Mylo9810 shares a few fun ideas from her well of imagination.

Creativity is my outlet. Through my imagination, I am able to articulate as I write or visualize as I paint. Interestingly, I often gain my inspiration for stories because of my drawings or vice versa; in fact, the digital painting below is a product of such. I had a vague idea in mind, so as always I sketched it out and saw a realm of possibilities. Soon enough the picture was done and as I gazed at it, I was struck with a concept.

Since I was little, I was always fascinated with the skies, probably because my dad was a pilot. I thought to myself, "What if there are people who live in the sky? How would they survive, what would they look like, and why would they be hiding from us?" From answering those questions, I came up with some notions that I could follow for a prospective novel, but they're mostly just for fun.

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HotTrent1 describes his first time donating blood.

Twice a year my high school has four buses come for blood donations. In order to be able to donate blood, you must be at least sixteen years old and 110 pounds. Although I had just reached those requirements less than a month ago, I had not planned on donating for the sole reason of not wanting the fear of being in a few seconds of pain and the possibility of passing out.

While at a student government meeting, we students helped sort out slips of papers that would serve as a pass to get out of class to donate blood. After coming to the realization that there weren't a whole lot of students donating, the head sponsor of student government asked me if I was donating. Pressured, I lied and said that I hadn't signed up to donate but that I wanted to. With that, he wrote me a slip to get out of second period to donate my blood the next day.

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