Status: Pre-Writing Prep

So some of you may be confused by my status. I did post a chapter one for my new story Birds of the Feather but I don't like it. I've been reading 'On Writting Romance' by Leigh Michaels, so far I really like it and it made me aware I need to go back and plan. I actually think this was my problem in Written, I lacked good enough conflict to keep me going and then Birds came around. So I'm going to edit Chapter 1 of Birds and then post the new verson with Chapter 2. Right now I need to go though my new list of 'Pre-Writting Questions'. These are questions from my book that I'm going to go though and answer before I start a novel. I think it will help me work out tangles like I've been running into.

Ether way, I have a long week end so I'll try to get chapter 2 up. I'll also post a little ad for this blog in the new story so my new readers can get it. Birds will be darker than Written, but don't think it will be any less romantic. I think I finally figured out a sechdule for my writting. I do want to finish Birds, but then I'll go though my questions, do a little fiddling around then rewrite/finish Written. When I'm done with that I'm going to Question Mantle and fix that lack of conflicted mess. Sometime between that I'll also edit Beasts but I won't post that anywhere. XD (If you want to edit with the editing process just let me know.)

Anyway, I got some fun stuff for you. On the sountrack front Korbin makes me think of All I Was Looking for Was You by Fastball. It's from their new album which is great btw way. I definately see Fastball as the soundtrack to Birds, sad sounding but not actually negative. While Mamma Mia was Written, dramatic but in the end fun. I also recently uploaded The Sims2 back onto my computer, sadly all I could fit was the orginal game and none of my exapnsion packs. The game seems almost dull. Oh well. Still, I made my characters because I can't draw so this as close as I get.I always imagine Caldur in a trench coat, which I think I actually failed to give him. Just nothing says 'brood' quite like a good trench coat, plus I feel the drama suits him. The one in the Sims is a little matrix-y. He wouldn't be wearing that black outfit underneth but the coat is definatly him.

Kit also provided some problems. Mostly because the Sims don't have her right clothes. That's as close as I can get but really she'd be wearing more of a hiking outfit. The hair is great though, red and out of the way in that tight, sleek pony tail. I imagined that haircut when I first got her idea.

In Birds I have my twins Korbin and Phoenix which I don't entirely like how they look. I dunno, maybe becuase it's too easy to tell them apart, but of course they have lots of different grooming habits so it would be, on a superficial level. Also their clothes. *shakes head* Well not a lot I can do.

Then last, but not least, my female lead in Birds, Aisling. Okay, I do like this picture. I had such trouble with her hair. Even now I still debate brunette or blonde. What do you guys think? I dunno, I kind of like her blonde. Blondes are cliche innocents but it still works. Plus her hair looks soft and I imagine her with really soft hair. This outfit is perfect because it's both stylish, a bit formal, but also kind of cute. Aisling is a lot more wounded than Kit, or at least outwardly. Kit was brave, Aisling is still brave but differently. I think I'm really going to like her. She just won't be as uplifting to write with. Kit just made me grin when I was done, she was so happy.

Well that's all on my front. I'll try to post soon.

Links to Images: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v289/InnocentAngel333/caldur.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v289/InnocentAngel333/kit-1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v289/InnocentAngel333/korbin.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v289/InnocentAngel333/phoenix.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v289/InnocentAngel333/aisling.jpg

Status: At a crossroads

Okay, this is bad. This will be a short post because I have a driving lesson in an hour and I have things I need to do but I need to post this. Since I started writing I tend to start one project, finish it (or abandon it), and then move on to the next. This is the first time that an idea has demanded to be written before I’m done with an old one but it’s happened. If you see my previous post, you’ll see the idea for the twin story. I like the idea a lot but I always planed on finishing Written first. I love Kit and Caldur, and I even really enjoy their story.

Or I did. Right now, it’s really annoying to just deal with it at all. I sit down wishing I was already done, and the chapters are getting shorter and shorter. That also annoys me. I prefer to have an average of 6,000 words per chapter but now I have to struggle for 5000. I have to say these must be signs. I think I may have to put Written on hiatus. I’m sorry to all the fans. I really am, but you won’t get a good story if I don’t enjoy the writing anymore. Don’t think this hiatus will never end, it isn’t on hiatus because I don’t want to finish it, or because my fans don’t want it, but because I just need a break from it. Maybe when I start on my next idea I’ll jump ship again, I don’t know. I don’t like this. I want to finish this story before I start a new one but I just don’t like it.

