Gray areas in life are pretty common. I have the same feeling sometimes.

Haha that’s really true (lol at FSoG reference), and during debate class we were warned about that. I feel our own moral compass plays a huge part (e.g. our own inclinations and biases towards a certain topic) along with outside stimuli. The really important part is how we are able to respond and whether we can to our satisfaction.

Well said, my friend. tips hat Are you studying philosophy right now? I have a feeling you could do very well in it.

Ah, law class. I can’t wait until my high school starts (stuck with holidays at the moment) so I can enroll for a law class myself. My parents don’t want me to go too far with the whole criminal law scene ‘cause they’re scared I’ll grow up and end up representing a criminal or something lol but fortunately business law is just as fun as criminal law. Have you seen the film ‘Erin Brockovich’, starring Julia Roberts? That was primarily based on the financial side of the legal system and a small law firm VS a ginormous Evil™ company that did a lot of Evil™ stuff. If you haven’t seen it, I highly recommend it. :D

I’d love to go into civil rights law, but my mum is like “there’s no more cases.”

Really? Really, really?

I’d love to go to school for writing, but I’d rather get a really good-paying regular job and write on the side.

Good plan. I did a writing degree at university, and it set me back about two years in terms of finding work, five if you include the time I could have been working.

Being an editor is a wonderful career. The problem is, there are just so many editors, and you need demonstrated experience before getting any sort of decent job for it. On top of that, everyone who thinks they can write also happen to think they can edit, so freelance work is surprisingly scarce. I tried being an editor, did one unpaid job as a freelancer and then had to turn down one job as a subcontractor (on the grounds that the “book” submitted for substantive and copy editing was a dozen Wikipedia pages copied verbatim, including footnotes) before having to find a real job that actually paid the bills.

I’d still love to be an editor, or at least a slushpile-filter, but it’s little more than a pipe-dream, right now.

Haha you are in the same dilemma I’m in, friend. I am a guitar player by nature (been playing since I was 7 years old) and I’ve done a couple shows in India with my band. But then I love writing as much as I do playing guitar, so now I think I’ll end up being a touring musician writing books. Hopefully those books are halfway decent but then again I seek acceptance for my music as well.

And yeah, it helps to have a balanced viewpoint when writing books otherwise you come off as preachy and trust me, nobody likes those authors.

And no, Resistance, I haven’t read that book yet. Preachy author, eh?! Calls for a spork! But after I finish my Percy Jackson review.

I dunno, lots more productive things I guess. Like write, play music and things like that.

@Resistance Yeah, maybe you’re right :P Well, maybe I’ll wander around the internet until something exciting happens, I guess. Story of my life right there. xD

Lol, and the whole bit about one of the main character’s name’s being Patch… I mean fricking seriously?! Patch?! What is he, some kind of evil pillowcase or something? It’s books like these that turn me away from being a serious YA writer (but then again there’s the other part of my brain that goes “YOU CAN DO IT!!”) so I suppose everything balances out in the end.

Feel free to quote me. xD And true, I like it when a bit of dark realism is injected into the books, but I really didn’t like the last book of Harry Potter because I felt Mrs. Rowling went a little far with the whole death stuff. But in the end it was a war and she was the author. I just felt sad when Dobby, Hedwig and Fred died. Not cool :( My favourite characters! NOOOOOO!! :’( Anyways i agree with you, I don’t like books like Twilight because they’re too glittery (pun fully intended) and most of that bundle of pages is just Bella fawning over Edward to a sickening degree. Blech.

I feel some people have to earn their happy endings, but it’s a little out of place when everything goes TOO well. Then you find yourself hoping something goes wrong just to prove you aren’t going crazy. Meh, happy endings schmappy endings. I like realistic stuff but a Super Mario ending Is just fine with me.