I don't game on Facebook... I'm not a gamer to begin with, but I've always found Facebook to have one major advantage; it keeps me in contact with all the people I love, all the people who love me, and all the people I don't know but cared enough to "like" me and add me to their friends list. I won't lie... it also lets me advertise a bit about my current writing phenomenon...
So I guess I should now announce that I have my own page on Facebook now! It's not my personal page, it's an actual page for my books and writing updates!
Tomorrow I shall think about what I can do to make it more shnazy, but for now I think I'll simply dream about Falcon and the others, and possibly Feres, my new heroin of my new zombie story 'The Dead Half'! G'night loves!
Friday, December 2, 2011
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Destruction Day picnic!
This story starts with a couch...
When I was working at a different storage company in California, a lady cam up to me and said "I moved out of my unit, but I left a couple items in there that I don't want... You can keep everything in there if you want; my couch is actually perfect for you!" Normally we have to tell people that they can't leave stuff in their unit, but my coworker and I decided to let the elderly lady leave the items on the property. We went and took a look at the stuff she left behind, and I did fall in love with the couch. It was a short boxy-looking couch from IKEA and it was brand new.
I took the couch and put it in my storage unit, and kept it there until I moved out with Nick sometime later. I eventually took the legs off of the couch and set it directly on the floor, making it a just my size couch (I don't know if you know this, but I'm very short, and my legs are stubby!). A lot of people who would come over laughed at how they had to "fall" onto the couch just to sit on it.
Tragedy struck, and my youngest cat went into heat. She started urinating on everything in the house, especially my couch. We couldn't afford to get her fixed, so we suffered through her continuous obnoxiousness for several months. Every time she would pee on the couch, we'd get out the pet urine remover and clean it, but as time went on, the smell refused to go away, and then the stains (it was a white couch). By the time we got little Loki fixed, the couch had been soaked so many times by her and the urine remover, that the fabric became stiff and uncomfortable. Nick and I refused to even sit on it, which was incredibly sad to me, because I've never found a couch quite like that one, and I was somewhat attached.
We were at a loss as to what to do with the couch. Nobody wanted it and it was taking up room in our living room. The dump was too expensive, and we didn't want to just leave it out by our apartment dumpster for maintenance to take care of. The dumpster was too small and had a very short opening of which we could slide garbage into, so it was then I had the notion to rip the couch into shreds.
I didn't want to do it by myself, so as the idea stewed in my head I developed an event for my friends to participate in. I called it the Destruction Day Picnic!
I invited my friends over, encouraging them to bring a dish for a pot luck, and tools that could be used for domestic level destruction (since I have neighbors, chainsaws would be inappropriate). The plan was to rock out to some upbeat inspiring music while taking out all our negative emotions on the couch in my living room, then once the debris was clears, we would have a pot luck picnic on the spot which my couch used to be!
Friends were using the words 'genius' and 'brilliant,' and were getting me all excited about my idea. We scheduled the demolition for November 16th in the evening. That day I went to work as usual, but I couldn't get my mind off of the festivities. I thought "If this event is a success, I should do one every year!" Don't get me wrong, I was still sad about the tragic forthcoming death of my couch, but my couch had a good life and was loved, and when it died completely it let us set free those negative emotions, and gave us peace! There's really nothing like that kind of sacrifice! :::sniffle sniffle:::
I figured that people give away furniture that's on its last legs, for free on Craigslist all the time, so maybe once a year I will find such a piece to be the 'main course' for an annual Destruction Day! I thought up so many games and activities to do: Bubble Wrap Stomp, Balloon Darts, Rock in a Glass Vase Toss, Glass Breaking, Burning Barrel of Unwanted Articles, Paint Grenades, Pinatas, Shooting chipped plates or something with those soft shell or whatever guns, Broken Figurine Bowling, and of course, tearing apart the dying furniture. I also thought about shredding papers, and how I could use those at the beginning of the festivities to make 'bean' bag chairs for everyone to flop down on after the exertion! Maybe settle down and play some jenga, have some wine and a picnic... The idea is so glorious to me!
