Hey everyone, so for this week I am in Hendersonville visiting two of my best friends. They are quite amazing them and I have missed them so much. I have enjoyed my time hear so far, we have gone to the mall, saw hunger games catching fire, and went to a Starshot Black concert. They are really good look them up on youtube!! As far as writing goes I haven't been paying attention to my book really, but my friend and I have been bouncing around ideas. We have gotten some good ones that will be implemented!! that's all for now but I will check in later!
~Lonestar ☆
Tuesday, December 31, 2013
Saturday, December 28, 2013
Hello again
Hey, so i know i haven't written in a few days and i apologize, i just got back from vacation at my cousins and i will be flying out tomorrow to visit friends in hendersonville. I will get back to you after break i promise!! my apologies!
~Lonestar ☆
~Lonestar ☆
Wednesday, December 25, 2013
Merry Christmas
My apologies for it being late!
So right now i am in the middle kansas, on christmas. I am stuck in a car for 5 hours, which is honestly not too bad considering i am used to 10-18 hour drives. I get to visit some family that i havent seen for a few years so i am excited to see how my (only) younger cousins are doing. There are a lot of feilds, cattle, and suprisingly some lakes on either side of the highway. I slept for the first half of the drive then i just got some hot chocolate and a donut for lunch. Which was delicious i might add. The only choice for food around here is hardees and dunkin donuts, i like the donuts better pearsonally. Here is a poll, Hardees vs Dunkin Donuts. if that was the only food available on the highway which would you choose. So my mom got my dad a really nice garmin gps for christmas and he is refusing to use it, just like he refused to use the Nike fuelband that he won at his works christmas party, his new iphone still confuses him also. It's interesting to see the difference between the generations, like the generation under me gets to have phones and tablets at 5 years old for goodness sakes. They probably know more about technology than i do. They also are starting to implement a lot of technology into kindergartens and younger elementary, which i think is good becuase they are starting to become extremly smart, advanced on our scales actually. I am glad that our world is evolving more with technology and becoming smarter. One thing you guys should check out is Solar Roadways, it is absolutley awesome. Okay so my book is becoming thicker and thicker and it is becoming crazy. I have tried to go forth with it becuase i am in a block, but as one writer put it, writers block is simply our characters putting there foot down and telling us that they will not allow us to go a ceartain way with the book. We are controlling their lives and sometimes it is just not allowed to go a ceartain way. I guess my MC is still trying to figure out what happens next herself becuase she hasnt even been bugging me to write lately, which is really odd. Well i should probably try to write, or edit, or both. So i will get back with Ya'll later! (this was in the middle of the day)
So when we got to my cousins i enjoyed a day of cooking and helping out. I saw another set of cousins and my uncle bill. I played a game of twister with 5 other people, played apples to apples, enjoyed desert and watched Santa Paws 2. Now i am staying up late (its midnight) editing and writing. Along with mapping out characters and outlines for the book. I am listening to my beloved Black Veil Brides and trying not to completely ruin my back by slouching. The editing is actually going quite well! Well i should get back to it. I have a quote for the day also!!
A professional writer is an amateur who didnt quit-Richard Bach
Goodnight guys and Merry Christmas 2013!!
My apologies for the grammar and spelling errors, my brain goes kaput when i am blogging,because it is focused on the editing of Spitfire!
~Lonestar ☆
~Lonestar ☆
Monday, December 23, 2013
Frustrations
So here i am, watching a random Christmas movie and growing more frustrated by the moment with my story. I had realized part way through that my novel may be unrealistic and that my main character is way to mature for her age. I pushed it off thinking that it would work itself out and it's for the story. It didn't end up that way and it just kept growing worse. I want to continue with this story, it is just taking a while for me to find my MC's voice i guess. I am unsure as to where to go with it, and the NaNo Facebook page has been helping me through. Everyone on there has been great, the constructive criticism is hard to take in sometimes, but it's worth it and i thank you. I don't know why i am on here now really, i guess i just wanted to express my frustrations a little bit.
~Lonestar☆
~Lonestar☆
Friday, December 20, 2013
Trust (random i know)
Inspiration came to me tonight, because of a boy. Now that may sound weird, but let me explain.
