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April 13, 2015

Teen Book Con 2015 | #teenbookcon


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Published on April 13, 2015 14:48

April 10, 2015

I’m Viking Obsessed! And No, It’s Not a Problem

The TV show “Vikings” has me a little enthralled right now. And I don’t care if it isn’t actually historically accurate. I just love it. Even though they killed off one of my favorite characters two weeks ago and I’m still mourning him. But there are plenty of other great characters to go around. (Am I seriously the only one who loves Floki? Watch him get killed off now that I said that. And I’m an episode behind…*bites nails*)


I’ve been looking up Viking hair tutorials online because Lagertha is BAMF! And so is her hair. Seriously, I LOVE that chick. One of the most bad ass bitches on television. And I personally think she looks an awful lot like Scarlett Johanson.


Lagertha


I’m looking up Nordic myths and getting to know their gods and goddesses through folklore and all the ancient pagan awesomeness. The history of their legends and the pagan Nordic gods is so rich and detailed.


I even listen to the score of “Vikings” and other pieces that are Nordic related while writing.




Trevor Morris’s score for the series is out of this world amazing. He also did some scoring for “The Tudors,” (I think…)


I know that this is not always true of all pagan cultures, but particularly the druids and some of the Viking tribes treated their women very well. They could hold titles, divorce their husbands, own land, and fight alongside their men in battle. So naturally being a feminist and a martial artist, I am totally digging this little snippet of history. It was even said that Julius Caesar claimed that his men got particularly afraid when they saw female druids taking to the battlefields beside their men because they were such vicious warriors. The druids (not sure about Vikings as they believed in Valhalla), believed that once they were killed in battle, they would be reincarnated. Therefore they had no fear of death. So they fought tooth and nail without fear. Something that other people didn’t really understand at the time.


Anyway, if you have followed me for any length of time or have seen my Pinterest page, you would know that I did all this ancient tribal stuff. So I had to take a few minutes this morning to share.


And on a side note, LaDollyVita333 on YouTube does the most amazing Lagertha hair tutorials in the world.



This has been a blog post.


;-)


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Published on April 10, 2015 07:57

March 23, 2015

March 9, 2015

Can Hate Be Healthy?

I’m developing a theory at the moment. A theory that might be a bit unpopular, but I am convinced might be a good thing.


Hate can be healthy. For an author at least. I mean this in the sense that I have been going over some of my old work recently. Stories that I once championed and thought were the best thing in the world. We have to think of our stories this way while writing them, otherwise they would never get finished. I write because what I am working on when I am working on it is really cool inside my head.


Then I edit it. My love for it grows deeper. It might even come around to infatuation. “Wow! This is the best thing I’ve ever written,” is a common thing I sometimes say to myself.


Then…after a while (mostly after publishing) the bad reviews start to roll in. I get great ones. I get ones that are downright mean and I doubt a human being would actually say to my face. It’s just so much easier to say it through an anonymous computer screen.


Recently, I started editing old works. And the hate within myself starting coming out to play. My thoughts quickly drifted into the nature of “Why did I think this was worthy of other human eyes? Well, it’s not THAT bad actually. But it ain’t great. Eh…it’s good practice. Hopefully my new stuff is better.”


It turns into hate once in a while. Then I come around to the notion that you’re supposed to suck before you can be truly good at something. It’s all a part of the process. Then I have some people who send me messages saying they really liked something I wrote. And then I will think to myself, “Who cares if it’s not my best. If one person out there liked it, then it accomplished what I wanted it to accomplish.” And there is no other feeling like that. If my book gives one other person out there the feeling that I got while writing it, then my job was perhaps well done.


So here I sit, editing some of my old work (mainly because some nasty reviews told me that my editing skills are below par, but let’s be fair and realize that I am doing this alone). Thinking to myself, “Why do I look at this thing I once loved with loathing?”


I guess it means that I’m getting better. I try to remain proud of the work I accomplished, but it’s not always easy.


