Announcement

Hey Everyone!

So I am writing to let you know that I am taking a little hiatus, actually a big one. I have decided to serve a mission for my church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This means that for a year and a half I will be talking to people about the church and what I believe. I am super hyped and really excited, but it also means that I will not be blogging or writing. It was a hard choice, since I don't want to leave my story hanging, but this is clearly a step I'm should take in my life.

I leave next Tuesday and will be back August of 2014. I'll be back into posting then, as well as talking about life in college (I hop right into that after I get back. I must be crazy ☺).

Anyway, thanks to you guys who have stuck around and dealt with my inconsistent posting habits. I don't deserve you!

Keep up writing and just living your dreams and filling the world with that literary bug. It's the least we can do ;).

See you again in a year and a half!

~Shaylanne

Outline is done!

After struggling to get an idea for this story together I've managed to do the unthinkable: I've finished an outline. Yes I know, it's really pretty crazy, BUT I'M SO EXCITED!!! I had been spending so much time just trying to figure out what I was going to do with my book that I was getting frustrated. I knew who the characters were, and I had a decent grasp of my magic system, but that was it. And now not only do I have a working idea of where I'm going, I know what the book is all about. I still have a lot of work to do, but I've finished the prologue and started on chapter one. My outline is looking at my story from the perspective of the different countries I am working with. But now I think I am going to do one with the people in my story so I have a rough idea of what they'll be doing. But that isn't something that I need to have done for my story to work, it'll grow and develop as my story unfolds and as I figure out what I want done.

Anyway, I've finished school for good (got that Associates degree!) and with one of my jobs allowing me to work on my own computer stuff, I have a lot more time now for writing. It's a work in progress and honestly I'm terrified because I have so far to go and so much to learn, but I won't go anywhere if I don't start teaching myself now.

Keep going writers!

~Shaylanne

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Oscar Wilde 

Back!

Sorry guys! It's been a crazy time in the life of Stoss and Writers Don't Knock... Between our respective school and work schedules we've had to put Authors Anonymous on the back burner. But I have good news, I am now working at my local library and our Head Librarian told me that I can work on my story and blog when I'm watching the desk! I also finished up my Associates degree, so I should have more computer time to work on my story and spend time here on the blog. I can't vouch for Abbi, she's still trying to get her own schedule worked out, but I can say that I will be doing much better at posting these days.

I hope ;)

A tidbit to leave with you from Oscar Wilde: It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

It's great to be back!

~Stoss Cue

Let's take a moment

We are about to see probably one of the biggest storms in a long time hit the East Coast. Those of you who are crazy enough to be up this late reading my post, please take a minute and pray for those folks over there. I'm afraid that they're going to need it.

May God bless them!

~Shaylanne

Sorry?

Yes I know it's been since August, so all I can say is tell you what I told people over at "Mnemosyne"

I'M SO SORRY!!!

But it's justified. Two and half jobs plus a truck load of school, honestly I am surprised that it's taken me this long to admit that I'm going mad. But aside from that, here's a little something that I put together for my readers at "Mnemosyne". The semester's almost over, and so is work, so I should have bucket-loads of time then to post and write here.

The Sherlock Holmes Complex

So I have always found music to be very inspiring when I write, and I have always believed that the mood of the scene that I'm working on is affected by the feel of the song that I am listening to. And now I am going through a Sherlock Holmes phase. I hadn't seen the movie, but my Pandora station started to play the background music and I was hooked. It was just so different.

fanpop.com

Needless to say I went and watched the movie. But now all of my characters have either a Sherlock Holmes or Watson feel. And while I love these two characters (don't get me wrong), I really need my K'mar to be self-absorbed in a rather oblivious and charming way, not pot-enhanced and arrogant like Holmes, and Watson is much too sensible to be a prototype for Nolan. So maybe I should go back to listening to "Harry Potter" and "Lord of the Rings".

weasleyisourking.com

themoviedb.org

I can easily avoid writing about rings and quidditch.

(Did I ever tell you that K'mar was a redhead?) 

~Shaylanne

Is there a particular thing that inspires your muse? If so I'd love to hear about it!

P.S I grew up on Sherlock Holmes (the books), and a third movie might come out. So you will hear about this again. 

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and no that is not a threat.

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it is simply a statement of fact. 

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you'll just have to live with it.

Hmm...

After printing several of the wrong documents for work, spilling cleaning solution, trying to vacuum with a broken vacuum and come up with story ideas while listening to MPR it occurred to me:

Only smart people do stupid things. Stupid people don't know any better.

But that leaves me in a quandary. Am I stupid (so therefore it's not my fault) or smart (therefore I am stupid)?

~Shay

Anyone else have these days...or is it just me?