Catching Fire Fan Camp and Red Carpet Premiere-Day 3!

November 19, 20135 Comments

Finally! The day I’ve been waiting for!

It was an absolutely EPIC day and I am so excited to share it with you guys.

Day #3:

5 am: My friend Jade wakes me up. Its time to put all the stuff away, link and get packed up to leave. 5 am is incredibly too early to think about this sort of thing, but somehow I manage to get it done!

6 am: The security guys come around to give us our numbers for the red carpet. I was number 104, which wasn’t too bad actually! We were instructed to come back at 3:30, which was great, because we were all so tired!

I love that you can see my ticket (the yellow one) from the City of Bones red carpet. I was #2 for that one and was proud of that, and I like keeping it in my phone!

7 am to 2 pm: Sleeping. Eating. Showering. The basic needs of a human being that were ignored in the last two days.

2:40 pm: Arrive in line for the red carpet. Getting really excited because its finally almost time!

3 pm: Get a call about a job interview for Barnes and Noble. This is completely unrelated to anything to do with Catching Fire, but I was insanely excited, and it put me in a good mood for the rest of the day.

3:30 pm: Head into the fan section. Second row behind the barricade which honestly isn’t that bad. Sure, I would have liked to have been right up against it, but beggars can’t be choosers. And usually the people in the front row are nice. Its a little bit of a give and take. Fandom love

4 pm: Realize the people in front of us are NOT fandom love people, and are kind of rude. Whatever. Time to do some awesome work, and get my poster signed.

5:30 pm to 8 pm: RED CARPET!!!!!

I saw SO many people.

It was nearly impossible to get pictures with anyone, mostly because the people in front of me, were not really nice. BUT I got my poster signed by SO many people on the carpet, including: Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth, Josh Hutcherson, Donald Sutherland, Bruce Bundy, Stanley Tucci, Stef Dawson, Bruno Gunn, Maria Howell, Amanda Plummer, Megan Hayes and Trish Summerville.

Don’t ask me which signature belongs to who. I know some of them but most of them, I have NO idea. It was chaos on the red carpet, haha, but the good kind of chaos!

I also, sadly, didn’t take a lot of pictures either because it was SO hard to! But I was glad to get my poster signed. I did get a few pictures! I think I was too busy trying to get autographs and ogling celebrities to actually take pictures with them!

The back of Liam Hemsworth’s head. I couldn’t get one of him turned around!

Bruno Gunn who plays tribute/victor Brutus

I also saw other celebrities like Sarah Hyland, Joe Jonas, and even some Laker players, like Xavier Henry and Steve Blake!

Laker player Xavier Henry!

There were also some past tributes from the first movie that hit the red carpet too, like Dayo Okeniyi (Thresh), Isabelle Fuhrman (Clove), and Jacqueline Emerson (Foxface). Even though they all die in the first movie, they’re part of the family, and they’re part of the beginning of this beautiful movie experience.

Oh and I got an extra poster signed by Francis Lawrence, the director, and Jena Malone, Sam Claflin and Stephanie Leigh Schlund. I think a giveaway may be in order *wink wink*

8:30 pm: MOVIE TIME!!!!!!!!!! We get free popcorn and drinks and head into the most ginormous theater in the history of all theaters. Seriously. Its huge. Not really in a good way. I like small theaters, for sure. This place was…uncomfortably big haha. BUT I was lucky to see the movie early so its all good.

11 pm: Get out of the movie. I have literally cried from happiness, from heartbreak, from laughter. This movie is absolutely brilliant. I won’t say more than that because I’m doing a review but ohmygod, the movie was SO good. So happy and satisfied, I can barely handle it.

12:30 am: Finally make it home. Am so happy to see my house, to see my own bed, and especially to see my boyfriend. I am so excited for all of this, I literally fall asleep without even trying.

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Thank you for following me all weekend, in the journey of the Catching Fire Fan Camp and Red Carpet Premiere.

If you’d like to see ALLLLLLL the pictures from this weekend (all 114 of them), please check them out on the official blog Facebook here.

Watch out for my spoiler free review soon!

Happy Hunger Games!

NaNoWriMo-Half Way Point!

November 18, 2013November 17, 20131 Comment

Happy Writing everyone! How is everyone doing with NaNoWriMo? I hope you’re sticking it out. We’re past the halfway point and I’m sure its getting tough and there are days where you want to give up. Well I’m here to tell you that you should definitely NOT give up!

