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Monday, March 31, 2008

"Unstory" tidbits

So, I'm almost done explaining my little "tidbits" from stories that are completed. Once I'm done with that, I'll start writing about the stories I'm in the process of witing. I just want to get these out of the way.
On a side note, I started typing "Shifter" when I got home from school today. Well, I typed the first 2 paragraphs anyway. It's more annoying to copy things from a paper than to type stuff that's coming straight out of your head. But I'll get through it eventually.
So, these tidbits are from stories that don't really count. That is, they're either on fanfiction, or they were the stories I wrote for school assignments.
For "Hands of Power," the Zelda fanfic I wrote, I wanted to give the hawk a good part. My dad worked with birds of prey at the San Francisco Zoo, so raptors are in my blood. Well, I love all types of animals, so there you go. But either way, I like the hawk. And the boars. The big goblin thing (I forget his name) and his big white boar were my dad's favorite part of the game. He loves boars too. And the fact that that boar had horns made it all the more awesome to him.
And for the part where Laina and Cheera are crashing through the bushes, something like that happened to me once. It was really stupid, but I'll write about it. My horseback riding teacher, Roy, has a creek running through his property. After my lesson one day, he sent me and my horse Mustang down to visit the creek. So Mustang and I were walking through the creek when I saw an overhang of twigs and leaves in front of us. It was low enough to prestent a significant obstacle, but I thought to myself "oh, there's nothing solid in there. Let's just crash through." So, Mustang gamely trudged through the thicket of twigs. The problem was that there was more than just twigs there. One big branch was hidden by the leaves, and it knocked my back flat on the saddle. I somehow managed to keep from falling into the creek, but it was not very comfortable to get smashed flat on your back on a saddle by a tree branch. So, do me a favor and look before you go plunging through a mass of twigs.
And for the part where Laina jumps off the bridge into the water, I've done something like that. I jumped off a cliff into the water. It was scary. Falling is scary for me, but still fun! I didn't wan't to jump at first, and I sat at the top of the cliff for about 5 minutes staring down into the water. But finally Mom got fed up of waiting, and she made me jump. The interesting thing is that I can't scream when I'm falling. My voice gets cut off. When I went bungee jumping, I started to scream, but I chocked on the noise somehow...
Next story. "Underground Mysteries." Well, I came up for the theory of this story when I was still in Middle School-Borel Middle School to be precise. I thought "what if some big monster appeared and locked itself in our school for a hideout and all of us got trapped there too. THe monster would be causing all these natural disasters all over the world, and it would be up to us kids to solve it." Well, this idea got toned down quite a bit for this story. No one is trapped in the school, and the sky bear's powers aren't quite as powerful as I had in mind at first. ANd he's not evil eiher.
And for "Market of Mourning," I've always wanted to visit a rainforest. Maybe I will someday. So I set this story in the rainforest. And I love deer. They're so graceful. I thought Ranen (Briena's stag partner) would make a good substitute for Featherdance, the crane (who was Brenor's partner in Lullaby of Awakening). Same mind, different bodies. And very different times. And for the Anjels (yes, it's supposed to be misspelled-it's my species of winged humans that I decided to name Angels, but I thought it would be cool to change the spelling a bit), it would be awesome to have wings, wouldn't it? Ah...to fly...........

Sunday, March 30, 2008

Adult

SO... I just thought I'd write that on March 26 I officially became an adult. I know it's a little late to say it, but oh well. I'm still not sure what to think about being 18. I either feel like an adult, or I feel like a little kid. But I don't feel 18...

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Lullaby of Awakening "tidbits"

More "tidbits," I guess. I think you can guess which story I'm doing them for.
So, the scene where Brenor is looking for a person that "sticks out to him" is sort of inspired by actual events. So, here we go. For Aragon High, our PE uniforms are black and red. The shirst are reversible-one side black, the other red. And if it's cold you can wear black or red sweat pants instead of the blakc shorts ( I prefer not to wear shorts if I can help it. My legs are far from pretty. They're all scarred up.-not from doing dangerous stuff, actually. I never get hurt when I'm doing dangerous stuff. I always get hurt doing stuff that is hardly dangerous at all, like climbing out of the pool and bashing my shin on the rim, or walking in the woods and scratching my legs up on branches because I was stupid enough to wear shorts). So, unlike most of the other kids in my class, I wear the red side of the shirt, and the only sweats I have are red. So, I'm the only one in my class who wore all red. So, I was wondering how much I stick out to an outsider.
And I make a big deal of those trees that are covered in pink flowers. I've always loved those trees when they're in full flower. They look like fluffy pink clouds. And I intend to make a big deal of them in the sequal as well, so you're forewarned.