A while back i was in love with a boy, head over heels. Now you can probably guess as to what happened, he broke up with me. After 2 1/2 months of the best relationship i have ever been in, he dumped me. It has been about 4 months since that has happened, and i havent been able to let myself crush on a boy, let alone have a boyfriend since. This boils down to trust, but how. When we trust someone we give them our everything, i told him a lot of my secrets, i entrusted him with my first kissed, i gave him my heart and my love. He deserved it because he is amazing, but it still hurt in the end. That day my heart was shattered into a million pieces and no one was there to pick them up. I have tried many times since then to be able to trust again, it's just been hard. I started talking to another guy about a month ago, i was hesitant, but i learned to trust him little by little. Tonight while we were talking i felt happy, something in me just healed. It felt like my heart was being magically repaired. I knew that i can trust again and that's a good thing. The reason that i decided to tell you guys this is that it is a big theme in my book.
My main character, Ren, gets let down a lot by adult male figures in her life. The list goes as such:
Her real father leaves her, her grandfather abuses her, her "brother" (bio father) leaves her 4 times, blake also leaves her, then her "brother" dies in war. Jason turns out to be an asshole, axel leaves her for the military, then she finds out two guys she trusts are her enemy. Her boyfriend and his brother are killed, she moves. I know there are many other examples in the story, i am just too braindead to think of them right now. Eventually Reece and Cliff are the ones she learns to trust and love, they are the ones who repair her broken heart. Ren's heart has many more walls around it than mine did, she pushes a lot of people away in her life, and it's understandable. She still learns how to trust and love again, and there wouldnt be too much of a story if that doesn't happen.
Trust is something you have to earn, it is not given. It is like a brick wall, it is easier to break down than it is to build. Be careful with trusting people, but also remember that you are allowed to trust, and it is a good thing to do. Not everyone is bad my friends.
I have a song for you tonight, one of my favorites. Saviour by Black Veil Brides. These guys have helped me a lot over the past few months.
~Lonestar☆
A while back i was in love with a boy, head over heels. Now you can probably guess as to what happened, he broke up with me. After 2 1/2 months of the best relationship i have ever been in, he dumped me. It has been about 4 months since that has happened, and i havent been able to let myself crush on a boy, let alone have a boyfriend since. This boils down to trust, but how. When we trust someone we give them our everything, i told him a lot of my secrets, i entrusted him with my first kissed, i gave him my heart and my love. He deserved it because he is amazing, but it still hurt in the end. That day my heart was shattered into a million pieces and no one was there to pick them up. I have tried many times since then to be able to trust again, it's just been hard. I started talking to another guy about a month ago, i was hesitant, but i learned to trust him little by little. Tonight while we were talking i felt happy, something in me just healed. It felt like my heart was being magically repaired. I knew that i can trust again and that's a good thing. The reason that i decided to tell you guys this is that it is a big theme in my book.
My main character, Ren, gets let down a lot by adult male figures in her life. The list goes as such:
Her real father leaves her, her grandfather abuses her, her "brother" (bio father) leaves her 4 times, blake also leaves her, then her "brother" dies in war. Jason turns out to be an asshole, axel leaves her for the military, then she finds out two guys she trusts are her enemy. Her boyfriend and his brother are killed, she moves. I know there are many other examples in the story, i am just too braindead to think of them right now. Eventually Reece and Cliff are the ones she learns to trust and love, they are the ones who repair her broken heart. Ren's heart has many more walls around it than mine did, she pushes a lot of people away in her life, and it's understandable. She still learns how to trust and love again, and there wouldnt be too much of a story if that doesn't happen.
Trust is something you have to earn, it is not given. It is like a brick wall, it is easier to break down than it is to build. Be careful with trusting people, but also remember that you are allowed to trust, and it is a good thing to do. Not everyone is bad my friends.
I have a song for you tonight, one of my favorites. Saviour by Black Veil Brides. These guys have helped me a lot over the past few months.
~Lonestar☆
ways to knock out a character
Bat, Chloroform, date rape drug, choke them, i am sure there is plenty more. I decided to use chloroform, but i am unsure if it would have been as easy as i made it sound. *shrugs* just felt like posting this.
