Hanorah Words

It's better than it looks... I think Everyone has their favorite Christmas movie. I liked them all well enough though I had a particular soft spot for the Rankin and Bass movies. I liked Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer and all the other related movies in that universe, but there was one particular movie that didn't fit into their particular Santa Clause mythology that Rankin and Bass created and perpetuated with their movies and that one was my  personal favorite. It was called The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus . It first aired in the United States on December 17, 1985 on CBS... three years before I was born. The story is based on a book of the same title written by Frank L. Baum... the same man who wrote The Wizard of Oz . I've never read the book because I didn't want to ruin my childhood by finding a bunch of differences between the book and the movie. I mean, the movie is 55 minutes long and the book is a small children's book, but look at what they ...

So, I saw on a Facebook post today a guy was talking to a gay friend who was encouraging him to put alternative relationships in his fantasy worlds because there's a huge market in LGBT fantasy or something like that. The person's response was along the lines of "I don't write relationships" the friend responded, "So your fantasy world is populated by single white men?" On one hand, thinking about that sort of thing (non-heteronormative relationships in fantasy) is a good idea. On the other hand, don't heckle a person because they don't like to write relationships for their main character. Most of my main characters do not have a romance subplot and will not have a romance subplot because when you're busy saving the world or saving your ass, who you want to spend the rest of your probably short life is kind of the last thing on your mind. Heck, the stress of dealing with life, loss, and other things and then the struggles of a relation...

Hey readers! Do you remember Intrinsic ? Yeah you remember that post abut revamping everything and all that and how I never followed up on it? Well, I have decided that once I'm done with The December Project (first draft left now) and in the middle or Rewriting Eight, I'll start outlining this to fix it. As I no longer care about the writing about my family part (though some of the subplots were really good and will stay regarding the family the rest of it will just change a lot), I'm going to focus on Ariadne's story because I chose to tell her story and that's where that story is. Besides, it'll be easier to improve on culture and magic system, cut out a lot of the family stuff, and focus on one thing than to come up with a whole new plot and story. I even have some ideas on how to tie Ariadne's story back  into the idea of family being you're greatest blessing and your greatest curse in a way that probably sounds more clever in my head than it...

This is Luke Goss from Hallmark's Frankenstein My original look for Azrael with some... Notable Exceptions So, the first story I ever came close to finishing, I began writing ten years ago... roughly. I was a Junior at Greene County Career Center and I'd been writing for about five years and nothing ever worked. Then, that summer, I found out one of my closest friends had been talking about me behind my back. It was a bit of a brutal awakening to the fact that people were two-faced double-crossing assholes that I keep getting bitch-slapped with even to this day. You could say I just refuse to learn that lesson because I have too much faith in humanity. Anyhow, for some reason this led me to write a story that I called "Eight". It wasn't the eighth story I ever tried to write. In fact, the only thing eight-related was the first thing I threw out. The main character and her best friend were supposed to be born on 8/8/88 or the day after or something. The ...

Looking through pictures on the internet, I found this picture and thought of Achlys... Then I found out this was the crazy girl from The Following... Okay? So, in the middle of November, I got this idea for a story. It just sort of hit me WHAM! out of no where one day at work. Granted, I've had this idea on and off for years , but this time it was immediate. In fact it wanted to be written now , but I was in the middle of NaNoWriMo and I promised myself I would stick to one story for at least a month. So I wrote the idea down and went back to writing The Appalachian Method like a good little girl.  However, the idea persisted . It would not  be dismissed! I needed to tell it NOW .  I said to the story, "You wait your turn, jimbo!" The rest of my brain thought that such a turn of phrase was weird and out of character for me, so they all backed off including the story even though I continued to imagine it the whole time I wrote The Appalachian Method. Then Nov...

A lot more useful than it looks... So, while I was doing NaNoWriMo, I looked into the lovely world of books about writing to get my creative juices flowing. I learned several things. First, most of those books are useless unless you know what kind of advise you're looking for. Second, most of those books are very generic unless they're by unique or cool authors like Stephen King or Ray Bradbury. I also learned that most of those books are written by editors rather than fiction writers who have more of an idea of what editors and publishers want to see than the way people write. I also learned not to pick books about writing out because they look good on the library website because they're probably completely useless. Okay, so I mostly learned that books on writing were useless. I'll admit it. Everyone has their own writing style. Each writing style is different. Learning that Stephen King tries to write 10,000 words a day does not make me want to write 10,000 ...

Look at that view! So, you're probably wondering what I wrote about for NaNoWriMo. A lot of people have asked me in person and this is online where a reader can't exactly ask unless they comment and no one comments on here. So... I'll assume you want to know. Here's the blurb I put on the NaNo site: After the death of her beloved aunt, Ellie Brown finds that she possesses some serious magical powers.  With no prior belief or knowledge of magic, this is a  big  problem. Ellie just wants to be normal, but as the Council of Thaumaturgy tracks her down, a thing (she refuses to call IT a man) in a purple suit appears in her life, and everyone knows what's going on besides her, her prospects of normalcy seem to be very,very,  very  small. Can Ellie find sense in all this madness or will the madness drive Ellie to the same fate as her aunt? And here's the excerpt I put on the same site:                 ...

So... I finished NaNoWriMo with (according to the NaNoWriMo word counter) 55, 696 words. Microsoft Word placed it at 55, 720 words, but I'm not complaining. I finished the book so now I can sit back, relax and wait for next November, go back to ignoring my blog, pretend that I'm a writer at heart when I'm really just a crazy person whose brain sometimes makes stories... NOT! So, I have come up with some goals that I have related on my Facebook personal account that I will now tell to the one person who I don't know who actually reads my blog. I'm going into more detail here, however. This means people who read my blog will know more about my plans than people who don't. My Goals For Writing: By January 31 ,  I will have finished revisiting, outlining, and possibly rewritten a project from high school called "Eight".. By February 28 ,I will have finished writing the  outline  and  first draft  of a story I'm calling "The December...