BC #2

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airports, dallas, london, new york, writing

Yo guys!

Welcome back to my failing-miserably-at-writing series!

Last time I think I said something about BC being set in Dallas, New York, and Montenegro?

Scratch Dallas and Montenegro off the list. I’m rewriting the whole dang thing. The new settings are just New York and London. I’ve been doing a crap load of research about everything to do with these places (which my dad says is unnecessary. Um, I’m pretty sure I’ll need to know the most common car models and colors in London. Thank you very much)

It’s slow going. I’m keeping most of the beginning, but it’ll be heavily edited feom it’s original form. At least 3 characters are being completely changed, and I’m running out of Sharpies and sticky notes.

Anyway, I know where B will be staying, eating, working, which streets she’ll walk/drive down, but not what airports she’ll be using. Thats the most frustrating thing for me. I’ve never been on a plane, or even in an airport, so I’m basically going off of other book and movie experiences here. Any of you have suggestions?

K, I think thats all I’ll share for now.

Ty for reading! .)

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Halt!

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funny, halt, ra, Rangers apprentice

So, the other day my mom and I were going through FB, cuz why not? When I saw these-

The first thing that came to my mind was HALT WOULD WEAR THAT SHIRT!

Then, a couple minutes later, this popped up-

This could have come straight from a Ranger’s Apprentice book. So naturally I asked my mom to send me both pics.

Thats it. Thats the post. I just wanted to share these with y’all.

Have a great day!

What? Oh yeah! I have a blog!

I am back!!! For the past however long I’ve been gone I have been in a MEGA reading/writing/blogging slump. And also an anti-social slump. Idk.

I went to the night services of church camp and made some new friends.

AND I WATCHED ALL OF SHERLOCK AND I’M DYING CUZ THERE IS NOTHING ELSE TO FREAKING WATCH RN!

Ahem. Well. I turn 17 in less then 2 weeks. That’s new.

For my birthday I’m doing a Truth or Dare video on YouTube. (It’s also celebrating the fact that I have over 100 subs, but whatever)

Just comment your questions or dares.

Um…

See y’all Monday?

 

A Job, a Blog, and a Teen Walk into a Bar…

HAY GUYS!!!

No, this isn’t a joke. That is literally my life right now.

Yep. I got a job. yay.

I work 4 days a week and earn 8 bucks an hour. Which I guess is ok, but I don’t have time to do much besides work, dishes, and God only knows what other chores my mom has me do. So, blogging, reading, and pretty much every thing else have been shoved to the back burner till further notice.

Not that I’m not reading. I’ve read like 15-20 books so far this year. And I’ve bought 70. So books aren’t really shoved that far.

I’ve also become obsessed with a game called MovieStarPlanet. It’s actually really fun, you get to dress up a little avatar, trade with people, and go shopping. My acc is AdrianMcCoy. (Ya know, if any of you guys play…)

AND!!! My tablet is broken, so until I get it fixed Some Semi-Charming Sims will have to be put on hold.

This is our evil cat. She’s actually much bigger now.

All my bookshelves.

Some of what I got for Christmas.

We finally watched Ragnarok. Mason and Gayle LOVE it. Mason’s favorite is Loki and he told me that Loki had fixed Mjolnir for Thor. BTW awesome movie.

I’m halfway through season 8 of Supernatural.

And that’s it! I think? I’ll do a book haul on ACB soon.

Love y’all!!!

Books and More Sheep

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books, Divergent, Sheep

Hey guys!

So, confession time! I bought 5 new books…

1. Insurgent by Veronica Roth (I’ve already read Divergent)

2. Fyre by Angie Sage (I finished this less then two days after I got it, and am now wallowing in a pit of despair because there are no more left in the series)

3. Curse of the Bane by Joseph Delaney  (Amazing series, btw)

4. The Seige of Macindaw by John Flanagan  (The 5th ended in a major cliffhanger and I almost died. [Not really, but ya know how it is]

5. The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan  (Read the 1st in about a month. What?! I was in a slump!)

The three new sheep we named Galadriel, Haldir, and Bob. (Yes, Bob.) Bob is our house sheep now, because he can’t stand up. There’s  something wrong with his back legs, we think it’s white muscle disease. We ordered the stuff to stop it, but there is no fixing the damage already done.

This is Bob. He wanted to kiss the camera, so I couldn’t get a good pic. But he’s the cutest thing and he loves to snuggle! He’s living in a baby doll bed by day, and a pet taxi by night. And when you scratch his head he smirks at you!

The other 9 are outside in a pen we set up for them. They’re all still on bottles and we feed them 3 times a day.

Anyway, thats all!

Happy Thanksgiving, guys!

New Weekly Book Meme- 8 Charming Fridays

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book memes, books, top 5 wednesday, top ten tuesday

Hello! As some of you might remember, I started a book blog recently! And today I decided to start a weekly book meme (like Top Ten Tuesday and Top 5 Wednesday) over there. It has a Group on Goodreads and a page on Alex’s Charming Books. It would be so awesome if some of you could participate! I worked really hard to come up with a name and prompts. Not to mention the banners.