We live in a difficult time, with so much stress, that we need to take vacations from our lives just to catch a break--and that's if we're lucky enough to be able to take a vacation! I think that last night helped me a lot, when I gave in to my angered and stressed out emotions and let them wreck havoc on my little couch. I aimed all of that energy towards an object that was unusable and was going to be thrown out anyway, and I felt so good!
The evening started out as a drag though... I had invited a dozen people, and the only ones who were there were Nick, my very good friend Nicole, and myself. Everyone else canceled; good reasons of course, illness, no gas, no car, school, etc. I feel bad that they missed this event. Nick, Nicole and I had a blast ripping apart the couch with nothing but a box cutter, a screw driver and a hammer! I think that even though it didn't happen the way I wanted it to, I think I should still organize an annual event. I need to give others another chance so that they know the feelings I felt and maybe they'll feel that relief too! I feel that I can give everyone that one day of stress relief, which amounts to an exhilarated vacation, and I want to do it!
I'm going to need a bigger area with less carpet for next years Destruction Day, and I should start collecting the broken items for the festivities soon. Also, I think it would be better if done outdoors, so maybe a day in the summer instead of autumn when we're expecting snow... Anyone have a date in mind?
I also much think of some prizes! They don't have to be big because the action of contained destruction is a prize in itself, but I still think there should be prizes for these games! I'm excited again, and I can't wait until next years Destruction Day! In the meantime, if you think you might have a donation for one of our destruction courses, please let me know! Suggestions for dates and prizes are also welcome! Oh! and if you have any other game or activity suggestions, that would be awesome!
I'll be posting the pictures from last nights Destruction Day picnic on Facebook in a little while, so be sure to check them out! It was a lot of fun, and I hope you all can come to the next one! If you didn't get an invite to this years, I apologize, but my little apartment can only handle so many people ripping a couch apart, so I only invited a small handful of mine and Nick's friends. Next year will be different! Don't think I don't love you, because I do!
Anyone know of a place where we can make a huge mess next year??? I'll clean it up, I'm not worried about that, I just don't want to damage our surroundings by having the festivities in an enclosed space...
I'll keep you all posted about when the next Destruction Day will be! Tootles!
When I was working at a different storage company in California, a lady cam up to me and said "I moved out of my unit, but I left a couple items in there that I don't want... You can keep everything in there if you want; my couch is actually perfect for you!" Normally we have to tell people that they can't leave stuff in their unit, but my coworker and I decided to let the elderly lady leave the items on the property. We went and took a look at the stuff she left behind, and I did fall in love with the couch. It was a short boxy-looking couch from IKEA and it was brand new.
I took the couch and put it in my storage unit, and kept it there until I moved out with Nick sometime later. I eventually took the legs off of the couch and set it directly on the floor, making it a just my size couch (I don't know if you know this, but I'm very short, and my legs are stubby!). A lot of people who would come over laughed at how they had to "fall" onto the couch just to sit on it.
Tragedy struck, and my youngest cat went into heat. She started urinating on everything in the house, especially my couch. We couldn't afford to get her fixed, so we suffered through her continuous obnoxiousness for several months. Every time she would pee on the couch, we'd get out the pet urine remover and clean it, but as time went on, the smell refused to go away, and then the stains (it was a white couch). By the time we got little Loki fixed, the couch had been soaked so many times by her and the urine remover, that the fabric became stiff and uncomfortable. Nick and I refused to even sit on it, which was incredibly sad to me, because I've never found a couch quite like that one, and I was somewhat attached.
We were at a loss as to what to do with the couch. Nobody wanted it and it was taking up room in our living room. The dump was too expensive, and we didn't want to just leave it out by our apartment dumpster for maintenance to take care of. The dumpster was too small and had a very short opening of which we could slide garbage into, so it was then I had the notion to rip the couch into shreds.
I didn't want to do it by myself, so as the idea stewed in my head I developed an event for my friends to participate in. I called it the Destruction Day Picnic!
I invited my friends over, encouraging them to bring a dish for a pot luck, and tools that could be used for domestic level destruction (since I have neighbors, chainsaws would be inappropriate). The plan was to rock out to some upbeat inspiring music while taking out all our negative emotions on the couch in my living room, then once the debris was clears, we would have a pot luck picnic on the spot which my couch used to be!
