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This is where I talk about anything, and everything...along with my trials and tribulations with trying to become a published author. Don't worry, I won't quit my day job...even though I would like to.



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Friday, November 9, 2012
Just something I made for my story, Emotionally Compromised... posted at 1:49 PM

This is a tagline image i made for my story Emotionally Compromised. Click here to check it out!
What do you think of it?

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Thursday, November 8, 2012
words. lots of words. posted at 2:53 PM

Things are going surprisingly well in the writing world. I keep waiting to hit that writing wall but it has not yet come, and I don't want it to! I have had some stumbles though. Sometimes it can be hard having the plot all figured out and connecting it all. I don't want to call it 'filler' because it makes it seem unimportant, which I don't like. It is all important, well, to me it is anyways. In a way, the 'filler' is kind of my favorite bit --Bee-tee--dubs, lets not call it 'filler', lets call it 'fiber' because THAT is what it really is. It is the woven dynamics of each character, of each moment...its oh so much more. Yea, I like that: Fiber. I feel clever. 
The story seems to be doing really well on wattpad. It has over 3,000 reads and I could not be happier. Though, all those secret readers are driving me MAD. Please vote, that is all i ask. I want my story to do well and even if you don't comment, showing your support would be great.
Wait, who am I talking to? You, the reader? No one actually reads my mumbo-jumbo.
Anyways, cathartic release aside, I love how my story is coming along and I hope to finish it at the end of the year. Lets hope :) 


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Tuesday, October 23, 2012
pouty face posted at 11:47 PM

I was really amped about posting my new chapter tonight, but worried its getting too detailed. I am streamlining a few conflicts, while weaving around different enviornments. I just want a cohesive ground work with lots of different angles. Kind of how J.K. Rowling did with the harry potter series (I know, real realistic comparison...not); she had all this relevant extenuous details that really built an understanding for a characters overall  life expericen. I want that sort of feeling with my story. Maybe those are just strangely high hopes for a young writer...ANYWAYS, I posted my chapter and no one has really been giving it a gander. Granted, I didn't post it all over the 'share my story' club, but I did get in contact with a few of my most loyal readers. Maybe they have lives, unlike you. Oh, that could be possible too. eek. Damn you subconscious.
I just want my heavy, deatiled chapter to get some buzz so I can finally write some stuff I can sink my teeth into...like attempted murders, chases, guns and kidnapping, oh yes!
For now I am just going to sit here and pout like child waiting people to take a peek at my newest chapter.
Curious about my newest chapter (10) Losing Control? Click Here.



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heffelumps posted at 12:34 AM

So my story dropped in the rankings on wattpad, but watcha gonna do? the correlation between comments and votes is hard to understand. Its funny to think that when comments feel so important, that in actuality it might be the votes that are. Oh well. Regardless, the bright side it: I have had tons of reads, and awesome feedback! Which has been greatly appreciated. I haven't had the time to write today because, well, I had to catch up on life! My friends know I write but I don't think they realize how much time I would rather be devoting to it. Ha. Well, it was good catching up with friends, making dinner, drinking whipped cream vodka, and YES: playing donkey kong.

I want to give the time my story deserves but I am also eager to get it out there -but ah yes! Patience is a virtue, so i am told. What I am excited about is I am for the first time gaining some loyal readers which is pretty rad. Other writers on the site must know the pain of wanting to be ranked, but I guess that isn't the point, is it? Oh well. I am passionate about the plot, it's characters and where its headed. I am just hopeful that people agree. but sometimes I feel like...



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Friday, October 19, 2012
Keep calm, and be a Jane Austen heroine. posted at 1:36 AM

so after getting over my wattpad promo stress I decided to do the one thing I am there to do. I decided to write and I accomplished a whole chapter, edited, and posted! (click here to check out Chapter 8 - Good Morning). I feel better now. I think I need to cool it from the promo stuff for awhile and let the word get out via others for now. It will give me times to refocus, and be on my way to finish this story. I am not even half way done yet, but I am excited for the possibilities.

Ended up confessing to my mom earlier today about my writing and divulged my whole story in an embarrassingly passionate manner (silly me) and she was...surprisingly impressed. Go figure. She even said she was proud of me. --Is that all it took mom? Ha. Regardless, she thinks I have an amazing idea on my hands. Now if I can just transfer those brain waves to paper...uhh, I mean Microsoft word.

Update on manuscript:
Page Count: 106
Word Count: 21,993

Not bad.

Its 1:33AM I should be dreaming.

Now Good night, I leave you with the wonderful words of my (secret) (ok, maybe not so secret) (predictable) idol Jane Austen:


I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
Jane Austen, in a letter to her sister, Cassandra



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Thursday, October 18, 2012
posted at 8:14 PM


Emotionally Compromised
Please check out my story!

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Ideas. posted at 7:59 PM


This will be the tagline to my book. She is no Al Capone --because she is on the good side, but she get can a lot more done with a smile and gun. Please check out my story "Emotionally Compromised"

Synopsis:
Alex Turner, a 24 year old federally trained secret agent has spent most of her existence running away from life and love and instead focusing on her job. Working in a man's world she has a lot to prove, and ridding her emotions of most situations seems to work best. But she is still just a girl underneath it all, and she can get herself into trouble sometimes. Being young, beautiful and deadly may have its perks, but getting the respect of her team is harder to come by. While finally getting the opportunity to prove herself being the main agent for a big case involving a biologically engineered disease, she thinks this is her chance to make her mark. Marcus Gibbs wants to sell his disease to the highest paying terrorist group. Thinking Marcus is her main objective --his boss, the attractive Jeremy Hunt, gets in the way and tries to get her to drop all her emotional walls. With the world's safety weighted on her shoulders, her constantly questioning ex-boyfriend (him also being her boss), and a new potential love interest getting in the way of everything she has a lot of serious choices to make

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For future authors: Wattpad: I love writing! Now What? posted at 7:52 PM

Wattpad: I love writing! Now what?

Click the link above for an awesome post for aspiring writers!

 “Writing is my life.” What is the next step if you want to share your writing with the world? Where do you go from here? 
Learn some useful tips on social media, publishing, and more from Lia Fairchild, author of "Vigil Annie" on Wattpad
I found this entirely helpful, even in a prospective sense. Social media ideas? Self Publish? Publisher? Do's and Don'ts!? Give it a read :)

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