 

My Book Blog

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books, new blog, Views

Hello guys!

I recently started a book blog called Alex’s Charming Books. Its going pretty well, I just need some views. Scoot on over and take a look! It’s a pretty neat blog, if I do say so myself 😉 .

Bookshelves & Coffee Mugs

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artemis fowl, books, lord of the rings, marvel, star trek, the hobbit

So, last week or so I decided to take pictures of my cup collection and my books. I’m pretty proud of the results-

This isn’t all my books, its about 1/12 of ’em. I LOVE the covers of some of these. My favorite, cover-wise, is Heartless. But Artemis Fowl: The Atlantis Complex is my all time favorite book. I got very few of these new, their mostly from thrift stores and the local homeschool co-op’s book sale. Ain’t they beautiful?!

*Sigh* I wish I had more shelf-space. At the moment we are trying to build on to our house and when we get the new storage room finished my closet is getting cleaned out and I am getting TONS more space.

That’s all for now…

NO WAIT!!!!!!!

I SAW THIS ON PINTEREST THE OTHER DAY AND I DIED LAUGHING! I DON’T EVEN GET WHATS SO FUNNY ABOUT IT!

Whew. Now I’m done.

CARRY ON MY WAYWARD SONS!

New Books

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books

I am currently sitting on my bed watching my baby brother make a Lego warg eat a mini-figure while saying “Hey, dohggy!” very sweetly. And now the “dohg” is trying to eat me.

This post isn’t going to be about my weird siblings, its about all the new books I’ve bought recently and haven’t read yet.

The first “few” books are by Agatha Christie-

1. The Mysterious Affair at Styles
2. Ordeal by Innocence 
3. Peril at End House
4. Passenger to Frankfurt
5. Third Girl
6. A Caribbean Mystery
7. The Body in the Library
8. Murder After Hours
9. The Regatta Mystery
10. Sad Cypress
11. Appointment with Death
12. Murder in Retrospect
13. Dead Man’s Mirror
14. 13 for Luck
15. The Mysterious Mr Quin
16. 13 Clues for Miss Marple
17. Surprise! Surprise!
18. Death Comes at The End
19. Endless Night
20. The Seven Dials Mystery
21. One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
22. Mr Parker Pine, Detective
23. The Golden Ball
24. Towards Zero
25. The Clocks
26. The Mirror Crack’d
27. A Murder is Announced
28. The Tuesday Club Murders
29. N or M?
30. A Pocket Full of Rye
31. Cat Among The Pigeons
32. At Bertram’s Hotel
33. Hickory Dickory Dock
34. The Moving Finger
35. Poirot Investigates
36. The Labors of Hercules
37. Dead Man’s Folly
38. The Mystery of The Blue Train
39. The Sword of Summer by Rick Riordan
40. The Necromancer by Michael Scott
41. Flyte by Angie Sage
42. Syren by Angie Sage
43. Heartless by Marissa Meyer
44. City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare
45. The Last Apprentice #1 by Joseph Delaney
46. Infinity Ring #1 by James Dashner
47. The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey

And thats it so far. I’m gonna try to read them all before the end of 2017, but I might not be able to. I really gotta get to work on school this year cause I’m kinda behind on math and stuff. I’m also not gonna be able to post like this very often, it’ll mostly be scheduled posts for the next six months or so.

Has anyone read any interesting books that they would like to recommend? I’m open to any and all suggestions!

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books, writing

I sat down this morning to pre-write a post for next week, and ended up doing a rewrite of this story. So far it has around 200 words. I kept a few things, but for the most part its different-

Alex Charming sat, head in her hands, in the cell that had become home in the past eight weeks. The only furnishings were an old metal bed, a rickety three-legged stool, and a large wardrobe. Two doors stood at opposite sides of the room, one leading out to the hall, and the other opened into a small bathroom. Sobs racked the small figure sitting hunched on the stool, masking the sound of approaching footsteps in the hall. It wasn’t until the door began to open that Alex moved, her head snapped up, long golden-red hair cascading down her back. Momentarily blinded by the bright light spilling into the room, she squinted at the shadowy figure now looming in the doorway. Ty favored her with a cruel smile as he stepped into the cell. “I hope you slept well, Alex.” He said in mock concern. “Are you hungry?” She nodded. It had been two, maybe three days since she had eaten anything, and the thought of food was making her feel suddenly faint. “Max is bringing pizza tonight, and if your a good girl you can join us.” His green eyes gleamed at the look of disappointment etched across her face. “Come on, it’s time to call your parents.”

I like this better, but I’m still stuck. I have never been good at “linking” scenes and it shows in a lot of my projects. There’s one called Finn, its basically just 4 or 5 scenes thrown around all willy-nilly with nothing in between.