Saturday, March 22, 2008

Magic Flute "Tidbits"

I like to use the word "tidbits" to describe little parts or details of my stories. So what I'm going to do is find little "tidbits" from my different stories that have some significance, and explain my inspiration for them.
So, we'll start with "The Magic Flute."
First of all, the art where Alex tries to scare Liz is sort of based off reality. I personally think it's kinda fun to scare people, but that's only because I watch too much "America's Funniest Home Videos." Oh, random digression. There's never anything on TV any more, so that's really the only TV show I watch regularly. Sometimes I feel guilty laughing at these people, but you figure they felt good enough to send it in to AFV, so they must have not been hurt too badly.
OK. So, scaring people. I do it enought that I seem to have become immune to it myself. So there you go. And when people try to sneak up on you and you can see their shadow approaching, that's just pathetic on their part.
The second thing I'd like to highlite, is where Liz is playing the song at the end, and the wind picks up and starts blowing her hair. Well, that came from a visit to the beach. I was standing near the edge of a cliff overlooking the ocean, and the wind was whipping around my hair and clothes. I thought that would be a nice touch to a story. So there you have it.

Thursday, March 20, 2008

Lions, Tigers, & Bears

...Oh my! Tara has been bugging me for a long time to get something written, and rightly so. I haven't done anything, and it's been too long since I've last seriously worked on it. And hey, for those of you who actually read through everything that is posted, I have a blog up with currently has an article on it and a short story to soon follow. If you want to read it, go ahead, and if you read the story, go ahead and edit/question it to your hearts content, I haven't editted it at all (aside from spell check). But back to the task at hand.


Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Excuse me!

Hey! I do have a society developed for Reein's planet! I don't use it too much in my story, but maybe I will for the final draft. I've still yet to type it. So watch it! I also have a society for the Ozorehs (the four-armed guys). Do you think I should give you my lame sketch of the Ozoreh? Just to give people an idea of what they look like?

Aliens

Reein is really cute! Admittedly he does look like a puppy/teddy bear thing, but so do the Ewoks! I dunno about the spelling on that one, and I'm way too lazy to go and check it! The thing is, there's no way to know what an alien looks like, for some people that's a good thing, you know freedom of expression and imagination, but for others it's a big problem. It's probably best to know what kind of planet and enviornment they've come from or society *cough*tara*cough* then it's not too hard to figure out how the alien would look like, walk, or act. ^_^

Monday, March 17, 2008

Meet Reein!

Yay! Thanks Ellen! I'm going to try to get you to put a few more pictures up for me, but I only want to give them to you one at a time so I don't lose track.
So, yes. That is the picture I drew of my little shape-shifting alien, Reein. He's only about 3 feet tall, and he's furry. His feet are pretty tricky to draw, despite what you may think. It's hard to draw two toes that look like that.
I'm glad you think he's cute Ellen. The other people I"ve shown my drawing to give me funny looks, or tell me he doesn't look like an alien. They say he looks like a teddy bear, or a puppy. But how do we know what aliens look like! Come on! They don't have to be humanoid, like in Star Trek (those movies are good, but all their aliens look too similar). I thought he looked cute, but only Ellen and my dad have agreed so far. Sigh. Some people don't appreciate how difficult it is to design a good alien.
And yes, if you look at the blown-up image of Reein, it won't look as good as the small one. For all of you who don't know this kind of stuff, when you take a lttle picture and make it bigger, it doesn't look as good. And yes. My drawings don't have much depth to them. THey're very flat. And I just realized that Reein's shoulder's are slightly crooked. But you get the idea! Live with it!
All right. I'm done complaining.

Reein

Friday, March 14, 2008

Woohoo!