Friends were using the words 'genius' and 'brilliant,' and were getting me all excited about my idea. We scheduled the demolition for November 16th in the evening. That day I went to work as usual, but I couldn't get my mind off of the festivities. I thought "If this event is a success, I should do one every year!" Don't get me wrong, I was still sad about the tragic forthcoming death of my couch, but my couch had a good life and was loved, and when it died completely it let us set free those negative emotions, and gave us peace! There's really nothing like that kind of sacrifice! :::sniffle sniffle:::
I figured that people give away furniture that's on its last legs, for free on Craigslist all the time, so maybe once a year I will find such a piece to be the 'main course' for an annual Destruction Day! I thought up so many games and activities to do: Bubble Wrap Stomp, Balloon Darts, Rock in a Glass Vase Toss, Glass Breaking, Burning Barrel of Unwanted Articles, Paint Grenades, Pinatas, Shooting chipped plates or something with those soft shell or whatever guns, Broken Figurine Bowling, and of course, tearing apart the dying furniture. I also thought about shredding papers, and how I could use those at the beginning of the festivities to make 'bean' bag chairs for everyone to flop down on after the exertion! Maybe settle down and play some jenga, have some wine and a picnic... The idea is so glorious to me!
We live in a difficult time, with so much stress, that we need to take vacations from our lives just to catch a break--and that's if we're lucky enough to be able to take a vacation! I think that last night helped me a lot, when I gave in to my angered and stressed out emotions and let them wreck havoc on my little couch. I aimed all of that energy towards an object that was unusable and was going to be thrown out anyway, and I felt so good!
The evening started out as a drag though... I had invited a dozen people, and the only ones who were there were Nick, my very good friend Nicole, and myself. Everyone else canceled; good reasons of course, illness, no gas, no car, school, etc. I feel bad that they missed this event. Nick, Nicole and I had a blast ripping apart the couch with nothing but a box cutter, a screw driver and a hammer! I think that even though it didn't happen the way I wanted it to, I think I should still organize an annual event. I need to give others another chance so that they know the feelings I felt and maybe they'll feel that relief too! I feel that I can give everyone that one day of stress relief, which amounts to an exhilarated vacation, and I want to do it!
I'm going to need a bigger area with less carpet for next years Destruction Day, and I should start collecting the broken items for the festivities soon. Also, I think it would be better if done outdoors, so maybe a day in the summer instead of autumn when we're expecting snow... Anyone have a date in mind?
I also much think of some prizes! They don't have to be big because the action of contained destruction is a prize in itself, but I still think there should be prizes for these games! I'm excited again, and I can't wait until next years Destruction Day! In the meantime, if you think you might have a donation for one of our destruction courses, please let me know! Suggestions for dates and prizes are also welcome! Oh! and if you have any other game or activity suggestions, that would be awesome!
I'll be posting the pictures from last nights Destruction Day picnic on Facebook in a little while, so be sure to check them out! It was a lot of fun, and I hope you all can come to the next one! If you didn't get an invite to this years, I apologize, but my little apartment can only handle so many people ripping a couch apart, so I only invited a small handful of mine and Nick's friends. Next year will be different! Don't think I don't love you, because I do!
Anyone know of a place where we can make a huge mess next year??? I'll clean it up, I'm not worried about that, I just don't want to damage our surroundings by having the festivities in an enclosed space...
I'll keep you all posted about when the next Destruction Day will be! Tootles!
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
If Hollywood would only hire me...
This afternoon I was going over all the samples of all the stories I carry around with me, that I hope one day will grace the shelves of readers everywhere, in the form of the most entertaining novels. More often than not, I see images and scenes dipicted in those crisp, clean pages; hear the music accompanying action, romance, battles, chance meetings, dreams come true, and the unyeilding persistance of the heroes in my book. I envision what every detail would look like, and then I think to myself on these occations, just how wonderful and awesome it would be if those tales were movies!