On a completely different note, Watson and I are watching Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets for the first time ever. (We saw The Sorcerers Stone a couple of weeks ago, it STUNK!!!)

The White Shed

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Agatha Christi, Alfred Hitchcock, books, Perry Mason, Sherlock Holmes, The Hardy Boys

Guess what we did yesterday! MY ENTIRE FAMILY WORKED ON CLEANING OUT THE OLD RUIN OF A SHED THATS BEEN ON THE VERGE OF COLLAPSING FOR THE PAST ELEVEN YEARS!!!!!!!!!! The roof is partially caved in, there are wasps nest everywhere, and there were TONS of books. Most of them were romance/western novels that we couldn’t keep, falling apart, or infested with mites. But there were some that are in better shape then others, which I got to keep (in the other shed, theres still mites), heres a list-

A Treasury of Mysteries Vol. 1

The Sea-Wolf by Jack London

Cliff’s Notes on Wuthering Heights

Reader’s Digest An Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Sampler

Best Stories of Sherlock Holmes

Don’t Look a Gift Shark in The Mouth by Alfred Hitchcock

Down By the Old Bloodstream by Alfred Hitchcock

The Hardy Boys #49: The Bombay Boomerang

The Hardy Boy #19: The Disappearing Floor (this ones not in great condition, but its not to bad)

The Hardy Boys #25: The Secret Panel

The Case of the Roving Rolls, a Brains Benton Mystery

The Case of the Painted Dragon, another Brains Benton Mystery

Four Perry Mason books

Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling

This One Will Kill You by Alfred Hitchcock

11 Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazines

Now for the Agatha Christi collection (whoever owned all these books must have really loved mysteries 😉 )

Witness for the Prosecution

The Secret Chimneys

The Mysterious Mr. Quin

Sleeping Murder

An Overdose of Death

What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw!

Mrs. McGinty’s Dead

Unfinished Portrait

Postern of Fate

And Then There Were None

Black Coffee

Whew, thats a lot of books! If only I could bring them inside 😦 . Does anyone know a sure-fire way to get rid of mites without hurting the book? If you do then please tell me, I will be eternally grateful. 😉

 

A List of My Projects

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Alex, books, max, new, writing

Hi peoples!

“Hey Alex, how does someone so awesome, cool, kind, and modest deal with writers block?” (Yes, I have been asked that exact question before. I’m not making it up!!!!  😉 )

Well, I’ll tell you. When I get stuck on a project, I start a new one. If I get stuck on the newbie, I either go back to project #1 or start another new one. As you’ve probably guessed, this isn’t very productive. At the moment I have 10-15 stories that are at different stages. Some have names, and some don’t. There’s the original Max story with 1993 words, a series of short stories for younger kids book #1 has 78 words (not much, I know. But I just started it.). Then there’s Kristine, still trying to work on this one, with 803 words. The newer Max stuff, The Beast (not permanent) has 1392, and my newest project-

It Doesn’t Like it When We Sing

After being found wandering in the woods surrounding Cooperstown NY, a young girl is sent to a nearby hospital with no memory of who she is or why she was all alone.

The main character’s name is Hazel, in case you were wondering. This little thingy has 221 words. I’m going to finish this, hopefully. 😉

It’s Coming Along GREAT!!!

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Book, goal, luck, max

Hey all!!!

As some of y’all might know, I am writing a book. This book is based on a character named Maximum Capacity. It now has 1172 words.

My goal is 5000. So, as you can see, I’m really close! I’ve been thinking of making this one book into two, but I’m still not sure. I’ll keep you posted on my progress!

Wish me luck peeps!!!

Max, Again….

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Alex, books, break, max

Hey, so you know how I said I was going to take a break from Max and Alex for a while? Breaks over, I just started writing and within an hour I had a short story going. It’s based when Max was younger, and Alex wasn’t born yet. But don’t worry, Ty is in it. Funny how things work, huh? I say I’m taking a break, then I try working on Finn and a new story unfolds. Well, I’ll keep y’all posted on my progress!

Thanks for reading peoples! .)

Finn, My New Book

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books, Finn, max

Recently I removed an excerpt of a story I was writing. Almost immediately people started asking what happened. Well, here’s why it’s no longer there: I’m taking a break from Max and Alex. I haven’t given up, just need a break to regroup. I was so upset that I couldn’t go past 1258 words. I kept running into dead ends. I didn’t know if I wanted multiple POVs, or just a third-person story. Then I wasn’t sure what should happen next. So I’ve started something new.

    Introducing Finn

In a nutshell:

Sammy, the POV, is the new girl at school. She’s having trouble making friends, so her uncle/guardian buys her the perfect BFF- an android named Finn.

That’s all I’m gonna tell about the story-line. I’ve got six definite characters, and a cover. (See above.) That makes me feel so professional to have a cover. I know, that’s weird. But I’ve never been that far into it before. I’m hoping that this one will work out. .)

See y’all later!