The contest ends tonight! I'd love to get a lot more entries because I know there are some spectacular writers out there. ;) Good luck, and may the odds be ever in your favor. ;)
(Sorry, couldn't resist. xD)
July 25, 2012
July 17, 2012
My Birthday
So yesterday was my birthday. :) It was a fairly nice day. I got an iTunes card in the mail from my aunt, uncle, and three cousins, so I got a lot of Taylor Swift music with that, haha. My grandparents gave me two seasons of The Cosby Show. My parents gave me a personal pie maker, a Miche bag with my first shell to go with it (and the shell looks similar to the Burberry print :D), and ____ presidential dollars with ____ things they love about me (the blanks are where my age goes, but I'm not sharing that over the Internet).
I bought my new laptop yesterday, too. My mom had to work in the afternoon, but I got to spend time with her in the morning, and she made a yummy dinner (a dish called tuxedo pasta; it's chicken with bowtie pasta and various veggies). I got to FaceTime with Kate for at least an hour.
Just a couple of downers.
1) No kitten. (I was still clinging to that hope, lol.)
More that I can't remember...
It wasn't my best birthday ever, but it was pretty nice. :)
I bought my new laptop yesterday, too. My mom had to work in the afternoon, but I got to spend time with her in the morning, and she made a yummy dinner (a dish called tuxedo pasta; it's chicken with bowtie pasta and various veggies). I got to FaceTime with Kate for at least an hour.
Just a couple of downers.
1) No kitten. (I was still clinging to that hope, lol.)
More that I can't remember...
It wasn't my best birthday ever, but it was pretty nice. :)
July 11, 2012
A Writing Contest
Bored Emma=ideas for a contest! I'm going to host a writing contest on here. :) I can't promise any really good prizes [like an iPad or something] (first place will get their story posted on here, and a critique and editing of their story by me; second place will get a critique and editing of their story by me; and third place will get a critique of their story by me), but I think it'll be fun. You will e-mail the stories to MDBCnumber1fan@gmail.com . Hopefully, that e-mail will work (make sure you're typing it in correctly). If it doesn't seem to be working, I'll change the e-mail address.
The guidelines for the contest!
1. It must be an original short story (as for length, think Envy Green and so forth as the max ;)).
2. Your main character must be human.
3. Your plotline should revolve around a celebration of something (the something is up to you, and what you do with the plot is also up to you).
4. Genre is up to you, but I would prefer no sci-fi since that's not my forte, and I just won't be able to get into it. ;) Historical fiction, fantasy, contemporary fiction, post-apocalypic, etc.
5. Please double-space the story and use size 12 font (this is just for ease of reading).
6. All stories must be submitted by July 25th, 11 PM ET (10 PM CT, 9 PM MT, and 8 PM PT).
I can't wait to read these masterpieces! If you have any questions, feel free to ask in the comments. ;) Let me know when you send your story in, so I can check to see if it sent.
The guidelines for the contest!
1. It must be an original short story (as for length, think Envy Green and so forth as the max ;)).
2. Your main character must be human.
3. Your plotline should revolve around a celebration of something (the something is up to you, and what you do with the plot is also up to you).
4. Genre is up to you, but I would prefer no sci-fi since that's not my forte, and I just won't be able to get into it. ;) Historical fiction, fantasy, contemporary fiction, post-apocalypic, etc.
5. Please double-space the story and use size 12 font (this is just for ease of reading).
6. All stories must be submitted by July 25th, 11 PM ET (10 PM CT, 9 PM MT, and 8 PM PT).
I can't wait to read these masterpieces! If you have any questions, feel free to ask in the comments. ;) Let me know when you send your story in, so I can check to see if it sent.
July 7, 2012
Hi Seana!
So one of my lovely followers, Seana, tagged me for an award she won. I now have to answer ten questions. Oh, boy....
1) If you could enter the world of your favorite book, which book would you pick? Just...one? :( I think it would be fun to be a warrior cat in Warriors, one of the girls in the book club of The Mother-Daughter Book Club, or ride horses in Canterwood Crest.
2) If I told you there was a rampaging unicorn coming your way, what would you do? Probably use the Minotaur-avoiding technique Sally Jackson taught Percy: jump out of the way at the last second.
3) What do you do for fun? Practically everything but schoolwork. I write for fun, hang out with friends for fun, help in the church nursery for fun (plus, I couldn't stop now because the kids we have are sweet and adorable).
