In The Mood

I think I'm going to start posting reviews of books I read, because I want to start reading more. Reviewing will give me more incentive to read the books I have, quicker. Also gives me more incentive to find new books to read. Yey!

I think I'll also start doing the In My Mailbox meme hosted by The Story Siren.

Also, I'm thinking of doing a Friday Five. I need to get more posts on here, like seriously.

So prepare for more posts! Yey!

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Uh Huh

I know it's Thursday and not Tuesday, but guess what? I have stuff from writers group! And some other news, that I think is rather awesome :D

First, writer's group stuff!

The prompt was "The Water Began to Boil"

Xandre sat in the kitchen, cross-legged on the floor, eyes glued to the shiny new tea pot on the stove. 

“What are you doing?” 

Xandre didn’t look over at the talking, purple tea cup poodle. “Tea.” He nodded at the stove. 

Cabal, the poodle, looked at the stove then at the vampire. “Tea? Isn’t that rather British of you?” 

“I like British,” he replied, sounding almost mesmerized. 

“You’re French.” 

“French like British. I like tea.” 

The dog rolled his eyes. “Weirdo.” 

Xandre finally looked over at his companion. “Am not.”

“Whatever.” He turned and walked out of the room as the water began to boil.

 I think it's kind of lame, but I love the characters and I couldn't think of anything else to write for that prompt. The group liked it though. What do you guys think? Xandre is an old character of mine and I can't recall if I made it that he can eat food or not. Oh well. He could be like Lestat and likes looking at the way light plays on liquid.

The prompts for this week are:

• origami
• expostulate
• rafters
• lonely
• vision
• iconoclast

If you do anything with them, lemme see!

Now, the news. So I mentioned that I read Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher (which, again, is an awesome book). But I just found out (by looking through some blogs) that it's being turned into a movie! I'm not totally sure how I feel about this. I'm afraid that Hollywood is going to ruin it. But I'm also kind of happy that it's been optioned as a movie. Selena Gomez is supposed to be staring in it and I didn't see anything about who else was going to be in it. Feelings on this, anyone?

Anyways, that's all I've got to talk about.

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Love Game

I'm writing again! I haven't written anything in weeks, but I finally got part of something out. Well ok, that's a lie, but I haven't gotten much out in the past few weeks besides the five minute prompts for writers group and a bit on an idea I have. No, I don't think I'll be talking about that lest I talk it out too much, which would be bad.

I'm having a problem with my story though: I have a ghost but I don't know what he wants. I can't just have him there for no reason, that's very anti-climatic and gives no reason to the story. I have over 1,000 words, a title, and an ending, but I have no clue what to do with the ghost. Anyone got any ideas? What I have so far is he's shown up and made the computer screen explode and now he's just floating above the desk. Why is he there? What does he want? I have the story of why he's dead in my head, but I have no clue why he's there. Does he just need to tell someone his story? Does he just want to visit? I need something interesting! FYI, he's a monk from Japan.

So, any thoughts anyone?

If Today Was Your Last Day

Meh. I'm feeling self conscious about my writing. I haven't felt self conscious about my writing in... a few years, actually. I like my writing, love it actually. I'm happy with it. So why am I feeling self conscious about it then?

Well, my writers group decided to do this thing called a "writers salon", their words, where we met up at a pub, had some drinks, and got away from writing. And of course, they all have heard my stories so they know what I write. I brought my best friend along with my and my roommate and she was talking about how she's a screenwriter and how she has a class this semester called Adaptation where she has to take a previously published work of art that has not been made into a movie already and write a script for it. I commented that I knew of a book she could use called Thirteen Reasons Why (awesome book, it's by Jay Asher. I found out about it through Qzie's blog :) ). She asked what it was about, and then someone else in the group wanted to know, so I explained that it was about a girl who had committed suicide and before she killed herself, created these tapes and sent them to people who basically brought her to the point of suicide.

