So, isn't it great that we two are free?
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
Wednesday, January 1, 2014
In a small way, I feel like I am not the same as the rest of the people here. My biggest OTP is my own.
I have to wonder if other people feel this way. Does J.K. Rowling ship Harry and Ginny, or Hermione and Ron? Does Suzanne Collins ship Peeta an Katniss?
You should all look forward to a lot of cute moments, but at the same time it will be so hard to understand. So many of my characters are complex and diverse, I don’t know how I ever came up with them. I daresay that a few have taken on lives of their own, completely independent of what I try to make them.
That’s the thing about me. I don’t think up stories, ideas of some shadowy figure going on a while adventure, their face only filled in later. I think of people, faces, names, sometimes just a single word that can define them. There are worlds within my head, and yet… they would be nothing without the people that populate them.
I feel so sad when one of them has to go. Sometimes they never arrive in the first place, because there is no room for them in the story. But Bealon and Vanessa are still very much alive in my head, despite how they have been cut from their tales. I know that not everyone can be, but still.
It’s even worse when I have to let them go, when someone it comes to be that Dellie, or Violet, or Chess, must die in order for the world to be saved, or because it is the only way to make others realize their stupidity and the true importance of the people around them.
Sometimes people ask me (close friends, the ones who hear my rants) why I don’t just change the characters, or the story. If the death makes me so sad, them why must it take place? If you hate this character so much, them why not make them more agreeable? Why is that so hard to answer? Why can I not put into words the way that, one the story has been found, it can never be forgotten?
It is so hard to understand things. Addiction is one, though I’m a bit better at knowing about that now that I have found the internet. I suppose your own self is another, and perhaps the largest. As a teenager, I find myself doing and saying things, becoming things, that I have never known before. My brain does not make sense to me, and though I have heard that it is impossible to multitask, I find myself thinking of doing two different things in the same instant. Sometimes words come to me, their source unknown, clouded. I consider that the moment when my characters come to life. I never have to think of what Trixie will say, and for Emily it is hardly a struggle. But for others, I am forced to sit and muse over the next sentence, the next word. For those who know me, I find that with Crow. I want him to be perfect, and yet I know that he cannot be the perfect husband. He must have flaws, because we all have flaws.
Some things come easily, and some do not. It has always been my hope to actually finish my first, and greatest (Not to mention most complicated) story, but I cannot. I am not yet great, and I still have ever so much to learn. But for now, I can fill my time with plotting for the greater days, and with the smaller, an simpler tasks.
…oOo…
I hope you have enjoyed the Beautiful Randomness (I must remember to trademark that) above.
(This was originally posted on Tumbler so yeah.)
I have to wonder if other people feel this way. Does J.K. Rowling ship Harry and Ginny, or Hermione and Ron? Does Suzanne Collins ship Peeta an Katniss?
You should all look forward to a lot of cute moments, but at the same time it will be so hard to understand. So many of my characters are complex and diverse, I don’t know how I ever came up with them. I daresay that a few have taken on lives of their own, completely independent of what I try to make them.
That’s the thing about me. I don’t think up stories, ideas of some shadowy figure going on a while adventure, their face only filled in later. I think of people, faces, names, sometimes just a single word that can define them. There are worlds within my head, and yet… they would be nothing without the people that populate them.
I feel so sad when one of them has to go. Sometimes they never arrive in the first place, because there is no room for them in the story. But Bealon and Vanessa are still very much alive in my head, despite how they have been cut from their tales. I know that not everyone can be, but still.
It’s even worse when I have to let them go, when someone it comes to be that Dellie, or Violet, or Chess, must die in order for the world to be saved, or because it is the only way to make others realize their stupidity and the true importance of the people around them.
Sometimes people ask me (close friends, the ones who hear my rants) why I don’t just change the characters, or the story. If the death makes me so sad, them why must it take place? If you hate this character so much, them why not make them more agreeable? Why is that so hard to answer? Why can I not put into words the way that, one the story has been found, it can never be forgotten?
It is so hard to understand things. Addiction is one, though I’m a bit better at knowing about that now that I have found the internet. I suppose your own self is another, and perhaps the largest. As a teenager, I find myself doing and saying things, becoming things, that I have never known before. My brain does not make sense to me, and though I have heard that it is impossible to multitask, I find myself thinking of doing two different things in the same instant. Sometimes words come to me, their source unknown, clouded. I consider that the moment when my characters come to life. I never have to think of what Trixie will say, and for Emily it is hardly a struggle. But for others, I am forced to sit and muse over the next sentence, the next word. For those who know me, I find that with Crow. I want him to be perfect, and yet I know that he cannot be the perfect husband. He must have flaws, because we all have flaws.