So I’m going to start on my twin story (which needs a title), and I hope you like it just as much. I promise I’ll finish Kit and Caldur’s story one day, hopefully soon, but for now I need to give its break.

Status: Writting Chapter 9; 3111 words written

So it’s been a little while, both for updates and for an entry. My last two chapters went up so fast and now number nine is being a bitch. Mostly I feel a little stuck story wise and my imagination, instead of helping me with the story I’m working on now is like ‘I have more ideas! You should write them.’ I have debated just starting up a new story, since I have so many, but I think I should just relax and focus on the story I have. I’m pretty sure if I stop Written now I won’t start back up, plus it seems unfair to court a new fan base and make both groups of people wait longer as I decide which story I’m in the mood for today. No, it’s better for me to just focus on Written and be done with it.

But what about my ideas? I don’t want to loose them, so I’m going to write them down here, in no particular order.

Mantle of the Moon
What? This has already been written, a fan might say, well true but I need to rewrite it. Ara and Maverick together have no problems, so I need to give them issues! I’m probably going to really change Ara around, she bores me now. I meant for her to be like Kit but with this great need to be the best, but nether of those traits really came though when I wrote her, so I need to alter her around.

Ancient Egypt Time Travel Fun Time!
Okay, so you can tell this hasn’t really been named but it’s an idea I got from an RP. (Most of my ideas come from RP with my friend undeadbovine/ravenclawH7/Morianna/Astrid) In this idea, an ancient Egyptian prince meets a time traveler from our time. I loved my prince character, Nebi, who was so flawed and yet, so great. I have so much fun when I write him and he’s just to die for. Also, he’s my first black character. As a Hispanic raised by whites most of my characters are white with some girls being Hispanic (I love the shade of skin dark Hispanics have). Still, Nebi = awesome. Main problem is that Nebi also = lots of research. I know very little about ancient Egypt and would need to study up on it since the majority of the story takes place there. Good news was that it’d most likely spawn a sequel. Mostly I just need to research before this story. I’d love to take just an ancient Egypt history class, since that would force me to actually study. (I suck at self study)

Attack of the Magic Twins
This will most likely be my next novel, as it’s strongest in my head and requires no retooling or research. This is also currently not named and based off an RP with my aforementioned friend. This will change a lot from our RP though. In this modern fantasy novel, magic is hidden from day to day life. People with magic tend to live in the ‘Magic Quarter’ of cities and join together in almost mafia like gangs. These gangs fight for power with Fights. (All my names may get better when I sit down to write the real novel.) The Fights are like street fighting meets cage wrestling match. It’s less regulated and death is possible/acceptable but most people don’t die. The best Fighter in currently unnamed city is Korbin Trudu (last name will change). Magic in this world is based on Themes. People have all sorts of different abilities as long as it goes along with a theme, which can be as useful as Destruction and as harmless as Bunnies. Some are really broad, others really specific. Korbin is partially the best Fighter because he has two Themes, chaos and emotion; the only other person to have two themes is his estranged identical twin brother Phoenix. (Roll with it.) Thing is that Phoenix doesn’t really have good powers, his themes are control and civility. So while control is pretty kick ass his need to be polite stops him from being too powerful. The twins are brought together again by a girl on the run with the theme of Dream named Aisling (ASH-ling). As I write this I realize it’s really similar to Mantle but bleh, when it’s written out it will be way different, way darker. This will most likely be rated M, also these people will be older than my so far average 16/18 characters. Ether way, I think it will be a lot of fun to explore the darker sides.

Those are my only really set down ideas. My twin idea has been pushing really hard to get written but I know I need to put it to the side. Thankfully, because I want to write it so bad it makes me eager to continue working on Written. I finally got an idea for where to go next so I’ll work on that, and hopefully will have Chapter 9 up soon.