4) Who do you consider to be your role model? My mom, Taylor Swift, and Madeleine McAulay (Google Madeleine if you haven't heard of her yet).
5) What is your favorite mythical creature? Naids and dryads are really cool.
6) Do you have a favorite place where you like to read, write, or do whatever it is you do? My room, mostly. There's this little window on the landing of the stairs going up to my room, and it could be a nice place to read and write, but the carpet there is rough, and there's no place really to lean...
7) Do you enjoy cooking, or is it a disaster zone when you cook? Oh, I love to bake and cook! I'm not terrific at it, but it is fun.
8) What is the most frightening dream you've had? Well, it's probably kind of silly now, but I recently had a dream where my mom was kidnapped, I was being stalked, and my friends and I were basically running for our lives/
9) If you just had one day to live, what would you do? I did a blog post on this. Here's the link to it: http://bookworm716.blogspot.com/2012/05/your-last-day.html
10) I'd wager you're sick of answering these questions by now. What would you rather be doing? Writing (if I could get the ideas to flow...), hanging out with friends, or talking with a certain someone...
There, done. :)
1) If you could enter the world of your favorite book, which book would you pick? Just...one? :( I think it would be fun to be a warrior cat in Warriors, one of the girls in the book club of The Mother-Daughter Book Club, or ride horses in Canterwood Crest.
2) If I told you there was a rampaging unicorn coming your way, what would you do? Probably use the Minotaur-avoiding technique Sally Jackson taught Percy: jump out of the way at the last second.
3) What do you do for fun? Practically everything but schoolwork. I write for fun, hang out with friends for fun, help in the church nursery for fun (plus, I couldn't stop now because the kids we have are sweet and adorable).
4) Who do you consider to be your role model? My mom, Taylor Swift, and Madeleine McAulay (Google Madeleine if you haven't heard of her yet).
5) What is your favorite mythical creature? Naids and dryads are really cool.
6) Do you have a favorite place where you like to read, write, or do whatever it is you do? My room, mostly. There's this little window on the landing of the stairs going up to my room, and it could be a nice place to read and write, but the carpet there is rough, and there's no place really to lean...
7) Do you enjoy cooking, or is it a disaster zone when you cook? Oh, I love to bake and cook! I'm not terrific at it, but it is fun.
8) What is the most frightening dream you've had? Well, it's probably kind of silly now, but I recently had a dream where my mom was kidnapped, I was being stalked, and my friends and I were basically running for our lives/
9) If you just had one day to live, what would you do? I did a blog post on this. Here's the link to it: http://bookworm716.blogspot.com/2012/05/your-last-day.html
10) I'd wager you're sick of answering these questions by now. What would you rather be doing? Writing (if I could get the ideas to flow...), hanging out with friends, or talking with a certain someone...
There, done. :)
July 5, 2012
So it's my first post of July! :) I hope everyone had a happy Fourth. We mostly did stuff at home, and we didn't go see the fireworks, but I could kind of see them from one of my upstairs windows.
In just eleven days, it'll be my birthday. I'm not too excited at the moment because one of my best friends will be in Michigan (we're delaying my b-day party because I want her to be there), and my mom has to work, so I'll be home alone. :P And there's only a couple people I'd like to spend the day with...none of whom are available. Thus ruins a pretty big milestone birthday. Oh, well. At least I know I'm getting a personal pie maker (we got it up in Kenosha a couple weeks ago, and my parents said we'd save it for my birthday).
In just eleven days, it'll be my birthday. I'm not too excited at the moment because one of my best friends will be in Michigan (we're delaying my b-day party because I want her to be there), and my mom has to work, so I'll be home alone. :P And there's only a couple people I'd like to spend the day with...none of whom are available. Thus ruins a pretty big milestone birthday. Oh, well. At least I know I'm getting a personal pie maker (we got it up in Kenosha a couple weeks ago, and my parents said we'd save it for my birthday).
June 30, 2012
Writing Projects
I believe I've
been told a couple times that, in my writing, I bite off more than I can chew which means
I have too many different stories going on at once. So, let me count to see if
this is true. I'm going to classify my stories under three categories: Actively
Working On (been written in in the last two weeks or so), Dormant (hasn't been
worked on in over a month, and I'm completely dead on ideas, how to continue the
plot, etc.), and Finished (all books I've finished
writing).