This is being posted on Monday, look but I’m writing this on Thursday since I’ll be busy Friday-Monday with the Catching Fire fan camp and red carpet premiere. I’m hoping I’ll have lots of writing done this weekend, despite all the distractions!

But we’re at the halfway point! Well, a little more than the halfway point.

So I’m just kind of checking in to see how you’re all doing! I hope you’re doing great, and that things are going great!

What was your goal, and how are you doing in your reach for it?

My goal was to hit 20K. I realized quickly that I had already written 15K and I moved it up to 35K. I guess I didn’t realize how much I had latched onto my novel, because I’m up to (as I’m writing this) just over 40K. I actually think I might be able to reach 50K by the end of the month. I’m really proud of myself.

I’ve been mostly focusing on the entirety of the novel as a whole and less on just reaching that 50K. I really am feeling this one. I really feel like it could be (and this is going to sound SO cheesy) the ONE. The one that wins over an agent and a publisher and ends up in a beautiful book. I’ve made a lot of progress so far.

Update: its Sunday, and I hit 51K on Friday. I am so proud of myself. I haven’t written anything this weekend because of Catching Fire fan camp, but I have a lot of faith that I’ll be writing a lot during the rest of the month. I am so excited to share it all with you.

What have been some of your guys’ successes?

I’ve been doing really good. I think my strongest successes so far has been in my characters. I think that I’m really developing them and it feels great. I also think that I’m building the relationships between my characters really well. I think that’s why I’m writing so much, because I’m loving my characters and the relationships that I am creating between them.

What have been some of the challenges?

My biggest challenge so far has been time. I have a boyfriend, a family, a blog, school and a job that keeps me busy and its hard to do all of those things and find time to write. I’ve also fallen a little bit behind in reading too.

Another one of my challenges is consistency. The book bible that I created has helped incredibly BUT I still have issues with it, and I’m still working on it. I also have struggled with the slower scenes. I just want to write scenes with action, or kissing, and of course, there has to be a lot of in between too. So that’s something that I’m going to need to work on.

I also find this to be a challenge: I was working on the plot for The Reawakened and it hit me. This is not the standalone novel that I thought it would be. It is going to be a two-parter. So now that I’m writing, I need to think of the next book as well. I already have a title for that, and a tentative storyline for it, but it definitely adds a challenge to The Reawakened, a responsibility to keep things consistent, and to end this book with a desire to read the second book.

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How are you guys doing? Share in the comments and good luck with the second half of the month!

Catching Fire Fan Camp and Red Carpet Premiere Diary-Day Two

November 18, 2013November 17, 2013Leave a comment

Hey everyone! Guess what? Day #2 of the CF Fan Camp is coming to close and I’m gonna write my fan camp diary for you again! Okay, physician I’m not going to lie. Its actually only 7 pm, adiposity which means I won’t get to bed for another, advice hmmm, at least five hours.

So this will probably eventually be longer as the rest of the night unfolds. But for now, this is my exciting day!

Enjoy!

Day Two

8 am: I woke up, and I felt like I had been hit over the head with a brick. I actually kind of forgot where I was, until I remembered and I was like OHMYGOD.

9 am: Charging my phone. This is not exciting, but this is a huge part of the day haha. I spend a lot of time at fan camp charging things.

10:30 am: Corner Bakery comes to bring us breakfast. It sadly reminds me WAY too much of Panera, and I’m like, NO. LOL. We get in line to get some swag, because, remember, my young padawans, free swag is the best thing ever.

We got TimeWarner Cable iphone cases and bags, and even better, we got Catching Firek shirts. I’m pretty low on the wallet side and haven’t able to spend too much money at Hot Topic, so I was so excited to get a free shirt. No lie.

10:31 am: I molest Katniss Everdeen. Sort of. She kind of enjoys it.

11:30 am: Lining up for the cast signings. We had no idea who was coming but I was banking on my boy, Sam Claflin to show up.

12 pm: Sam Claflin (Finnick), Jena Malone (Johanna) and Jeffrey Wright (Beetee) show up. Pretty much die of happiness because I really wanted to meet Sam. I was close in the front of the line, so I knew I would make it through fairly easily.

12:20 pm: I meet Sam Claflin. This was pretty much the BEST moment of the day. Finnick Odair is easily my favorite character, and its not just because he is hot. He has so much to his character, and there’s depth to him that you don’t normally see because of his looks. I adore Finnick. Plus he’s got his badass tridents, and he saves Peeta’s life.

