Writing Chaos that is Me

The Good/Bad Chart ~ Update on my life

2008-07-22T17:30:14Z

So my life is a lot of chaos, because I am too lazy to follow a schedule. Blah, Today I had my alarm clock set for 6:30 so that by 7 am I would be ready for a writing date, just me, my notebook and a killer playlist on my new MP3 Player. Mhm, I woke up turned the damn alarm off and murmuring of "Yup, any minute I will be up" I slept through to about 8:30. That is why I don't manage much with writing and reading. Anyways I will post a chart of what happened to me recently.

The Good:

1) After a week of buzzing here and there with no writing done, I sat down and started to write and it all came. And I don't mean like just a formed idea of how everything is happening, I mean the whole bundle of joy: the breathtaking feeling of becoming the character and penning down the mix of thoughts, data from the surroundings via the senses and motion. There is a hope for my novel and a decent ending. August it is then. ;)

2) I am attending the Summer Shorts challenge, which is a writing challange. 5000 words for around three weeks. I think a very small project will add some freshness in my mind, especially since this is a horror slash very sarcastic and snarky. Something I don't usually write, because people are somewhat fed up of Buffy rip-offs on steroids, but the evilness in me likes it and well who knows people might like it. Demons, college students and guts. Yummy!

3) I wrote a review on one of the hardest novels I have ever read: "Down to a Sunless Sea", which is basically a great and thorough introspect into the human soul and mind, which aims to expose the slow and painful process of dehyminazation of the human race. Here is a small excerpt: "... “Down to a Sunless Sea” by Mathias B. Freese is one of those short novels that you would normally think are simply another short bunch of pages, which once you have read can boast about reading literary fiction. However experience has taught me that the shortest novels are usually the hardest to finish; the ones that leave the deepest impressions; the ones shrouded in enough mystery to leave you thinking. “Down to a Sunless Sea” is an anthology of this caliber..." For the whole thing visit Temple Library Reviews.

4) Webcomic going on just fine. I am all laid back about the art not being up to expectations since my writing isn't exactly perfect either. I have explained that this our first project and it's a tril and error on it. Collaboration is one of the hardest tasks in the art world, especially, when two mediums have to be combined and when both people of art are like the sun and moon in some aspects. She is a silent, highly spiritual and a cutting edge rocker with the tanker boots and all. Me, well I am all with extreme high expectations, bossy, shiny, color and ornament addicted and listen to sugar enduced music. Try making a connection there, when it comes to artistic vision. But we have common grounds, being weird and outcasts by one standard or another + the heavy fantasy passion.

The Bad:

1) The camera I so hoped for to be fixed is damaged beyond repair and it's no use in trying to determine what the cause is. It never really was ours since my mom found it on her work place. She worked as the head of staff in a hotel, so lost and found things fall under her jurisdiction as well, so by the end of summer we had several english thriller books and the camera. We left it for it to get charged and buy a new battery, but sadly the people at the store couldn't get anything done. Technology is so fragile. But you know, easy come, easy go.

2) I I can't maintain a schedule and it's killing me. I am seriously starting to train my will, because I need to write, read and exercise properly. Not to mention blog and watch movies. I have no idea how much I can push myself and it's the beginning. The season is also picking up and people are trying to tie me down to teh office seat. Yup, nasty bugger + my boss fell in love with me and is trying to make me stay the whole year for ever and for always. I mentally told her to go and blow the devil, but politely said that I would need to study in college, so no working during the study year. Still frightening. I mean everybody is taking their hats and leaving this firm and to tell you the truth I understand why.

3) I am poor. Seriously the salary is long gone and my parents are yet again on the down side. How the heck does my dad manage to waste so much money is beyond me. We basically get nothing from him. Bastard hiding and spending money before coming home. Grr.

4) Everybody in the office had a birthday and I know eat like a pack of rabbid swines and the hunger is constant. I don't need to be hunfry. I just have to chew and stuff myself. I started a serious diet. Today I am on a cucumber, yoghurt, salty sticks, some chocolate, biscuits and sandwiches, which is still way too much, but at least far less than all the trangressions me and my stomach have commited. Food is my ultimate weakness. I am scared of my eating habits, so it's tough love between me and mister stomach, until he shrinks to a more suitable size, so that greenery it is from morning to supper.

BUSY bUsY BuSy

2008-07-19T17:25:37Z

It’s been ages since I had the time to blog. I really don’t know what more to say. I am quite behind on pretty much everything that is fun: my blogs, my friends with blogs, reading and so far writing as well. I guess it’s not the best idea to fill up your free mornings and evenings with fitness and yoga and then have some other ‘interesting’ chores fill up your spare time and to tell the truth, I can’t go any longer on a six hour schedule. My body ignores the alarm and insists that I shall sleep 8 hours no matter I have to do in the morning and late at night is my PC time, so midnight it is to hit the sack. Blah!

Of course this is the bad stuff of being socially active and I can disappear irregularly throughout the whole summer, since like duh, now is the high season and people keep pouring in. I should have realized that myself, when I took the job, but what the heck. It’s good experience. However I think 2008 will be a responsible year for me since my mom aims high and would like to start somewhat an independent traveling agency that works with the US and Japan in creating outgoing tourism to Bulgaria. Guess, who will handle negotiations.

Yoga is good. Went for a second time this week to the relaxing course and almost fell asleep. Fitness this time went smoother and nothing is that sore unlike the first time, when my body was stiff for a great while. I think of doing something additional for my body like jogging and doing something extra for those abs. There some really good books with pictures. on the subject. YUM!

Anyways I think I covered what I wanted to tell. All the rest is a chaotic blurr! Will hope to post more on the detail departement later!

Wednesday Weird at Thursday

2008-07-10T07:55:00Z

Tuesday was very exhausting. Made it to bed at 10 pm. Eek! Unthinkable for my teen ages. Anyways work proved to be extremely active in things that need to be done and I was drained. To strengthen my fatigue the weather decided to send two thunder storms and I get incredibly sleepy, when it rains. I recall almost falling asleep standing straight on my feet.

I visited the friendly neighborhood dermatologist and she seems very happy with my face and prescribed me the full treatment, because I was on probation with the new medicament. It will last for the whole summer and I should see her in September. I will have to visit a beautician once every month and she says that the red spots on my skin will eventually phase out and melt into my usual complexion. Hope it happens soon.

I also had the pleasure to experience the wonderful, pleasant and kind service of the post office as I asked what it costs to send a book overseas {note the heavy sarcasm}. I blame the unbearable heat for the bloodlust and acid tongue of the woman, unfortunate enough to be bothered by moi, who remained ever so polite and sugar coated. I forgot to take the book today for another round. Tomorrow maybe will be a more productive day in that aspect.