Actively Working On
Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder
Diary of a Homeschooler-Cassie
New Hope (a Warriors fanfiction)
Poisoned
Secrets of the Forum
The List
What If
Dormant
A Stranger
Blissful Yellow
Diary of a Homeschooler-Jocelyn
MDBC: Princesses-in-Training
Waves of Grain
Finished
Blue Despair
Bright Curiosity
Choix
Embrouille
Envy Green
Frustrated Gray (finished writing, but I need to finish typing it up)
La Derniere Bataille
Love Red
Masked
MDBC: Second Time's a Charm
Night Black & Snow White
Sixteen (although this is continuely a work-in-progress because I occasionally think of a new chapter to add)
Yup, I think that's all of them. So, what do you think? Too many active projects? Too many dormant projects? There's a couple stories I think I should just kill because the only "writing" I've done in the last few months is editing here and there. Those stories are under the dormant category. Other dormant ones just don't have my focus at the moment (MDBC and Blissful Yellow). I sort of started DoaH: Jocelyn, but I'm waiting to continue it until I finish with Cassie. How many writing projects do y'all have going at the moment?
Actively Working On
Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder
Diary of a Homeschooler-Cassie
New Hope (a Warriors fanfiction)
Poisoned
Secrets of the Forum
The List
What If
Dormant
A Stranger
Blissful Yellow
Diary of a Homeschooler-Jocelyn
MDBC: Princesses-in-Training
Waves of Grain
Finished
Blue Despair
Bright Curiosity
Choix
Embrouille
Envy Green
Frustrated Gray (finished writing, but I need to finish typing it up)
La Derniere Bataille
Love Red
Masked
MDBC: Second Time's a Charm
Night Black & Snow White
Sixteen (although this is continuely a work-in-progress because I occasionally think of a new chapter to add)
Yup, I think that's all of them. So, what do you think? Too many active projects? Too many dormant projects? There's a couple stories I think I should just kill because the only "writing" I've done in the last few months is editing here and there. Those stories are under the dormant category. Other dormant ones just don't have my focus at the moment (MDBC and Blissful Yellow). I sort of started DoaH: Jocelyn, but I'm waiting to continue it until I finish with Cassie. How many writing projects do y'all have going at the moment?
June 17, 2012
Bonfire
So I went to a bonfire the other night at a guy-friend's from my co-op. I knew most of the people there, and Kate and I mostly hung out with the girls we know.
Anyways, one of the girls who I semi-know stole one of the guys's guitars and started playing, haha. Since we were kind of talking and yet just kind of sitting around, I pulled out my notebook and did a word train (I wrote down one-word things I saw, and words that popped into my mind) and then I wrote a story in half an hour. Want to read it? :) Here it is.
Memories. They're in our minds but also in our hearts. But right now a memory is in my hands. I look down at the guitar and wonder why I sense a memory behind it.
"You gonna buy that, kid?" says a gruff voice behind me.
I spin around. The pawn shop owner is standing there, his hands on his hips. He doesn't look happy to see me handling the instrument.
"Um...maybe," I reply. "How much is it?"
The guy tells me. My jaw drops. I finger the credit card in my pocket. Only for emergencies, my mom said. Well I think this classifies as an emergency, so I pull it out.
"Charge it," I tell the guy firmly.
He eyes the credit card warily and takes it from me. We walk over to the cash register, and he goes through the process of ringing me up.
Of course the credit card goes through. I stare at the guitar in my hands.
"It's all yours," he grunts.
I thank him and slowly walk out of the pawn shop. Now I have to figure out why this guitar felt so special to me...
~*~
It's late. I should be asleep because I have school tomorrow. But this guitar keeps calling to me; it won't let me sleep just yet.
What do you want with me? I silently ask the guitar.
I close my eyes and try to explore my memories. Why is this musical instrument so important?
Then a memory hits me. My deceased dad. A song..."My Girl" by the Temptations. A guitar.
My eyes flicker open and are now glued to the memory in my hands. This is my dad's old guitar. I remember now. When my dad died, my mom sold it.
I begin strumming the guitar. Don't ask me how I know to play. I just...do. And I'm playing the song my dad does in the memory.
Anyways, one of the girls who I semi-know stole one of the guys's guitars and started playing, haha. Since we were kind of talking and yet just kind of sitting around, I pulled out my notebook and did a word train (I wrote down one-word things I saw, and words that popped into my mind) and then I wrote a story in half an hour. Want to read it? :) Here it is.
