Yay! It's March!

Hey Guys --

 I know it's been a while but I figured I'll take a break from my studying while my brain is on overload and I'll finally get a post up on here.

I was accepted this past Thanksgiving break into Virginia Commonwealth University, and I moved into my tiny little dorm space in January just after my 20th birthday. Quite a way to start my new year. School has been great though -- I'm very happy to have moved onto my Criminal Justice major here at the school and I feel like I am accomplishing a lot despite how stressful it has been to rush and jump into a new environment as rapidly as I have.

I've since joined a Criminal Justice honor society here, and I never once imagined myself being in any form of society -- let alone one that seems to be so promising to help me in my drive towards graduation and nabbing a career.

I have a lot of plans for this blog as soon as I find another time window to start expanding. I think posting a lot of character profiles on here will be nice, and other information about my experiences at school, writing, and even some of my cosplay work as I try to expand that more into my personal life as well as my public persona. I'm not quite sure how well having a 'public persona' is going to help in regards to my future career but it is something that I enjoy and want to try to explore to the fullest I can before I get sucked into a full time career in law enforcement (or whatever element of the Justice system pulls me in first).

The reason I haven't been writing much is how interesting the past few months have been for me. While transferring to new environments is always a tough experience for anybody, I've been having a little bit of a harder time just because of my unique circumstances and past experiences that I've had in my life. Between the recently illuminated emotional disorders I have been attempting to overcome, and some serious family and interpersonal issues I've had in the past few years and more so in the last 9 months, I've had little time or patience to keep any form of journal. I have still tried keeping a written journal for the sake of recording events and progress I've been making, but my blog has definitely fallen by wayside since it takes a lot more effort to maintain it and keep all the material together for it. I also waste a lot of time on here updating everything appearance wise in order to make it look like it's active and up to date.

For the story writing - I've been writing here and there and I'm on a version of the story (The Artemis Recovery) that I can work with now. It's a lot harder to write and get into my writing frame of mind for this story but it's because of how detailed I've been trying to make it. I have a few partial chapters and 2 full ones, consisting of the Prologue and Chapter 1. I have also written quite a bit of a story that I worked on for a scholarship. I did not get anything from it, but it was still a fairly exerted effort on my part and I would be happy to share it for now. ((I ended up pushing out about 63 double spaced pages for it...))
 I may have shared it under a different name in the past, but it is now named How To Be a Guardian Angel (Prev: Guardian Angel)  I'm sure the name could use some more work and uniqueness, but it was just enough of a change for me to differentiate the editions which at the time was all that mattered.

As I mentioned I'm also wanting to share some of my other activities on here. I've been dabbling in cosplay since 2012, and I'm hoping to be devoting a lot more time to it now that I'm out of my house and starting out on my own. I find cosplay to be an amazing artistic outlet and I'd love to be able to teach myself to make better and better cosplays as I work at it. To see some of my previous cosplays and what is available on my previous DeviantArt page, please follow the link here. For future updates and my new work, please go here --> I have now transitioned more fully to TheDormMouse on my various pages so that is where I'll be.

I also now stream on Twitch occasionally under the same name, in case anybody is really interested.

In addition, I'm exploring the great world of tattoos and in addition to tentatively drawing out the ones I want by my own design I'm also looking to practice drawing tattoos for other people. All of my work is slowly being put up on DeviantArt as well and I can't wait to share some of it on here as well.

Hope this is a sufficient update when paired with the chapters I've written. I'll write again as soon as I get the itch/time.

[Finished Paper] Tragic Victims or Truly Sinners? Heroes in the Hands of Angry Gods

This is a finished and graded paper that I got a 97% on from my World Literature class -- I would not advise copying it for your own as I will be doing my best to ensure it's posted to counter-plagiarism sites. It seems to have impressed most of the people who have read it so I figured I would share it here since it is something that I have written and it's been so long since I have posted anything (I've really wanted to - but I've been so terribly busy.) This was a five page paper - double spaced - so it may be slightly long. Or short, really depends on your perspective! Enjoy.