I also sent my order list for the USA titles I die to have and will be receiving a list of prices soon on my e-mail and I will make my picks, although I already know that Gena Showalter’s new series will be the first to get. In the mean time I need to finish a few series I started and got the books like Karen Chance’s series, got all three books with one read.

Another task done yesterday was to buy an MP3 player and what a glorious one I bought: green and yummy. I walked for an hour and a half through half the city to get all this done and well my thighs hurt like hell from the friction and I guess that is what exhausted me so much. At least I managed to decipher it and install the software on my PC. It has space for videos and pictures and all that jazz with 2GB of memory on it. None too shabby.

On the writing front things look pretty much the same. I am almost done with chapter 13: “Chit Chat over at Tea Time” – mind you there will be no chit chat or tea involved. *evil g* But yesterday I was too exhausted to coordinate my limbs to write.

I am scared of Friday and Saturday. We have 653 people in our charge arriving at airport for their hotels and 433 departing from their hotels. I will be up all night and running, but I will have to get out of work on Friday to go to the gym, so Saturday will be hell for me.

Here is an excerpt from my interview with author Justin Gustainis at “Temple Library Review”Urban Fantasy Land”. Choose your pick. and “

8. No more asked about that one. In the novel the readers can see what an interesting concept of the demons you have. If I recall one was a mutant Teletubby. My question is how the heck that happened and will this quite innovative idea be developed in the following books?

The Teletubbys are evil, Harry. Surely, you already knew that?

9. Yup, I know that. Never go near them without a chainsaw. Did you find it hard to devise the magical system, which is Libby’s tool? It’s not exactly Wicca, but it has its own origins in culture for all I gather. Who helped you or did you rely on google?

Oh, I consulted a couple of witches of my acquaintance. They explained the origin of their magic, and demonstrated to me its power. I’m just glad they’re on our side, if you know what I mean.

At the end of this post I will feature my to-do-list:

1) Buy yoga membership card at lunch break
2) Get camera out of shop
3) Buy skin medicaments
4) Send off book to giveaway winner
5) Go to gym
6) Make pass photos for Turkey in Fall
7) Cut my hair
8) Go to beautician
9) Read more books
10) Write

The supposed to be short post

2008-07-08T16:08:18Z

So not much to tell, but I will make it a brief post this time. Monday passed with less work and enough time to finish my “Awaken Me Darkly” review on Temple Library Reviews. I am thrilled because I have two interviews done and I gain time to read at a more relaxed pace in order to keep updating TLR. I managed a review of “The Summoner”, which was okayish and interesting although I hoped for something a tad edgier.

“Down to a Sunless Sea” stretched a tad further than I anticipated. I guess the shortest books are the hardest to read. Although I have to deal with short stories, it’s quite tricky catching the line of thought in such an erudite language and elevated style. Because of the shifting from town to town I couldn’t pick up “Jane Eyre” and just when it is becoming interesting. No time for that really, which is a real shame.

Good news is that I am part of Urban Fantasy Land, which is definitely cool. I am contributing to a whole lot of places and it’s certainly a great pleasure. It’s just that I will have to work real tight in order to get everything under control. It’s super really. As far as writing goes I suspect that my novel will be completed around August or September, since there is not much time to concentrate on writing although I get some words done almost every day. Sunday was productive, although I had hard time with 3^rd deep POV and I get frustrated, but during the revisions I will have a clearer idea of how she will sound.

My friend with whom I shall go to the gym has exams this week, so heavy physical exercises will commence at Friday and although I want that hot sweaty male body reeking of power, I don’t look forward to the whole “no pain-no gain”. I hate pain. I fear pain. It’s psychological, but I must, because so far I don’t feel comfortable at all in my own skin. Now is the perfect time, since I do nothing of importance anyways like school and work is not as important at this stage of my life.

My other friend comes tomorrow from a three day rock festival at Kavarna our seaside rock music center, so I think that Thursday we will go with her to sign up for yoga and see when the classes are. I hope there are late classes or classes at Tuesday and Thursday as I wish to use Monday, Wednesday and Friday for the gym, while Greek remains for the weekends. I still need to talk to the teacher, but after I fit my exercise schedules.

In other news I bought some clothes yesterday at the new mall, so I had a major blast and ate a killer submarine sandwich. Anyways most of them were green and my mom wasn’t so thrilled with some of my choices, threatening me with a haircut, which I definitely need. My hair bugs me right now. Mhm, tomorrow I will steal some time to buy a new MP3 Player, which will have 2 GB memory and it’s black with green display. I fell in love with it. Yum!

Tomorrow morning will be my appointment with the dermatologist and then I have to figure out when I will visit a beautician for the face and etc. etc. etc. I think I made this quite the long post despite thinking it would be short. Mhm, weirdness. Okay, bye bye for now.

The to do list: "Become Socially Active"

2008-07-05T11:15:52Z

Okay, I think I have officially forgotten this blog and the likes and it's not that I haven't got anything to say. I usually do, even if it isn't about my life. It's that I have been tackled down by worker's fatigue. Yup and this coupled with usually lazy Harry, produces a very apathetic Harry, who doesn't care much about anything apart from eating pizza.

So I am trying to win the battle with both the weight and being a lazy bun. Today I will be making my way to a yoga center with my artist friend Svetla to find our center and stretch and calm and energize without five cups of coffee a day. I hope to make it there twice a week or so. After that I am off to summer villa for relaxation. I brought me a thin anthology "Down to a Sunless Sea" and expect to be swept away by it. We finally have some friends from Germany coming as guests to us and it's a chance to use my rusty German.

Of course my aim is to write as much as possible and finish one of those pesky little chapters and get closer to finishing the novel. I really am giddy to type the end. It's a rather unhealthy zealous hopping around, knowing that yes you are gonna write your first coherent not copy-pasted novel. Too much energy, besides I wish some time to work on my novellas and shorts tories, while I outline "Car Crash Dummy" and plan revisions.

After Sunday, comes the day to restore strict scheduling. I will be buying a gym membership for making those loose mass formations into something acceptable for clothing industry, because I have hard tiem finding myself proper clothes, since my shape is well more spilling (if that can be used to describe Unmuscled). So we have gym, yoga and now something academic. I will be starting Greek lessons. I was very wary of whether to seriously start or not, since I am quarter Greek, but learning that German stole rule for rule the Greek grammer, I said to myself, why the heck not.