A little back story, a week or so before I had brought in a story that was about my Angel of Hell and Angel of Heaven characters and how the Angel of Hell was killing his best friend and the Angel of Heaven because they were sleeping together (it was all a dream set up by Lucifer in the beginning of the story). A morbid piece, but I like it a lot. Granted, I can have a dark humor, but I'm mainly a romance writer. So they, I guess, decided to base all of what I write and enjoy based on this one piece.

So when I mentioned this book, they were like "oh that's something you would like!" without even letting me explain that it was a well written book and very touching or that I read it based on a post on a blog I enjoy reading. No, just that it was obviously something I would like. I was like "wtf?" but whatever.

Later on in the get together, one of the guys in the group said that he had written a story about these two guys who were getting drunk and one ended up ripping the other one limb from limb, then looked at me and was like "it would be something you'd read!"

Again, I'm thinking "wtf? do you not pay attention to the fact that every time we have a new person in the group I explain that I'm mainly a romance writer?" I dismissed it. But now it's getting to me. I've picked out a few of my romance stories and stories that have no real dark humor in them at all to bring in and share in the writers group on Tuesday. I want to show them that I'm not some morbid writer/reader. Hell, I read a lot of YA and like happy go lucky stories. Yes, things that are dark are fun, but I don't go searching for it.

All in all, it's made me feel rather self conscious, that the only thing people are going to get from my writing is that I like dark things that involve suicide and killing people. Come on! I'm more than that, right? And these stories I've picked are ones that I am proud of, one of which I actually submitted into a contest (I didn't win sadly) and got recognition for in deviantART (yeah, that seems like a petty thing to be proud of, but none of my other works on there were hardly noticed, but this one was favorited by a good number of people and also featured in a few news articles. I say that's something to be proud of).

Meh.

It just has me feeling like crap. I feel a writers block growing. FML.

In other news, I tried Guinness beer. It's gross. Nasty. Yucky. Luckily it wasn't my drink. And I absolutely LOVE jalapeño poppers. Yey!

Anyways, I'm going to attempt to shove something creative out of my brain. Or read. One of the three.

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HOT

That's totally NOT the song I'm listening to, but 'I Don't Care' just doesn't fit with this post, haha.

*clears throat* Oh my god! Two posts in the same day, right after each other? What, is the world coming to an end? Well... maybe, but no! I thought this deserved it's own blog, and I had to pick a deserving title, so HOT by Avil Lavigne is what I chose.

Qzie, over at Qzie and the Writing Process, had given me a blogger award. Yey me! She thinks I have a stylish blog. What that means, I have no clue, but it's so pretty, I had to share!

Ain't it pretty?? I think it is. So shiney... ahem. Anyways, this award come with some rules. Let's share those here, shall we? 

1) Thank the person who gave you this award and link back to them.
2) Share seven things about yourself.
3) Pass the award the bloggers whom you have recently discovered and who you think are great.
4) Contact the bloggers you've chosen and let them know about the award.

Rule one, check. Rule two... here we go!

1. I don't like writing on normal lined notebooks. Actually I have never filled one of those, ever. I use graph paper notebooks and since I started using them, have filled up two and am on my third in the past... year or so. I love them!
2. My best friend and I have the same name, save for the spelling.
3. I love doing special effects make-up for mine and my friends cosplays.
4. My best friend and I are so awesome when we're together that the universe tries to kill us. (I'm not being a smart ass here, I mean it. We get together and cars just come FLYING at us. We've been in more near accidents when we're together than anyone else in the history of cars. I swear. Next it'll be planes *knocks on wood* Luckily Jaz is a good driver 0.0)
5. I like Flo Rida. I admit it.
6. I want to have a book on the banned list AND and book used in a school curriculum.
7. My bangs used to be so... evil that I could make them into horns and they would stay, without ANYTHING in them. My mom cut them off and since they've grown back in, they don't do that anymore, but it was so cool.

