Wednesday, April 24, 2013
I just acoried to me today that I said I was going to post Chapter 10 on Monday.
Oops.
This is not a fun time to write right now. The list of things to get done before finals just keeps geting longer and longer so it is my sad duty to extend the hiatis to the 13th.
Oops.
This is not a fun time to write right now. The list of things to get done before finals just keeps geting longer and longer so it is my sad duty to extend the hiatis to the 13th.
Me the week of finals
Friday, April 5, 2013
Hey readers,
A few things I want to say. First, i have to say that Chapter 9 was so far my least favorite Chapter. I didn't like the ending and I thought it was rushed, literly right after I posted it, I had a better ending. But, that is part of the writing process, this blog is a raft and not the finaly product. In the great words of Marueen Johnson:
A few things I want to say. First, i have to say that Chapter 9 was so far my least favorite Chapter. I didn't like the ending and I thought it was rushed, literly right after I posted it, I had a better ending. But, that is part of the writing process, this blog is a raft and not the finaly product. In the great words of Marueen Johnson:
Ignore the covor image for the video and skip to :53
This is also why I love getting feed back, there are things that I think I do really well, but then find out that I can do better.
Which is why, to all my readers who are looking forward to Chapter 10, that this blog with be going on hiatis for the next 2 weeks. First, I need to focus and pulling some of my grades up and with two major test on Monday and another the 19th, I need to study. Secound reason:
I'm going out of town next weekend. I won't be playing with my team, but I am going along to cheer them on. With packing and driving and watching and more driving; granted I'm not driving, but it is a 16 hour drive to Florda, I won't have the time to work on the book. With that said, Chapter 10 will be back the 22th.
Untill then, what moments did you think was well written and what moments do you think need work?
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
I would like to start off with this post to let everyone know that Chapter 9 is delayed a week. I have two test to study for and a camping trip to go on, basically, I don't have the time. With that out of the way, I wanted to write another fun post.
A lot of the names in the book have a special meaning behind them. As I pointed out in Chapter 8, most of the street names are Catholic saints, like Martha street where Ezra lives in named after Saint Martha, the patron saint of cooks.
Some names don't have that special of names, Syringa is just the real name of lilacs and has a lot of them. Monday's home town Larksper is the common name of Consolida, a flower that is toxic to humans. Some of the characters names don't have any real meaning other then I liked them; names like Jolene, Jason, Edith, and Marcus. Bo was named after a fictional charter from the Thief Lord(BTW great kids book)
And sometimes what seemed like random names turned into happy accidents.
For example, Monday at one point was named Wendy and it was going to be short for Wednesday. i thought that it was to cliche to name a depressing charter after the worst day of the week in the mother goose poem, so instead I settled on Monday. Fair of face but worst day of the week, a little bit of bad and good, just like Monday. However after I renamed her is when I discovered that the day Monday is named after the moon. I gave my night dwelling character a night themed name. (Side note, the moon has nothing to do with night, I did learn something out of Intro to Astronomy.)
Some other characters had their back story added because of their name. Ezra was always Ezra because I liked the name and Sorin was named Sorin after I watched Legend of the Guardians, the stupid owl movie. I liked the name and my have been influenced by Jim Sturgess.
And yet after I named them and looked up what their names meant, I was kinda inspired by them. Ezra means "Help" in Hebrew, which inspired his Jewish heritage and Sorin meant "Sun" in Romanian, which inspired his heritage, just the Romanian part, the Romani part came in later.
I like knowing the meaning behind character names, even if it's not intentional. It's like colorful eggs on a Easter egg hunt. Since i won't post again still afterwards, Happy Early Easter, Eostre, bunny commercialism or whatever you celebrate.
A lot of the names in the book have a special meaning behind them. As I pointed out in Chapter 8, most of the street names are Catholic saints, like Martha street where Ezra lives in named after Saint Martha, the patron saint of cooks.
Some names don't have that special of names, Syringa is just the real name of lilacs and has a lot of them. Monday's home town Larksper is the common name of Consolida, a flower that is toxic to humans. Some of the characters names don't have any real meaning other then I liked them; names like Jolene, Jason, Edith, and Marcus. Bo was named after a fictional charter from the Thief Lord(BTW great kids book)
And sometimes what seemed like random names turned into happy accidents.
(You can skip to 3:00. If you ever have a bad day, watch Bob Ross)
For example, Monday at one point was named Wendy and it was going to be short for Wednesday. i thought that it was to cliche to name a depressing charter after the worst day of the week in the mother goose poem, so instead I settled on Monday. Fair of face but worst day of the week, a little bit of bad and good, just like Monday. However after I renamed her is when I discovered that the day Monday is named after the moon. I gave my night dwelling character a night themed name. (Side note, the moon has nothing to do with night, I did learn something out of Intro to Astronomy.)
Some other characters had their back story added because of their name. Ezra was always Ezra because I liked the name and Sorin was named Sorin after I watched Legend of the Guardians, the stupid owl movie. I liked the name and my have been influenced by Jim Sturgess.
Look familiar?
And yet after I named them and looked up what their names meant, I was kinda inspired by them. Ezra means "Help" in Hebrew, which inspired his Jewish heritage and Sorin meant "Sun" in Romanian, which inspired his heritage, just the Romanian part, the Romani part came in later.
I like knowing the meaning behind character names, even if it's not intentional. It's like colorful eggs on a Easter egg hunt. Since i won't post again still afterwards, Happy Early Easter, Eostre, bunny commercialism or whatever you celebrate.
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
“Are
you sure this is safe?”
Monday
looked up at an 8 story building on Sanders street. Sanders Street was one of
the few streets not named after saints; it was once the factory side of town
where the Blair brewery was built, but the family had moved locations years
back, leaving empty buildings behind. The moonlight hit the crumbling brick and
bounced of the broken glass roofs illuminating the ally below. Monday stood
next to Ezra, both in Nightling form and wearing the Nightling's uniform; dark
jean, fingerless gloves, and a black tank top with a slit in the back for the
wings, it was a week since she had become and Nightling training had begun.
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
As you can see, I did a little clean up. I just figured out how to create blogger tempets and felt that mine needed a facelift. Bo more sloth header.
You might also notice the email box on the left. While I'll still be posting on my facebook page, you can now subscribe and receive chapters when they're posted. I'll probably do a fun post sometime this week, then Chapter 8 on Monday. Look forward to Chapter 8, it's one of my favorites.
You might also notice the email box on the left. While I'll still be posting on my facebook page, you can now subscribe and receive chapters when they're posted. I'll probably do a fun post sometime this week, then Chapter 8 on Monday. Look forward to Chapter 8, it's one of my favorites.
Monday, March 11, 2013
Monday felt
a jolt as she woke up, back in the small room, surprised to find her feeding
tube was missing. She could feel her body twitch and twist as it felt like she
was being pulled apart. Monday bucked in the bed but found not only was she
still bound to the bed, but now, her legs were bound too. Monday looked over at
Edith and saw that she was reading something on her tablet, “Edith, I need more
meds.”
Edith
looked up at her with black eyes and gave her a sad smile, “This is the part
where you’re going to call me a bitch.” Monday looked down at her arm and saw
that the IV was gone, she looked back at Edith, who wasn’t smiling anymore,
“The change creates a high level of adrenaline and the amount of anesthesia and
blood thinners that you would need is unsafe. Plus, the transformation is
smoother if you’re angry.”
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