Ryanne Molinari

July 3, 2015

Rest and Laziness: They are Different!

I am a busy person, not necessarily because I have committed to a lot or because my parents expect a lot from me, but because I make everything I am passionate about into a serious commitment and expect a lot of myself. (Started piano lessons? Practice to be accepted as a piano major at a conservatory. Enjoyed…

Musings

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June 30, 2015

Research…it’s Legit

As a writer, I frequently find myself researching topics that are…strange, to say the least. In the past I have spent late night sessions researching homemade poisons, mustache puns, medieval makeup, symptoms of consumption, ways to recycle a goat carcass, and what happens inside a morgue. Oh, and let’s not forget unibrow jokes. Anyway, in case…

Scribblings

brainstorming, first draft, google history, humor, research, writer, writing
June 27, 2015

Writer’s Despair: Part Two

Last night I was struck with a severe case of what I have dubbed “Writer’s Despair,” the cruel cousin of Writer’s Block. Unlike with Writer’s Block, I could not break through Writer’s Despair by searching through my idea notebooks or looking up prompts on Pinterest. Rather, WD hung over my head like one of those cartoon…

Musings

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June 25, 2015

A Lovely Combination

I recently visited my favorite indie bookstore and somehow managed to leave without using all of my credit! (I needed an excuse to return next week…) What did I purchase? A combination I believe works quite well: 1) A book with a setting that drew me in. (Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman, taking place…

A Bit of Light Reading, Musings

book shopping, books, Bradbury, buying books, gaiman, indie bookstore
June 20, 2015

A Rare Open Letter from an INTJ

“You’re funny! I had no idea.” “We will have to draw you out of your shell.” “I used to be scared of you.” These are sentences I have heard often throughout my life and I am sure than many other people like me- INTJs and similar personalities, have had to listen to the same basic…

Musings

INFJ, INTJ, introvert, ISTJ, moriarty, Myers-Briggs, personality, psychology, the scientist
May 17, 2015

Cookie-ception Cookies

One of my friends who knows more about movies than I do informed me that “Inception” does not actually refer to having one thing within itself but rather having a story begin at the end (or something like that) and that my cookies more accurately could be compared to nesting dolls, with one thing holding a…

Recipes for Readers

AP Literature, baking, books, chocolate chip, chocolate chip cookie butter cookies, cookie, cookie butter, cookie butter cookies, fluffy cookies, inventing recipes, pudding mix, reading and eating, speculoos, stress baking, trader joes
May 12, 2015

The Window Washer

Once more, I find myself in the uncomfortable situation of actually enjoying my homework. A lot. I know that many people in my class find this irritating, but I can’t help it; I like to write, so naturally I will like an assignment that requires me to write a short story using the literary elements…

Literature

Anne of Green Gables, annotation, AP Literature, authors, beauty, Book, books, bookworm, Bradbury, classic literature, english class, homework, how to read literature, inspiration, library, scribbling, sherlock holmes, short story, writer, writing, writing assignment
May 1, 2015

A Sketchy History

Never investigate a writer’s Internet search history unless you’re comfortable knowing that he or she was looking for things such as this: Other searches may include: beard puns, homemade poisons, magic mirrors, baby names, Latin verbs, and nearest coffee shops. All but the last are for stories…at least let us hope so.

Scribblings

awkward, brainstorming, research, search history, writer, writing
April 3, 2015

On Senioritis (and also brownies)

Upon entering this year, I thought that I was prepared to face that dread combination of restlessness, fatigue, and frustration that has been plaguing high school seniors since the dawn of time (or at least the dawn of secondary education). I was wrong and realize now, having forsaken productivity for a few hours to breathe for the first…

Recipes for Readers

brownies, class of 2015, coconut oil, delicious, easy brownies, graduation, high school, literature, remedy, senior year, senioritis, stress relief, yum
March 28, 2015

Perplexingly Postmodern

Sometimes reading postmodern literature is like reading those texts where people just type the first words their iPhone suggests… For instance, compare the authorship of: 1) My iPhone and that of a friend: 2) A revered postmodern author: Oddly similar…yet only one is deemed worthy of annotations! Disclaimer: I honestly do have appreciation…

Literature, Musings

annotations, AP Literature, beloved, iphone humor, literature, postmodern
March 13, 2015

A Caution to Writers

Dear fellow writers, Should you ever decide to change perspective halfway through your novel’s draft, do not use Word’s “Find and Replace” feature because otherwise when you try to change “I” (the pronoun) to your character’s name (Paige, in this instance), you might find every letter “I” replaced with her name. Oops. That Paiges a serPaigeous…

Scribblings

author, first draft, NaNoWriMo, novel, oops, typing, word, writing
March 1, 2015

7 Steps to Overcoming a Haircut Crisis: by Rapunzel, Anne, Jo, and Me

“It looks so good!” gushes the stylist. You nod vaguely, but inside you’re screaming, “Since when does ‘two inches’ mean ‘take it all’?” You came in wanting a simple trim (freshen up the layers, cut the split-ends, the usual), but one ambitious beautician and several pairs of scissors later you’re sitting open-mouthed in a nest…

Bookish Style

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