Status: Chapter 7 Finnish; Chapter 8 Not begun

Well, my last chapter came in a whirlwind. I do admit, cliff hangers get me as eager to keep writing as they get my readers to keep reading (or at least I hope so). I tend to end in them to keep my excitement going though a chapter but this came by fast. I didn't really plan to write the chapter in an afternoon but I'm kind of glad I did. It would have been hard to break up the big scene and the short scene was pretty easy, plus the whole thing was dramarific. ^_^

I'm just loving Kit and Caldur right now. They are so cute together and I can't help but love them as a couple. It's always great when you set down to write a romance and find real chemistry there. I know a lot of people complain about couples that don't make sense and I hope mine always do but it's always a pleasure to find that the hard thing is that their romance doesn't go to FAST so the reader has something to read. I also enjoy the different dynamics between characters.

Kit and Caldur have this almost soul mate thing going. Since I started writing them together they just click. Like, they were always destined to be together. Which is nice because the last story I tried to get Caldur into his love interest was a bit forced. Now I know why, he's meant for Kit. XD

My last couple definitely didn't have the soul mate thing going on, they instead had this intense sexual connection that caught me off guard. I never really done much experiment in the sexual hot tub of the romance pool, though I've glanced over a few times, even tried to dip my toe in now and then but it always got too uncomfortable, so it was weird to get this huge sexual connection between two characters when I never written like that before. Even with them I chickened out, I couldn't finish the sex scene so I just faded to black and mentioned them going at it a lot. It was kind of cool though. That couple was always surprising me though. I loved them for it.

Something I wanted to bring up, that's been on my mind a bit lately, is soundtracks. It seems I keep on reading about authors with different soundtracks for different characters or works, and I, always wanting to be included, thought over it too. It hasn't been a new idea, I often loved to look for 'soul songs' for my character, songs that represented their soul, but they're hard to find. For Beasts, the closest I found was the song 'Girl, You'll be a Woman Soon' by Neil Diamond. While it didn't exactly explain the soul of ether of my main characters it certainly explained their relationship and the ending of the story was even inspired by it. (I even included a line very similar to the lyrics in one of the final chapters, try to find it!)

Lately I've been listening to a lot of Mamma Mia! Soundtrack, from the movie, I can't find the plays. So it would make sense some of their songs effect my work. The song 'Lay all Your Love on Me' first made me think of Caldur and Kit but while there are some similarities it's really just my love of the song that makes me want to say that. What does make me think of them, but especially Kit is 'The Name of the Game'. While in the movie it wasn't a love song (or even in the official movie) it really suits the awkward couple. Both in the way that they're both so attracted so quickly. What it really makes me think of with Kit is her attraction to Caldur gets her really off balance but she still faces him. Kit is no coward.

Okay, well check out my latest chapters, if you haven't already. I'll probably start writing chapter 8 this weekend. I already got ideas. ^_^ This story is really starting to flow!

Status: Writing Chapter 6, 555 words written

To My Loyal Readers,

Who I know, as I write this, is none, but I hope some will follow me from fictionpress. I started this because for a long time I wished to write what I felt about chapters, and explain if things are going well, or not, before the actual chapters came out. Over all, I was tired of adding all these author notes to my chapter's in Beast, but I knew that the readers deserve to know things. So I decided to start this. Here I will post anything I feel needs to be said about my writing. I may ask my readers questions, or explain why a chapter is coming out slow. I will post warnings if life is kicking my ass, or if it's been unusally kind.

I will also be able to explain all my feelings on my writting, keep you updated over ideas and maybe even say when I get things published. If I want to discuss other things about writting, I'll post it here. This isn't a place to discuss my life, unless it spills over into my writing, but instead be dedicated to my art. I can only hope you'll like it too.

Currently; I'm working on Written in the Sand. It's a young adult, supernatural, romantic drama (boy that's a lot of words). It's about two characters that I have loved since word one. Caldur Beckett, a hydrokinetic, who hates the small town he lives in because they shun him for his 'bad luck'. Cecil 'Kit' Forester, who moves to the small town. Kit has no magic except the inability to take no for an answer. She refuses to leave things be and starts to stir up more trouble than she expects; in the form of a mythical dragon tied to the town and to Caldur. As you can see from the title, I'm on Chapter six, with 555 words written (not over all, just in the chapter).

The story is stumbly at time. I'm not always sure where I'm going but every time I sit down and really think scenes come to mind. That's all I really need. I don't know when to expect to finnish chapter six. I have homework that will take up most of Sunday. I may have time on Monday and Wednesday. I do know that the romantic scenes will make me want to hurry.

I want to see where they go next.