Some things come easily, and some do not. It has always been my hope to actually finish my first, and greatest (Not to mention most complicated) story, but I cannot. I am not yet great, and I still have ever so much to learn. But for now, I can fill my time with plotting for the greater days, and with the smaller, an simpler tasks.
…oOo…
I hope you have enjoyed the Beautiful Randomness (I must remember to trademark that) above.
(This was originally posted on Tumbler so yeah.)
Monday, December 2, 2013
Stitches synopsis
So, the continuation of the last post doth begin...
Ally and Stitch found themselves within the vampires' home, where they met Drake, the serious one; Bella, the small one; Jonathan, the old boyfriend; Jessica, the snotty used to be popular one; and of course Seamus, the baby vampire. Together they form the New York coven of vampires, and they are an interestin group indeed.
Stitch explains to them the circumstances, and that their old friend Iris has been resurrected in this new form. After two fight scenes, a lot of running, and a lot of disappointment when they meet the vampires leader, Ally and Stitch escape and head for home.
Next comes the werewolves. In this new group we are introduced to Jess's brother and her mother, an old woman called Merrill, and the tribe's witch doctor (Basically) a woman called Topaz. (Her brother had a name, but my mind. It is not working.) This interaction is a little more interesting, because Topaz has done work in the feild that the impossibility that is Stitch falls into, and she takes particular intrest in the details. Also, Jess can talk through the shared body, which brings a lot of sadness, as well as a great deal of hope. After telling her family the situation, Topaz takes Stitch to see her, or Jess's, sister. They watch the girl for just a moment, while Topaz informs Stitch that saving the world is now a top priority, because Jess was not the only on killed.
Not sure whether to be sad or happy, Stitch an Ally go home once again, before heading to their final destination; the home of the gargoyles. Here, the destruction is even more obvious. The girls find one of Lyn's old friends, lying shattered in the street.
Gathering the monsters that are now their friends, Stitch leads an expedition up the mountain, at the top of which the shards, and the murderer of all those monsters, is waiting. The trip up is long and tedious, with trials specifically built for each member of the crew, which includes; Stitch, Ally, Jessica, Drake, Bella, Merrill, Tiffany (A zombie they met in Lyn's town), and Angie (Jess's sister from eairlier).
Eventually, when only Stitch, Ally, and Jessica are left, they make it to the top where they find...
WAIT A SECOND! I'm not giving away the climax just yet! Wait for the five years it will take for me to get the book published or become a beta reader to find out! (By the way, the guy at the top of the mountain isn't the real villain. He was put up to it.)
Ally and Stitch found themselves within the vampires' home, where they met Drake, the serious one; Bella, the small one; Jonathan, the old boyfriend; Jessica, the snotty used to be popular one; and of course Seamus, the baby vampire. Together they form the New York coven of vampires, and they are an interestin group indeed.
Stitch explains to them the circumstances, and that their old friend Iris has been resurrected in this new form. After two fight scenes, a lot of running, and a lot of disappointment when they meet the vampires leader, Ally and Stitch escape and head for home.
Next comes the werewolves. In this new group we are introduced to Jess's brother and her mother, an old woman called Merrill, and the tribe's witch doctor (Basically) a woman called Topaz. (Her brother had a name, but my mind. It is not working.) This interaction is a little more interesting, because Topaz has done work in the feild that the impossibility that is Stitch falls into, and she takes particular intrest in the details. Also, Jess can talk through the shared body, which brings a lot of sadness, as well as a great deal of hope. After telling her family the situation, Topaz takes Stitch to see her, or Jess's, sister. They watch the girl for just a moment, while Topaz informs Stitch that saving the world is now a top priority, because Jess was not the only on killed.
Not sure whether to be sad or happy, Stitch an Ally go home once again, before heading to their final destination; the home of the gargoyles. Here, the destruction is even more obvious. The girls find one of Lyn's old friends, lying shattered in the street.
Gathering the monsters that are now their friends, Stitch leads an expedition up the mountain, at the top of which the shards, and the murderer of all those monsters, is waiting. The trip up is long and tedious, with trials specifically built for each member of the crew, which includes; Stitch, Ally, Jessica, Drake, Bella, Merrill, Tiffany (A zombie they met in Lyn's town), and Angie (Jess's sister from eairlier).
Eventually, when only Stitch, Ally, and Jessica are left, they make it to the top where they find...