You know I think I will be very, very beat this summer. I have no idea how I will maintain the review blog and write and read and write reviews and blog- blog. I also asked for more books by authors and applied for a reviewing position at Urban Fantasy Land. Alchemmuse was really into asking people so I applied, because you can never have enough reviewing gigs. Yup, I am in for a very dynamic summer.

Chop me up and throw my pieces in a bath full of Piranas

2008-07-01T07:25:24Z

I really wished that the first moment I had free to blog was supposed to anounce something happy like how me and my artist friend Svetla managed to get so much done with the comic book, or how the post office isn't really stealing my packages of books (thank god for that), or how good I feel with my job although I hate my collegues and such, but no all I get to report is yet another tsunami on my family's financial life.

We have multiple debts to one bank and three credits we are supposed to pay plus the most recent 1000 dollar debts for the new PC monitor and my literature classes, which I really needed for the exams otherwise I would have been a gonner, but come to think about it I feel guilty. Now the new bank we applied for a loan has said no, due to the other bank loan we are still paying off and the fact that we are labeled as "irregular", whatever that means.

Good news is that I can pay for the half of it, mainly for my tutoring and well the bad news is that my sallary for both months July and August will go for it. My mom is on the brink of a psychological and emotional crisis and well we are applying for a credit card in order to payy off the latter part of the debt. After this we will be having trouble only dealing with monthly payments, but what worries me is that we end up in this position every year. Every year happens so that we need to loan money around 3000$ or levas, which is our currency, but with the dollar falling it's practically the same. My father knows nothing about loans and the likes, because if that happens we get screwed, cause he likes to psychologically make you feel worthless for not bringing enough money. Seeing your mother cry is not something you would like to see, especially when you witness how her boss, a blond bimbo neurotic, degrades her ever day.

Is it normal for an 18 year old boy to lie about 90% of his and his mother's day and feel like 58, because I feel tremendously old. It's not whinning, just a constatation. If my life is beginning right now and I feel old, then I don't think that I will get must zest to live it.

Just to make a point, we have a pre-teen little girl, who in two years will be a teen and with education and demands getting bigger I can't see what will happen to help change matters for the best. I am thinking of selling my liver on the black market, which despite being a bad joke, sounds like a great idea to end the financial disasters, when they strike. Of course it wouldn't be bad to heek up with a nice young billionare, who will love me eternally and help us out occassionally.

*sigh*

Weekly Geeks #9 and Giveaway Funness [Is that even a word?]

2008-06-27T09:27:46Z

Blogging comes harder and harder these days with the constant heat blasts and my unwise decisions to go out the week nights and get friendly with the bottle. Although I don’t overdo the drinking part, mornings at 7 am can be quite painful, so this is a belated post regarding my reading progress and challenges, partly to set things straight and well to play in Weekly Geeks #9, whose theme this week was challenges. Here are the rules quoted straight from our headquarters “Hidden Side of a Leaf”:

1. If you participate in any challenges, get organized! Update your lists, post about any you haven’t mentioned, add links of reviews to your lists if you do that, go to the challenge blog if there is one and post there, etc.

2. If you don’t participate in any challenges, then join one! There’s a good selection of possibilities over on my right hand sidebar (scroll down) where I list those I participate in. There’s also A Novel Challenge, a blog that keeps track of all sorts of reading challenges.

3. Towards the end of the week, write a wrap-up post about getting your challenges organized OR if you’re joining your first challenge, post about that any time during the week. Once you have your post up, come back and sign Mr Linky with the link to the specific post, not just to your blog.

I shall begin with the real part of the post and “Herding Cats Challenge”. Here is how I stand with my three main books for the challenge. I am certain that I will have time for the next three:

“Left Hand of Darkness” by Ursula Le Guin ~ READ: I can’t really believe that I had to go throw three different novels al from the Hainish cycle to get to this one, which is deemed as one of the best titles in the genre. I personally am left with mixed feelings as I am in awe with Ursula Le Guin’s worldbuilding and symbolism behind it all, but as a story I didn’t quite enjoy it as it had a tough journey through ice and well winter is not one of my interests, so I didn’t quite like it as much. Review is yet to follow.

“Persuasion” by Jane Austin ~ READ: Quite frankly after reading “Pride and Prejudice” I was left with the impression that every Austin novel is a surprise packet as that one, but well “Persuasion” didn’t quite do it for me. Too much narrative for the book’s own good and it was quite boring at the beginning, but the ending was so much pleasurable. Review is yet to follow.

“Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Bronte ~ READING: This will take time as I am caught in a love triangle between three books at the moment, so progress is low, but I am quite entertained by what the novel has to offer. Mr. Rochester and Jane certainly develop an awkward sort of friendship. I can’t wait for more.

Now let’s proceed to my other interesting reading projects:

“The Summoner” by Gail Z. Martin ~ READING: I am gonna lock myself at home these three or four days so that I can finish it once and for all, as I have been dragging it quite the while and I need the review. It isn’t bad, but well it’s more like an epic fantasy of no great innovations or greatness, but it’s interesting nonetheless.

“Witchember” by John Lawson ~ READING: This novel is a sort of disciple of the Tolkien style of fantasy, but I love its grittiness. I am enjoying this one immensely and can’t wait to read it as fast as I can, which is a bit impossible, since I have way too much to do and oh brother, I need me some clones. I particularly enjoy how magic is being portrayed and it's almost constant use, which doesn't seem like overdoing it.

Now for the grand finale, I am hosting my first giveaway over at “Temple Library Reviews” and it has one of the best urban fantasy novels “Black Magic Woman”!!!!!

You can find my review on the same site HERE!
Have a cool day everyone!

Most Needed Getaway

2008-06-24T14:29:47Z

I actually planed to post on Monday, but you know how lazy people sit comfortably on their favorite chairs and have the tendency to watch way too many movies at one sitting. So Sunday was one of the best days in my life. My grandmother called from our summer villa and it was time to move the furniture from the city to our villa in the city of Biala (means white in English) and so off we were on Saturday night and arrived 40 minutes later to a great welcoming dinner and a very comfortable bed. I slept 12 hours straight!

I needed the rest and well the whole change of scenery to nature and way less unnatural heat, which made the 90 degrees quite pleasent with the cool sea breeze, which in Varna dies 3 feet from the shore. The house has been repainted and ready for use for the tourists that come to stay for like three weeks. It's our summer piggy bank, but we have some unfortunate water problems with the pipes and sewege. Bad water company. No matter, we still have a spot of running water, enough for our needs and the garden. The grapevines have all crawled in teh right places with the right abundance of leaves, leaving the lounge spot of the garden perfectly cooled. We have mainly flowers up, daisies and roses. The veregtables are yet to grow and the trees are in full productivity. One of the hazel nut branches broke off by its own weight and the plum tree is threatenning to collapse. Just good times.

