tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9473696157174273222024-02-07T02:54:04.213-05:00NellyisaPirateNellyisaPiratehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08875561315012929876noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-947369615717427322.post-56760969235937309482012-07-18T15:28:00.000-04:002012-07-18T15:30:56.521-04:00Gone Travelling<br />
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"Road Trip Wednesday is a ‘Blog Carnival,’ where YA Highway's
contributors post a weekly writing- or reading-related question that
begs to be answered. In the comments, you can hop from destination to
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<b>This Week's Topic:</b>
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<b>When you need creative inspiration, where do you go?</b></div>
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I would love to say I take a walk through a forest when I
need creative inspiration, but no, I don’t.
Unsurprisingly, I hate going out (oh writers!). Sometimes the words just don’t want to come
out, and I don’t go chasing after them outside.
There actually is a “forest” by my house but I rather not go out. (Seriously, I should make it a goal to leave
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Instead, I travel around my house. If I get tired of my room, I move to the
living room. It has a lot of windows so
I can people-watch for ideas. If
inspiration doesn’t hit, I’ll move to the kitchen (which has a window too,
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If moving around my house don’t help, I can always fall back
on music. I use music only for ideas not
for writing. If I listen to music while
I write, I <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">have</i> to karaoke. I try to not sing, I do, I swear, but then I
start belting it out. When I need
inspiration, music does help though. The
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When I need inspiration for my main series, I listen to
Alesana*. They’re one of my favorite
bands. Their first album, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">On Frail Wings of Vanity and Wax</i>, is
based on Greek and Roman mythology, their second, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Where Myth Fades to Legend</i>, is based on fairy tales, and their
third, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Emptiness</i>, is a concept
album, very <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">a la Edgar Allan Poe</i>. Their lyrics are poetic and crazy so I always
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If music doesn’t help, I know it’s time to stop trying. I’ll watch tv or go on youtube (I love
watching Vampire Diaries videos). Once I’ve
stopped trying to get ideas, they start forming.</div>
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What about everyone else?
Where do you go?</div>
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</div>NellyisaPiratehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08875561315012929876noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-947369615717427322.post-92128911668487791722012-07-16T22:22:00.001-04:002012-07-16T22:22:11.429-04:00The Marbury Lens Review<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Sixteen-year-old
Jack gets drunk and is in the wrong place at the wrong time. He is
kidnapped. He escapes, narrowly. The only person he tells is his best
friend, Conner. When they arrive in London as planned for summer break, a
stranger hands Jack a pair of glasses. Through the lenses, he sees
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There is war in
Marbury. It is a desolate and murderous place where Jack is responsible
for the survival of two younger boys. Conner is there, too. But he’s
trying to kill them. </div>
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Meanwhile, Jack is falling in love with an English girl, and afraid he’s losing his mind. </div>
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Conner tells Jack it’s going to be okay.</div>
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But it’s not. </div>
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Andrew
Smith has written his most beautiful and personal novel yet, as he
explores the nightmarish outer limits of what trauma can do to our
bodies and our minds."</div>
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On Sunday night, I finished reading
The Marbury Lens by Andrew Smith.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For forty
minutes after that, all I said was, “What the fudgesicle?!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Seriously.</div>
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Let me say it again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wait, let me say it a few more times.</div>
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What the fudgesicle?! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What the fudgesicle?! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What the fudgesicle?! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What the fudgesicle?! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What the fudgesicle?! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What the fudgesicle?!</div>
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I love this book for many reasons.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I loved Jack and Connor</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
love reading books through a guys’ perspective.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It’s always so refreshing. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jack
is so awkward, he seemed so real with all his insecurities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I love Connor!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, he’s always making sex jokes but I
like that he doesn’t let things get to him too much. I love them together the
most.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They truly are the best of
friends, and have each others' backs no matter what.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">It disturbed me</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Reading
about Jack’s kidnapping, and what Freddie did to him, it freaked me out a
little bit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I usually just read
supernatural/Paranormal/paranormal romance, and stuff like that hasn’t happened
in those books – or it has, but it’s just mentioned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The affect that it had on Jack was scary.</b></div>
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“Freddie Horvath did something to
my brain.”</div>
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“F*** you, Jack”</div>
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Those lines are written over and over.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the same paragraph he would talk about
himself in the third person, then switch to first.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As if he were detached from himself, or
losing his mind. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He became an unreliable
narrator.</div>
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It’s brilliant!</div>
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And totally twisted!</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Marbury.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Holy Batman!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Purple lens that take you to another
world?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is flippin’ awesome.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, Jack is fighting to keep Ben, Griffin,
and himself alive, but you have to admit, it’s so cool.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a place for him to escape, a place for
him to fight what happened to him.</div>
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I give this book 5/5 gold stars. If you read this book, just a warning, you won't forget it. It gets into your brain, it messes with you.</div>NellyisaPiratehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08875561315012929876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-947369615717427322.post-4221714536366059212012-02-07T22:08:00.001-05:002012-02-08T20:07:40.652-05:00Haven't I read this before?<div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 128.1pt;">This week’s topic for <a href="http://www.yahighway.com/">RTW (Roadtrip Wednesdays)</a> is:</div><div class="MsoNormal"> </div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>What SNI were you psyched to work on, but discovered it was too close to something already done?</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"> </div><div class="MsoNormal"> </div><div class="MsoNormal">This was an easy question to answer. At first I thought, <i>no, I can’t think really think of anything that I trunked because it was too popular</i>. Then, it hit me…</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">A VAMPIRE STORY!</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">So one day, I was trying to write a scene for Book 1 of the series I’m writing, when suddenly, I hear people talking. Not out loud of course, they were just voices in my head.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Me: I’m trying to write, leave me alone.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The voices: Yap yap yap, babble babble babble***</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Me: Stop!</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The voices: Blah, blah, blah, blah.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">I gave in, and wrote out the conversation the three people were having. Then came about eight other scene. In total, not more than twenty pages. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">But I didn’t continue writing it, I didn’t even try to figure out all the plot points. </div><div class="MsoNormal">Why?</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">This was back in 2008, when<i> Twilight</i> was getting popular. Time went on, <i>The Vampire Diaries</i> (LOVE!) premiered. And of course, a million other vampire things. I didn’t want people thinking, “ugh, another vampire story.” I didn’t want it judged so quickly. </div><div class="MsoNormal">So that story remains incomplete. The folder has been opened, I have reread what I’ve written – and I find it pretty interesting, which is the amazing part. Will I ever finish it? I don’t know. First I have to finish my series. It’s going on seven years now, I think it’s time, but let’s see if it wants to get finished. Then, I really want to write a sci-fi series. Oh, I have that stand-alone book I wrote that needs serious editing.</div><br />
Hmmm, apparently I won’t be finishing it…. <br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">We’ll see. *shrugs*</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">What about everyone else?</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">***Which city do people that talk a lot live in?</div><div class="MsoNormal">...</div><div class="MsoNormal">...</div><div class="MsoNormal">...</div><div class="MsoNormal">Babylon!</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Get it? Ahahahaha!</div>NellyisaPiratehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08875561315012929876noreply@blogger.com1