Happy 1 year post!

So it's been an entire year since I've posted here.  Sorry to my followers for that.  This past year was CRAZY!  Around this time last year, I was getting ready for school activities for the holidays, getting ready for the holidays in general, taking trips, and having family visit for Thanksgiving.  It was pretty busy.  Oh and I was pregnant with baby #2.

Baby #2 came in early May, so since May, it's been even crazier.  I still think about this blog though and will hopefully actually start picking it up again later.  I'm thinking of short story practices maybe and posting them for you to read.  We'll see.  The holidays are on the way again and I am not doing NaNo this year. :(  I know, I do it every year even if I don't win.  Hopefully I can do it again next year.

But lately, here's some of the books I've been reading since I haven't been writing.  I recommend them ALL to you!

The Maze Runner, The Scorch Trials, and The Death Cure by James Dashner
Matched and Crossed (coming November 2011) by Ally Condie
All books by Cassandra Clare, the Mortal Instruments series and Clockwork Angel.  (Clockwork Prince to come soon)
Shiver, Linger and Forever by Maggie Stiefvater
Paranormalcy by Kiersten White
Hourglass by Myra McEntire
Wither by Lauren DeStefano
The Mockingbirds by Daisy Whitney
If I Stay by Gayle Forman
Divergent by Veronica Roth
Delirium by Lauren Oliver
The White Queen by Phillippa Gregory
Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side by Beth Fantaskey
Claire de Lune by Christine Johnson

There's a good list to start for you for reading if you're looking for a good read.  I enjoyed every single novel and can't wait to read some of the sequels and anything else by these authors.

Good evening, and Happy Halloween!

Okay, okay...I'll Stop Making Promises

Every time I make an entry for this blog I always promise to keep it updated.  Well, that just isn't working so we'll see if I don't make a promise this time to update quicker then maybe I will actually update it! :)

Anyway, I have been contemplating my writing, my stories and such for the past month.  Why?  Well, of course I need to outline, edit, rewrite a whole bunch of stuff in them and really create the mood and the story.

But also with that, I have been thinking a lot about National Novel Writing Month.  It's 10 days away from beginning and usually I already have a story to go with and the idea written down with a basic outline and characters all mapped out.  This year, that isn't happening at all.

Although, this year is different.  I have decided that maybe I'll try my hand at a horror story.  Maybe also making it a Dystopian genre because that is the genre these days.  Vampires, unless already established through the Twilight age, is pretty much done.  Gone.  But with The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins just finished up and a new much awaited book to be released, Matched by Ally Condie, and also with reading the Uglies series, I think Dystopian is the way to go right now.  And with how the economy in the country right now and throughout the world is tanking, picking up, tanking again, and the flow goes forever, I believe that these books in this genre either give people a void in their emotions, a gift of hope that things will turn out okay, or even a feeling of dread that this may be the way the world turns out to be in the next ten, twenty, hundred years.

Well, now it's time for me to figure out a good plot line with interesting characters, and figure out how my society is going to work out if I am to try out this new genre that is making a huge hit.

Good luck and Ciao for now.

And I am NOT promising to update any time soon. ;)

All Fellow Writers Will Enjoy This

First off, I have to tell my friend that sent this to me, Thank you!  It made me laugh and it is all so true.

I think you will all laugh too!

Offended by Rank Objectification of Writers

Musical Inspiration

There are only two words that define my biggest musical inspiration in writing.

Josh Groban.

If you haven't heard of him, go to www.joshgroban.com and discover this musical sensation that sounds like chocolate.  Or if chocolate had a sound, it would have his name written all over it.

He released a new song today.  Brand new!  It's called, Hidden Away, and it fits pretty every story I've read and every story I'm writing.

If you're stuck on something in your story or writing, Josh Groban can cheer things up or give you a sad song to cry to.  That's how amazing he is.

To Post Story Chapters or To Not Post...

So, a new thing has come to my attention for my writing.  Apparently it would be a very good idea if I made my own website now and keep it forever.  However, that is a hard thing to do when you are a stay at home mom and make no money to do that with.  Heck, I don't even have money to do fun things with unless they are under $1!  Which, these days, can buy me something on a dollar menu, but it takes more in gas to go do that one dollar thing.

Anyway, one thing suggested was this.  To put a little tip jar on my blog that if people like my work, they can pay me tips to keep going so they can read more.  I thought that was a cool and ingenious idea, however, there are a lot of people like me.  Broke.  But, if they can't leave a tip, they could certainly leave a reviewing comment or even a critiquing comment if they so like.

Would anyone be interested in reading my chapters as I work on them?  If so, please comment about it and what you think.  You can even put up what you think is good for an amateur writer to do concerning websites and posting their work early.

In the mean time, if you do want me to post some of my work, I will.  But first, I want to know what story you'd like to read.

I have two stories.  One is being in a rewrite phase, but I do have some to read available at the moment and the other has up to five chapters plus a prologue written.  Here are the choices:

1) Flare of the Sun:  Catherine wants to become a professional dancer.  Wants to train at Julliard, but when two new people show up at her high school during her senior year, things begin to change.  One student with the sunglasses on all the time is constantly vying for her attention and to get her alone.  The other befriends her and begins to date her best friend.  Her mother is acting stranger and more strict than usual and everyone seems concerned for her well being.  As she goes on her graduation trip to Italy, things sky rocket from strange to plain old unbelievable as she learns about her bloodlines and what she must do to save herself, her best friend, and the entire world from the clutches of an ancient group of vampires that want humans to worship them as gods.

Now, Flare of the Sun, is the first of a trilogy for Catherine's adventures and story.  This is the one in its rewrite phases.

2) Lovely Dreams: Emma has a gift.  It is a gift passed down from mother to daughter, but it is dangerous when used constantly.  It killed her mother, and as Emma knows, she must be able to control it or it too may kill her.  She can speak with and interact with ghosts in her dreams.  Helping her father on ghost hunts to rid homes and other places of spirits not wanting to let go, Emma goes with him to a southern plantation in Texas to rid its' grounds of a Civil War soldier who has haunted it for years.  As she comes to see the soldier in a different light, she never expected to fall for him.  Emma also didn't expect to fall for the human farm boy from the small town nearby.  But when Emma gets sick, she knows the effects of her ability are involved and she may die.  Now she must choose who to be with forever.  The farm boy and her father, or the ghost in her dreams.

Lovely Dreams is a stand alone story with a possible option for a sequel if readers really like it.

Let me know your opinions on this!  I would love to get outside looks on these but again, I'm leery about putting my work online and asking people to tip me for it.  But, if people are willing, then I will. :)

Ciao!