We totally talked about Disneyland; he went for the first time yesterday. I told him it was my favorite place in the world and he asked me what my favorite ride was, and I say Winnie the Pooh. He was like, “I didn’t go on that!” and I was like, “Oh no! You should have!” and he laughed. We’ll be announcing our engagement any day now ;)

12:21 pm: Met Jena Malone and Jeffrey Wright. Both SO nice, and signed my poster. I wasn’t able to get pictures with them, sadly but they were really awesome, and I’m glad I was able to meet both of them.

1:00 pm: Josh Hutcherson, aka the beautiful Peeta Mellark, shows up. Pretty much die of excitement.

1:15 pm: They start putting up the epic Mockingjay for the red carpet. They eventually lit it up for a bit but I missed it. Because I wasn’t pay attention. That was my bad. But it still looks cool without the flames!

1:40 pm: Josh leaves when there is only ten people in front of me and my friends. Pretty much die of sadness. Resolve that I WILL see him on the red carpet tomorrow, and it’ll be amazing. There are no losers in fan camp!

2:00 pm: Francis Lawrence, director of Catching Fire, hits the signing table! I was happy to meet him, of course, and I can’t wait to see the movie, and to see how he takes the helm. The previews for this movie make it look simply brilliant and he’s the brains behind the operation.

3 pm: We had heard rumors that Jennifer Lawrence was going to show up. Attempt to start a “just-in-case” line. Totally get yelled at. Not really. The security is usually provided by SEM at movie premieres and they are seriously amazing people, like Charles, who is the head.

4 pm: Try to do another “just-in-case” line. It fails again, and so I start playing Pokemon Blue because…well, why not? I should be reading. I have two books that I need to review really soon but this place is so distracting and awesome.

6:00 pm: Dinner. The first real meal I’ve had since eating at iHop yesterday. I had a cheddar cheese cup o’noodles, which was the first time I had had one. It was really weird. No lie. I was like, what IS this? I liked it haha and when you’re hungry, its the best meal ever.

6:30 pm: Practically tackled this lady who was handing pieces of the red carpet that they have already set up. I am a sucker for souvenirs and mementos so I knew I had to have one!

6:45 pm: Realized, as I was writing this post, I keep switching from 1 pm to 1:00 pm. I should keep some consistencies. I’ll blame it on the fact that the only real food I had today was a Cup o’Noodles and let’s face it, that’s probably not considered real food. Sad face.

8:00 pm: We find out what is going to happen tomorrow. This is not exciting. I have no idea why I’m sharing this with you. I mean, do you really want to know the 411 of lining up for a red carpet premiere? Its really boring. Moving on…

8:30 pm: The Laker game finished, and the Lakers won. This is exciting because the Lakers aren’t that good and Kobe Bryant is out, and it kind of sucks. It was kind of funny though to take a bunch of our stuff back to our car, in the middle of the Laker crowd. I’m not sure they knew what to do with that.

830-1030 pm: I have been on my computer for awhile haha. After discovering free wi-fi, I realized I now had unlimited access to facebook, and tumblr and twitter, and well, it was straight up trouble.

Somewhere Between 830 and 11 pm: Uno and too much giggling ensues

10:30 pm: Literally spend two whole minutes of non-stop laughing as Sylvia attempts to take a picture of me in my Hunger Games shirt. This is the fail picture (of many) that was the road to the semi-decent one above.

Bedtime: I go to bed. I’m so exciting, huh? Tomorrow is the premiere!

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I hope you enjoyed this recap of Day #2. Tomorrow is Day #3, which is movie premiere day! Its going to be amazing!

Happy Hunger Games!

Catching Fire Fan Camp and Red Carpet Premiere Diary-Day One!

November 17, 201310 Comments

Hello from the Catching Fire Fan Camp in Los Angeles! How are all my lovely followers this weekend? I hope you are fantastic! I’m cold, sickness a little hungry and definitely tired but I know that tomorrow is going to be worth all of this. It totally always is.

So I know I said you wouldn’t hear much from me this weekend but I brought my laptop to work on NaNoWriMo (which I haven’t done, because lets be real, its fan camp and there’s no way I’m getting any work done on The Reawakened this weekend). Well, we discovered that there is FREE wi-fi in fan camp, and so here I am. I decided, instead of writing one big post on Tuesday once I’m back from Fan Camp and the Premiere, I’ll do a daily diary of my adventures at Fan Camp.

So here we are:

Day One

6 am: Alarm goes off. I stare it with the meanest death glare that I possibly can. I went to sleep at 2 am and now I’m exhausted. But also insanely excited. It’s finally Fan Camp Day!