"...there wasn't much for me to put on this.  I grumbled a little about your failure to italicize titles and  I disagreed with your characterization of Job, but I thought this was an amazing essay.  Indeed, so far this is the best essay I've received in this class and one of the best essays I've received this semester.  Your writing is cogent and carefully thought out.  Well done!" -- Prof. Amey, NVCC

Patricia H

Prof. Amey

English 251

10/17/2015

Tragic Victims or Truly Sinners? Heroes in the Hands of Angry Gods

            Throughout religious mythology, the question has been raised as to whether or not the suffering of men is brought on solely by their actions. In both the Odyssey and the Book of Job, the main characters' fates are ultimately determined and destroyed, then remade at the hands of gods. Though both live very different lives, redeemed and unredeemed, they both suffer in similar ways and it perpetuates the question – do bad things only happen to bad people, or do gods act destructively regardless of the loyalty of their worshipers?

           In both The Odyssey and the Old Testament's Book of Job, the main characters and their companions sacrifice willingly to their gods. Entire families and communities give up their finest livestock to represent their love for their deities in the hopes that this will mean safety and blessings. In both stories, despite the practice of religious law, both men are robbed of everything in their lives. In The Odyssey, Odysseus has served in a war between both man and the Gods. Despite this service, he is robbed of all he knew in his previous life and must push through repeated trials and tribulations in order to find his way back to the life that he knew. In the book of Job, a religious man is also robbed of everything he knew – despite having been known as a religious man – and is forced to suffer illness and ridicule from those closest to him. They are both placed there through the actions of the gods in control of their lives. 

          However, neither man is truly innocent. Both Odysseus and Job are extremely prideful, and particularly in Odysseus's case, this has a direct impact on his fate on repeated occasions in his story. During his visit to the Land of the Cyclopes, he destroys Polyphemus's eye and then in his pride

declares his name to Poseidon, Polyphemus's father. This leads to Poseidon personally attempting to ruin Odysseus at every turn on his journey back to Ithaca. In the case of Job, he puts his pride in his family, his wealth, and his achievements in life. He allows his children to act sinfully, but simply expects immediate forgiveness through material sacrifice to God. “When their time of feasting had concluded, Job would rise early in the morning to send for them and consecrate them to God. He would offer a burnt offering for each one, because Job thought, “Perhaps my children sinned by cursing God in their hearts.” Job did this time and again.” (Job, 1:5) His blind belief and adherence to ritual keeps him from seeing that his faith in God is actually minimal. His near false-idolization of his lands and livestock interfere with his close relationship with God. The scripture suggests that although Job says morally 'right,' things, he only ever speaks about God – never with Him – and that it is Job's fear of God himself that keeps Job faithful. (Job 4:6) Though God Himself never seems to recognize this as a flaw in Job in His discussion with the character Satan, it becomes all together apparent after discussions between Job's friends and the over-all flow of the story. 

         The two stories are unlike in that, while Job eventually becomes repentant and maintains his positive faith in God, Odysseus's actions and personality remain relatively stagnant in the story. His pride fails to diminish as he eventually makes it back to his home in Ithaca. “Throwing off his rags, resourceful Odysseus sprang to the wide threshold with the bow and the full quiver, poured the arrows out at his feet, and addressed the Suitors: ‘Here is a clear end to the contest. Now I’ll see if I can hit another target no man has as yet, and may Apollo grant my prayer!’” (Book XXII:1-67) He proceeds to slay not only every suitor to have remained on his grounds, but the families of the suitors who come to seek revenge after the massacre. In Odysseus's case, while his livestock may have have been whittled away and his home intruded, his family remains and as does his title. This does nothing to reform Odysseus's behavior, or serve as his redemption after years of massacre and destruction at his hands.

             This was hardly how it was for Job. At the hands of Satan, by permission of God, Job is stripped of his livestock, his lands, and of his children. His wife is driven insane with grief and Job himself is stripped of his good health and is plagued during his trials. Unlike Odysseus, he refuses to curse his god, despite repeatedly being tempted to – not only by his wife, but by his friends as well. “Then his wife told him, 'Do you remain firm in your integrity? Curse God and die!'” (Job 2:9) He is then openly blamed for what has happened to him, as his friends claim that surely nothing like that would have happened to him without Job having sinned against God. (Job 4:7-9) In this, Job is far more a victim in his circumstances than Odysseus is. Not only is Job proclaimed a sinner and ridiculed by those remaining whom he holds dear (Job 12:4-6), he is stricken will illness and what he lost he never fully recovers. Though he is eventually granted new children and his wealth is eventually restored, he no longer has his grown children and the memories he once had with them. It can never possibly be the same for Job as it could be for Odysseus at the end of their stories.