I think to get better as a writer, you need to love what you are writing while you’re writing it. To the end of the first draft. Then fall out of love for a little while. Just so you can see it through the eyes of someone who might not like it even in the slightest. Therefore, you can potentially make it better. My problem is that I look at it and have evil thoughts of unpublishing. If anyone ever hears of me doing that, slap me. Truly, slap me. Because I�� think that we need to suck before we can get better. It’s important to look at your work with an evil eye as much as it is to adore it.


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Published on March 09, 2015 14:36

February 27, 2015

February 2015 Wrap Up / Mini Reviews | March TBR


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Published on February 27, 2015 12:02

February 21, 2015

Things I Regret | Things I Don’t Regret

This is a topic I found on a random website and I thought it was genius, so here it is. For no particular reason at all.


Things I Regret:


– Spending time with people I thought were my friends in high school. They often mistreated me. I didn’t have a solid concept of who my real friends were.


– Not being more social in college. I was all about the grades and studying. Not recommended. Being on the Dean’s List isn’t as fun as keeping friends over the years that you met at uni. I left with a few really good ones, but I could have had so much more fun if I had allowed myself.


– Letting others stop me from writing. That one creative writing teacher who told me I wasn’t good at writing and to throw away my stories. I could seriously deck her still to this day. She was like…70 something… had dread locks down to her but, and arm sleeve tattoos. You know who you are! And you suck. I lost precious years of self-learning due to your ignorance and your balls to actually speak what was on your mind. No matter who it hurt.


– Biting my nails for so many years. Enough said.


– Not standing my ground to my parents enough. There were a few instances where it really changed the course of my life because I went along with what they wanted. I should have fought for the things I wanted a little harder. My mom stopped me from playing violin because of her own bad experiences in band. She thought she was protecting me, but I cried for weeks when she said no to filling out my band slip for the teacher. Then when I dyed my hair dark because I have always found dark hair and light eyes to be sexier. My parents sent me right back to the salon to change it back to blonde. I cried again. Mom said I looked like a hooker. Well, I have darker hair now. So I clearly won that battle eventually. And then when they said I had to quite gymnastics because it was too dangerous. They were just worried parents, but still. Gymnastics was my first love. And you never forget your first love.


Things I Don’t Regret:


– Moving back home to take care of a sick relative of mine. Very sick. It really caused my self image to take a knock (mostly because most people I know my age are either married, or living with a boyfriend and on their own by now), but looking back on it, it was the moral and right decision.


– Going abroad for my Masters. Yes, I am in more debt. Yes, I haven’t done anything with my degree just yet. But it was my dream and the experience of a lifetime. I made so many friends. Traveled non-stop, and discovered myself on an entirely new level.


– Self-publishing my work. Yes, I get the occasional REALLY nasty review, people tell me I can’t write, and I get a strange feeling whenever I see someone is reading one of my books on GoodReads. But I still get emails from people telling me how much they like such and such story. There is nothing quite like that.


– Creating boundaries. This one is gonna sound a bit strange because for personal reasons I am not going to give it any context, but it is utterly important to create boundaries for yourself. Not only for emotional and moral reasons, but for self care and self love reasons. We sometimes need boundaries set in place to protect ourselves. I had to put them into place to make sure that my life ran smoothly and I didn’t end up in a negative cycle. Because last summer was miserable for me. Mainly because I didn’t set up boundaries. Now that I have them for certain reasons, I am a much happier person. You are allowed to create boundaries! Remember that!


The end.


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Published on February 21, 2015 07:09

February 20, 2015

Oh the Confusion!!

i want to talk about character POVs for a few minutes today. And how this new WIP I am working on is completely rattling my brain tissue and turning it into mush.


So remember that awesome fantasy project I was talking about a long time ago? The one that I desperately told myself to continue writing but convincing myself to put on the back burner because other things were more important. Well, I decided that a story that makes me feel that way IS what’s most important and recently got back to working on it. Which is great. Kinda…


The only problem I am really running into is carrying this huge ass story is my head and keeping it organized on even the smallest scale.


When I was first in Creative Writing classes, I was taught to do multiple character POVs like this:


Character A,B and C.


Chapter 1: Character A


Chapter 2: Character B


Chapter 3: Character C


ABC, ABC, ABC, etc.


Repeat in this order until the end of the novel.


So I have three characters. I was originally going to write the first part of the novel in character A’s POV. Then part 2 in character B’s POV. And part C in character C’s POV. Etc. Etc.