WAIT A SECOND! I'm not giving away the climax just yet! Wait for the five years it will take for me to get the book published or become a beta reader to find out! (By the way, the guy at the top of the mountain isn't the real villain. He was put up to it.)
Thursday, November 28, 2013
Stitches
Hey, you thought I was done? I haven't even told you about Stitches yet!
Silly invisible people. You so stupid.
So. Here's a brief summary:
Stacy wakes up, electricity racing through her body. Only it isn't her body, not anymore. She opens her eyes, mismatched of course, to see a scarecrow.
The bag of burlap and straw introduces herself as BirchTree Calloway before promptly running off to find the witch that made out heroine. Stacy looks over her new body, and whta a body it is.
Gray gargoyle skin, basically shock absorbing stone, covers every joint. Her face is a wild mash of vampire, werewolf, gargoyle, mermaid, and human, and for some reason she can't get the voices that have wormed their way into her head to shut up.
Just as she's realizing that those voices might be there to stay, the dungeon door bangs open. Enter Mirana, witch with certain skills in the way of life. Oh, and making freaky Frankenstein's monster style girls out of several different species. Mirana explains to our favorite Franken-girl (Fine, my favorite) that the five people who made her up died through some unusual circumstances. Except for the human. She just got hit by a car. Birch volunteers the idea for this girl's new name, and she suddenly becomes Stitch, which is mildly annoying.
The next few weeks, she trains. Soon Stitch discovers that she can breath underwater, fall from above New York's skyline without a parachute and live, smell a steak from down the hall, hear things other people can't, (Yeah, that includes those voices) and a lot of other epic stuff. Her toes are three inches too long, she can't show her face without a few screams, and she talks to herself quite often.
After Stitch finally accepts that her friends are there to stay, they introduce themselves as Jess and Lyn. Jess the Snarky werewolf, and Lyn the very extremely nice gargoyle.
A few things of note happen during her time at the mansion. Stitch meets the other members of Mirana's coven, and one witch named Silver makes a particular impression on her. Then, she finds a copy of the paper, and her world begins to come crashing down.
Donning a very comvering black hat, Stitch sneaked away, hopping through a portal on the way to her own funeral. As they burried Stacy's coffin, which she knew was empty, she heard a shout.
Her friend Alyssa came up to her, angry and confused, because this was a private funeral, and therefore this strange girl in the old hat should not have been attending. Ally really did not care how suspicious her friends death was, any reporters had better buzz off.
She shouldn't have taken that hat off, but it happened. The black lace tumbled to the ground as Ally stared at the monster before her, terrified.
That was right about when Stitch ran.
So, eventually Ally found her way to Mirana's mansion, and that started a long argument, which was eventually lost by Stitch when the girls found themselves in the home of the vampires.
Yeah, I'll continue this tommorrow cause It's too long and it's Thanksgiving and my family is arriving.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING BY THE WAY!!!!
Silly invisible people. You so stupid.
So. Here's a brief summary:
Stacy wakes up, electricity racing through her body. Only it isn't her body, not anymore. She opens her eyes, mismatched of course, to see a scarecrow.
The bag of burlap and straw introduces herself as BirchTree Calloway before promptly running off to find the witch that made out heroine. Stacy looks over her new body, and whta a body it is.
Gray gargoyle skin, basically shock absorbing stone, covers every joint. Her face is a wild mash of vampire, werewolf, gargoyle, mermaid, and human, and for some reason she can't get the voices that have wormed their way into her head to shut up.
Just as she's realizing that those voices might be there to stay, the dungeon door bangs open. Enter Mirana, witch with certain skills in the way of life. Oh, and making freaky Frankenstein's monster style girls out of several different species. Mirana explains to our favorite Franken-girl (Fine, my favorite) that the five people who made her up died through some unusual circumstances. Except for the human. She just got hit by a car. Birch volunteers the idea for this girl's new name, and she suddenly becomes Stitch, which is mildly annoying.
The next few weeks, she trains. Soon Stitch discovers that she can breath underwater, fall from above New York's skyline without a parachute and live, smell a steak from down the hall, hear things other people can't, (Yeah, that includes those voices) and a lot of other epic stuff. Her toes are three inches too long, she can't show her face without a few screams, and she talks to herself quite often.
After Stitch finally accepts that her friends are there to stay, they introduce themselves as Jess and Lyn. Jess the Snarky werewolf, and Lyn the very extremely nice gargoyle.