I don't know about you, but I've seen way too many re-makes, and unoriginal ideas to last me a lifetime! I've got so many stories inside my head, I think if I could but get noticed by some head honcho in hollywood, my dreams of getting my books on film might be more of a dream come true than simply publishing them! I want to be J. K. Rowling, and Stephenie Meyer and Stephen King! Hell, I'd love to be L. J. Smith! She's gotten her Vampire Diaries out as a series on TV, and those books were quite awesome!
So, again I look over these story fragments and pieces I've written that have yet to be completed, and I've decided to compile an anthology. I bunch of short stories and ideas well befitting novels and blockbusters alike! I don't know how many people will buy it since most of the tales won't have a written ending as of yet, but right now, it doesn't matter. I feel like I've got to do this! If only to see it in print myself, and picture what each of those in part will look like individually.
I've got to do more research about copyrighting an anthology, and how it effects the individual story inside, but I can feel this is a good idea. It would be fun to distribute it and get back feedback and critisms, and maybe some help in deciding which book I should finish next after The War of Hope.
I hope that my fans out there will get their own copies and lend me their ears. I'd love to share my dream with all of you!
I don't know about you, but I've seen way too many re-makes, and unoriginal ideas to last me a lifetime! I've got so many stories inside my head, I think if I could but get noticed by some head honcho in hollywood, my dreams of getting my books on film might be more of a dream come true than simply publishing them! I want to be J. K. Rowling, and Stephenie Meyer and Stephen King! Hell, I'd love to be L. J. Smith! She's gotten her Vampire Diaries out as a series on TV, and those books were quite awesome!
So, again I look over these story fragments and pieces I've written that have yet to be completed, and I've decided to compile an anthology. I bunch of short stories and ideas well befitting novels and blockbusters alike! I don't know how many people will buy it since most of the tales won't have a written ending as of yet, but right now, it doesn't matter. I feel like I've got to do this! If only to see it in print myself, and picture what each of those in part will look like individually.
I've got to do more research about copyrighting an anthology, and how it effects the individual story inside, but I can feel this is a good idea. It would be fun to distribute it and get back feedback and critisms, and maybe some help in deciding which book I should finish next after The War of Hope.
I hope that my fans out there will get their own copies and lend me their ears. I'd love to share my dream with all of you!
Sunday, October 9, 2011
Zooloo is Dead...
I'm Athena Song, and my zooloo has died...
I used to have a blog through zooloo, but no one was a member so they couldn't subscribe to it of course, and me being me, got discouraged and stopped keeping up with it.
I'm a writer, and I love to tell stories, so having a blog was a great thing for me! I stopped using it, and slowly my writing got lazy, but now I'm revved and ready to race! I just got my two self published novels epublished via kindle, and I've finally submitted the first book to a publishing house again! I do believe this warrants change, and perhaps a new blog will help with that!
I am determined to succeed with my writing! What I'd really like to do is write full time, but that's impossible at the moment. Still, my hopes are high, and I'm confident things will go well! It could always be worse--I mean, I could have gotten bit by a squirrel... I've seen squirrels... they've seen me, and yet I have yet to feel the sharp little pinch of their nut-munchers!
Seriously though, life is wonderful! The only bad thing right now, is I have too many stories in me head! I thought about piling them all together and sticking them in a book called "Hollywood Doesn't Know What They're Missing!"
Let me see... I'm finishing up the third installment of my Unusuals Trilogy, called "The War of Hope." It's predecessors have already been "published," and are available online in paperback and for the kindle; Those two books are entitled "The Heroes of Edenville," and "The Heroes of Hope."
The books are the epitome of awesome when it comes of young adult paranormal romance/science fiction--I can't wait to finish the third one! They're kind of like x-men and have to do with superheroes before they knew they were super, and the corrupt organizations that seek to destroy them and take their powers!
I'm also writing a few other books now (I know, I know, bad me for having more than one project open at a time, cause some things shouldn't be multi-tasked!), one is called Reaper. It's about a girl who never owned an ounce of luck other than bad, and accidentally falls off the roof of a building and puts herself in a coma which she's doomed to die from. She finds herself being judged by her own personal grim reaper and falling head over heels for him! Yep, it's tasty!