So with character A, I did this cool thing. I started in the present, then ever other chapter I went back to five years ago to show how A got into the situation she was in and to do some world building. So I have 15+ chapters that go back and forth from present to past. Cool right? Switching like that? :::shrug::: I thought so. Oh clever me! Not so much.


I then discovered that each of these characters needed a beginning. So I wrote individual prologues for each of them before the story got started. But then I started seeing all these cool scenes in between and behind the scenes of what is going on for character A.


So my chapters are starting to look like this.


Prologue character A


Prologue character B


Prologue character C


Character A Present


Character A Past


Random B scene


Character A Present


Character A Past


Random C scene


Yeah…it’s all kinds of fucked up and I don’t know if this’s okay. No, of course it’s not okay. It’s going to confuse my readers even though it makes perfect sense in my jumbling brain. Gah!! I don’t know what to do. What does a writer do with these huge as ideas anyway? I thought of making notecards, but meh…not sure how to do that. And then I thought just write the damn thing and make sense of it later. But that makes all these feels and fears come around lurking, telling me that if you don’t have some kind of organzation in mind, you are doing all these scenes that might eventually have to be cut. Cut means hours lost, hours lost means work lost.


My face does this on a daily basis now:�� \ o.O/


Has anyone else read a book out there that does things like this? Or am I just trying for something that is going to completely confuse people?? Because I don’t know enough about character B and C’s backstories and insert entire scenes behind what is going on with character A…if that makes sense?? Plus, if I were to insert MORE scenes with B and C, it would spoil this huge thing that is going to happen later.


Dear Writing Gods/Goddess,


Why do you do this to me? The fear is paralyzing!


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Published on February 20, 2015 10:49

February 13, 2015

January 30, 2015

My Third Tarot Reading

According to my tarot reader, Mercury Retrograde is a time when all your frustrations or the things you have buried deep inside you comes to the forefront. She also mentioned that she used to never read during Mercury Retrograde because it was all too much, but recently started doing it because that is when people need some guidance through tarot.


She put down the first card and said, “Man, you are really going through some stuff right now.” Haha! Yep. That’s Mercury Retrograde for ya.


Anyway, the basic message she had for me (or that the cards had for me) is that I have all the tools that I need. I just need to apply them. That was something I already knew, but needed to hear. Apparently I am handling other things in my life really well. Doing a lot of reflection, self-correction, and remaining strong. But I am continuously letting cycles regarding a lack of faith in myself or that certain things will happen as time progresses. I have a habit of wanting them to happen too quickly. My brain will catch up with my heart so to speak. My heart knows what is right, but the mind is over-analyzing it.


Yeah, that is definitely me.


Also, I have become very interested in numerology. I looked up my path life number and it was really dead on. Freakishly dead on. I want to buy some more books on it. It even said that those on my number path have an interest in mysticism. Which is probably why I go to a tarot reader to begin with. Apparently I have an open mind for such things and it helps me to make sense of things by having an open mind.


My reader is so dead on accurate on other accounts. She said to me that these last two months were really “game on” for me and that I accomplished a lot. So true. Then these last few days were rather blah and that was why I needed to reading. That and damn you Mercury Retrograde.


I know a lot of people don’t believe in this sort of thing, but I seem to be surrounded by people who do. I have two Indian friends who regularly see an astrologer and give them a great amount of respect and recognition. And their astrologers from the stories they have told me were dead on accurate. To a degree that is frightening. Then I have my atheist friends who tell me to get a grip. *shrug* All I know is that a little reflection through the use of an outside source can be very helpful.


We also talked a little about shadow work and healing from things we didn’t know we had buried. A concept that I had heard of before but is now becoming much clearer. Maybe I will have more to say about that in future.


Also…funny thing… she said at the end of my reading “the struggle is real.” Just to be funny. But the odd part is, I considered earlier today making a blog post called, “The Struggle Is Real” on how writing this month has been going. Love that kind of thing. Our minds were on the same track.


Good experience. I love my reader. She is so intuitive.


Wish I had more to say than that. Bye for now.


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Published on January 30, 2015 13:49

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