Again, everyone un-follow her and report her if you can: https://twitter.com/MorganElizaYork

My real twitter: https://www.twitter.com/magicalemons

What annoys me most is there are people out there that actually think they’re talking to me. What a disappointment to them.

-Morgan

-Snow Leopard for Mac (which I wanted so I could play Sims 3, but I apparently have an unsupported video card for it, and if you’ve followed me on Twitter you have witnessed my mounting frustration concerning this. Ah, well, the world’s not going to explode)
-The perfect writer’s necklace: an “M” key from an actual vintage typewriter that hangs on a chain
-A Pillow Pet (they kick ass)
-500 Days of Summer soundtrack (beautiful)
-A street sign looking thing that says “Writer Drive”. It now hangs above my writing station
-A purple scarf
-A green shirt with a panda on it, and the panda has a thought bubble, and in the thought bubble is another panda. I interpret this to mean that the panda is escaping to another world, not into a fantasy but into another reality very similar to its own world, which is what I do all the time when I write. Or it’s just a weird shirt.
-A purple shirt
-Candy (including Ghiradelli chocolate squares with peanut butter in them. Holy shit.)
-A John Lennon shirt that says War Is Over, which I’m wearing now
-A Paramore poster
-A Paramore shirt
-A Paramore jacket that I’m also wearing now
-Six books, including:
-The Lovely Bones (on page one hundred something)
-Slaughterhouse Five
-Lolita
-Mrs. Dalloway
-Beloved
-A Passage to India
-A wonderful photo album from my sister Wendy, which she titled “Our Adventure Book” (like in the movie Up) and put at the end on a post it note: “Stuff we’re going to do”. The rest of the album is empty.
-A heart shaped locket with a note in it

-iTunes gift card

-An Edward Scissorhands shirt

-Harry Potter and the HBP on DVD

Don’t I have the greatest family? Plus I still have another Christmas coming up on my dad’s side of the family. Again, I hope you all had wonderful holidays!

EDIT: Here’s a picture! http://twitpic.com/vjeb8

-Morgan

Okay, I wanted to believe that “lilianamumyy” on Twitter was the real thing. I really did. I wanted to think I’d re-connected with an old friend, but because of some actions I took, I now believe her to be an impersonator.

I contacted this “Liliana” through means other than Twitter. I sent a message to her inbox on this other website asking her a specific question that the real Liliana would know the answer to. She never responded to it, and then she let me know that she was having trouble with her inbox and that all of the messages got deleted. This prompted me to send her the question again. She then claimed that someone “hacked” her account on the website and that she couldn’t read her inbox messages. This got me even more suspicious.

Now, keep in mind that, before I sent this message, I had already requested that she make me a video stating my name (as well as my sister’s) to prove that she was the real thing. I didn’t want to be chatting my personal life away with some stranger. She said that she could only make me a video when she could access her brother’s computer (her camera was apparently broken) and that she wouldn’t be able to make the video for a long while because her brother was away at college. I thought this could be a legitimate excuse, so I let it go and carried on talking to her as if she was Liliana (in reality, the poser could be either a boy or a girl, but I will refer to the poser as “she” for the sake of convenience). Again, I wanted to believe it was her. When it comes to cynicism, I usually lie on the less cynical side. Still, logically, shouldn’t Liliana have been able to use another camera? She was taking/posting pictures with that camera, wasn’t she? How could her camera be broken?

Anyway, back to the question I sent her. I thought, okay, if I couldn’t send it to her via that other website, I’ll send her a direct message over Twitter. Immediately after I sent her the confirmation question, there was something on her Twitter that said, “Twitter is acting weird, can’t receive direct messages”. Hmm. So not only was her inbox on the other site malfunctioning/hacked, but her Twitter messages weren’t working, either? Very fishy.

Following this, I sent her a long message on the other website telling her how disappointed I was that she appeared to be an impersonator and kept finding ways to avoid my confirmation question. I told her that it was not only a violation of my privacy but that it was wrong as well. I said that if she was indeed the real Liliana Mumy, I was sorry about the confusion, but that to prove to me she was really Liliana, she could answer my question. Trust me, I was careful in picking my question. It involved a huge part of my experience with Liliana, something she would never forget about. Don’t worry, I made sure it wasn’t some insignificant, forgettable detail. I wanted to ensure that it was a question the real Liliana would know (sorry if I’m repeating myself here). When I logged onto Twitter today, I found that the “lilianamumyy” Twitter no longer allowed me to follow her. Now, if that was the real Liliana, she would have messaged me and explained that I misunderstood and answer the question to prove it was her, or maybe make a video using a working camera. Would the real Liliana block me on Twitter just because I accused her of something untrue? Hell no! She’d do all she could to prove the truth!

I know, she seems really legitimate, doesn’t she? Hey, she fooled me, and she fooled a lot of you, too. I heard from somewhere that not only does Bill Mumy’s official site say Liliana has no Twitter, but the pictures she posted are available on the internet for anyone to access. Meaning that the “Liliana” on Twitter could have been anybody in the world. So, Liliana poser, you’re very skilled at posing as someone else, but don’t you think you should send your talent in a different direction? Perhaps you could be an actor. That way you could be someone you’re not on a day that isn’t Halloween and have it be socially acceptable.