8:30 am: Arrive in LA. District 2 (my district for the weekend) doesn’t start checking in until 9 but we are SO cool that we were able to go in.

8:45 am: Set up tent. Try and remember how to put up tent. It looks beautiful.

9 am: Sylvia, Erin and I attempt to carry ALL the things we brought from my car parked a couple blocks away. Hilarity literally ensues as we drop water bottles all over the place, and laugh at how incredibly dorky we look. I had a beach chair backpack. Enough said.

10 am: Discover the Denny’s, with cheap 2 dollar pancakes and free wifi, is closed. Go to IHop instead. Find its totally inadequate in providing cheap food haha. Accidentally knock over an entire thing of syrups and cause a maple syrup fiasco in iHop. Get slightly embarrassed but also can’t stop laughing. Possibly this is because I have had no sleep.

11:30 am: Adventures in Target. Trouble ensues. Of course. Its me and my friends. Also discover there is a Sprinkles cupcakes over here, which pretty much makes me the happiest person ever. Open my wallet and fall into despair that I can’t afford a cupcake. Consider buying a cupcake with all quarters. This may still happen.

12:30 pm: Get free swag. You know how I am with free stuff. I got the US Weekly special edition magazine with Catching Fire and all the posters, and the especially sexy Sam Claflin as Finnick Odair. My goal of this camp experience is to meet Finnick. I also got a backpack, and candy, and all sorts of weird stuff.

3 pm: Meet Willow Shields, who plays Primrose Everdeen in the movies. Super adorable. She was incredibly sweet, and I swear, she has the prettiest blue eyes ever. Like…ever. Its adorable.

4 pm: Meet Stephanie Leigh Schlund who is playing Cashmere in the Catching Fire movie. She was SO nice, and incredibly beautiful. It’s hard to remember that, like, she’s kind of a “bad guy” in the movie, because she’s an obstacle in Katniss saving Peeta. Because she was SO pretty!

5 pm: Hang out in tent, make friends, talk books, be incredibly awesome. Someone is passing out district themed chocolate bars. District 10’s is….interesting.

6 pm: Leave to go see a play. Some security lady tells me that there is a STRICT 10:30 curfew and I will be locked out if not back in time. Freak out.

7:30 pm: Go to see Potted Potter (a 70 minute parody of all 7 Harry Potter books, more on that later when I get back from fan camp). Hitch a ride to Irvine to see this with my friend, Katie. Make it time to see the show, which was HILARIOUS. I try to do as much fandom stuff as possible, in a short amount of time. I’m just cool like that.

9:30 pm: Realize we only have an hour to get all the way back to LA before our “STRICT” curfew. Freak out.

9:31 pm: Decide that an In n Out stop is totally worth it. Deliciousness in the form of perfect In n Out grilled cheese and friends happens. Decide California is brilliant once again because of In N Out.

10:25 pm: Get off the freeway and discover that the Clipper game has just been let out. We are at Nokia Theater, which is RIGHT next to Staples Center, where the Clippers play. Major traffic. Also major freak out from myself and Katie, reason: “STRICT” curfew.

10:26-10-30: Katie and I proceed to JUMP from her sister’s car, and run through the sidewalks of Los Angeles, basically weaving in and out of the masses of Clipper fans coming from the game. I’m panting, and sore, and this is possibly the most exercise I’ve gotten in a month. Oh, who am I kidding? Probably all year.

10:32 pm: Reach the gate and flash our wristbands. The guy at the gate asks us why we’re out of breath and we explain that we wanted to make it back before curfew. He gives us a weird look and says that there is no curfew. Decide that the security lady was working for President Snow.

10:45 to 2 am: Hang out with all my super cool friends. I have my friend Katie here, and Sylvia from FangirlFeeels and Erin from That One Geek Girl, and my friend Jade from Dhampirs and Dragomirs, and all kinds of cool people. Literally spend a TON of time talking about books and movies, and all sorts of fangirl stuff.

Also, tent city? It’s awesome. Its seriously so cool. Its literally a bunch of people together, hanging out, with the same love and passion for The Hunger Games. Its so awesome.

2 am: Go to sleep. Sort of. I miss my bed, and my three pillows, and my Winnie the Pooh to cuddle with. I also miss cuddling with my boyfriend. But onward to day two!

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Happy Hunger Games and May the Odds be Ever In Your Favor!

