Connections and Support.

One thing I've realized is being an author is all about connections and support. Connections to those who are already published, getting published and or have been contracted to an agent or publishing company can go a long way to getting yourself recognized and published. You want to use your social skills and chit chat about what route they used to get where they are and ask them questions I'm sure they were thinking themselves.
Something that will continue to bug me is the fact that rarely will the extremely successful authors take the time to help support authors just trying to make it. Did someone not take time out of their day to help you when you were a struggling rookie? Is it really that difficult for you to repay the favor to someone who could really use that extra pinch of approval to keep on writing? Maybe, it's just me but I try my best to participate in my readers' stories, commenting and even being in a couple which takes me by surprise every time. (Maybe that's the point. Shrugs)
My goal as a writer is to get my book accepted in Barnes and Noble. Silly I know, but unless you either take a really close look or you're an aspiring author, you don't really notice that Barnes and Noble is the elite. All their books are either on the New York Bestseller List, an award winning book, or good enough to be an award winning book in the near future. If Barnes and Noble has accepted your book, you have officially made your half way point. You'll have officially made it when you're relaxing at him, writing material to show your agent as you are getting paid. Another thing me and my friends discussed, is probably better to ask the publishing company that contracted you to supply an agent, because that means the company is paying them and not you. If you get your agent on your own, there is a good chance you will be paying your agent from your own pockets...ouch.

In other exciting news: I WILL BE SINGING IN PUBLIC FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER ON THURSDAY!
Needless to say, I'm scared shitless. lol. But I think I'm going to be okay. Just gotta relax and not freak out from now to then.

I AM SOOOOOOOO READY FOR SCHOOL TO BE OVER! I still have this week and two final exams next week. AGH. I'll be a senior next year; that's where the real fun begins(:

Song of the day: Winner by Jamie Foxx ft. T.I. and Justin Timberlake
This song is so BOSS. I love it.

EVERLIFE IS FINISHED!!!!

MAN! I feel accomplished! WHOO! :D I have FINISHED Everlife and will be breathing for a moment before I start the second book in my Inhumane Trilogy, Shadowed Fate. This is an experimental project, I'm determined to finished.

I'll keep it posted on anything Everlife, you would wanna know(: I'm really, really enthusiastic about this project.

SONG OF THE DAY: The Mixed Tape by Jack's Mannequin.

Back on the Bandwagon(:

Hey folks! I'm back! School is being handled with the usual headache and with summer coming up, I really want to get active in my writing. I already have several projects in the works that I'll keep you updated on.

First is of course, my EXPERIMENTAL series called The Inhumane Series. It starts off with Everlife, which is posted on both Fanfiction.net and The New Twilight Saga though it is non Twilight and original. Some have related it to Evermore from the Immortal series and a few Twilighted situations, but I add my own twists and am not planning to get this published. Just to test my limits and see where I can take this. Who knows?
After Everlife is Shadowed Fate, the second book to the series that I have not started yet but have mounting ideas by the day. I have yet to think of a title for the third book but I have enough on my plate.

Second is Please Remember Me, my surprisingly successful fanfiction from Twilight's New Moon. It is about Bella and how she jumps off the cliff and loses her memory and all recollection of the Cullens and even the Wolf Pack.

Third is my own little project I just randomly wrote-which is the basic story for most of my stories, called Diary of Me. It is about a girl who goes suicidal after the death of her twin and her mother but when new people start to come into her life and show her there is much to live for, she might reconsider. Yes, this is a gothic, sad and revealing story but I highly recommend you give it a chance. It shows you that there is hope when you truly hit rock bottom. And it can seem inspirational. Don't write off stories you think are depressing before you actually read them. Look beyond what you see and absorb the underlying message.

Fouth, haha yes I have a fourth, is Blade of a Dragonfly, a story I'm doing with my best friend Lauren. It is completely original and something we're writing together with no thoughts of publishing but we'll see.

And on top of that, I'm entering a contest I read from IAK's blog about her own original project she was writing herself. I think she will be brilliant. We're in different genres this time, since I might enter a chapter of Diary of Me; which classifies as Fiction-Goth and she will mostly be in the Fiction-Fantasy-Young Adult. But I wish her the best of luck!

In other news:
I am back to talking to publishers about my poetry. I'm writing more often and just need to shift from my projects, to poems. There's one I wrote a while ago and found recently in my room. It has potential-once it's edited. haha. But since the deadline for the contest isn't that far away, I'm going to focus on that, whether I dig up a killer short story (and let's face it. Short stories are not my forte. That's basically what Into the Dark was suppose to be and it ended up being fifteen or so chapters with a sequel, Blood Bonds. But eh. I'll try) or a chapter to my latest project that I kindda wanna publish but have no idea how I'm going to finish-though I'm determined. it's just out of my comfort zone which is really good, but it will take an incredible amount of commitment and long hours to put me in "the zone".

I plan on updating Everlife and the Inhumane Series as often as I can; I will be updating PRM once a month (at least until summer folks!) and as for my other projects...I'll keep you posted.

I have SO many tests to take it's nuts! I'm applying for college so I can take college courses as a senior (excited and dreading)

My To Do List:
TSI exam (needed to get in college)
State testing (3 of them to be exact)
AP Exam (oh fun)
SAT (in about a week now-it's practice)
Pratice AP Exam on the net. (has essays and all)
Read book for English and write essay.
Test in Physics (must study!)
Recital in Choir
Audition for Chorale
Submit story for the contest.

I love being busy(: [That wasn't sarcasm]

Song of the day: Still Breathing by Allison Iraheta.
I have LOVED this girl ever since I saw her on American Idol. I knew she was too good to stay down long.

Maxed Out

Okay, I now know what it feels like to be minutes away from having a cardiac arrest at the age of 17. I have way too much stress on my shoulders right now. Besides the fact that I have writer's block for one of my favorite stories that is also going down south; I can't find the time to sit, relax and reply to my other story that's being a strain because too much is going on-I have school.

Agh.

My speech that is a HUGE chunk of my grade and also FOUR minutes in front of a class of kids, STARING at you because they have nothing better to do is MONDAY. One day away. Oh, and did I mention I had to write an essay and MEMORIZE it for the speech? It's a four page essay. Yeah. Three pages when its single spaced.

Then on top of that, my Choir teacher is INSANE. He expects us to memorize German and French pieces by TUESDAY. Really now? I took Spanish for two and a half years. Do you really think GERMAN is going to stick?

Agh.

Now add Algebra 2 and this new unit that we're working on. I aced the last test...now I'm not so sure. And I don't have time-nor the will- to go to tutoring because quite frankly, it's gotten to the point that I don't even want to look at school or even hear my teacher's voice sometimes. I'm so sick of this. And the weekends aren't long enough.

I have a reading assignment that I have to draw a comic strip for; TAKS test is on Wednesday...Agh. Three hours of testing for a JOKE. I don't even know why we bother anymore. My Pre-AP History class LAUGHED at the TAKS test when we got it. It was ridiculously easy.

Really, teachers and parents don't understand the position we're in. This isn't the old days. This isn't when having a fourth science or taking speech, BCIS, or any other ridiculous class was an option. This is NOW. Life tribulations, drama, being a teenager period AND school crap is HARD to do twenty four seven. Summer doesn't come fast enough and I swear, I will scream!

Thanks for listening to my vent(:

Song of the day: No Time To Breathe by There for Tomorrow.
This explains how I feel EXACTLY. Not to mention I am now obsessed with this band.