Ok, rule two, check. Rule three:

The blogs I chose are:
Jasmine's Corner
The Book of Writing
Musings of a Diabolical Writer
The Writer's Corner

Now off to tell them about their award that is so shiney! *gets distracted by the award*

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I Can't Wait to be King

So I've been MIA again, sorry! Don't kill me!

Anyways, schools going good, I'm proud of myself :) I'm only on my first two classes of this long venture, but it'll turn out good! i have faith!

Anyhow, I have two stories from writer's group for the five minute prompts. I'm sure I have more but I have to pull them out and type them up.

Here's the first. The prompt was 'Enough said'

“Enough,” said Michael, annoyance in his voice. He brought both hands up to his temples, hoping beyond hope that it would help.

“Dude, I wasn’t done,” Zack said with a slight pout. “So, there we were, me and Bill, standing at the top of the hill--”

“Zachary…” Michael warned. “I said ‘enough’. I do not want to hear this. And you should be worrying about the guns and ammo. I do not want a repeat of last time.”

“Last time was totally not my fault.”

“Yes it was! Not only did you sneeze-”

“It was dusty.”

“-but you packed the wrong ammo and forgot the silencer! We barely got out before the cops showed up!”

“Ok, ok, I get it, man.”

“No, I don’t think you do. I had to return thousands of dollars because the police got my hit and the client didn’t think I was competent enough to complete the job. That is one less client and one more bad word on the street!”

“I said I get it. Jeez.” Zack frowned and shuffled away towards one of the gun rooms, mumbling to himself.

I love using Michael and Zack for these little stories, as you may have noticed.

Here's the next story. The prompt was 'At the grocer'

“Meanwhile, across town at the grocer…

“Glass exploded as gun shots fired through the store. ‘You’ll never get me alive, coppers!’ the masked gunman yelled with a cynical laugh.

“‘Maybe the pigs can’t get you,’ came a majestic voice from the front doors. ‘But Doveman always gets his man!’

“‘You think you can get me?’ the gunman challenged. ‘Never!’

“‘Is that a challenge?’ Doveman smirked and in the blink of an eye he pulled a machine gun from under his cape. ‘Think again villain!’ And he opened fire--”

“Dude, that totally didn’t happen!” Bill said suddenly and laughed.

“Don’t questions me, dude. That’s totally what happened. At least that’s what I’m telling the real Doveman.” Zack nodded.

“He’s so not going to believe you.”

“Why not?”

“Because he’s Doveman, and he’s not a superhero.”

“Oh… right…” After a beat, he added, “Think I should use Custard man instead?” 

Bill is Zack's best friend and Doveman is what Zack calls Michael. Custard man is Michael's dad who's name is Kostya.

The five prompts for this week are (and these are weird)

• tourniquet
•  almsgiving
• e-cquaintance  
• fuse
• expire

Good luck with those!

That's all I've got for you for now.

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Mama, I'm a Big Girl Now

Huh, this song title is kinda fitting.

First, I'll say I'm sorry for not posting in a while! I have no excuse other than I've been lazy. Yes. I've been lazy. I may (or may not) start a vlog, which I'll post here as well, but I'm not sure. I made a video as an application for something and someone mentioned that I have the personality to "make it big on youtube" (lil ol me? a youtube star? Nooooo :P). I know that if I did make it big on there, it would be GREAT to add to my platform for getting publish when I get to that step. Either way, the comment made me SUPER HAPPY. :D

Secondly... I am now, officially, a student at Saint Mary-of-the-Wood's College. I'm majoring in Professional Writing and minoring in Creative Writing. My first semester starts at the end of the month. Yey! Go me! I'm only taking two classes this semester to get into the swing of things for the way the External Degree Program works (essentially, it's home school, college style).

Hmm... I've been going on and off to writer's group. I need to get back on here and posting the words and what I wrote in the group.

What else to mention... That's about all I can mention without killing my drive to write it.

Write on!

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