: MUST BE PRODUCTIVE Animal farm and 1984 :nod: I read Animal Farm in 4th grade. :blank: I make lists too. But not like that. Wow. :lol: (I have a list of every book I've read since third grade :P) I couldn't do that. I bet I've read over 9000! (not :p, probably more like 500) :lol: Nice. I have a list of songs I need to buy, and a list of all my random ideas for novels :freak: ...I have my list of bands I need to listen to. And a random novel idea list. :whistle: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColdplayingfromKansas Posted December 31, 2011 Author Share Posted December 31, 2011 ^^ Me too. :) I can never have a day plan, either I get sidetracked, or I do random stuff for other people. :P I'm like that too :P The only time I don't ever get distracted is if I'm drawing or reading a particularly good book There's only one thing on my list: Learn how to make better lists. :| :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BerrymanGirl1 Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 That's a good plan. ;) :nod: But it won't get done :disappointed: When school comes around again you guys won't see much of me on here :shame: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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