We went to the beach in the late afternoon, when the sun was near sunset and the water was just fine. My sister got a major kick out of it all as she lives for about a month there already and well she is too young to go to the beach alone, so she can just dream until we come. I am happy for her. But I have the most reason to be glad of the day as I managed to write quite the bunch. In the short run I managed to write 8 pages in my journal and in the long I stand around 48 K from 80 K, which is damn close to finishing the fateful manuscript. I can hopefully add the meters to my LJ for evidence, although my Blogger looks crappy with them as the HTML code wants to thrust something sharp in my behinds.

Of course my creativity doesn't end with that. I started my fateful poetry book project "Landscapes of Far Away Places. Portraits of Godesses, Muses and Sacred Graces", which is a 32 poem gathering of stories surrounding mythycal aspects of the feminine side. I got the opening poem done "Storyteller's Heart", which was easy, but the editing will kill me I am sure. In the meantime I threw some ideas for the first slide of the comic book and it's cover and read for my review blog. Not quite bad.

So how was your weekend people?

Temple Library Reviews or The Linky Post

2008-06-19T16:49:09Z

The new system for my routine actually worked and I am left with a bit more free time than I initially expected. So before I go to work I wake up at 7 am and write my reviews then. Afterwards I read until my mother is done and we go to work. I write for one hour there during my lunch break after eating of course and then after work I can watch movies and blog freely with minor reading and writing sessions. Yay for the new plan!

I haven’t been able to post about my review blog and how things are going for those, who are not exactly addicted to such form of blogging. “Temple Library Reviews” grew on me quite faster and evolved beyond my imagining. Reviewing books is like a second job, one that is much more pleasurable than any other kind of work and I love it. At first I just wanted a separate blog for my thoughts on books, since this is a blog for my thoughts on writing. Now however I am more determined to strike at the heart of the industry with what books come out, what is trendy and what is not and everything else that comes in between. And of course read the newest and present reviews that satisfy potential readers.

After I started co-blogging at the Fantasy and Sci-Fi Lovin’ Book Reviews I acquainted publishing houses like Solaris Books and Juno Books. Through these types of blogs I receive e-books from Tor-Forge, which makes an indirect reviewer for them with no connection, but that still counts as I have still to come to their titles. By pure chance I also managed to get hold of the marketing manager of Avon and Eos books, divisions of Harpecollins and soon I will be provided with titles I otherwise would never get, because of the whole geography thing and lack of translation.

So now I will co-blog for The Book Swede, if his books ever make it to me, damn that post office service. And with time I started receiving requests for review from authors and small publishing houses, which is also very good. But because of low space at home expect some funky giveaways soon!

Oh and by the way people, don’t forget to pass through to read about the awesome adventures of Jared in the movie version of “The Spiderwick Chronicles”. Weeeeeeee…….

When Lazy People Work There is No Time for Anything Else

2008-06-18T19:54:30Z

Oh, the woes of the working people. I swear I can barely do anything creative around here, since I work. Yesterday and today were pretty tough days at the office with massive scandals and changes and of course work. We still have our telephones cut, which makes my boss more neurotic and homicidal than an aggravated tiger starved for three weeks and electrocuted in a cage. Anyways I finally have a desk with a functioning PC on it so I can send reservations and print them with no problems. My machine hopping days are over with. Thank god for that, but work has been tough. These two days I did around 300 vouchers aka reservations, which usually contain three names, so that makes 900 names, surnames, arrival dates and so on typed by these fingers. Thank god for the copy paste button. This however leaves me completely tired and preoccupies my day fully.

The reason I skipped blogging yesterday was because of my exam results. I am overjoyed with my English exam: 5.91 from 6.00 maximum, but literature is a sudden failure for me as it happens I have 5.43 from 6.00, when the average from my likely intellectual friends is 5.67 and above. Heck my shallow friend that thinks only of shopping has 5.91. Friday I will receive my work back and with my teacher we shall see how bad I had written the essay, since from the test I scored a whole 98%, which leaves the explanation that I did so terribly on the analysis part that they gave me almost to none points. Can you feel the sweet sting of irony? Get it? Me writer + bad grade at writing = karma rolls on the floor laughing. It gnaws me inside, although I am quite thankful this grade doesn’t play a greater role in my application for college.

Still I decided not to be pissed and sour and went out to celebrate that we passed the exams with my gals over at dinner and then at a cocktail or two. It all ended aroudn midnight, because I was extremely tired. Brain fatigue plus alchohol equals conscious sleeping, so I took a cab and well home I was to sleep and well today I am on 6 hours of sleep with heat waves all over the city. Not a refreshing day I must add. Of course I have no time to hop around blogs and I can barely keep up with people. Blah!

Anyways, Movie Week is full steam ahead with the 2007 masterpiece “August Rush”, reviewed by yours truly at the Temple Library Reviews.

The Update Post or The Chronicles of the Ever Vanishing Man {Long Post}

2008-06-16T18:52:31Z

{Artwork yet again from the ever amazing Wen-M}

So after another weird disappearance I came back. This time I was having major technical difficulties dealing with a very faulty Windows system, which all ended with a reinstallation of my PC and so on. Right now quite is going on in my life, even if everything is a string of tiny events. I don’t get to talk much about the tidbits of my existence.

Today I met my coworker at the office, who turns out to be the daughter of my godparents and well we went into major chit chat to catch up with what we missed around the years we have been out of contact. She is in the capital studying sociology and we don’t get to see each other much and we never were very close, but still very friendly to each other. Anyways it was quite fun sharing what happens with my life and so on. She is ecstatic about me being a writer and wants to read something of mine, which makes me think that I really need to edit my newest short stories, which sadly stay at hiatus, while I combat novel project.

Speaking of “Forged in Blood” I am on the final five chapters and Samantha is learning the ropes of being a femme fatale + bitch. She has it in her, just the transition from humility to I-can-kill-you-without-moving sort of aura is weird for her, although she likes it. Nearing the end I am seeing some loose ends mainly to deal with the other characters, which seem to fade away and I can’t allow this unfortunate sight. I decided to add a subplot with the second villain for the ending and well add some vignettes with different POV characters in the beginnings, but this will happen during revisions hopefully. They seem still too far away. I feel crappy today, so no writing sadly, but with a headache and upset stomach it’s best not to self torture brain. I will try to go to bed at 10 pm instead of midnight, which I usually do.