I hope I’ve given a clear enough explanation as to why I came to the conclusion that “lilianamumyy” is not the real Liliana (I’m pretty sure I repeated myself several times, so please forgive me. I’m really exhausted today). As for my twitter being the real me…I assure you that it is! If you ever need additional confirmation of it, I could always make a video or something!

And if the real Liliana’s reading this right now…don’t posers suck?

~Morgan

As for the Liliana I’ve been talking to, I’m aware that she might be a poser. I’ve contacted her about this and asked her to send me a video where she says hi to me specifically, because I really don’t want to be talking to some random person. I mean, how horrible would that be? I haven’t seen Liliana in ages, and I thought I’d finally reconnected with her. I really thought I’d gotten back in touch with her after all this time. If this turns out to not be her…I’m going to be really disappointed. So, person on Twitter who claims to be Liliana, keep this in mind. Everybody be skeptical of her right now, until I can confirm it’s her. She said she would make a video as soon as she sees her brother and can use his computer to film it. Could be a bullshit response, could be a real one. We’ll see.

I love reading all of your tweets to me, guys! They really mean a lot! I read all of them!
~Morgan

Anyway, here is what I’m thinking, and I’d like you guys to let me know if you think it’s a good idea. Every once in a while, I could have an “event” where I ask you guys to submit any questions you have for me via twitter, and after a day or two, I’ll answer them either on twitter or in this journal. So, either using this site’s guestbook or your own twitter page, let me know what you think I should do!

Also, another question: when I post a journal entry, should I post the fact that there’s a new entry in the news updates section of the site?

Let me know, and I’m enjoying all your twitter comments!

~Morgan

http://twitter.com/magicalemons/

Yes, the URL seems random, but I assure you that it’s not. What does it mean, you ask? My lips are sealed. For now.

-Morgan

Guess whose writing I’ve fallen in love with? Stephen King! I read On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft over the summer, and yesterday I finished Misery, which I adored to death. Both of them are written from the point of view of a writer (On Writing is non-fiction written straight from SK’s point of view, while the other is a fictional novel about the fictional fiction writer, Paul Sheldon. Fiction is starting to sound like it’s not a word.). Gosh, the tidbits about writing were so vivid and on the spot. Stephen King, to make a quick understatement, knows what he’s talking about. He knows his stuff. In my wildest, wildest fantasies, he reads my writing and likes it, and I’m sure this fantasy is shared by millions around the world. I’m pretty sure that, if this were to take place in reality, I would have a heart attack. I have made it my quest to devour each and every one of his books, and I encourage you, whomever you might be, to do so as well. I’m probably going to read Carrie next, which will be interesting since it was his first. I want to compare the writing in Carrie and Misery, see how he improved over the years…

Anyway, man, I’m really exhausted. It’s self-inflicted exhaustion, though, since I’ve been staying up past midnight writing as much as I can. I can’t help it. I don’t have a problem, I swear. No, that’s not my eye twitching in a crazed, Annie-Wilkes-esque way, I promise.

Just thought I’d post a little update. Not a very exciting one, so I apologize if this post did nothing but bore you to tears, but I just randomly felt like typing this up. Hope all of you that are back in school are having nice school years so far, and that you have a good weekend!

-Morgan

Anyway, back to your fantastic responses. I write every night, and sometimes right before I would check the guestbook for any responses. If there were new ones, it would give me a boost, a surge of confidence, and I was able to start writing with a smile on my face. Thank you, thank you, thank you for your support.

Now, about the book(s). The truth is that I’ve already completed a full book–I just completed the third draft a few weeks ago (editing’s a bitch, excuse the term). I got the idea for the book in September of 2007 and started actually writing it in December of the same year. I didn’t finish the first draft until May 1, 2009. Since I’ve gotten into the habit of writing every day, a first draft is never going to take that long again. Now that the book is in a condition that I’m satisfied with enough to show to publishers (read: one that isn’t a completely steaming pile of crap), my mom and I are working to get me a literary agent. I’m very, very lucky to already be in the public eye, because I think that might boost my chances of me (and more importantly, the book) getting noticed by agents and publishers. The fact that a bunch of you said you would read my novel if I published it (you guys are at such a level of awesome that it’s indescribable) might be an incentive for them as well.

As for what the novel’s about, that’s a difficult question for me to answer. It’s about so many different things that it’s hard to decide what to reveal and what to keep under wraps. It’s actually meant to be part of a four book series–I’m writing the second book right now, and about seventy or eighty pages in. Let me check MS Word…yes, I’m on page eighty. Hm. I suppose all I’ll say is that it centers around four teenagers (whom I love to bits) and it involves fantasy. I didn’t want to make it one of those fantasies with elves, dragons, sorcerers, dwarves, or people who travel across the desert to trade their meat for gold doubloons. It’s more modern than that. Instead of doing things like that, they’ll, you know, go out and get cappucinos or something (though I promise, the story gets more exciting than that). I’ll keep my lips sealed on the rest for now, but I do hope what I’ve said sounds interesting.

Once again, thank you so much for your wonderful responses. For those of you who haven’t responded yet and would like to, feel free to follow the link in the post below and answer. Thank you so much!

-Morgan

~Morgan