The Guitar
"You gonna buy that, kid?" says a gruff voice behind me.
I spin around. The pawn shop owner is standing there, his hands on his hips. He doesn't look happy to see me handling the instrument.
"Um...maybe," I reply. "How much is it?"
The guy tells me. My jaw drops. I finger the credit card in my pocket. Only for emergencies, my mom said. Well I think this classifies as an emergency, so I pull it out.
"Charge it," I tell the guy firmly.
He eyes the credit card warily and takes it from me. We walk over to the cash register, and he goes through the process of ringing me up.
Of course the credit card goes through. I stare at the guitar in my hands.
"It's all yours," he grunts.
I thank him and slowly walk out of the pawn shop. Now I have to figure out why this guitar felt so special to me...
~*~
It's late. I should be asleep because I have school tomorrow. But this guitar keeps calling to me; it won't let me sleep just yet.
What do you want with me? I silently ask the guitar.
I close my eyes and try to explore my memories. Why is this musical instrument so important?
Then a memory hits me. My deceased dad. A song..."My Girl" by the Temptations. A guitar.
My eyes flicker open and are now glued to the memory in my hands. This is my dad's old guitar. I remember now. When my dad died, my mom sold it.
I begin strumming the guitar. Don't ask me how I know to play. I just...do. And I'm playing the song my dad does in the memory.
June 12, 2012
Finally Decided on a Title :)
So I finally decided what the book should be titled. :) I had it narrowed down to Royally and a suggestion from Destiny Skye-Not Your Average Fairytale. I asked my mom for her opinion, and the winner is...... Not Your Average Fairytale! So thank you so much, Destiny, for suggesting that title. If and hopefully when this book is ever published, I will try to remember to dedicate it to you (among a couple others, probably). Now if I could just keep writing... I finished Masked and am working on Mirrored now but I'm having trouble figuring out just how everything should happen. I do have some good names for the dwarves. :D Doc's name in my version is something special thrown in for one of my besties, Kate. And Sneezy's new name? Well a couple years back for an English class, I rewrote Snow White (it was a short rewrite) and I named the dwarves Brainiac (Doc), Grouch (Grumpy), Glee (Happy), Shy (Bashful), Snooze (Sleepy), Dumbo (Dopey), and Allergic Reaction (Sneezy). So my Sneezy in this retelling is going to be Allergic Reaction as well, haha.
June 7, 2012
Book Title
Hey, readers, there's a poll up now so you can vote for which title you think I should use for my collection of modern fairytales. :) And I'm open to suggestions, too! If you don't like any of those ideas, feel free to post yours here. Just remember the theme of the book. And here's the current synopsis to help y'all out, too. ;)
This isn't your average fairytale. It's in modern times, for one things. And there are five girls: Eliana Royce, Bianca Yuki, Tabitha Perth, Sapphira, and Sarah Daudi. Eliana loves designing but her stepmother and stepsisters love to ruin her dreams. Bianca gains a horrible stepmother and runs away from home to find a new family. Tabitha is the perfect princess...but she's under a curse. Sapphira longs for adventure. Sarah wants to be independent and open the perfect singing school for young girls. Now if only their dreams could come true...but things don't always happen so easily in fairytales.
This isn't your average fairytale. It's in modern times, for one things. And there are five girls: Eliana Royce, Bianca Yuki, Tabitha Perth, Sapphira, and Sarah Daudi. Eliana loves designing but her stepmother and stepsisters love to ruin her dreams. Bianca gains a horrible stepmother and runs away from home to find a new family. Tabitha is the perfect princess...but she's under a curse. Sapphira longs for adventure. Sarah wants to be independent and open the perfect singing school for young girls. Now if only their dreams could come true...but things don't always happen so easily in fairytales.
June 4, 2012
Emma's Epiphany
I've just had the perfect idea. I've known all along that Masked won't reach 50,000 words. But I've also had the idea to do a book for each of the five princesses in Masked (Cinderella, Snow White, Belle, Briar Rose, and Tiana-well, their equivalents). So what if I combined all these shorter books into one larger book? That could reach 50,000 words, right? Hopefully this idea will work...
Now I just need to figure out a title for the larger book...each story is going to have its own title (the titles I've thought up for each of them are too cool to abandon).
Now I just need to figure out a title for the larger book...each story is going to have its own title (the titles I've thought up for each of them are too cool to abandon).
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