Fictional Crush of the Week-Isabelle Lightwood from the Mortal Instruments

November 16, 2013November 14, 20131 Comment

Character Name:

Isabelle Lightwood

Book or Series They Appear In:

The Mortal Instruments Series

City of Bones, prostate City of Ashes, more about City of Glass, City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls, City of Heavenly Fire

Author/Creator:

Cassandra Clare

Played By:

Jemima West

Who They Are:

Isabelle Lightwood is one of the main characters of the Mortal Instruments series. She starts off as a sort of secondary character and she becomes more important as the series goes on. She’s the younger sister of Alec, and the older sister of Max, and the sometimes love interest of Simon Lewis. She has long black hair, dark hair, and she’s beautiful and fierce. She has a great and fun sense of humor, and is a great fighter. She sometimes comes off as someone who may not be as serious because of her sense of humor and her fashion sense but she is a wicked fighter, and she is incredibly loyal to her family and her friends. She is an amazing Shadowhunter.

Why I Am Crushing On Them:

I absolutely ADORE Isabelle. At first, Clary can be a little annoying. I definitely change my mind on this because Clary will appear eventually on this feature! But Isabelle, from the beginning, was my type of girl. She’s dark haired for one thing, and she just has a charming, sexy personality from the beginning. I like that she has that sense of humor, but she knows when to be serious, and when to act like a warrior. And she’s a badass warrior. She has the best weapon of all with the whip, seriously. I can’t even handle that weapon. Its awesome, and its sexy, and it probably takes a lot of skill and training for it to be an effective weapon. And I love that’s careful, and cautious and she’s so incredibly smart. Sometimes people think Isabelle is just looks, but she’s a fighter and she’s an incredibly clever person. I’ve loved watching her evolve over the series.

Plus have you seen Jemima West? She’s is SO beautiful, and I am major crushing on her. I was very sad when she couldn’t make it to the Los Angeles premiere of the movie :( I was hoping to meet her SO badly.

Notable Quotes:

Isabelle shrugged philosophically. “I’m pure at heart. It repels the dirt.”

“But I watch my brothers give their hearts away and I think, Don’t you know better? Hearts are breakable. And I think even when you heal, you’re never what you were before.”

“What’s the point in wasting a perfectly good brick wall when you have someone to throw against it, that’s what I always say.”

“Isabelle chewed thoughtfully on her straw. “That new lead singer they have is hot. Is he single? I’d like to ride him around town like a bad, bad pony-”

“Nothing less than seven inches! That’s my motto!”

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Follow What A Nerd Girl Says at the Catching Fire Fan Camp!

November 16, 2013November 13, 2013Leave a comment

I am so excited!

I am writing this on Wednesday night, prescription which means the official Catching Fire Fan Camp for the official Los Angeles Premiere is THREE days away. But you are reading this on Saturday morning, so I’m already in fan camp!

I’m very excited for this. This is my first official camp out for a premiere. I camped out for The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, but only a few of us camped out (less than 50 people) and I feel like there was only a small camp out, because myself, and my friends Sylvia, Jane, Karen, Savanna, Ally and Cher made it happen.

So this is going to be a great experience!

Unfortunately, because I’ll be fan camping, I’m not sure what my blogging is going to be like this weekend. I’m taking my computer with me, but I just don’t know how things are going to go. This is why I’m writing this on Wednesday. Everything posted this weekend is being written this week! I’m proactive like that!

BUT! I will be updating as much as possible from the Catching Fire trenches!

So if you’d like to keep up on as much of the action as possible for the Catching Fire fan camp, you can follow me on these three avenues:

Twitter

Tumblr

Instagram

What A Nerd Girl Says Facebook

I’ll be posting on all three of these, but MOSTLY on Instagram. Its the easiest one for me. So definitely follow me, and I’ll be posting pictures and videos and updates all weekend long!

Happy Hunger Games and May the Odds be Ever in Your Favor!

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Catching Fire Fan Camp and Red Carpet Premiere-Day 3!

Day #3:

NaNoWriMo-Half Way Point!

Catching Fire Fan Camp and Red Carpet Premiere Diary-Day Two

Day Two

Catching Fire Fan Camp and Red Carpet Premiere Diary-Day One!

Day One

Fictional Crush of the Week-Isabelle Lightwood from the Mortal Instruments

Character Name:

Book or Series They Appear In:

Author/Creator:

Played By:

Who They Are:

Why I Am Crushing On Them:

Follow What A Nerd Girl Says at the Catching Fire Fan Camp!