4 days until Christmas
~Lonestar
4 days until Christmas
~Lonestar
Thursday, December 19, 2013
I'm tired
Sorry i haven't updated yet today, i was busy with final's and watching Tae-Kwon-Do testing, so i decided to give you guys another excerpt.
from chapter 2 (note, this is in the early early stages of revision):
The bus was almost to my stop and I was getting more nervous and scared by the moment. Once it reached the closest stop to my neighborhood i hopped off. It took about a half hour to walk to my house, when I approached i saw a few empty beer bottles scattered on the lawn. I gnawed on my bottom lip reconsidering actually going in, somehow my mind convinced me to approach anyways. I knocked, no answer, so i walked in "Dad, are you here?" i spotted him knocked out in his chair. he snored and smacked his lips together, I glanced around and noticed he had 3 empty beer bottles by his feet. I have to be really careful tonight, if I stay I may end up getting beat up, which I am not in the mood for. I rubbed my temples and sighed before going up to my room to put some more clothes and all of my favorite items in a bag, i heard a thump and quickly, but quietly, shoved it under my bed. "WHO'S IN MY HOUSE?" Well so much for avoiding a drunken Dad. i rolled my eyes and called down the stairs "It's just me daddy!" i said this as sweetly as i could trying to avoid gagging on my own vomit at the same time. I approached the top of the stairs and looked down to see him with yet another beer in his hand. "Renny Blayne, well isn't this a nice surprise. Come down here, why don’t you ever come see me anymore?" I walked down the stairs as he was chugging down the rest of his beer. I slowly walked up to him and gave him a tentative hug, he crouched down gripping onto my arms so hard he was probably going to leave bruises. I put my hands in my back pockets so I had the ability to fiddle with my phone, I called Axel and put him on silent. I smiled innocently "Well daddy i have been spending some time at friends houses, work, and my new school in downtown. Its hard to get all the way back here most of the time. You look kind of tired, would you like to sit down? i will get you another beer." he picked me up and threw me into the wall, after kicking me and slapping me a few times he sat down in his chair"Go get me that beer you worthless piece of shit"
~End of excerpt
There we go! So there isn't much else going on with me at the moment, i am just staying up late to type in my revisions, except i have actually just been playing around on the internet *slouches sheepishly*. I had a good day, my math final was really hard (warning there may be occasional swearing in the blog, and a lot in the book), my science was really easy. I wrote a really weird and horrible story (that will never ever be shared) in my 5th hour with a couple people, it was interesting to say the least. So i rode my bike to school this morning and it was windy so i wore two sweatshirts and it kept me warm, well when i stepped into the school i was burning hot. So when i got to my first hour (environmental science) i stripped of my sweatshirts, took off my socks, rolled up my sleeves and pant legs, and proceeded to lie on the cold tile floor. I let my shirt slip up so my belly was touching it. I was cooled down really fast, yeah i know i'm weird. TKD testing was yet again really cool to watch. There wasn't much else going on today, i get to sleep in tomorrow though, and then i have to go in to school for 7th hour to finish my dang math final, then it is Christmas break. Anyways i should probably get off and actually edit. Also am i still talking to thin air, i swear i have zero comments, and i see that only 3 countries have viewed me, are we going to spread the word or no? *shrugs* night guys, sleep tight, don't let the bed bugs bite!!
5 days until Christmas!!