Yes! We got Kelly Posting! Now I have to bug everyone else to post something since not many people have been too active on my blog recently. And Kelly, just because you posted once doesn't mean you never have to do it again. But I'm glad you liked the ending of my story!
So, I should probably write about something.
Okay. I'll write about the thing Stephanie and I are writing together.
So, this takes place on another planet. There are creatures that that do not exist on Earth. I have 2 characters I'm writing for. A girl named Acey (like Ace with an -ee sound at the end) and A man named Sekaar( and if you can't pronounce that right, then you're weird). Their town is located very far away from civilization, and they don't get to make too much contact with the outside world. But this town is pretty civilized. The strange creatures that live there can be made into pets. And Sekaar is a very important person in this soiety, so he has several of the rarest pets. I'll have to put up some pictures of his pets! I just realized that! I'll have to get Ellen to put those up for me too.
SO, I'm going to try and get Stephanie to post about her contribution to all this. I don't know what she plans because SHE HASN"T WRITTEN ANYTHING YET!
But I'll probably add information about some of the specific deatil I put in my existing chapters. I have to find those deatils first, however. I might do this for some of my other stories. But again, I have to find thpse details that have some importance.

Thursday, March 13, 2008

Rather Bored

It has probably only been about a few minutes since I last posted... but I'm rather bored...

On my profile for my random question, they asked:
"If you were a cannibal, what would you wear to dinner?"

I hope that all cannibals would wear clothes when they eat dinner

FINISHED!!

After procrastinating for a few.... months (probably...), I finally finished the story!! I loved the end of On Wings of Wyverns, expecially the last sentence!!!

Now you can't bother me about not reading it and not blogging!! mwah ha ha!!!

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Market of Mourning

So, here's my last summary! Time to celebrate!
So, for Environmental science class, we have to do two projects per semester relating to the environment (as if you couldn't tell from the title of the class) and I asked if I could write a story. So, I decided to use Briena (remember her?) for the main character. She and Ranen (her animal partner) are on an assignment to find an illegal market where they sell endangered species, or parts of them. So, Briena finds and breaks up this market, with a little help. I couldn't make the story too long, but it gets its point across.
But, these animal markets are real (on our planet, not just on Briena's). They're these places that sell leopard cubs, or monkeys, or bear claws, or rhino horns. All species that are endangered of extinction. All these markets are illegal of course, but no one stops them. Anyone can walk in and buy whatever they want. Tey've brought cameras in and everything. They sell leopard cubs for $50!!!!! Can you believe that! But no one cares! They keep letting these people sell those animals that we're killing off thanks to poaching, global warming, and habitat destruction. It's sickening what humans do sometimes. So, this story is obviously criticizing the fact that NO ONE TRIES TO STOP THESE STUPID MARKETS and that we should wise up and do something before all those endangered animals are gone forever. In case you can't tell, I easily lose my temper when thinking about these kinds of people. I'm debating about writing about all the people that make me ABSOLUTELY FURIOUS. Writing about it will make me furious, but at least I'd get rid of some of my frustration, and let other people know about the kinds of people who need to be blasted to the moon.

Saturday, March 8, 2008

Shifter (summary)

I have no idea what Ellen's previus post was about.
Okay. Time for my summary of "Shifter." It takes place about 200 years in the future. So, the main character is a girl named Katy. She has a pet rabbit named Ian. But when she comes home one day, she discovers that her rabbit is in fact not a rabbit at all. It's actually a shape-shifting species of alien (called Mesprees). His name is in fact Reein (pronounced Ian with an "r" on the front. Katy almost had his name right.) I've been trying to get Ellen to help me put a picture of Reein up on the blog, (my computer is STILL TOO SLOW to do it. Grrrr) but she keeps not doing it. So if you're reading this Ellen, you stink. I'll describe him anyway. He's about 3 feet tall, is covered in short golden brown fur, has a somewhat cat-like head, and a twisty tail. He's kinda hard to describe.... Maybe I should just give you the picture and get you to scan it onto the blog for me. But if I do give it to you, you better not lose, wrinkle, or tear it! His feet are really difficult to draw! So, if by some amazing stroke of luck, someone decides to turn this into a movie (hahahahahahaha!) they'll have a model to go on when they design Reein. I won't accept anything else! I'd like to see some movie director try and twist my characters and plot around! If you do, I'll sick all of my dragons, aliens, werewolves, wyverns, hippogriffs, and all my other story characters on you. So don't try it.
As usual, beware of spoilers. I wouldn't read any of my summaries of you plan to read the actual stories. Just so you know.