A few things of note happen during her time at the mansion. Stitch meets the other members of Mirana's coven, and one witch named Silver makes a particular impression on her. Then, she finds a copy of the paper, and her world begins to come crashing down.
Donning a very comvering black hat, Stitch sneaked away, hopping through a portal on the way to her own funeral. As they burried Stacy's coffin, which she knew was empty, she heard a shout.
Her friend Alyssa came up to her, angry and confused, because this was a private funeral, and therefore this strange girl in the old hat should not have been attending. Ally really did not care how suspicious her friends death was, any reporters had better buzz off.
She shouldn't have taken that hat off, but it happened. The black lace tumbled to the ground as Ally stared at the monster before her, terrified.
That was right about when Stitch ran.
So, eventually Ally found her way to Mirana's mansion, and that started a long argument, which was eventually lost by Stitch when the girls found themselves in the home of the vampires.
Yeah, I'll continue this tommorrow cause It's too long and it's Thanksgiving and my family is arriving.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING BY THE WAY!!!!
NaNoWriMo
I FINISHED. NOT EVEN KIDDING
I think I've gone in to shock. I wrote 50,000 words in a month. I wrote a book, in a month.
So yep, that loud noise you heard a while ago was my brain exploding.
So, in other news, tis time to span you with some lovely picture.
So, this one is actually related to previous topic. This is Angie, Jess's kid sister.She's the first one to die and the second to get resurrected. (Besides, of course, Stitch and all who make her up)
So, if the other one was from Stitches, this one is not. (That didn't make sense, ignore it) This is (from left to right) Crow, Emily, Zane, and Rose. From Endron, here's the crew in Halloween costumes because YANA.
I think I've gone in to shock. I wrote 50,000 words in a month. I wrote a book, in a month.
So yep, that loud noise you heard a while ago was my brain exploding.
So, in other news, tis time to span you with some lovely picture.
So, this one is actually related to previous topic. This is Angie, Jess's kid sister.She's the first one to die and the second to get resurrected. (Besides, of course, Stitch and all who make her up)
Oh, and this is Stitch. I may have posted this before but whatever. I'm still not happy with how the mermaid eye turned out, but it is still a pretty epic picture regardless.
So yep. That has been my life lately. I've probabally watched more youtube videas this month than any other time of the year, and I could spam you with those too, but I'm afraid I'm too lazy to look them all my dear invisible followers.
Endron out.
Saturday, October 5, 2013
CWC Plot
But first, this:
I hope I have given you lols. Go read it, it's awesome! http://dragongirlhellfire.deviantart.com/gallery/31624694
So, plot. Some people prefer not to plot out their stories, but come anyways! Once your story is finished, you want to know the elements of a good plot so you can see where you succeeded and where you failed.
Two tips on plot, from http://blog.janicehardy.com/2012/05/best-advice-on-plotting-ive-ever-heard.html
are to focus on Cause and Effect.
"When writing out your plot, think in terms of but and therefore. When you’re writing, don’t worry about if a section is a scene or sequel. Think cause and effect, sentence-by-sentence, action to reaction, scene to scene, and you’ll never go wrong." This tip is a lot like the other one, and is just as helpful.
so, basically I am now just going to list websites and tips. I promise this will make actual sense at the lesson... probably.
This related to plot and character: What is your main characters heart's desire? The plot should stem around this desire. Heart's desires can change, but they cannot be instantly rewritten. If your character really wants a dog, then they will not just walk past free puppies. But if they get a dog and realize how much work they take, your character may change their minds.
http://writerswrite.co.za/the-top-10-tips-for-plotting-and-finishing-a-book
This website has a few good tips, but I don't like all of them (So I'll leave them out)
1. Write the ending first. It may change in the future, but it's good to have at least a general idea of where you're ending. You don't have to plot before you start your story, but it can be helpful.
2. Choose your antagonist first. This may not apply in all cases. Most of my stories have started out as a character. But you need to develop your villain just as much as you develop your hero. We don't have to like their goals, but we should be fascinated by them, or at least interested.
3. Decide on a genre and stick to it. Don't change from fantasy to romance!! You can have romance elements in a fantasy story, or fantasy elements, but don't start one way and then snap into another. No one will love you and I for one will be thoroughly disappointed. (This happened to me once. No wonder the book was free...)
4. Be disciplined with settings. Do not introduce a brand new setting towards the end of the book. Try to keep to a small number of areas, and if your characters stay in a place for more than a night or if that place has significance in either the plot or their lives, do development behind the scenes that is not necessarily included in the story. Try to stick to around five major settings.