Hope that helps, cause I really look forward to ending this novel for three reasons: 1) I can show myself that yes, indeed I have the needed consistence to actually finish a novel, no matter how fickle and lazy I can get; 2) the ending is the best part of the novel for me, because I like evil overpowering women with sluttish behavior and knack for sadism; 3) I can’t wait to start my new project. Originally I thought of writing a paranormal romance of sorts with milder apocalyptic themes and more relationship with splendor of setting. However in my head formed three words after I hit my mom’s car: “Car Crash Dummy”. Add to that a horny possessive demon, a female exorcist and one of the Seven Deadly Sins and you get a weird tale that has to be told.

I also decided to venture out into a new medium that I always wanted to write for aka comic books. I have an artist, my darling model/photographer/soul mate of weirdness and art Svetlozara, to draw for me, while I write the storyline and such. She needs this too on her portfolio for her college application, so it’s a win-win. We are using my novella idea “Twisted” with the apocalyptic world and all. I swear I will write that one someday. I will send her comic book art so that she can start reading and practicing with the proper design. I have no idea when this will be ready, but it’s cool.

While we are the topic of visual arts: I am rescheduling my big “flashy” photo session for later in July, when I will have free Sundays for sure and till we figure out, where we can shoot in peace on Sunday, since people don’t usually work on Sundays. Before that one, we will do some classic black and white photos and one photo session with gothic words written all over her body. I want her to get them actually painted on her skin, so they look like tattoos and not use Photoshop for the words. We still have to figure out how to do this one.

With my PC back in action I have Movie Week resumed. I will post all in all 8 movies since last time I failed and I still have hard time choosing what movie is unique and specific enough to make the cut. The theme for the week is pretty vague, so I just choose memorable, strange movies with a different concept from the typical storylines. Today’s post is about the satirical comedy “The Onion Movie” ~ Be sure to check it out!

I still have much to talk about, but that will be for another post.

Car Crash Prone... "Hello, is this the car morgue? Oh, hi Billy . Yeah, it's me again."

2008-06-09T17:09:22Z

Oh, life is this deceiving dance of tango. You make one step forward and you feel so shiny and squeaky and then come the two steps back with a twirl and bang shit happens. So it was the very bad idea of my mom to help me overcome my fear of cars and teach me how to drive. I have this fear of sitting behind the wheel and driving, even though I have had a license for like a year now I don’t drive. Scared shitless. However I was stupid enough to say yes and thirty seconds later I banged the car into another car. Thank God it was parked and the impact was minimal with some shallow damage, but still it’s gonna cost money and well I think I have to pay this stupidity of mine. My mom was very supportive as I was one inch from fainting. I ain’t joking when I say I have a phobia of driving, I have no idea how I survived work. My dad seems to take it a bit more patiently as well, mainly because it’s my mom’s car and all. He is pissed that we have no money and have to pay and that my mom decided to succumb me to driving. All of this could have been avoided if I have said “NO”, but how can you refuse your mother. Nobody can! Especially, when you still live with her.

Anyways off to job related drama. My boss, who is this Neurotic Wreck for the Planet of Unorderly Chaos, decided to change my functions in the office and have me do transfers, which as she explains is responsible because “If you make a mistake, we can only find out way too late and many people will be left with no transport”. Worse is that my new desk is in her room, next to her and god dam it her voice gives me headaches. I am so gonna whine about this one. Good thing is that she is out of the office pretty much of the time and I am isolated, so nobody can spy on me, when I decide to read some blogs. Muahaha…

Now for the fun stuff: It’s “Random Movie Week” at my review blog Temple Library Reviews. Each day I will post a review of a randomly chosen movie that I really liked. So my Monday choice for this week is the enchanting French musical “Love Songs”.

Mr. Meme!

2008-06-08T18:38:09Z

Ah, I am very comfortable with my new routine. Suddenly I find myself doing everything I wanted in a creative aspect and I manage to work and still be somewhat fresh. I just wonder how long this will last. Writing wise I am happy to announce that chapter 9 is finished and Samantha is on her way to the land of big bad girls waiting for her initiation. I am doing 6 pages a day in my journal and that is the new count although word wise I have no idea how many words I produce. At least I am getting things done and I have six more chapters to go before this incredibly short novel is done. Well the initial draft that is.

Now off to the main menu of this post and mainly the whole meme and tagging business. So chronologically speaking I was first tagged by MusicLover and because of that I will do hers first. The meme is called the “Five Things Meme” and I present thee the rules:

1. The rules of the game get posted at the beginning.
2. Each player answers the questions about themselves.
3. At the end of the post, the player then tags five people, and posts their names, then goes to their blog and leaves them a comment, letting them know they've been tagged.
4. Let the person who tagged you know when you've posted your answer.

What five things were you doing five years ago?

1) Being Tortured at School
2) Fighting Evil Monsters in my Mind
3) Scribbling down the Bits of my Insanity
4) Reading the Insanity of other People
5) Watched too many Movies

What are five things on your to-do list for today (in no particular order)?

1) Finish this blog post, duh!
2) Make my still none existing Queen size Victorian bed
3) Check my mail for another 10 times at least
4) Start reading a new novel
5) Sing a duet with Tori Amos on a stage

What are five snacks you enjoy?
1) Chocolate in Industrial Quantities
2) Specially baked differently filled dough snakes
3) Pizza
4) Icecream
5) French Fries

What five things would you do if you were a billionaire?
1) Buy a HUGE old Victorian Mansion
2) Buy best education ever
3) Run a chain of successful and luxurious book store-cafes
4) Donate a huge amount of the welth
5) Invest the rest

What are five of your bad habits?
1) Procrastination
2) Biting my nails
3) Hurting people, because I think it’s funny
4) Gluttony
5) Chew on strange objects

What are five places you've lived?
1) Summer villa
2) My house, duh
3) With the Queen of Britain, we were roomies
4) There was this unfortunate accident and I made Paris Hilton lend me her house
5) Calvin Klein’s ranch for a while, since he had to use me as a muse for his work

What are five jobs you've had?
1) Tour Guide
2) Office Job
3) Translator
4) Made Transfers
5) Simultaneous Translator

Okay, but since I believe in being fair and democratic with people I leave this one open. I invite and tag anyone, who likes to play this one.