I didn't approve any links with random words, my apologies that the internet likes to take over our sites/blogs >.>
oh and i will update every day that i have access to the internet
~Lonestar
from chapter 2 (note, this is in the early early stages of revision):
The bus was almost to my stop and I was getting more nervous and scared by the moment. Once it reached the closest stop to my neighborhood i hopped off. It took about a half hour to walk to my house, when I approached i saw a few empty beer bottles scattered on the lawn. I gnawed on my bottom lip reconsidering actually going in, somehow my mind convinced me to approach anyways. I knocked, no answer, so i walked in "Dad, are you here?" i spotted him knocked out in his chair. he snored and smacked his lips together, I glanced around and noticed he had 3 empty beer bottles by his feet. I have to be really careful tonight, if I stay I may end up getting beat up, which I am not in the mood for. I rubbed my temples and sighed before going up to my room to put some more clothes and all of my favorite items in a bag, i heard a thump and quickly, but quietly, shoved it under my bed. "WHO'S IN MY HOUSE?" Well so much for avoiding a drunken Dad. i rolled my eyes and called down the stairs "It's just me daddy!" i said this as sweetly as i could trying to avoid gagging on my own vomit at the same time. I approached the top of the stairs and looked down to see him with yet another beer in his hand. "Renny Blayne, well isn't this a nice surprise. Come down here, why don’t you ever come see me anymore?" I walked down the stairs as he was chugging down the rest of his beer. I slowly walked up to him and gave him a tentative hug, he crouched down gripping onto my arms so hard he was probably going to leave bruises. I put my hands in my back pockets so I had the ability to fiddle with my phone, I called Axel and put him on silent. I smiled innocently "Well daddy i have been spending some time at friends houses, work, and my new school in downtown. Its hard to get all the way back here most of the time. You look kind of tired, would you like to sit down? i will get you another beer." he picked me up and threw me into the wall, after kicking me and slapping me a few times he sat down in his chair"Go get me that beer you worthless piece of shit"
~End of excerpt
There we go! So there isn't much else going on with me at the moment, i am just staying up late to type in my revisions, except i have actually just been playing around on the internet *slouches sheepishly*. I had a good day, my math final was really hard (warning there may be occasional swearing in the blog, and a lot in the book), my science was really easy. I wrote a really weird and horrible story (that will never ever be shared) in my 5th hour with a couple people, it was interesting to say the least. So i rode my bike to school this morning and it was windy so i wore two sweatshirts and it kept me warm, well when i stepped into the school i was burning hot. So when i got to my first hour (environmental science) i stripped of my sweatshirts, took off my socks, rolled up my sleeves and pant legs, and proceeded to lie on the cold tile floor. I let my shirt slip up so my belly was touching it. I was cooled down really fast, yeah i know i'm weird. TKD testing was yet again really cool to watch. There wasn't much else going on today, i get to sleep in tomorrow though, and then i have to go in to school for 7th hour to finish my dang math final, then it is Christmas break. Anyways i should probably get off and actually edit. Also am i still talking to thin air, i swear i have zero comments, and i see that only 3 countries have viewed me, are we going to spread the word or no? *shrugs* night guys, sleep tight, don't let the bed bugs bite!!
5 days until Christmas!!
I didn't approve any links with random words, my apologies that the internet likes to take over our sites/blogs >.>
oh and i will update every day that i have access to the internet
~Lonestar
Wednesday, December 18, 2013
hello
So i looked up interesting things today for my book, but i shant tell you or the goverment might decide to track me down. That wouldnt be good. I have my bearded dragon sitting on my printed copy of the book,so far, just chilling, but i think he is going to come flying off the edge of it soon! Spitfire is going well, lot's of editing to be done, and i am getting a headache becuase of it. So i forgot that i had to make food for a party thing tomorrow, so i am going home in between my finals becuase they are like 5 hours apart and cooking it. I was at color belt testing tonight, and tutoring, then i came home and edited, i need food. I was just bored so i decided to blog, night.
~Lonestar
~Lonestar
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Failure
So i had an interesting morning, i was sitting in class before it started an all of a sudden we noticed a huge puddle on the floor. Well we didnt know where it came from and we were cracking jokes like someones water broke or someone peed, becuase it was a light yellow. Well as we were going to move my backpack we noticed that it was soaked, i looked through it and it turns out that my gatorade leaked and that was what the puddle came from. I felt so bad and i was really embarresed, i have gotten over it by now, but it was still an epic fail.
Well writing is going good i got through the second revision of my first chapter and i believe i found a playwrite to write the script for if it becomes a movie, which i so dearly hope it does. Partially becuase Andy Beirsack from BVB (Black Veil Brides) would be absolutley perfect for one of my main characters. I still am in a major writers block, so i am unsure what to do there but i am sure i will figure it out. I also have been doing some character development, which is fun. My MC (main character) is quite interesting if i do say so myself. For some their looks are more interesting than their pearsonalitys, but then again there are always some more dull people in the world. I have yet to send my MC to jail, but i am thinking that it may happen in the near future, which would be interesting to say the least. I don't know what else to say on the book right now, so off i go to another subject.
