i'm getting so excited!!! only nine more days and i can start writing! this is my third year in a row competing (i did all the cam nano's too, save the last one)i'm planning on finishing the 'vomit draft' of my very first novel this nano and i'm so excited! i'm itching to write so much!! i really ne...

I definitely understand the duality of how listening to music can effect me creatively. Like others have noted, when there are lyrics present I tend to concentrate on those, especially when I actually know them. However, I do enjoy listening to music while I write sometimes because I feel like the ...

I have to listen to a very specific kind of music or it's just distracting for me. i can't stand it when there are words being sung because it ruins my flow and my brain can't focus on the words i'm working on. i listen to a lot of gaming music, especially stuff from roleplaying games like Skyrim, t...

I kept reading and forgot entirely to post in here! Ooops. Well, again I was flummoxed by the beginning. Somehow I have gotten used to stories being just stories. Not like that play of Shakespeares where some folks are watching a play and the play is about both the play and the folks who are watchi...

it's long, sorry, but i had fun writing it!) It was cold today but it was a pleasant feeling for the young man gracefully walking through the thick forest. The thick snow was piled up in huge piles between the roots of the trees and the full moon shone through the leaves, reflecting off the snow lig...

Bans are great too i agree! ^^

i did look into the library but i'm a little intimidated by it, i'm not exactly sure what i'm doing there so i'll look into that some more. writing is my favorite thing so i really should be looking into that! ^^

So i was wondering... you know the Creative prompts? what if you did something like that but on a month by month basis? like maybe not as many categories and fewer options but changes every month? so people who write stories based on the prompts could get like, house points during the off class mont...

\0/ Day 22 and i made 50,000 words! now my arm hurts and i'm considering having Madam Pomfry remove it. lol! something must be wrong with me because i'm already planning for HolWriMo!

Book Club Note: The story is dark but no darker than fairy tales (especially the original versions of the tales, not the Disneyfied versions) and Harry Potter. ~ Amy The Siren Long, long ago before there was a ministry, before there was a Hogwarts, before there was even a Merlin, there lived a litt...

My writing projects tend to be on the edge of 'too long'. the one i'm working on now is already bordering 100K (two Nano's in a row this one) and the one before that was bordering 150K (i never finished it because i refuse to write THAT cliche of an ending!) so my stories tend to be a great deal ver...

Oh gosh how i loved Inkheart when i was younger. i was still very deep into Harry Potter and Ann McCaffery and Tamora Pierce. i remember asking my librarian, a very good friend of mine by that time, for any recommendations and she suggested Inkheart which had just come out. i read it obsessively thr...

Kim Alting wrote:Hi Katya,

Unfortunately not, since that is not the forum. The HOL Forum is where we are now. And the 'Getting Into Harry Potter' is on the main website

okay! Thanks! ^^

Hi Professor!

I was just wondering, for EC1, does the 'Getting into Harry Potter' Post in the Library count as a forum post?

Hi! My name is Katya Snow! I found out about Hol from a recommendation fro another person who does Hol. i don't know their name here on Hol, only their name from the other website and for privacy sake i will refrain from naming names or spamming other websites ^^ I am currently taking Hol 101, Wandm...

Hi there! My name is Katya Snow! i'm a first year Huffelpuff and this is one of the first classes i've ever taken! i have a bit of an addiction to coffee and more than an unhealthy obsession with Foxes! so far i've been approved for three classes! Hol 101, Wandmaking, and the Hobbit classes! so exci...

(gosh i hope i'm doing this right) Duma Key by Stephan King is one of those books that sucks you in and keeps you there. it starts with the main character, a man with two daughters and a loving wife named Edgar Freemantle, getting into a horrendous accident leaving him physically disabled, and emoti...

Wow! mine was actually the LOTR series too! i read The Fellowship of the Ring a long time ago and i got to the Counsel of Elrond part, and i just couldn't keep going! i abandoned it because i hadn't been too interested in it to begin with. i picked up the Hobbit just before the movie came out becaus...

Kaa (like the snake from the jungle book)

Tea (like the drink! yum!)

Ya (sort of like Rah, or Hah, or, uhm. Aha?)

Snow (like that evil fluffy stuff that brings cold and colds and... why did i choose this to be my last name? i HATE winter!)