Now off to Lady Blue and the all too familiar 123 page tag, which everyone still adores. I know I still do. *grins*

1. Pick up the book closest to you, right at this moment (no cheating you literary types!)
2. Open the book to page 123
3. Scroll down 5 lines
4. Share the 6th line with us by writing it in your post, making sure you add the book's title and its author as well
5. Complete the tag by tagging 5 other bloggers
6. And please do the favour of including a link in your post to the blogger that tagged you!

So for me it is “The Left Hand of Darkness” by Ursula Le Guin. This time for real. I hate when people name anthologies in two volumes with the work that is in volume two. Grr!

Pg. 123, line 6: “Here he would have received a much harsher punishment than exile.”

Once again I am being liberal and all that want can play the game. Yey! And now to conclude this post I shall share what kind of cookie I am!

You Are a Black and White Cookie

You're often conflicted in life, and you feel pulled in two opposite directions.

When you're good, you're sweet as sugar. And when you're bad, you're wicked!

What Kind of Cookie Are You?

The Recipe For harry

3 parts Sensitivity

2 parts Sass

1 part Craftiness

Splash of Instinct

Finish off with whipped cream

What's the Recipe for Your Personality?

So I got to play Photographer... Beware

2008-06-07T18:18:22Z

Ah, well I received the photos from Thursday's photosession, which we called "Photosession with Stimulants" as we gulped down a bottle of wine in the process and then played "shoot me, shoot me with the camera and let's see what happens". I fear that sadly I won't make a very good photographer as my hands are rather shaky. Anyways I played with the different effects and altered the pics so that in the end they seem a bit better. The model is my dear friend in weirdness Svetla.

(Desolate)

This was taken in between photos, when my gracious model decided to use the ladie's room and I found myself looking at trees. In order to make a tribute to one of the most frequent photo concepts in history I present "Desolate".

(Unhinged)

This one was one of the first chronologically speaking to make the final cut and although I like the composition the light was awful, so I played with it and I have no idea whether it is any good or not, you decide. I think it's OKish for a first attempt.

(Anemia)

Mhm, again not one of the most original poses, but it is still nice to watch. Due to my shaky hands and the fact that I had to kneel down, the photo cam eout hazy and well I could do little to make it look better.

(Charcoal Dryad)

Oh, my nostalgia and affinity towards Greek myths and trees. I always love how people can pose with trees although it may not always work out fine. Right now I am quite happy with what I have here.

(Tempest in Black)

We spend half and hour trying to take the perfect shot, while in movement and this is like around 70% of what I wanted to happen. I especially loved how the hair looks like mist, quite nice for something that happens by sheer luck if you are not properly geared.

(Out of the Grave)

During changing the scenery we found a hole and well I can't pass up a perfectly good pit, so um I made Svetla be evil, which she enjoyed and snapped this quick.

(Lethargy)

Now this for me is the pearl in the whole session and I had the pleasure of not screwing this photo up with my woobly hands. The end result for me is simply wow.

(WAZZ UP!)

Of course along the way we fooled around and Svetla got all rocker evil metal witch with me and yes I screwed by stepping forward thus shaking, but I made the photo look even more damaged to counter the bluriness. Interesting.

(Chased)

That is me playing around with a stray dog, which was so cute. The end result is this and I must admit it's quite hilarious.

ME + WORK = WHAAAA?!?!?

2008-06-06T18:10:04Z

{PS: The always amazing artwork with massive fantasy proportions comes from one of the greatest artists for me Wen-M}

Well I am most slowly coming back into my routine connected with the Internet world and it’s quite hard as I still have to ease many of my activities around my two summer jobs (who would have guessed that I would work at two places, I would never have, how it happened is beyond me). So today has been the second official day for me at work at the traveling agency I work for. My role is to act as a medium between tourist agencies and hotels. Tourist agencies send me the data for the stay of the tourist as in what type of room, how many people, what kind of meals, transfer and flights. I have to simply take this data and enter it in a special program, which sums it up in a nice table with the needed numerical signs for the archives. After that I send the table to the hotel with the number of reservation and wait. That is simply it. Of course these requests are infrequent so I order pages in folders, buy lunch for the gang or run errands in the city. The job no matter how repetitive it can be is so far fun and my coworkers are all nice to work with except this blond fat cow that simply goes on my nerves.

I am wondering how I will manage to do all the fun summery stuff, when this job is from Monday through Saturday and I have an additional job as a translator at a five star hotel for the lectures of some diet expert on Sundays. I will be going nutty. I just hope that the damn diet program decides to leave the coast faster and get the hell up the mountains, where I won’t be needed. Hehe! ;)

Anyways yesterday was quite a busy day and I would have posted then, but my cooky friend Svetla called and we had the usual chit chat over a bottle of wine in the park and did some photos in the park as in an improvised photo session. I hope to get the needed pictures from her to upload.

Around this week I think I will be able to hop around everyone’s blog to make my presence known to the masses, since I said hi to all of those I could.

Over and out.

ETA: Excuse me, but do you all seriously think you can OUTdecorate me! ME! Ugh, uh! The glove is thrown and this is what I slap you all with. Simply magic!

I updated Garden of Art with a new poem of mine and created a new blog for reading challenges aka The Catalog of Challenges (Just so you know it won't be updated much, but I like to have content seperated from this blog)

Back in Business

2008-06-04T17:01:31Z

So kiddies I am back. I am not sure how active I will be from now on, because I suffer constant fatigue as if I am being constantly drained. Now with my new job starting tomorrow I have no idea how I will incorporate summer vacationing and doing all that reading and writing, while I will be stuck in an office.

Anyways I know I promised to post some pictures from the Prom, but it turned out that I couldn’t afford a camera. Blasted repair center, couldn’t get it working on time, so all my material will have to be gathered from the hundreds of other people’s cameras I have come to use on that day. Pictures will come later. Otherwise the Prom itself went perfectly. There is not much to say actually. We drank, we ate, we danced and we partied till 3 am. The hotel was worth its money and the menu was exquisite. I was on win the whole time in order to remember everything the next day and I got the pleasure to dance with all the important ladies during my high school days. I slept heavenly on a bed which was like a cloud stolen from heaven and was large enough to fit my whole size without curling up.

Now back to the exams. I am very pleased in how I faired in both exams. I made only two mistakes in my literature one and I think my grade will be around A, but it all depends how well I penned my essay. I am a bit pissed about the English one, since it was my best field and yet I managed to get sick and doing and exam with a headache and upset stomach lowers your mad skills, so in the end I made like 8 mistakes, which is not that fatal, but still I could have avoided half of them if I was not sick.

And that’s about it actually. Nothing else happened these days apart from studying and the likes. Glad to be back!