You know i am really glad i have you guys here to rant to and explain my life, oh i dont know if i have mentioned this before, but i am in tae-kwon-do (martial arts). That has been keeping me busy, that and academics, and of course my writing. So i still think i am talking to thin air, am i? I noticed that i have a lot of veiws from malaysia i believe, which is cool, i was thinking there would be more in the US and UK. *shrugs* whatever works. So if you guys have been coming back to the blog and enjoy reading please spread it on to your friends! especially your writer and reader friends!
Okay so we had an interesting topic in theatre today, it was about the 25 characteristics of theatre people that buisness people look for. I cant remeber them but i am going to ask for a copy tomorrow and i will let you guys know what they were.
So each time i tell someone about my story idea they seem to really like it, which i think is awesome!
So i was talking to one kid explaining it and he started asking questions and he actually helped me through what i am going to do for one of, maybe the most, major part of the book!
Well that is all for now, only 8 more days until Christmas!!! YAY!!!!
~Lonestar
Well writing is going good i got through the second revision of my first chapter and i believe i found a playwrite to write the script for if it becomes a movie, which i so dearly hope it does. Partially becuase Andy Beirsack from BVB (Black Veil Brides) would be absolutley perfect for one of my main characters. I still am in a major writers block, so i am unsure what to do there but i am sure i will figure it out. I also have been doing some character development, which is fun. My MC (main character) is quite interesting if i do say so myself. For some their looks are more interesting than their pearsonalitys, but then again there are always some more dull people in the world. I have yet to send my MC to jail, but i am thinking that it may happen in the near future, which would be interesting to say the least. I don't know what else to say on the book right now, so off i go to another subject.
You know i am really glad i have you guys here to rant to and explain my life, oh i dont know if i have mentioned this before, but i am in tae-kwon-do (martial arts). That has been keeping me busy, that and academics, and of course my writing. So i still think i am talking to thin air, am i? I noticed that i have a lot of veiws from malaysia i believe, which is cool, i was thinking there would be more in the US and UK. *shrugs* whatever works. So if you guys have been coming back to the blog and enjoy reading please spread it on to your friends! especially your writer and reader friends!
Okay so we had an interesting topic in theatre today, it was about the 25 characteristics of theatre people that buisness people look for. I cant remeber them but i am going to ask for a copy tomorrow and i will let you guys know what they were.
So each time i tell someone about my story idea they seem to really like it, which i think is awesome!
So i was talking to one kid explaining it and he started asking questions and he actually helped me through what i am going to do for one of, maybe the most, major part of the book!
Well that is all for now, only 8 more days until Christmas!!! YAY!!!!
~Lonestar
Monday, December 16, 2013
Editing, Staying up late, school and much more!
So i noticed that i have a lot of page views, are any of ya'll going to comment or am i just talking to thin air? So these past few days i have spent a lot of time editing, even though i'm not done writing the book. You see i am all over the place on where this book is going, i will say things at certain points and never revisit them. I know that some things should be deleted and i just didn't bother to remove them. I want to change my outline slightly because i just don't like the way it's going. So I decided to take a break from writing (that and I am grounded from my iPad :p). I am on my second revision of my first chapter and it's going well, i am hoping to give it to my editor ( a good friend of mine) fairly soon. OH!!!! COMMENT IF YOU WANT TO BE A BETA READER IN A FEW MONTHS!!! I would prefer teenagers since this is the age group it is geared toward. Okay now to get back on what i was talking about, editing. All in all it sucks, but at the same time it's fun because you get to see your novel evolve and improve :).
So for as long as i can remember i have had trouble sleeping, at one point i thought i was nocturnal. Turns out mild insomnia runs in the family *shrugs*. For about 6 years about every 6 months i had to move my mattress to the floor then 6 months later back up to my bed. At my boarding school i attempted to sleep on the floor once or twice and they flipped shit on me *smirks smugly*. So lately i have been staying up until one or so writing and editing, which helps because i am able to get ahead. eventually get nauseous, dizzy, my vision gets fuzzy, and i start stumbling around. When that happens i fall asleep as soon as i hit my mattress. I think i actually get better sleep when i wait to get to that point.
