I am a mass of contradictions.
Maureen JohnsonI still have a whopping bad case of what you call scag magnetism. I thought i had gotten rid of it there, but it looks like scary guys still materialize from thin air in my presence. They are drawn to me. I am the North Pole, and they are the explorers of love.
Maureen JohnsonI like you because you were mad. And you're pretty. And pretty sane for a mad person.
Maureen JohnsonA lot of teenagers write to me and say "I want to write a book. I want to get published." And those are two very different things.
For the first one, that you want to write a book, I think is an excellent idea and you should totally do that because teenagers who want to write, you should be writing. You should be writing all the time like a maniac.
Don't worry about the second bit, just yet because A. You need a lot of practice. You need to do it for, I'm not kidding, years. And then once you are published, it's a business. It's a job.
Plus, every author I know was that teenager who sat in their room and read and wrote. That's who becomes an author, but that's what you have to do for a while before you become an author.
Tags: vlogbrothers writing-as-a-profession
Braiiinnnnssss," we said in unison.
"It's both sad and incredibly impressive that you were all ready with that one.
Walk really, really carefully. It's not complicated, but if you mess up, you'll die, so pay attention.
Maureen JohnsonIt was clearly one of those mornings when I was particularly American.
Maureen JohnsonThese houses had been plunked down with an alarming randomness -- unevenly spaced, on crooked lines, like whoever had designed the place had said, "We'll just follow this cat, and wherever he sits down, we'll build something.
Maureen JohnsonMany large corporations are actually modeled on hell,' Brother Frank added. 'The policies and organization are almost idential. Hell, of course, is much worse.
Maureen JohnsonTags: demons ya-fantasy young-adult-fantasy ya-dark-comedy young-adult-dark-comedy
In my mind, I said the best things to Elton. I wrote countless excellent notes that I never sent. I came up with clever and highly detailed imaginary situations in which we were thrown together and it somehow made him realize that life without me was a hollow shell. But he didn't look like a hollow shell. He looked like he was back on the soccer team, all calf muscles and lean body.
Maureen JohnsonTags: ya-fantasy young-adult-fantasy ya-paranormal ya-dark-comedy young-adult-dark-comedy young-adult-paranormal
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