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“It is not what we say or feel that makes us what we are; it is what we do - or fail to do.”
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-Marianne Dashwood “Sense & Sensibility”

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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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Currently watching Edward Scissorhands on TV, oh how I love when some of my favorite dark cult classics play on TV. Thats why I love halloween so. Next on my to-do list would be Beetlejuice. Writing away while watching movies :)

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Its friday and I ended it on a good note. wattpad was very kind today, with readers and comments and my story is almost in the top #100 for non-teen fiction. w00t. Click here to check out Emotionally Compromised. So I celebrated a little. 

Well really it was a celebration for the weekend, but it was an internal win in all areas of life this friday of October..tequila sunrises and great friends...


I am home now and it is just about midnight. There is no way I am even in a state to put ideas down on paper, or err, word document. I have just reached my bodies energy limit but this evenings slumber seems promising. I feel my journey approaching...


This past week has been absolutely dreadful due to the fact I have not been able to sleep. I have been only managing to fall into a restless sleep at 2AM and then wake up at 6AM from tossing and turning for 4 hours. It has been terrible since I love sleeping (like, its one of my most favorite things to do. Seriously). BUT NOW...after a little SoCal remedy I am eager to climb into bed, anticipating a wonderfully calm, fulfilling sleep. I feel it... The soldiers that are the hours of sleep lost wandering The Valley of Rumination, have been released from their ivory tower within my cavernous brain, cast away to be free and live out their lives fulfilling their mission through my passage unto slumberland, but don't forget to pay the toll. The sandman is waiting like the troll under the bridge. Think hard for his riddle will surely test you. Only the worthy shall pass....what the fuck just happened? Overdue sleep manifests its self via creative ramblings. I bid you good night because I am gonna be like...

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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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sometimes posting on Wattpad and blows. I mean, I love it when i get honest (adult) readers but most of the time I think they run a little young. Its tough getting/gaining an audience. I want more reads and more feedback so I can become a better writer. When you read people's stories and comment its hard to have them return the favor. Sometimes that "dog-eat-dog-world" mentality is even relevant in the online writing world. Everyone wants their stuff read; everyone wants to be noticed. I know I am not alone in that one. I just want consistency, thats all. haha.

ALSO...My first chapter is 7 pages, and the readers think that its too long. Don't we read real books anymore? To be honest, in the finished product the first chapter will be a combination of the first two that are posted on wattpad. Its weird to have a fear of editing your first chapter by breaking up paragraphs because you are worried it will add page length. Woe is the life of a wattpad writer. ugh.

Ok, I am done ranting.

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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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 “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

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So this is the beginning. The beginning of what, you might ask? --well, I am not so sure yet. I just know that for the first time in a long while I finally have a complete idea. Its a powerful thing, really. Well, it can be when you realize what you have on your hands; this intangible thing; this idea, because you realize it is so much more than a mere whim of a thought.

I have been writing off and on for years. Granted, I am no grandma, so when I say "years" I would say since I was about 16 (maybe even 15). And now I am 24. I have written a TONS of stories. I must embarrassingly admit that at that tender age of 15 my writing (and online reading) mainly consisted of fan fictions --we all have to start somewhere. I would say that at 18 I really started to delve into creative writing. Creating fictional realities (oxymoron?), and elaborate characters with intriguing conflicts. They weren't the best, but they were definitely a start. I see that now as I look back on them that, that was me growing as a writer.

I started lots, and lots of stories. "Started" being the operative word here. I had all these amazingly brilliant story ideas (well, I thought they were brilliant, of course) but I never finished a gosh darn one. I would make it half way with tons of readers/fans and then stop. Did I mention, being a kid of the generation of information, that the internet allowed me to explode my creative juices to the public of the interweb? I even managed my own creative writing message board one Southern California summer; spending days at the beach, and then writing until the wee hours of the morn. Creating this internet author identity. Regardless, I only allowed my self half baked ideas. Meaning, I never followed through. Lets not get into how that seems to be my life's problem. Life always caught up with me and I usually would lose interest or just get too busy, wasting all of my brains hard earned energy dreaming up these ideas. But in retrospect it was all a learning curve. I grew as a writer with every half "idea".