Okay so when i moved to this new state i ended up at my 4th high school, because of this my credits were all messed up. Since i moved mid semester i wasn't supposed to get credit for half my classes, yet some of those teachers think i am getting credit! I was finally accepted in to the tech school that i will go to for half the school day next semester and next year as a fifth year senior, bleh. My counselor decided not to reschedule my classes around this and so i had to go to my original counselor, my new counselor, then my ROTC instructor forced me to go to another counselor i don't even know to figure it out. Thankfully this guy was actually productive and he is going to get it all done and figured out, i like him a lot.Schools are messed up, i think we need a whole new education system, i have actually thought this for a long time.
So i don't like my new Jr. ROTC that much, have i ranted about this yet? *shrugs* i don't know, but anyways i am pretty much completely sick of it. There is no discipline and they are completely different, well it is Air Force instead of Marine Corps (Semper Fi!) We get lectured at a lot, never do PT, and have a bunch of study halls, personally i think it's a bunch of bull. That and we can't even drop the cadets for push ups! Oh if my name was mentioned before and you saw that, i am taking it down so i can remain anonymous. I decided to quit and not do it anymore, because really my MC ROTC made me love ROTC, this one led me to despise it. My loyalties lie back in my old ROTC and with the Marine Corps, and they always will.(don't get me wrong i love the military and the air force has done a lot for us and i admire and respect everyone who has served)
Home life, oh the life at home of a teenager. If your a teen you know how it is when dealing with your parents, it sucks. You get grounded for the randomest things that you think they should understand, some are sent to phsyc wards and treatment because they are acting like a teenager, rebellious. (for those who have gone to treatment i understand that for some people it helps, i went my self for depression, same for mental hospitals, nothing against you). Academics and grades are a big deal, most of the things we are learning wont help us ten years from now because technology is quite literally taking over the world. My wrists hurt and i have to go to my other class, i will finish this in a couple hours *blows kisses and prances off on a Thestral*
I'm back!
Now on to the military, sorry i am ranting so much. Okay so it has been my dream since i was like 5 to be in the navy and become a Navy SEAL. Which females are almost officially allowed to go into the SEALS. Now i have been on med's for a long time, been diagnosed with a few disorders, been to therapy and been to treatment.I have been told all my life that i would never be able to go into the military. Well i finally accepted it 9 months ago, well a navy recruiter came in recently and i asked purely out of curiosity. He said i could go in and my dad said he lied. I am currently on Navy live chat trying to confirm some of these things and i am trying to be patient, but it's hard.
Okay, my blog won't be like this all the time, but it's the life of a teen, plus added stress of writing and editing a book. Let me tell you that writing and editing a book is not all sunshine and rainbow farts from unicorns, it's hard work. I consider this my second job, and i work on it as much as i can, so like 5 hours a day at least. Just wanted to put that out there.The recruiter is typing, cross your fingers i can go in! And he said treatment is disqualifying but after being off med's for a year i may be able to get a waiver from my recruiter, i just hope it wont keep me from the SEAL's!!
Thank you all for being patient with me as i ranted. As a reward i will post my first chapter by Christmas, and my second as a Christmas present!!
Okay i'm off to go clean a bathroom then hopefully edit for a bit! Bye guys!
~Lonestar
So for as long as i can remember i have had trouble sleeping, at one point i thought i was nocturnal. Turns out mild insomnia runs in the family *shrugs*. For about 6 years about every 6 months i had to move my mattress to the floor then 6 months later back up to my bed. At my boarding school i attempted to sleep on the floor once or twice and they flipped shit on me *smirks smugly*. So lately i have been staying up until one or so writing and editing, which helps because i am able to get ahead. eventually get nauseous, dizzy, my vision gets fuzzy, and i start stumbling around. When that happens i fall asleep as soon as i hit my mattress. I think i actually get better sleep when i wait to get to that point.
Okay so when i moved to this new state i ended up at my 4th high school, because of this my credits were all messed up. Since i moved mid semester i wasn't supposed to get credit for half my classes, yet some of those teachers think i am getting credit! I was finally accepted in to the tech school that i will go to for half the school day next semester and next year as a fifth year senior, bleh. My counselor decided not to reschedule my classes around this and so i had to go to my original counselor, my new counselor, then my ROTC instructor forced me to go to another counselor i don't even know to figure it out. Thankfully this guy was actually productive and he is going to get it all done and figured out, i like him a lot.Schools are messed up, i think we need a whole new education system, i have actually thought this for a long time.