In the story the Odyssey, the gods are figures who can take multiple forms and often accompany the hero Odysseus on his journey. Odysseus's aid and advocate was the goddess Athena. She protects him in a majority of his struggles, swears her fealty in battle to him (Book XX:1-55) and even communicates with Odysseus's son, Telemachus. In the Old Testament, God and his angels appear only a select few times to God's devoted followers. An appearance such as this, however, never happens to Job. Despite the different mythologies in which the two characters exist, both Odysseus's gods and Job's one God have many elements in common. Both are attributed with every aspect of the world – from weather to disease and the creation of new life. In contrast to Greek mythology, the Old Testament of which Job is a part holds that there is a covenant between God and man against the needless deaths of humans. If this is to be applied to the story of Job, Job's indiscretion notwithstanding, it paints the Old Testament God as a violent and senseless being who does coincide with the violent and tempestuous gods of Greek mythology; neither parties giving regard to the wellness or purity of their worshipers, who would exact violence and childish revenge

upon those they see fit. 

             In The Iliad, the gods chose sides on the parts of either the Trojans or the Athenians. Amongst the gods who later influenced The Odyssey, Apollo aided the Trojans – Hera, Athena, Poseidon and Hermes sided with the Athenians. This speaks to the fact that despite the Athenians having served as pawns in a god's game, and therefore despite Odysseus's service under the gods, the same gods whom he'd served later became perpetrators of his suffering. Poseidon destroys his ships and attempts to kill him on several occasions, while even Zeus – the neutral god of the Trojan War – aids Poseidon in sending storm that washes Odysseus ashore and reshapes his journey yet again (Book V:262-312). It is in this way that the Greek gods are often known – influenced by emotion and often childish desire, a magnified expression of elements of humanity. The God of the Old Testament is much the same. In the books of the Old Testament there are tales of great destructive plagues (Moses) and the destruction of entire towns in a flash of fire (Genesis), brought on by a wrathful God. He brings suffering to both the innocent and the sinful, before and after the covenant He creates with His people. With little regard to life given by both the Old Testament God and the gods of the Greeks, it leaves the question as to if the sins of Job and Odysseus can be said to influence their stories at all – or if the gods simply would have done what they wanted regardless.

 

             In conclusion, neither man is innocent and in many ways they were deserving of their gods' anger. Odysseus's pride and capacity for cruelty and brutality against his fellow man leaves him up for judgment not only by his fellow man but by the powerful gods to whom he prays and serves. He was robbed of his family and his property because of his participation in the Trojan War. His personality and willingness to exact brutality does not change despite the lessons and repeated punishments he receives during the Odyssey as he attempts to return to Ithaca. Despite this, he is allowed to return to his family and his home, with comparatively less lost than in the case of Job from the Old Testament. In the Old Testament, Job's empty faith and pride in his accomplishments, land and family blind him to the fact that Job fears God more than he truly loves Him. This is something that Satan recognizes and attempts to exploit in taking away everything from Job – anticipating that Job's reaction would be to curse God and prove Satan's predictions true. While Job is stripped of everything he refuses to curse God and damns himself, wishing for death. After his tribulations, he is blessed by God with a new family. Compared to Odysseus, Job's only sin is his false pride, and therefore it makes it a question as to why their punishments seem unequal. Odysseus is only separated from his loved ones until his return from Ithaca. Job completely looses his children, and new children to raise and love will still never replace that initial loss. In the case of Job, I feel that a man who knew no better was punished unfairly by his destructive god – stripped of everything he knew at the hands of a notoriously destructive Old Testament God. Therefore, in the case of Job I believe he suffers an unjustly severe punishment at the hands of an angry god. Odysseus receives a punishment fitting many of the deeds he perpetrates, but then is returned to the life he once knew. So bad things do in fact happen to bad people – but the severity to which they happen is determined by unfair and heavy handed gods.

The College Life

Well, here over the next few weeks I should finally be able to write some more. I have been up to my eyeballs in school work and work, and soon I'll be looking for a new workplace but that's asides from the point. I have done very little writing asides from what I have done as school assignments, and I it really pains me to think of what I could have done recently, but didn't. I finish finals for this Spring semester here in the next two days, and I have roughly a week and a half before my next classes begin, but with far less to worry about in those classes, I expect to be writing plenty.

I suppose I should announce which stories I plan on continuing on this blog, and so far those are:

• Fae
• Guardian Angel 
• (excerpts/unrevised chapters) The Artemis Recovery

The only reason I really will keep The Artemis Recovery to a minimum is just in case I do with to publish it in the next couple of months/year or so.