Then there's "Serenity," which is an adult paranormal romance about a guy who didn't know what he had until he lost it, then gets determined to get it back fifteen years in the future, with the aid of a shape-shifting sarcastic psychic fairy... It's a love story, duh... LOL
I'm also totally smitten with my story "Kiss of the Phoenix," which is a medieval fantasy romance for young adults which I can't sum up in mere sentences. Maybe word fragments might help... War between Demigod and Demonkind... centuries later... 3 nights a year of hunting the princess "the Phoenix," on her birthday... Man who catches her gets a kiss... kiss grants temporary power... man who got kissed, who didn't wanna get kissed, turns into a demon... They must fight together to end the war... surprise twist at the end... yeah... I know what you're thinking... Well actually I don't, I'm not really psychic... but it's still a totally rockin' story!
I've got a couple others I'm trying to get off the ground as well, plus the bonus book set in the future, after my Unusuals Trilogy; "The Keeper of Time."
In fact, that's what I'm gonna go do now! Write a little, have a little mug cake perhaps, then reluctantly watch some Spartacus: Gods of the Arena with the man before I expire for the night... Yep, good plan!
I used to have a blog through zooloo, but no one was a member so they couldn't subscribe to it of course, and me being me, got discouraged and stopped keeping up with it.
I'm a writer, and I love to tell stories, so having a blog was a great thing for me! I stopped using it, and slowly my writing got lazy, but now I'm revved and ready to race! I just got my two self published novels epublished via kindle, and I've finally submitted the first book to a publishing house again! I do believe this warrants change, and perhaps a new blog will help with that!
I am determined to succeed with my writing! What I'd really like to do is write full time, but that's impossible at the moment. Still, my hopes are high, and I'm confident things will go well! It could always be worse--I mean, I could have gotten bit by a squirrel... I've seen squirrels... they've seen me, and yet I have yet to feel the sharp little pinch of their nut-munchers!
Seriously though, life is wonderful! The only bad thing right now, is I have too many stories in me head! I thought about piling them all together and sticking them in a book called "Hollywood Doesn't Know What They're Missing!"
Let me see... I'm finishing up the third installment of my Unusuals Trilogy, called "The War of Hope." It's predecessors have already been "published," and are available online in paperback and for the kindle; Those two books are entitled "The Heroes of Edenville," and "The Heroes of Hope."
The books are the epitome of awesome when it comes of young adult paranormal romance/science fiction--I can't wait to finish the third one! They're kind of like x-men and have to do with superheroes before they knew they were super, and the corrupt organizations that seek to destroy them and take their powers!
I'm also writing a few other books now (I know, I know, bad me for having more than one project open at a time, cause some things shouldn't be multi-tasked!), one is called Reaper. It's about a girl who never owned an ounce of luck other than bad, and accidentally falls off the roof of a building and puts herself in a coma which she's doomed to die from. She finds herself being judged by her own personal grim reaper and falling head over heels for him! Yep, it's tasty!
Then there's "Serenity," which is an adult paranormal romance about a guy who didn't know what he had until he lost it, then gets determined to get it back fifteen years in the future, with the aid of a shape-shifting sarcastic psychic fairy... It's a love story, duh... LOL
I'm also totally smitten with my story "Kiss of the Phoenix," which is a medieval fantasy romance for young adults which I can't sum up in mere sentences. Maybe word fragments might help... War between Demigod and Demonkind... centuries later... 3 nights a year of hunting the princess "the Phoenix," on her birthday... Man who catches her gets a kiss... kiss grants temporary power... man who got kissed, who didn't wanna get kissed, turns into a demon... They must fight together to end the war... surprise twist at the end... yeah... I know what you're thinking... Well actually I don't, I'm not really psychic... but it's still a totally rockin' story!
I've got a couple others I'm trying to get off the ground as well, plus the bonus book set in the future, after my Unusuals Trilogy; "The Keeper of Time."
In fact, that's what I'm gonna go do now! Write a little, have a little mug cake perhaps, then reluctantly watch some Spartacus: Gods of the Arena with the man before I expire for the night... Yep, good plan!
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