Writing has been a continuous passion of mine, and I finally started to realize this as I turned 20. But I never considered it a way to live. I just knew that I could be a better writer and it being my hobby I thought I could be great at it. So I started writing again. Suddenly my half-baked ideas became incredible tales of people, relationships and complicated emotions. Writing excited me once again ---but I still never finished a damn story.

Lets fast forward to the present: I am now 24. I have been writing a variety of different stories this past year, now ready for a complete one. And all of a sudden I couldn't even think of a good story to follow through with! Oh, the irony.

Realizing my passionate hobby, I wanted nothing more then to check off one crucial thing on my bucket list: I want to publish a book! I decided to pick up an old idea a month ago about a girl heroin who is a secret government agent trying to stop the spread a biological disease, yet she finds a conflicting love interest involved within her case.

I have had another problem in this "bucket list realization" --I never shared my work with anyone close to me. To the millions of folks on the word wide web -YES, but to my friends and family? -HELL NO. I was too worried that they would think my silly stories were going to be stupid, and juvenile. I was worried they would think it was a waste of my time (because sometimes I thought so too, I would day dream about things to write and would always come to the conclusion that I should be more productive doing something else). Until one day my best friend asked me about my writing, flat out! He knew I would hide it away but always saw me writing. I told him profusely that I was embarrassed, but he persisted. I ended up telling him the summary of my story (at the time not yet a complete idea, of course) and as the words began to spill out of my mouth I started becoming passionate about the mere idea. And the more I talked about it aloud the more complete of an idea it became. Without him realizing it, it became a creative writing confessional, and long story short I ended up figuring out an ending through my ramblings --VOILA!  And after I finished, I thought he was going to give me that "Are you kidding? That's dumb" look...but he didn't. He thought it was fantastic.

And he is really most of the reason I decided to go on. I began writing more consistent chapters, piecing it all together. I began posting on this awesome writing site called wattpad. And I suddenly got this exciting feeling...I've got it...BY JOE, IVE GOT IT! --that complete, whole story!

But I am happy to say its happened folks! I have an idea, and I know it's great, and I know it can be a book. I am compiling my manuscript as a I write. Editing as I go. Hoping that as I compile soon I will be able to put a "The End" some day. I am currently (word document) 92 pages (double spaced), and over 20,000 words into my novel (eek, a novel?like a real one!).

I think I have gotten something really amazing on my hands. And its an incredible feeling to have in reference to ones writing. I want to finish this! And I will. And when I am done I will send it off to publishers! I know I can do this.

I am ready for the predictable rejections but excited for the editing process. I am just ecstatic at being able to do the ONE thing I want to do before I die. I want to be a published author.

I always worried about not being able to make it. I always remember this silly part of this movie called "Becoming Jane" (have you seen it?). Its about Jane Austen's life, played by Anne Hathaway, and in this scene she has just denied a wedding proposal and is talking to her very upset mother (very Pride & Prejudice, right?), and Jane says something like "Maybe I can live by my pen?" and her mom gets super pissed and says something like "Live by your pen!? By you pen!? Do you want to till your own damn potatoes!?" ---GETS ME EVERY TIME...because, no, I do not want to till my own proverbial potatoes. But it isn't about the money, is it? No, it is about the passion. Passion for words, and there wonderfully magical powers to create elaborate worlds, realistic fiction or fantasy. Whatever you like!? That is the beauty of it all.

So this is the beginning of my journey. I will post about publishers, my writing tribulations, and a bunch of mumbo jumbo that goes through my head. If you are a writer, I hope this teaches you that you are not alone --I am (w)right (see what I did there?) beside you and we will make it together. Write away darling, I know you can do it!

P.S. if you would like to check out my story please got to my wattpad page (link on the side) and read my story "Emotionally Compromised". I hope you agree that it is a solid idea.

Your comments, feedback and overall feedback are aways welcome here. Just don't be mean.

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