I am going away for some weeks below the blog radar, because my exams are in the beginning of June and I have too many authors to prepare for. Now it's time to sit down and enjoy an intense literature training. To top it off I will have to plan my prom and stuff like that, so expect me after beginning of June.

Over and Out
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{PS: This amazing pciture comes from none other than Stephanie Pui-Mun Law from Shadowscapes}

I took two days of off air time and when I come back I get over swamped with information. It seems that for the two days I have been missing too many updated their blogs. My blog tour only finished with all the blogs on Blogger, which leaves my LJ people for tomorrow. I never knew life could be so hectic and I am so stopping adding people on my blog roll. I love new acquaintances, but I am getting a bit overwhelmed with the data. Anyways if someone thinks I am not showing enough on their blog, simply know that I am reading, but can’t afford to comment.

So let’s move to my life. Thursday got me drained with the German graduation party since we all passed the special German exam and now carry the piece of paper stating we can speak almost as good as a German would. The day put me in panic mode since I had no formal clothing and had to mix a strange combo with weird clothes. This reminds me that with the money from my summer job I will update my closet. Of course Thursday and Friday had me in another aspect since I went to a beautician about the dark spots on my face and I died, since she squeezed them and shocked them with electricity. Ouch!

Friday I saw my friend photographer/artist/sword fighter Svetla and drank wine in the Sea Garden among nature. We chatted about projects and how she was going to play into a replay of an old swordfight over my home city Varna in the medieval ages and I am so going to watch. We decided to start a web comic together and possibly create the perfect idea for anime and then sell it to a Japanese company and see our baby developed. But those are just wild dreams like my grand computer game scheme.

Friday brought many new books as well. Almost full list with cover art on “Temple Library Reviews”:
~ “Black Magic Woman” by Justin Gustainis
~ “The Summoner” by Gail Z. Martin
~ “The Blood King” by Gail Z. Martin
~ “Spirit Gate” by Kate Elliot
~ “Witchember” by John Lawson
~ “Brida” by Paulo Coehlo

I made a new decision. I will write my novel on a journal and then during rewrites revert to the PC. I found writing by hand to be more fast, efficient and gripping. The same amount of words, 1K to be exact, written on hand takes faster and I barely notice pass. My thoughts have time to fully form and my hand keeps up with my brain and vice versa. The PC makes my eyes hurt and I get distracted easily by Google. Bad Google!! So I am on the hunt for new journals and made my friend Alex, that amazing gal, to bring me some from her dad’s firm as they have too many, but I am not sure, because they have salamis on their covers. Considering her dad works in the meat product business is the bad side.

I decided to enroll in two new reading challenges, which will make me die! I know, but I would love to read all those books! One is the Jane Austin challenge, which I can win easily since it involves at least two novels and the other is the Classics challenge, where I have to read six novels. And on a side note I am a member of the Geek Week. I am a nut when it comes to books so I wanna socialize with people with the same interests.

Oh, Wednesday was kind. Thank you, goddess of Wednesday, for being so nice to me today. Creativity wise that is. I somehow dodged through my bad writing time and scribbled the same scene in school. The dialogue is still a bit strange sounding, but from then on I managed to get inside Samantha and write the scene with the fear and anxiety. There is something in the old fashioned way of writing with pen and paper that lets your thoughts flow and develop in a steady pace, following your hands and while you are writing the sentences, other form fluidly without being rushed. I also was at school and had nothing better to do in literature class. We were discussing the biography of another author and he gave tasks for homework, which will give us final grades instead of a test. I am singing Hallelujah right now.

So I covered my mark of 1K, even though it’s in my notebook, still eligible and very interesting how my scene ended with the 1K mark. I always good at flash fiction, but this is ridiculous. Anyways I started reading a new book: “Dark maiden”, which is a paranormal including Japanese elements like fox demons.

I also posted a review on a very funny short story called “Unique Chicken goes Reverse”. So if you are interested, be sure to visit Temple Library Reviews.

Before I forget I did my first themed post on mythology on my “Garden of Art” blog. I really like these themed posts on cool topics that I like to ramble about. I barely have the opportunity here since it’s my writing and personal blog aka whining also. So different the feeling and yet exciting.

Leisa, darling! My gut sensed a tragedy. It rained today, massive torrent, while I was waiting for the bus and there was even hail. Thank god daddy was there and drove me to school. Yeah, dad!

It was a very unproductive Tuesday by creativity standards. So I went out to study, yes? I did and even helped my sister with her homework and I think something must have snapped in my mind frame, since I could barely get into my writing mood. I produced 500 words, which sounded hollow, if the first draft is the skeleton of a novel than these 500 words had no marrow inside. I think that it has to do something with thinking analytically because of the Literature prep for the test and then getting into poetry mood to write some haikus. Must have short circuited my brain on that one. Funny really. It’s strange, because I also got an anxiety attack at the same time. I have this gut feeling that something bad is going to happen, pretty much like animals get restless before an earthquake. Now it’s beeping again and I am super not focused. Gee, must be fire and brimstone coming soon.

Good thing is that I found out how to write chapter nine. The standard linear way wasn’t going to help me since the chapter carries a very neurotic and scattered spirit, since Samantha is suffering. So I am glad that I happened to have read “Amberlight” since there Sylvia uses a method of telling the story is short fragments and this particular technique will help me spare words and get the story working. However I have trouble getting inside her head and making it more dramatic. My natural preferences go towards the witty, sarcastic characters that snort and retort. My project however involves timid, scared, desperate and schizophrenic. So I see this as a potential problem at several spots, the more emotionally loaded ones that need internals and show characterization. The plan is to write those spots the way they come and mark them on word with comments and try to get into Samantha’s skin during the edits, when the story is ready and only layering is needed.

