Jamie Kissinger

The last name came outta nowhere, but I guess it fits. :P Anyway, I'm going to brainstorm a few things about Jamie in this post. She's the main character in my up-and-coming NaNoWriMo novel, and I can use all the help I can get in planning it out. I like to type, though I'm trying to scrounge up a small notebook or composition book I can take elsewhere to jot stuff in in, so a blog might be a good place to put some notes. I think a blog would be more user-friendly to me than a Word file - I seriously dislike doing planning stuff like this in a Word file. Though I still might make a "novel notes" Word file, as per Mr. Chris Baty's suggestion in No Plot, No Problem, but I think I'll do that for when I'm actually writing the novel.

Anyway...so right now, I have a FULL name for Jamie (I'm giving her the middle name "Audrey", too, because I FEEL LIKE IT), and a person in real life who I'm basing her off of...a person I don't know that well, I might add. So this brainstorm session is going to be for Jamie at some point in her life. Let's hope I get some helpful information!

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First, a basic character sheet I used during a brief "I wanna be a writer phase" in seventh grade (I think):

Name: Jamie Audrey Kissinger
Personaity: Kind of gruff on the outside, usually in a bad mood (thanks to certain substances), but somewhat friendly when in a good mood and not under influence
Description: About 5'4", died black curly long-ish hair, brown eyes, pale skin, stocky figure, caucasian face, usually wears black, dark, or greyscale colors, generally wears skinny jeans with less-tight shirts (low-cut), black nail polish, black eyeliner, and multiple ear piercings.
Good qualities: Somewhat attractive (to certain people), funny when in a good mood, friendly when in a good mood, likes to work with animals - especially reptiles (and is generally calmer around them), good at visual art (especially painting/drawing)
Bad qualities: Addiction-easy, usually in a bad mood, doesn't try in school, doesn't care too much about the future, bad relationship with parents, ignores people a lot, not friendly when in a bad mood
Favorites: Art, anything to escape reality with, spicy food, swimming, hanging around the animals at the shelter, certain people at certain times, the rain
Hates: Many people at many times, schoolwork, people who are better than her at anything, super-salty food, running, reality, her life, when the sky mocks her life with clear sunny days
Weird qualities: Wakes up every weekday morning at 6:27 AM without fail (unless seriously sick), she splatter-painted her blue car with white and darker blue paint, she hates wearing anything around her left wrist, she hates it when her black nail polish is COMPLETELY unchipped (so she always puts a chip in right away)
Reaction to a bad thing: Drown out the badness in something mind-altering

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And here are some quizzes from Facebook (haha) that I'll steal and have Jamie fill out the answers for! :P All in the name of...homework procrastination. Hahah. I need a break from physics.

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40 'Off the Wall' Questions

1.) What side of the heart do you draw first?
Left.

2.) Can you dive without plugging your nose?
Yeah. People who can't are stupid.

3.) What color is your razor?
Black, but the blade is metal.

4.) What is your blood-type?
AB.

5.) Who would you want to be tied to for 24 hours?
Nobody. Or somebody who would shut up and not annoy the hell out of me.

6.) Where would you go to live for the rest of your life if you could?
Near the ocean, where I can paint or something. I don't care.

7.) How do you feel about carrots?
...Screw carrots...or just eat them.

8.) How many chairs at the dining room table?
Two, but I put stuff in one.

9.) Which Spice Girl is the best?
They suck...

10.) What's your favorite color?
Red.

11.) What's your least favorite animal?
I dunno...caterpillars are kind of creepy.

12.) What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with your bf/gf?
DON'T HAVE ONE. If I did, it would be something not for the eyes of little kiddies.

13.) What's your favorite kind of gum?
Doesn't matter as long as it covers up smell.

14.) Do you scrapbook?
Hell no, that's lame.

15.) Do you use words that you don't know the meaning to?
No, who cares?

16.) Do you like to sleep?
Sleep or sleep AROUND?

17.) Do you know which United States states don't use Daylight savings?
Don't. Care.

18.) Do you know the song Total Eclipse of the Heart?
No.

19.) Do you want a bright yellow '06 Mustang?
Ew, no. Blue Toyota Prius is fine right now, since I splatter-painted it. It's kind of lame still, but I do save on gas.

20.) What's something you've always wanted?
SOMEBODY ELSE'S LIFE.

21.) Do you have hairy legs?
Hell no.

22.) What does "Semper Fidelis" stand for?
How much I don't care about Latin or Greek or whatever it is?

23.) Would you rather swim in the ocean or a lake?
Ocean. Lakes are boring.

24.) Do you wear a lot of black?
What do you think?

25.) Describe your hair?
Dyed black, curly, kinda messy, past shoulder-length.

26.) Who is your best friend?
Some random person who gives me stuff.

30.) Do you have a tan?
I did, but it went away when I quit swim team.

31.) Are you a computer addict?
Not really.

32.) Do you enjoy spending time with your mother?
Hell. NO.

33.) Are you a sugar freak?
Sugar is for the weak.

34.) Do you like orange juice?
Only without pulp.

35.) What sign are you?
Um...horse...and Taurus. I think.

36.) Can you count to ten in more than one language?
I might remember enough Spanish to say it in another language, but I don't feel like trying to.

37.) Who did you copy this from?
Some random person. I don't remember.

38.) How do you know them?
Don't remember them.

39.) Have you kissed anyone in the past week?
Probably.

40.) What are your plans for this weekend?
Working, hanging out, volunteering...painting maybe. Dunno.

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Jamie's weird. O_o

Oh hey look, a blog

Spontaneity reigns supreme in my life. :)

Hey there, I'm Annie. Nice to meet you, if there are any readers at all.

Like I said indirectly, this was a spontaneous decision. There was no real logic behind it, and although I've always thought it would be cool to have a blog (just for the sake of having a blog), I have no idea what to do with this blog now that I have it. Did that sentence even make sense? I sure hope so. I don't really understand why I have this blog, because it's not like I don't have a real-life journal or anything...and besides, I don't think I'd want to spread my deep dark secrets (do I even have any?) over the web. :P

Smilies... :D

Anyway, I guess I'll think up a reason for this blog's existence soon enough. I got it because NaNoWriMo was talking about LiveJournal, and I remembered I had a Gmail account (two, actually), and I could make one through Blogger. Not sure that's easier than LiveJournal, but whatever.

Hey look, I have a blog now! And it's called Fizzly Imagination! No clue where that came from.

Maybe I'll use this for NaNoWriMo? I sure as heck need to figure out what I'll be writing about. I just finished No Plot, No Problem, the book by Chris Baty (the guy who founded NaNoWriMo), and I just realized I should have been planning my novel, at least to some extent. He recommended getting a little notebook to jot down stuff...I haven't done anything other than pick my main character and give her a name (Jamie).

Other than that, though, Jamie's pretty much all I've got. And I don't even have much on Jamie...eheheh.

So maybe I'll use this to brainstorm? Ehhh...maybe it'll work. I think other NaNoWriMo people are brainstorming and getting ideas through their blogs (actually, I know, since I've seen one), so maybe I should follow suit.

Eh, in any case...I'm super excited for Thursday! Day 1 of NaNoWriMo! I've never seriously done this before (I pondered it last year and I think fulfilled one day's worth of words, but then it fizzled out because I couldn't access the site, and therefore couldn't sign up, and didn't feel like doing it completely on my own), so I'm really excited.

Mwahaha. Blogs are...fun? :D (Bye bye?)