Radio Silence

2008-05-13T17:56:02Z

I am going away for some weeks below the blog radar, because my exams are in the beginning of June and I have too many authors to prepare for. Now it's time to sit down and enjoy an intense literature training. To top it off I will have to plan my prom and stuff like that, so expect me after beginning of June.

Over and Out
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Playing Catch-Up is going to be the end of me... ;-)

2008-05-10T18:41:36Z

{PS: This amazing pciture comes from none other than Stephanie Pui-Mun Law from Shadowscapes}

I took two days of off air time and when I come back I get over swamped with information. It seems that for the two days I have been missing too many updated their blogs. My blog tour only finished with all the blogs on Blogger, which leaves my LJ people for tomorrow. I never knew life could be so hectic and I am so stopping adding people on my blog roll. I love new acquaintances, but I am getting a bit overwhelmed with the data. Anyways if someone thinks I am not showing enough on their blog, simply know that I am reading, but can’t afford to comment.

So let’s move to my life. Thursday got me drained with the German graduation party since we all passed the special German exam and now carry the piece of paper stating we can speak almost as good as a German would. The day put me in panic mode since I had no formal clothing and had to mix a strange combo with weird clothes. This reminds me that with the money from my summer job I will update my closet. Of course Thursday and Friday had me in another aspect since I went to a beautician about the dark spots on my face and I died, since she squeezed them and shocked them with electricity. Ouch!

Friday I saw my friend photographer/artist/sword fighter Svetla and drank wine in the Sea Garden among nature. We chatted about projects and how she was going to play into a replay of an old swordfight over my home city Varna in the medieval ages and I am so going to watch. We decided to start a web comic together and possibly create the perfect idea for anime and then sell it to a Japanese company and see our baby developed. But those are just wild dreams like my grand computer game scheme.

Friday brought many new books as well. Almost full list with cover art on “Temple Library Reviews”:
~ “Black Magic Woman” by Justin Gustainis
~ “The Summoner” by Gail Z. Martin
~ “The Blood King” by Gail Z. Martin
~ “Spirit Gate” by Kate Elliot
~ “Witchember” by John Lawson
~ “Brida” by Paulo Coehlo

I made a new decision. I will write my novel on a journal and then during rewrites revert to the PC. I found writing by hand to be more fast, efficient and gripping. The same amount of words, 1K to be exact, written on hand takes faster and I barely notice pass. My thoughts have time to fully form and my hand keeps up with my brain and vice versa. The PC makes my eyes hurt and I get distracted easily by Google. Bad Google!! So I am on the hunt for new journals and made my friend Alex, that amazing gal, to bring me some from her dad’s firm as they have too many, but I am not sure, because they have salamis on their covers. Considering her dad works in the meat product business is the bad side.

I decided to enroll in two new reading challenges, which will make me die! I know, but I would love to read all those books! One is the Jane Austin challenge, which I can win easily since it involves at least two novels and the other is the Classics challenge, where I have to read six novels. And on a side note I am a member of the Geek Week. I am a nut when it comes to books so I wanna socialize with people with the same interests.

Blessed Be Goddess of Wednesday!

2008-05-07T19:16:32Z

Oh, Wednesday was kind. Thank you, goddess of Wednesday, for being so nice to me today. Creativity wise that is. I somehow dodged through my bad writing time and scribbled the same scene in school. The dialogue is still a bit strange sounding, but from then on I managed to get inside Samantha and write the scene with the fear and anxiety. There is something in the old fashioned way of writing with pen and paper that lets your thoughts flow and develop in a steady pace, following your hands and while you are writing the sentences, other form fluidly without being rushed. I also was at school and had nothing better to do in literature class. We were discussing the biography of another author and he gave tasks for homework, which will give us final grades instead of a test. I am singing Hallelujah right now.

So I covered my mark of 1K, even though it’s in my notebook, still eligible and very interesting how my scene ended with the 1K mark. I always good at flash fiction, but this is ridiculous. Anyways I started reading a new book: “Dark maiden”, which is a paranormal including Japanese elements like fox demons.

I also posted a review on a very funny short story called “Unique Chicken goes Reverse”. So if you are interested, be sure to visit Temple Library Reviews.

Before I forget I did my first themed post on mythology on my “Garden of Art” blog. I really like these themed posts on cool topics that I like to ramble about. I barely have the opportunity here since it’s my writing and personal blog aka whining also. So different the feeling and yet exciting.

Leisa, darling! My gut sensed a tragedy. It rained today, massive torrent, while I was waiting for the bus and there was even hail. Thank god daddy was there and drove me to school. Yeah, dad!

Writing Woes! Ah the melodrama...

2008-05-06T17:34:02Z

It was a very unproductive Tuesday by creativity standards. So I went out to study, yes? I did and even helped my sister with her homework and I think something must have snapped in my mind frame, since I could barely get into my writing mood. I produced 500 words, which sounded hollow, if the first draft is the skeleton of a novel than these 500 words had no marrow inside. I think that it has to do something with thinking analytically because of the Literature prep for the test and then getting into poetry mood to write some haikus. Must have short circuited my brain on that one. Funny really. It’s strange, because I also got an anxiety attack at the same time. I have this gut feeling that something bad is going to happen, pretty much like animals get restless before an earthquake. Now it’s beeping again and I am super not focused. Gee, must be fire and brimstone coming soon.

Good thing is that I found out how to write chapter nine. The standard linear way wasn’t going to help me since the chapter carries a very neurotic and scattered spirit, since Samantha is suffering. So I am glad that I happened to have read “Amberlight” since there Sylvia uses a method of telling the story is short fragments and this particular technique will help me spare words and get the story working. However I have trouble getting inside her head and making it more dramatic. My natural preferences go towards the witty, sarcastic characters that snort and retort. My project however involves timid, scared, desperate and schizophrenic. So I see this as a potential problem at several spots, the more emotionally loaded ones that need internals and show characterization. The plan is to write those spots the way they come and mark them on word with comments and try to get into Samantha’s skin during the edits, when the story is ready and only layering is needed.

So on side notes I managed to watch the end of season 1 of “Blood Ties” and even got the nice review with it to post on my review blog. I also posted to my newest blog “Garden of Art”. And that is about it really.

Neurotic start of the week! I need a scythe.