So on side notes I managed to watch the end of season 1 of “Blood Ties” and even got the nice review with it to post on my review blog. I also posted to my newest blog “Garden of Art”. And that is about it really.

Monday has proven itself to be a very neurotic day as I tried to study and well did so until I used my half an hour brake to start my new blog. Well it turned to four hours of starting the blog of trying to find the right template with three columns, which didn’t happen. I read about how to add some background images, that third column. The first didn’t work so I stuck with the green, while the second also didn’t work. I downloaded the perfect after another long search, but the header option didn’t want to work, so I deleted the whole, cursing a lot and reverted to standard blog template. So here we go now. “Garden of Art” is officially up and running, although it still needs tweaking with the widgets. I posted for the first time there and hope it has success. I have to say that Lady Blue, Bellezza, Tanabata and Carl V have been a major inspiration to start it.

Anyways I wrote to several publishers in hopes to start a professional relationship as a review blogger for them. Hopefully they will say yes, so that I can die happy, knowing that I am going to be reading books for a long time. I managed to read “Amberlight” and posted my review at “Temple Library Reviews”. In the mean time I am waiting for Sylvia Kelso’s reply to my interview invitation. Hopefully he says yes as well. In the mean time I have two boiling hot interviews in the making and one even hotter on the horizon.

So now let’s get back on the writing part. Today I finally wrote down some interesting facts about my character and she formed quite fully in my mind with all her flaws although I don’t know how to work some of those in the story. However she has some interesting strength and that is just super cool. The story is evolving with some very unexpected results so today was a don’t write day, until you outline the next chapters so that they work with the story. Really, really exciting, development.

{PS: The wonderful and amazing art comes from Vitaly Alexius aka alexiuss. The one above is called Feral Nova.}

{PS: I am posting my fave pics from one of the cycles in America's Next Top Model, which I so love.}

Such a long time since my last blog post, mainly because my house was a mess on Friday, although I hate myself, because I forgot to post on LJ on Thursday. Anyways Friday was a major pain in the butt since my dad was at work and we with mom had to paint the ceiling and put the wallpapers on. This all went on from 10 am to 9 pm with the additional pauses. I am not going to give out details on that day, because it was tiring and monotonous. Seriously my muscles ached after that. Damn those blasted unevenly shaped walls.

Saturday was way better since dad was at home and he helped mom finish the job and I snuck in my bed and spent the day half sleeping, half reading, making up for lost pages. Good day all in all for my lazy persona. In the end all the wallpapers are put, ceilings are painted, the floor is painted as well. Now today we cleaned out the dust, washed the windows, gave the flowers a bath and put the house back together until now. My grandparents returned with my sister from our village residence, where they were for the holidays and with them came many, many yummy treats.

Right now I am halfway through my blog jumping and in the beginning of “Indiana Jones” on TV. It’s been a productive weekend since I managed to write a rough 2K these two days on my novella “Clandestine Hearts”. I am working on several different projects every weekend to stir the writing juices. It’s a thing I should have done a long time ago, but I am lazy. Don’t mind me. On my to-do-list stands the search for a new journal. My fave black fake leather one is on Dec 04 and I am just on chapter 3 of “Clandestine Hearts” on it. I also have to arrange my pictures on my PC. So many, so chaotic.

I also plan the start of a new blog on Blogger. I have been inspired by all the people posting poetry, pictures, thoughts and all those tiny bits of something that provoke deep thoughts and me being a person, who likes these details and beautiful small things in life, I want to delve into that as well. My camera will finally be fixed, so I can go around and take pictures.

Anyways I posted a review on my newest top favorite movie “Stranger than Fiction”, which has a lot to do with books, so anyone interested can click on Temple Library Reviews.

New Words: 1,170

Total Words: 30,402
Deadline: July
Reason for stopping: The chapter ended.
Sample: Demons didn’t posses such voices, voices that subjugated her in an instant. Her fingers rolled into fists. Something she had never done before, but came as an instinct. A reflex that had slept for far too long. Adrenaline flushed her face and she glowed stronger.

“Now don’t be foolish and come here.” A hint of a growl surfaced. That was more like it. Show your teeth. Don’t lie, don’t cheat at this game. Play it straight.

Good things: After much concentration and a cup of coffee I could get inside her head and wound up where I wanted to be with Samantha. The transition I plan is coming up nicely and I managed to get some good internals from her.
Bad things: Only problem so far is my uncertainty with the style. I am trying to avoid being overwrought and wordy, which is my problem. Now I am worried whether I am not too stripped from words.
Real life: Nothing much is happening on the front. I posted my thoughts on “Savor me Slowly” by Gena Showalter and I think it’s the best book I have read for 2008. Pretty much contrary to the one I am reading now “Amberlight” by Sylvia Kelso, which is very heavy and overwrought with vocabulary that makes me feel like I have no idea how to speak English. I like how she builds her world and plot, so I will think of it as a challenge.

I watched “The Hours” with my mother tonight and Bellezza, you were totally right. This didn’t work for me at all. The connection between the time lines was none existent and I had no idea what was going on. The actors were slow in the pauses between lines. All in all it was boring.

We didn’t get the wallpapers today, because mother had to work even though it’s a holiday, the day or the worker and usually everyone has to be resting at home. Well not the case with my parents. At least we managed to deliver the books to my friend and she beamed seeing that many books, so I am happy.

On a side note I am on a diet, sadly. My eating habits have progressed in a bad manner and due to the size of my suit I have to cut back drastically before I gain more weight. All I aim is for a few pounds until my waist shrinks so that my pants don’t burst. Bad thing how spring makes my appetite grow with the temperature.