I guess I can give you an update in my personal life -- I've decided on a major for college, and it's going to be Criminal Justice. I'm pursuing a minor in Psychology as well. In order to transfer into my college of choice, I've gone for an Associates of Science, and I'll have completed that ahead of schedule hopefully by the end of Fall Semester, 2015. I can't wait to get started in Richmond, honestly. I think my college and I will be a great fit!

Journaling and Writers Block - A Writing Rationale

Does anyone else find comfort and maybe inspiration in keeping a journal? Journalism has been a method of expression almost since the dawn of written expression in humans. I've also come to find that it is extremely useful for keeping my love of writing alive while I battle writers block in my stories. It has currently been over a month since I was able to work productively at all on my story, "The Artemis Recovery." Mostly, I believe, it's because I'm going through a time in my life where my emotions aren't exactly meshing with those that I want conveyed in the story. I've also freshly started college and between a full work schedule and school, there is very little time for me to sit and concentrate completely on writing a very detailed story.

I've been journaling now for a couple of years and for various reasons. I find it's a reliable way to catalog my experiences and to vent my emotions without having to deal with the person-to-person element of venting. It allows me to look back after certain lengths of time to review what may have been going on and if my perceptions of an event has changed. This, believe it or not, has actually come to help me not only grow as a person who is self-aware but also to influence my writing in respects of taking real experiences and emotions and slipping them into my writing. I've also found that maybe, one day, my experiences in life could probably make a good memoir. Who's to say.

My first genuine journal was a product of my (thus far) only long term boyfriend leaving for basic training in the late-summer-early fall of 2010. Before that point, I had tried using journals but had never really put myself into the experiment fully enough to see if I liked writing journals at all. I had had a small journal already lying around and figured, why not? While he was gone, I wrote him letters and wrote in this journal documenting how my days went and how I felt about him and our relationship. It was a no-holds barred way of me communicating what I felt about our relationship and about him. Even though it wasn't always pretty, it ended up being very constructive for us both. When he finished training, I gave it to him and let him keep it. Our relationship did eventually fall apart (he found other people, I found a different path) but the experience of journal writing stayed with me.

My second genuine journaling experience started in roughly 2012, around the end of Junior year and the start of Senior year of high school. I bought a big faux-leather journal and insisted on writing in it every day. It helped immensely with a highly stressful time in my life that I was going through, and has served to be a way of releasing a lot of negativity in my life without creating conflict in my relationships - at least no more than was already there. I've taped movie tickets in and written about dates and fun times that I've had as well as general experiences about high school and growing up in my closing years of high school that I find are helpful when I've done an emotional lock-out. I use these pieces that I've written to bolster some of my writing, as well as for self-assessment. I'm still writing in this particular journal and it's proving to be a great resource.

Newest Journal: I'm back where I started. My newest relationship has taken it's longest distance ever and my significant other is overseas. I'm writing a journal for him to read when he comes back, and like the original attempt at this, it will be for him to keep so long as he wants it. Unlike my other journals however, this will not so much be written as a series of letters or memoirs to myself so much as written as a series of letters to him. While I'm still going to be sending him care packages and letters galore (as well as making contact with him over the internet) these will be in depth insights into what I may not be saying to him at first. This is not because I don't want him to know - but because I do not under any circumstances want to distract him from his work. It could be the worst thing I could ever do to him while he's over there. I write to him when I can't talk to him and to keep myself occupied when there are dull moments in my day or in my classes. It gives me something to do when I can't sleep. He and I even have a running list of things we want to do, songs we want to jam out to, and places we want to visit together. He even asks that specific thoughts I have be tagged in the journal for him to read more about later.

Writing journals is very classic method of recording one's thoughts, as well as giving others an insight into your life (sometimes without your knowing, but that's a risk!) It allows your future generations to have a link to the past as well as you to look back on the times yourself. I love the beauty and yet utter simplicity of using a pen and paper to save my thoughts for later. What are your thoughts?

Naming Characters - A Writing Rationale

I had this thought today, that I thought I might share with you. It's about naming characters - something that to some may seem mundane and pointless, but may mean the world to others. I want to give you my opinion on it because to me, naming characters well and with purpose can make or break your characters, and even your stories. I am always devastated by Plain Jane names or names used by an author that only come from one cultural element (Sorry, fellow anime lovers. You folks have to be some of the worst offenders. I would know - I was once one of you.) The act of naming your characters is an element in and of its own, as well as an art-form. Naming your character well and with good intention should be a goal of any aspiring author, and let me explain why with an example from one of my own pieces.