5. Don't include to many characters. You can have a large cast, but most of that cast should function off camera and behind the scenes. They may appear for a few moments, but the main characters of your story should be a small and elite group. Don't use my stories as an example, for example! I have way too many characters, and not only is it hard to keep track of them all, it's hard to give each character the time they need, so many of them can become sorely underdeveloped, while characters who have almost no appearances have tons of development. (This can though, in my opinion, be a good thing. trixie doesn't show up too much, yet when she does the effects are... large, to say the least. And even though you never really know her whole story, you can tell that its there.) If you are going to have multiple points of view, don't have any more than three. It kills all sense of understanding if you have more than that. And I could go on with just this all day, so I'll stop before this gets any longer.
6. Just write the end. It doesn't matter that there's loose ends. Once you end your story, you can go back and look at everything as a whole. But before you even scroll to the top, close your microsoft word program or notebook and don't look at them again for at least two weeks. I've tried it both ways, and if you can force yourself to just leave it alone, completly and totally, you will be much the better for it.
And now I am finally going to shut up. See what happens when I actually prepare?
Br
I hope I have given you lols. Go read it, it's awesome! http://dragongirlhellfire.deviantart.com/gallery/31624694So, plot. Some people prefer not to plot out their stories, but come anyways! Once your story is finished, you want to know the elements of a good plot so you can see where you succeeded and where you failed.
Two tips on plot, from http://blog.janicehardy.com/2012/05/best-advice-on-plotting-ive-ever-heard.html
are to focus on Cause and Effect.
"When writing out your plot, think in terms of but and therefore. When you’re writing, don’t worry about if a section is a scene or sequel. Think cause and effect, sentence-by-sentence, action to reaction, scene to scene, and you’ll never go wrong." This tip is a lot like the other one, and is just as helpful.
so, basically I am now just going to list websites and tips. I promise this will make actual sense at the lesson... probably.
This related to plot and character: What is your main characters heart's desire? The plot should stem around this desire. Heart's desires can change, but they cannot be instantly rewritten. If your character really wants a dog, then they will not just walk past free puppies. But if they get a dog and realize how much work they take, your character may change their minds.
http://writerswrite.co.za/the-top-10-tips-for-plotting-and-finishing-a-book
This website has a few good tips, but I don't like all of them (So I'll leave them out)
1. Write the ending first. It may change in the future, but it's good to have at least a general idea of where you're ending. You don't have to plot before you start your story, but it can be helpful.
2. Choose your antagonist first. This may not apply in all cases. Most of my stories have started out as a character. But you need to develop your villain just as much as you develop your hero. We don't have to like their goals, but we should be fascinated by them, or at least interested.
3. Decide on a genre and stick to it. Don't change from fantasy to romance!! You can have romance elements in a fantasy story, or fantasy elements, but don't start one way and then snap into another. No one will love you and I for one will be thoroughly disappointed. (This happened to me once. No wonder the book was free...)
4. Be disciplined with settings. Do not introduce a brand new setting towards the end of the book. Try to keep to a small number of areas, and if your characters stay in a place for more than a night or if that place has significance in either the plot or their lives, do development behind the scenes that is not necessarily included in the story. Try to stick to around five major settings.
5. Don't include to many characters. You can have a large cast, but most of that cast should function off camera and behind the scenes. They may appear for a few moments, but the main characters of your story should be a small and elite group. Don't use my stories as an example, for example! I have way too many characters, and not only is it hard to keep track of them all, it's hard to give each character the time they need, so many of them can become sorely underdeveloped, while characters who have almost no appearances have tons of development. (This can though, in my opinion, be a good thing. trixie doesn't show up too much, yet when she does the effects are... large, to say the least. And even though you never really know her whole story, you can tell that its there.) If you are going to have multiple points of view, don't have any more than three. It kills all sense of understanding if you have more than that. And I could go on with just this all day, so I'll stop before this gets any longer.
6. Just write the end. It doesn't matter that there's loose ends. Once you end your story, you can go back and look at everything as a whole. But before you even scroll to the top, close your microsoft word program or notebook and don't look at them again for at least two weeks. I've tried it both ways, and if you can force yourself to just leave it alone, completly and totally, you will be much the better for it.
And now I am finally going to shut up. See what happens when I actually prepare?
Br
Saturday, September 21, 2013
Super(ior) Hearts
So, go look to the other pages for fun and random fan-fics. If you read, I promise a future with violence, character development, several meltdowns, romance, and devils. (BWAHAHA!!)
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