So Hi Again -- It's Been Awhile

Oh my goodness, my lovelies, I have left you alone for so long!!!! Life has been worse than crazy, and I've hardly had time to breathe, much less write you a blog post.

Hmm. Plus my life hasn't been very interesting... PITY MEEEEEEEE. Boring school things, blah di dee blah blah, such is life. 

Plus, I've hardly been sleeping lately, or so I feel, so anything I write feels ridiculous. And silly. 

BUT!! The theatrical version of "And Then There Were None" has been playing at my school. One of my roommates is one of the characters, and my other roommate is the stage director, so I've seen it twice now with plans to see it again tomorrow. Or today, really. Hmmmmmm. Digression -- it's been playing for a weekend and I read it before I went and saw it and it was great. And I love the story, and really want to write a murder mystery -- so now I'm doing some sort of fan-fiction blend of "And Then There Were None" and "Gashlycrumb Tinies, Or After The Outing". 26 people are brought to an island and all have names that start with a different letter of the alphabet, and are killed off in random order by an unknown assailant -- but there's no 'justice' killing in this one, just a homicidal maniac inspired by a gruesome couplets. 

It's not particularly sophisticated, but I figure it's something to keep me going through a creative dry spell I'm having. *shrug*

Here's the very beginning (or at least the rough draft beginning) of what I've got: 

Accepting invitations to strange deserted islands is never, ever a good idea. I know this, and pretty much the rest of the world knows this. Well, except the people in horror movies, but they don’t get counted as real people. Curiosity kills cats and all that – but I can’t help it if mysterious rich people want to invite me to seemingly innocent dinner parties!

I figured what the hell, I’ll go prepared, maybe something will happen to let me get some writing done finally, and it’ll be great.

I hate how wrong I was about this.
It pretty much sucks, but whatever. Life is good :)

And now, I must leave you my cherubs!! Okay, let's tack a funny picture on the end...

Gashlycrumb Tinies again :)