For example:
Damien Cain Foster. (From my story, "The Artemis Recovery.")

Damien. In my opinion, this is an impressive name. Damien is a popular name right now - inspired by TV Shows such as 'Vampire Diaries' (Character: Damon Salvatore), comic book characters such as DC Comic's Damian Wayne (Batman), and even movies such as The Omen (Character: Damien Thorn, the Antichrist).
The name Damien has it's own meaning: "to conquer, master, overcome, tame." (Source) Due to it's use with characters such as those from Vampire Diaries, and The Omen, it has it's own connotation. Just like regular words, names can have their own connotations. Not only does the name have it's own smooth and mysterious ring to it - the characters that have shared this name all have the same similar dark and mysterious characteristics, so to speak. The name itself can reveal or foreshadow what the character will become in the future of the story from the time he/she is revealed.

Cain. Likewise, the middle name can reveal a lot about a person's character. Cain can mean 'spear,' but Cain was most famously a biblical character, made legendary by his act of fatalistic jealousy against his brother, Abel. This allusion can be an immediate alert for your reader as to the nature and future of your character. So, it's a 'use wisely' element to your writing. I personally enjoy using middle names in my writing - not only because I love well formulated names but because they add a small (yet beautiful) detail to a person's writing. Names like Demetri Alexander (+Last Name) or Mara Alexandra Senth (The Artemis Recovery) can simply be eye-catching at the very least. At most, they can reveal a lot about your character.

Foster. Clan/Family names are a traditional and almost necessary detail to your character. It's almost natural to assume that if your character exists, they have some kind of family, and therefore some last name. The word itself (apart from it being a name) is defined thusly: "encourage or promote the development of (something, typically something regarded as good); bring up (a child that is not one's own by birth). "
The irony of this last name is that, of course, members of the Foster family were placed in foster care prior to the start of The Artemis Recovery's story. The contradiction in the name for Damien is that he is the furthest thing (or attempts to be) a sheltering, promotional, or outwardly good at the revelation of his initial character. An example of irony within the characters name. 

Damien Cain Foster. Therefore, put together the name kind-of comes together like this: The Conquerer/Master - Jealous Brother Killer - Promoter/Guardian. 
Contradictory on some levels, but yet, fitting for the nature of the character. For people who know their allusions - the middle name of Cain will give clues to the character's nature. For those who know their popular culture, the name Damien will have it's sultry and mysterious implications to it. Finally, for those who rely on the definition of names, Damien and Foster will reveal the more fixed elements to the character and allow the name to piece together through hard translation. Then again, for the readers who don't follow any of these elements, perhaps the name will just sound sexy or sophisticated - even a little dangerous - and will catch their mind's eye as they read. 

In summary, creating clever or detailed names for your characters can add a lot of elements to your writing. Names should never be just something  you come up with on the fly - if you wouldn't do it to your children (Tears shed for every child carelessly or cruelly named on this earth-) why do it for a labor of love like a character in your story (or even fan fiction)? Even if the latter is clearly more expendable than the former....
I hope that this article gave a little insight into the importance of naming your characters and into why I name my characters the way I do. Thank you for reading.

Oh Look! My Blog! (PLEASE READ)

It's been forever since I've been on this blog - most likely well over a year since I last checked in or posted anything. Negligence on my part, without a doubt. (I am, notably, really disappointed in myself for it.)

I have deleted all of the Artimis Paige (Now to be retitled 'The Artemis Recovery' or some such - undecided), because I have once again restarted the writing and planning process for the story. Also, I'm going to limit how much I post so that I don't run the risk of anyone stealing my work or publishers becoming uncomfortable how much of the story I've released beforehand.

I'm going to try to keep posting on here with updates and a few chapters here and there. I've changed the way I'm going to be writing the chapters, and so it may mean that I post the chapters in segments and chunks under the same chapter headings.For example: Chapter One, pt. 1; Chapter One, pt. 2...

I really hope I can build a following to the story and get feedback from you all. I'm going to ask a few people to read the story when I have a solid transcript developed, so I can revise and add to the story as people critique the process.

-Patricia M.