So, back to the summary. (It's fun to digress and add lots of random comments in parentheses-assuming I spelled that last word right). Reein tells Katy that the Ozorehs-a race of four-armed alien that Earth rescued when their planet was going to be destroyed, and is currently living on Earth-are not as peaceful as they pretend, but are going to make a grab for control of Earth. Reein and his fellow Mesprees have come to warn Earth, but had to disguise themselves for a few months to learn human languages and habits. So, Katy starts to take Reein to tell to some "important" people who could take action on this subject. But as they pass by the Ozoreh city, they're captured. Reein gets badly hurt, and the Ozoreh leader tries to brainwash Katy to believing that the Mesprees are evil, and that Ozorehs have no intention of taking over Earth. But then one of the Ozorehs who's against this overthrow of Earth, (her name is Veren) finds Katy and confesses to her that the Ozorehs really ARE going to try to take over Earth. But most of the Ozorehs don't want to because Earth saved them. Why should they attack the people that saved their lives?
Katy realizes that Reein was telling the truth, and she goes to find Reein. He's very sick, and Katy uses his communication device to contact the other Mesprees. They tell her where he has medicine stored, and she gives it to him. But it's too late.
And here we have a surprise twist in the story, but I'm not going to tell you what it is. So there. You'll have to figure it out yourself.
But then Katy saves the Ozoreh leader's life, and the leader starts to reconsider her attack.

^_^'

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

A Person of a Different Color

Here's my next story summary.
This story is literally one page long. And basically what it says is that appearances don't matter. Who cares what color a person't skin is because on the inside, everyone is the same. (Matters of what people's minds are like are quite different than appearance.) Who really cares what a person looks like as long as they're nice?
I finished it a few weeks ago. Not that it took long to write considering how short it was. It's kind of in the fashion of a children's fairy tale, so it's not completely realistic.
Oh, just so you know, on Sunday, 3 days ago, I finished another story. But it doesn't really count because it was a project for school. I'll summarize it in a bit. I have to summarize "Shifter" first.

Sunday, March 2, 2008

Briena

So, last night at exactly 9:00, I started the prequal to "Lullaby of Awakening." So, this story takes place 200 years after Brenor lived, and his story is legend to the people of today. The main character is a little girl named Briena. And guess what? She's Brenor's "reincarnation" for lack of a better word. But she doesn't know it yet. She's only 8 at the beginning of the story. But I"m not going to give anything away now. I'm just informing you that the story has been started. (Partially because I'm not entirely sure what's going to happen yet-only some of it).

Saturday, March 1, 2008

Shifter

So, last night at exactly midnight, I finished my alien story. Pretty good timing, considering I didn't even look at the clock until I finished writing. Usually I don't stay up that late, but I was almost done, and I was on a roll, and I really wanted to finish. That happens when I'm near completion of a story-I can't stop. It's all handwritten, so it will take me a while to type it up. I want to let it sit for a while before I start, though. That way I'll be able to spot more mistakes in it because my brain may have unconsciously come up with more ideas since I worte it. If that makes any sense at all. I finished it pretty quickly compared to other stories I've written. ("On Wings of Wyverns" was actually the first story that I completed completely on the computer. I didn't hand write it first.)
But I think I'll name this book "Shifter." It's quite a bit more simple than my other titles, but I think I like it. It referrs to Reein, my furry shape-shifiting alien Reein. I came up with it a few days ago. I'm supposed to go to Ellen's house tomorrow and she'll help me scan a few of my pictures onto my blog. A picture of Reein is included, so you'll all know exactly what he loks like. I might include my lame sketch of the other aliens in the story. Just so you can get a vague idea of what they look like. THey may look weird, but what do you expect aliens to look like? How do we know what they lok like? Maybe they don't need water to survive, or ai. Maybe they don't have arms, legs, heads, eyes, or even cells. Maybe they're big blobs that float around in blob-flocks. Who says that all aliens have to be bipedal with arms, ears, or noses?
So, I'll include a summary of it in a little while. I'm trying to complete the summaries in order, and there's one story I finished before this. Granted, it's 1 page long, but oh well.