condensing Shakespeare and other musings

Have you ever tried to condense Shakespeare? How about simply one scene of some play? Have you ever been tasked with presenting said play by yourself? It is horridly difficult and while it is three pages, or, two front and back and one front, in the book it is still a total of two pages after paraphrasing as much as I can. Garg, I hate drama, though Much Ado About Nothing is funny as all get out, even if the syntax is a little difficult to follow from times to time.

On another note, I'm stuck on one of my stories and I'm going to ask for ideas from whoever reads this. Please keep all ideas PG and as straight as possible. Here's the plot so far. A knight on a quest to find his long lost twin meets a childhood friend who has been enslaved. They join forces, since the friend can understand the knight and said knight had sworn to never speak until he found his brother. As they track down the brother, they are joined by a barbarian and a poacher's daughter. Oh, this is a fantasy story in case you haven't noticed. So, the brother has been found, the poacher's daughter has tried to confront the knight about her affection for him, the brother has revealed that the amulet their mother left them is the Amulet of the Seer and lots of people are already gunning for it, the boys are out and about in the town leaving the girl and the knight alone at the inn, the knight told the girl they needed to finish their talk and that's where I'm a little stuck. Should the knight confess he loves her as well, what should the responses of their traveling companions be, and how should I transfer from the 'looking of the Magi' segment to the 'trying to save the kingdom and stay away from rabid hunter type people who want the power/money the amulet can bring them' part? Again, keep all suggestions clean.

I might ask for more help with stories and if anyone, not just my follower, has any ideas for a blog story I will be more than willing to oblige... as long as they're family friendly and, perhaps most importantly, straight.

Later,
Lil Bit

Switching emails... it's a pain

So, I got a gmail last Monday and switching over has been a breeze, until I tried to get on this blog. I had to invite myself to be a co-author! How crazy is that? now I'll have to beat around the bush if I want to do any admin work on here and who knows where the email notifications are going to go. Yahoo or Google, Google or Yahoo, only the internet knows. Anyway, wasting time before trying to condense an entire scene of Shakespeare's Much Ado about Nothing, fun, right? Hah, try finding a scene in that that moves the action forward. THERE IS NO ACTION, not really. Anyway, I found a passage that was all female, since it would be hard from me to do a guy's voice for very long and besides, it would just be plain awkward, but now I need to condense it because the bit I chose would have left people hanging. Grrr, oh well, at least she(my essay writing teacher) approved the scene. Funny how I'm not taking a poetry class and yet I have to recite narrative poetry for my final. THIS POST HAS LITTLE TO NOTHING TO DO WITH THE TITLE! Oh well, just means the name of the blog is fitting. I've always had a problem with rambling. Anyway, I was a good little girl for two weeks, but then I lost my momentum again. Ah, I sure hope I don't get smacked by that baseball bat of disapproval and disappointment again. That hurt, and it was most painful because I hit myself with it too. Hey, ever wonder why adding just one 'o' to 'to' changes the meaning? Or how about a 'w' between the 't'  and the 'o'? And where do you put a question mark when you have quote marks within quote marks, or just quote marks in general? The grammar rules of the English language, no wonder we have problems learning other languages. Then again, how about those languages that are accent oriented, the ones where BUMBulbee is different than bumbulBEE? How would you like to learn one of those for you're second language? Or your first for that matter. Just imagine learning a language like ours if you first learned one like the aforementioned. Now that would be difficult. OK, I've wasted enough of both our times.
Later!
Lil Bit