"Searching For Paradise"

Taking a note from a new friend, and trying to play with a more play-like storyline/writing style. So, here's a proposal for a story. Two music artists, different sides of a coin. Both of them are Caucasian, but one of them has gone all the way through school, worked the corporate line, and has diverted himself and gone into rap.  The other character is a girl who dropped out of high school in the hopes that she could make it without finishing either high school or college. The plot develops along these lines. Of course, the man is trying to escape the music industry now, in the hopes that he can find his 'Paradise' elsewhere. They cross paths as the female character of the story is looking to get a starter job at the music industry. He catches her on the way out after a disappointing interview, and they semi-hit it off. And it goes from there.

---note, old idea. I just found this in my drafts! Maybe I will go somewhere with this.

Sorry I've been gone for so long! School has been so busy.

Hello and Updates

Hi guys! Sorry it's been a while. I've been writing, but it's slow and I've been very involved with work, traveling with my family, and trying to finish school. But here are some updates, since I'm thinking about this blog.

If I've posted anything by the name of 'Serenity Nights' on here, and you happen to have read it - I'm sorry, but it's getting deleted because I'm rewriting it.

Explanation? Well, you see, Serenity Nights was actually the first story I wrote with the fae in it. What happened is that while I had set down Serenity Nights after middle school, I started the story Fae. When I did that, I decided that Fae would be the prequel to Serenity Nights. (Kinda like those Star Wars movies?) Anyways. So, Serenity Nights is officially under construction as I continue Fae and my other stories.

Second update: Guardian Angel will again be under way this summer as I have figured out some of the plot lines to go on in this story. Things are (hopefully) going to get exciting. But I'll let everyone know as things go. For those of you who have been reading these things as I've been writing, thank you so much. For new readers, PLEASE KEEP READING.

If you have a gmail account, all you have to do is add this to your google online profile, I think. It makes following me easy. And, once you join, you can leave comments and (for God's sake I know I need them) critiques. 

Update three. Since it's been a while since I did the set up on the page (I like to change it every so often to keep it fresh), I'm going to be doing it again soon. Just have to finish up with school first before I get on that - lest I end up in the public school roster next year... And in case you don't know, it's definitely not somewhere I ever want to be again. <3

Toodles for nao,
P. M.

Pardon Moi

If my posts are coming a little slow, I really do apologize. I've been writing so much, but a lot of it gets scrapped and redone and still doesn't make it to the blog in good enough time. And trust me, the writing for me, it's constant. In class, after class, before class, before bed, when I'm sitting on my butt at home, yaddayaddayadda. I have such a small (probably add) attention span that my dad put some kind of 'net nanny' on my laptop to keep me from browsing the internet freely. Of course, I found a way around it, but I still really need to try and focus more on school (yea, right).... At least I'll make it seem like it. I don't really like school. I'm a pretty free ranging soul. But I'll need an education somewhere along the line - best get it done with sooner than later, I'd imagine...

So, here's to a late post. More will be coming, I promise you.

(Am I talking to air?)

....
(Maybe.)

New Story

Going off the theme of 'being careful what you wish for,' I think I want to read a story that plays off the theme of vampires and a girl's dream of getting away from her life. Escapism, as my father called it so long ago. Everyone loves vampires, right? Well, a fair amount of people do now. And everyone just goes mushy!

But vampires are still killers. They're one of many human interpretations of humanizing what goes bump in the night. So why do people turn them into something, not just sexual, but good? Seriously --- the Cullens? No. They are vampires. They aren't goody goody. Even Stephanie Meyer's Volturi were still relatively clean cut. Okay, they were bloodthirsty asses. (Had to say it!) But they still weren't vampires in the classic sense. Classic being: bloodthirsty, cursed, light-sensitive and deadly.  Not to mention, evil. Yea, Evil.

Bleh. So I'm going to write something new. It'll probably be short. But it'll be. :)

Apologies, Again!

Sorry. I totally could have posted more Fae sooner, because that chapter and a few others are already written. Now, I'm still stuck on some others but for now it might be a while till they are complete. Sorry folks. Guardian Angel and Fae are at a slight stand-still. I know I also posted some Serenity Nights on here once. I think, anyways. I want to clarify that I scrapped that story for now in favor of Fae because I think Fae will be the predecessor. But anyways. I caught strep, somehow, and I'm just going to go to bed now. And listen to music, anyways. Too bad I can't watch movies on this retarded laptop of mine.... How annoying!