So i don't like my new Jr. ROTC that much, have i ranted about this yet? *shrugs* i don't know, but anyways i am pretty much completely sick of it. There is no discipline and they are completely different, well it is Air Force instead of Marine Corps (Semper Fi!) We get lectured at a lot, never do PT, and have a bunch of study halls, personally i think it's a bunch of bull. That and we can't even drop the cadets for push ups! Oh if my name was mentioned before and you saw that, i am taking it down so i can remain anonymous. I decided to quit and not do it anymore, because really my MC ROTC made me love ROTC, this one led me to despise it. My loyalties lie back in my old ROTC and with the Marine Corps, and they always will.(don't get me wrong i love the military and the air force has done a lot for us and i admire and respect everyone who has served)
Home life, oh the life at home of a teenager. If your a teen you know how it is when dealing with your parents, it sucks. You get grounded for the randomest things that you think they should understand, some are sent to phsyc wards and treatment because they are acting like a teenager, rebellious. (for those who have gone to treatment i understand that for some people it helps, i went my self for depression, same for mental hospitals, nothing against you). Academics and grades are a big deal, most of the things we are learning wont help us ten years from now because technology is quite literally taking over the world. My wrists hurt and i have to go to my other class, i will finish this in a couple hours *blows kisses and prances off on a Thestral*
I'm back!
Now on to the military, sorry i am ranting so much. Okay so it has been my dream since i was like 5 to be in the navy and become a Navy SEAL. Which females are almost officially allowed to go into the SEALS. Now i have been on med's for a long time, been diagnosed with a few disorders, been to therapy and been to treatment.I have been told all my life that i would never be able to go into the military. Well i finally accepted it 9 months ago, well a navy recruiter came in recently and i asked purely out of curiosity. He said i could go in and my dad said he lied. I am currently on Navy live chat trying to confirm some of these things and i am trying to be patient, but it's hard.
Okay, my blog won't be like this all the time, but it's the life of a teen, plus added stress of writing and editing a book. Let me tell you that writing and editing a book is not all sunshine and rainbow farts from unicorns, it's hard work. I consider this my second job, and i work on it as much as i can, so like 5 hours a day at least. Just wanted to put that out there.The recruiter is typing, cross your fingers i can go in! And he said treatment is disqualifying but after being off med's for a year i may be able to get a waiver from my recruiter, i just hope it wont keep me from the SEAL's!!
Thank you all for being patient with me as i ranted. As a reward i will post my first chapter by Christmas, and my second as a Christmas present!!
Okay i'm off to go clean a bathroom then hopefully edit for a bit! Bye guys!
~Lonestar
Sunday, December 15, 2013
Excerpt
So i decided to give you guys a small excerpt from chapter 1, let me know what you think, criticism too please!
I stepped into a dark alley trying to avoid the fight across the street. A scream erupted from someone and my hands flew up over my ears. I heard a gunshot go off and they were silenced. It’s been 6 months and I still haven’t gotten used to the violence around here, even though I grew up on the rougher side of town. Two shadows loomed in the distance and I knew almost instantly who it was, Trench coat and Shorty. They follow me practically everywhere, though I have learned to get used to it, it still freaks me out from time to time. I walked farther into the ally, when I heard some sort of commotion going on inside a building. It was probably a stupid idea, but my curiosity got the best of me. I ran up the fire exit and slowly opened up the door, only to see a fight going on in an arena. Looking on with interest I felt something behind me and someone whispered in my ear. "It’s the underground, an organized place for street fighters." I turned my head to come face to face with shorty "Why organized?" he smirked "They get thousands for each fight." My mouth dropped open and I gulped. "You could make a living off of this" he chuckled quietly "some actually do, those ones normally don’t have family or have abandoned them a long while back. Otherwise they normally put all of it toward their families." I held my breath and watched for a little bit. There was one in red and one in blue. Red threw and uppercut hitting blue in the chin so hard he flew backwards into the cage. Red ran forward and sailed in the air with a sidekick, but Blue grabbed his ankle twisting it so Red fell straight on his face. I snickered to myself, but when Red lifted his head unfortunately he was facing my way. Our eyes met and I could feel him staring me down, there was a scar on his forehead tracing down through his right eyebrow, and right down past his eye.