2008-05-05T18:48:48Z

Monday has proven itself to be a very neurotic day as I tried to study and well did so until I used my half an hour brake to start my new blog. Well it turned to four hours of starting the blog of trying to find the right template with three columns, which didn’t happen. I read about how to add some background images, that third column. The first didn’t work so I stuck with the green, while the second also didn’t work. I downloaded the perfect after another long search, but the header option didn’t want to work, so I deleted the whole, cursing a lot and reverted to standard blog template. So here we go now. “Garden of Art” is officially up and running, although it still needs tweaking with the widgets. I posted for the first time there and hope it has success. I have to say that Lady Blue, Bellezza, Tanabata and Carl V have been a major inspiration to start it.

Anyways I wrote to several publishers in hopes to start a professional relationship as a review blogger for them. Hopefully they will say yes, so that I can die happy, knowing that I am going to be reading books for a long time. I managed to read “Amberlight” and posted my review at “Temple Library Reviews”. In the mean time I am waiting for Sylvia Kelso’s reply to my interview invitation. Hopefully he says yes as well. In the mean time I have two boiling hot interviews in the making and one even hotter on the horizon.

So now let’s get back on the writing part. Today I finally wrote down some interesting facts about my character and she formed quite fully in my mind with all her flaws although I don’t know how to work some of those in the story. However she has some interesting strength and that is just super cool. The story is evolving with some very unexpected results so today was a don’t write day, until you outline the next chapters so that they work with the story. Really, really exciting, development.

{PS: The wonderful and amazing art comes from Vitaly Alexius aka alexiuss. The one above is called Feral Nova.}

Back from the Spring Cleaning

2008-05-04T17:39:14Z

{PS: I am posting my fave pics from one of the cycles in America's Next Top Model, which I so love.}

Such a long time since my last blog post, mainly because my house was a mess on Friday, although I hate myself, because I forgot to post on LJ on Thursday. Anyways Friday was a major pain in the butt since my dad was at work and we with mom had to paint the ceiling and put the wallpapers on. This all went on from 10 am to 9 pm with the additional pauses. I am not going to give out details on that day, because it was tiring and monotonous. Seriously my muscles ached after that. Damn those blasted unevenly shaped walls.

Saturday was way better since dad was at home and he helped mom finish the job and I snuck in my bed and spent the day half sleeping, half reading, making up for lost pages. Good day all in all for my lazy persona. In the end all the wallpapers are put, ceilings are painted, the floor is painted as well. Now today we cleaned out the dust, washed the windows, gave the flowers a bath and put the house back together until now. My grandparents returned with my sister from our village residence, where they were for the holidays and with them came many, many yummy treats.

Right now I am halfway through my blog jumping and in the beginning of “Indiana Jones” on TV. It’s been a productive weekend since I managed to write a rough 2K these two days on my novella “Clandestine Hearts”. I am working on several different projects every weekend to stir the writing juices. It’s a thing I should have done a long time ago, but I am lazy. Don’t mind me. On my to-do-list stands the search for a new journal. My fave black fake leather one is on Dec 04 and I am just on chapter 3 of “Clandestine Hearts” on it. I also have to arrange my pictures on my PC. So many, so chaotic.

I also plan the start of a new blog on Blogger. I have been inspired by all the people posting poetry, pictures, thoughts and all those tiny bits of something that provoke deep thoughts and me being a person, who likes these details and beautiful small things in life, I want to delve into that as well. My camera will finally be fixed, so I can go around and take pictures.

Anyways I posted a review on my newest top favorite movie “Stranger than Fiction”, which has a lot to do with books, so anyone interested can click on Temple Library Reviews.

A slight case of delirium

2008-04-30T15:02:49Z

New Words: 1, 463
Total Words: 29, 232

Deadline/Target: July
Reason for stopping: I couldn’t strain myself anymore, because the scene really demanded a lot of attention to detail.
Sample: Here she was running from starved shadow demon hounds, twice for the same week, and listened to a seductive male voice in her head, who urged her to step into puddles of blood that increased her speed. Quite frankly, she had no idea what was worse. Why does this happen to me? Persistent death attempts are reserved for the heroes.
Good things: I think I got a good action scene going on with introduction to the Nightmare dimension, although Samantha doesn’t quite know it. The vision is original in my opinion.
Bad things: This scene may be a bit too big for me to take at the first draft or at all, which is a pity. I have problem with my focus, getting deeper in her head and placing the internals at the right time. I am relaxed though, cause eventually I will get it.
Real life: The weather is really strange today, since it rains and the sun is shining at the same time. It’s cold as well and my hands and feet feel like dead meat. I hate my slow blood circulation. Anyways I posted a review about my favorite anime “D.Gray Man” over at Temple Library Reviews.

Today I am going to sacrifice my hair in order to appease my parents. Disturbing, really. I want it a bit longer so that my damn cheeks won’t look like balloon fish, but whatever. It will grow back, it always does and hopefully will until I am 80.

I also estimated that I am waiting for ten marvelous books to arrive and sadly that calculation reminded me that I am going to fry at my Math test on the 13^th. Dear God how I hate unreal equations and trigonometry. I so hope for a C. That way I will get a B for this half of the year and combined with my A the first half I will have A for the year. Go me!

Of course I will fry in literature, because the same I have to write an essay as a test for my final grade and the authors suck. We have a communist poet with, about which we are forbidden to hint at communism (don’t ask, it’s complicated). Then comes an abstract poet, who writes about doors, windows, balconies, cars and wheels. Basically you read and shout “Say What???”. The third is not better as he is thought to be Bulgaria’s greatest story teller and in his short stories, absolutely nothing happens and yet my teacher manages to dip tons of symbolism lying underneath a coat for instance. I see doom looming over me. I see studying.

PS: I also have to help put the wallpapers back! Eek!

My fingers are typing! My fingers are typing!

2008-04-29T15:27:02Z

"Forged in Blood" ~ Adult Urban Fantasy

New Words: 2,004
Total Words: 27, 769
Deadline/Target: July
Reason for stopping: Had to write a review for my review blog

Sample: I hope there are some libraries here at least, she thought and stood to her feet. If everything seemed possible and loads of crap dumped on her head, she would better get a good book as a consolation prize. Her hair was tied in a large knot behind her head and she was ready to move. She trusted the paved streets to at least get her somewhere. The feel of uneven, but stone like material was her only beacon in the darkness apart from the burning tree leaves around the well and another flickering shine. The light was ivory white and ghastly. It blinked from time to time, giving her some sense of what her surroundings were.

Good things: I am writing again and this time I did twice as much as I usually do.
Bad things: I think that around 90% of what I wrote is written like crap and can be done better, thus more edits later. Ugh.
Real life: I wrote a new review at Temple Library Reviews about “Taste of Night” by Vicki Pettersson, watched a zombie movie and won a copy of “Rogue” from a giveaway. Not a bad day.