Hi Guys

Sorry about the hold up! I have a lot of stuff on my plate nowadays. I'm writing here and there, but things sure are getting complicated. Writing, however, remains one of my greatest passions. So, don't worry about me forgetting this place. :) It just goes a little more slowly than you'd expect.

Here We Go!

So, I've started the rewrite of Artimis Page once more! I'm on chapter three now, I think. So, I'm going to begin posting again on here, with those chapters. I'll also get on writing more of the other stuff. Ugh - It's hard juggling all this writing stuff with work and school. Waking up at 5:15 to get to college classes isn't much fun either, but I signed myself up for that. ((silly me...silly, dumb me....))

anyways... I'll get on posting them, okay?

lovyas

Another random entry

Hey, so sorry that I've been slow at posting things. School's been tough and my mom's been nagging me a lot to get stuff done.

My writing's been put on hold, because of school. I will, probably, write while I'm traveling to and from Georgia. I'm visiting my boyfriend who's been in Georgia for Basic training. Can't wait to see him -- to be quite honest it's been too long.  I've been doing a lot on Solia, but unfortunately, it's more or less easier for me to do that during the school day then for me to take an hour and write two chapters. I can write a lot in an hour, but it leaves me drained afterwards. All the ideas go 'poof' right out of me. >_<||

But I'm glad that I had the chance to write a few chapters in Guardian Angel before my time ran short. I'll post them today, and as time goes. I really would like comments, to whomever can do such things.

Another New One

Started another story; Don't know how long it's going to be, or if I'll bother to continue it. I don't know, really, because it's just the story concept that seems to have been nagging at me for a couple weeks now. A guardian/fallen angel style main character -- though the story starts out as I see myself in a few years if my dad really does go through with his threats.
(He threatens to emancipate me sometimes because I'm apparently the root of all evil when it comes to the problems with the kids in the house -- even though I don't do half the crap that they do. Oh well, I guess nine months of hell at a military school didn't prove to him just how damned commited I was to staying. I was smarter than most of the kids there -- If I had decided to leave, I would have been SO gone. But no. I stayed. I eventually got a boyfriend and it got easier, but my dad still seems bent on making me the scapegoat. Whatever.

Now to the story -- I don't have a name for it. I'm thinking I'm just going to title it Guardian, or Guardian Tales.  Don't know for sure. Tell me which ones you think will work, maybe?

School's in session now, but it's hard with all the college classes I'm taking -- my 15 year old head has trouble absorbing the massive amounts of information sometimes, you know? I'll work on getting more of my other stories up as well. I felt that I was doing pretty well with Fae.

In Need Of Inspiration/ The Real Thing.

I can seem to find inspiration for a possible song that I could use in chapter five. I'll post the chapter anyway, but would anyone have an idea for the song/poem? I would accept a poem if you're fine with me putting it in.....

Coying To Be Strange

----This is something that I wrote for extra credit in my English 9 Class last year. It might be hard to follow, but it's set somewhere in the empty space of the afterlife, where Romeo, Juliet, Tybalt, and Mercutio all gather to discuss who's fault it is that they're all dead. Both Tybalt and Mercutio are absolutely bewildered as to why, during the lover's affair, that they of all people should have ended up dead. Read below for more.

Write a Scene

Romeo: Intresting times. Do you think they've learned?

Juliet: Perhaps, but I think they're quarrel will be over us, instead.

Tybalt: And who's fault was whos.

Mercutio: Ho! And who's fault was it, then?

(All three look at Mercutio)

Mercutio: For it was both the lady's and the gent's fault, was it not?

Romeo: What do you mean, friend?

Tybalt: True, it was your compulsive heart, wasn't it!

Juliet: Nay, this could not be all our fault!

Romeo: I do protest these accusations fully.

Mercutio: You both are fools.

Tybalt: (creeping closer to Mercutio) *whispers* Sorry again, for the square's quarrel.

Romeo: And I apologized at your grave! (Romeo points at Tybalt)

Juliet: The things lovers quarrel over.

Tybalt: Cos, keep your mouth shut in the matter.

Juliet: I will not!

Romeo: We're all the more foolish for quarelling. We're all dead, nothing
will change for it.

Mercutio: And who's fault is it that both of  US (*gestures to Tybalt and
himself* ) are dead, then? I don't remember such a lover's bond!

Tybalt: I point, I say, he does yet have.

Juliet: Tybalt, you're coying to be strange.

Romeo: And roses are still roses.

Mercutio: And so dead we'll stay!

(All three fade away)