~Lonestar
I stepped into a dark alley trying to avoid the fight across the street. A scream erupted from someone and my hands flew up over my ears. I heard a gunshot go off and they were silenced. It’s been 6 months and I still haven’t gotten used to the violence around here, even though I grew up on the rougher side of town. Two shadows loomed in the distance and I knew almost instantly who it was, Trench coat and Shorty. They follow me practically everywhere, though I have learned to get used to it, it still freaks me out from time to time. I walked farther into the ally, when I heard some sort of commotion going on inside a building. It was probably a stupid idea, but my curiosity got the best of me. I ran up the fire exit and slowly opened up the door, only to see a fight going on in an arena. Looking on with interest I felt something behind me and someone whispered in my ear. "It’s the underground, an organized place for street fighters." I turned my head to come face to face with shorty "Why organized?" he smirked "They get thousands for each fight." My mouth dropped open and I gulped. "You could make a living off of this" he chuckled quietly "some actually do, those ones normally don’t have family or have abandoned them a long while back. Otherwise they normally put all of it toward their families." I held my breath and watched for a little bit. There was one in red and one in blue. Red threw and uppercut hitting blue in the chin so hard he flew backwards into the cage. Red ran forward and sailed in the air with a sidekick, but Blue grabbed his ankle twisting it so Red fell straight on his face. I snickered to myself, but when Red lifted his head unfortunately he was facing my way. Our eyes met and I could feel him staring me down, there was a scar on his forehead tracing down through his right eyebrow, and right down past his eye.
~Lonestar
Saturday, December 14, 2013
Post-NaNo
So i am halfway through December, 15 days past NaNoWriMo. Life is hectic with academics, Tae-kwon-do, and being a teen in general. I am getting through day by day though. I am still hiding out in my bat cave (bedroom) with my bearded dragon, and since my iPad got taken away (i got grounded >.<) i have had to stick with editing what i have already printed of my book. While my parents were out to dinner i spent 3 hours on the computer editing just my first chapter, and i am completely worn out. After they went to bed about an hour ago I have been on word trying to figure out headers,footers, and sections. It was crazy trying to figure it out. Now i am so tired my eyes are drooping, and i am getting dizzy and nauseous. Alright so now that i have ranted to you i will get to introductions.
Hi, so you can call me Lonestar i am 17 years of age, and a junior in high school. I have been writing ever since i was in early elementary school with the goal to at least write a full novel. Over time that goal changed into at least publishing a novel. I have attempted National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) 3 times, and on the 4th time (2013) i won! I do have the winners certificate to prove it i just cant seem to link it up on here quite yet. I am currently writing a book named Spitfire under the author name of Jesse Carlen I will get a synopsis up soon. I entered the book, or what i had so far, on to the Wattpad competition so i may or may not win 2 thousand dollars to go toward publishing. I have attempted to write novels so many times, i just could never seem to do it. I have had many ideas floating around in my head and could honestly write 50 books with all those ideas, but that would be really hard to do. Anyways i am really tired, i will post more things tomorrow about my journey through NaNo and journals i wrote, maybe i will post my synopsis and a small paragraph from the book!
Off to bed i go, goodnight! :) ~Lonestar
Hi, so you can call me Lonestar i am 17 years of age, and a junior in high school. I have been writing ever since i was in early elementary school with the goal to at least write a full novel. Over time that goal changed into at least publishing a novel. I have attempted National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) 3 times, and on the 4th time (2013) i won! I do have the winners certificate to prove it i just cant seem to link it up on here quite yet. I am currently writing a book named Spitfire under the author name of Jesse Carlen I will get a synopsis up soon. I entered the book, or what i had so far, on to the Wattpad competition so i may or may not win 2 thousand dollars to go toward publishing. I have attempted to write novels so many times, i just could never seem to do it. I have had many ideas floating around in my head and could honestly write 50 books with all those ideas, but that would be really hard to do. Anyways i am really tired, i will post more things tomorrow about my journey through NaNo and journals i wrote, maybe i will post my synopsis and a small paragraph from the book!
Off to bed i go, goodnight! :) ~Lonestar
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