500 Followers!

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Blogging, followers, gained, goals

I SOMEHOW GAINED 500 FOLLOWERS?!

WordPress Followers- 501

Email Followers- 4

Social (Twitter)- 19

I am so very happy right now! For some strange reason people seem to think I’m interesting. AND I have been blogging for almost three years!

I would like to thank three people for helping me get to where I am today-

Me, Myself, and I. Thank you for always being there, and never letting me down ;).

But seriously, thanks to all of you guys! All 534 of you. I, quite literally, could not have made it here without you guys! 🙂 Unfortunately I won’t be celebrating this today. *Sigh*

What have you guys been up to?

LOVE Y’ALL!!!

 

 

Planning Max (sort of)

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books, goals, pantser, plotter, writing

Recently I’ve tried planning the books I wanna write, which is really big. The reason I’m trying to change from Pantser to Plotter is because I can never seem to finish any project I start. And also cause I’m working on a 9-ish book series. I have a rough outline for most of the books, and I set a goal for Max 1 (this isn’t going to be the name, I just don’t have one yet). Its a monthly thing, meaning that at the beginning of each month I take into consideration all the stuff going on in my life and I make a spreadsheet~goal~list~thingy that helps me keep track. Here’s the one for February-

02/01/17	404	400
02/02/17		500
02/03/17		500
02/04/17		500
02/05/17		500
02/06/17		500
02/07/17		500
02/08/17		500
02/09/17		600
02/10/17		600
02/11/17		600
02/12/17		600
02/13/17		700
02/14/17		700
02/15/17		700
02/16/17		700
02/17/17		800
02/18/17		800
02/19/17		800
02/20/17		800
02/21/17		900
02/22/17		900
02/23/17		900
02/24/17		900
02/25/17		950
02/26/17		950
02/27/17		975
02/28/17		1000

As you can see, I’m very behind. And the 400+ words I did on the 1st are just a bunch of random scene’s revolving around Max’s younger brother, to be fair I wrote it in just a couple of hours. Anyway, thats how I’m planning on doing most of the first draft. Write a ton of scenes completely out of order, then string them together and see how it looks.

And anytime I have writers block I just go to WikiHow. Theres so much stuff on Wiki about writing/planning, its been invaluable to me lately. Here is a list of all the articles I’ve found useful-

1. How to Get Started Writing a Book
2. How to Write a Short Story
3. How to Be a Decent Story Writer
4. How to Be Successful at Writing
5. How to Boost Your Writing Productivity

I’ll only do five for now, but these have been the most helpful thus far. Another way I help myself write is to listen to music. I actually have a playlist on my Kindle called writing, and another called Max. Some of my favorite songs to write to are-

 

Ain’t No Man by The Avett Brothers

As Long As I Have You by Dove Cameron

Bad Day by Daniel Powter

Cowboy Take Me Away by Dixie Chicks

Daydreamer by Adele

Difference Maker by Needtobreathe

Dream On by Aerosmith (Half my life is books, written pages…)

Family by TobyMac

Feel The Light by Jennifer Lopez

Foolish Games by Jewel (this is where I first got the inspiration for Max, many years ago)

The Greatest Sum by The Avett Brothers

Hello by Adele

Hey There Delilah by Plain White T’s

Hometown Glory by Adele

Hurt by Johnny Cash

Landslide by Dixie Chicks

The Last Goodbye by Billy Boyd

Laundry Room by The Avett Brothers

Mirror by BarlowGirl

Murder in the City by The Avett Brothers

Near You Always by Jewel

One More Round by BarlowGirl

Ramble On by Led Zeppelin

Rise Again by Needtobreathe

She Walked Away by BarlowGirl

True Love by Jordan Fisher

When The Rain Comes by Third Day

There, now ya’ll know whats being listened to behind the scenes of Lordofthetrekkies. Interesting assortment of things, isn’t it?

This is me down  on my knees,

 

Highlights of 2016 (and ’15)

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goals, New Year, Random

Happy new year peoples! 

(This post will be dedicated to the best of the best of Lordofthetrekkies, such as posts, tags/awards, pages, ect)

Top 5 most popular posts this year….

1. Good Morning with 60 likes and 53 views
2. Antisocial?! Me?! with 31 likes and 65 views
3. Planning Ahead with 26 likes and 66 views
4. A Random Post About Everything with 23 likes and 35 views
5. Has It Been That Long Already?! with with 23 likes and 53 views

As you’ve propably guessed these are listed according to how many likes they have, not views.

5 of my favorite tags/awards….

1. The Sunshine Blogger Award #2
2. The Sunshine Blogger Award
3. The Character Book Tag
4. Epic Reads Tag
5. The JBYB Award

Hello, it’s me…. is the most popular page on Lordofthetrekkies!!!

It’s also the only one that’s on the Top Posts & Pages thingy, I guess peoples just really like hearing how awesome I am! 😉

Now for personal Highlights-

I finaly finished the Harry Potter series, AND I CRIED LIKE A BABY!!! All of my favorite characters died, all of them! On a happier note- MASON LOVES LORD OF THE RINGS!!! And The Hobbit, and Star Wars. My baby brother is the dork I always knew he would be (sniffle).

I’m no better at math then I was 2 years ago, and I’ve found out that when researching Roman officials you have to be verry careful. My writting isn’t doing very well, though everyone at church says I should enter a short story for the youth expo this year. Which is something I’ve been wanting to do for a couple of years now, but never really made an effort. This year will be different though. I’m gonna try to post more, write like crazy to finish at least one project before the end of 2017, and I’m going to come out of my shell and make some new friends.

This is going to be exhausting.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!! WISH ME LUCK! .)

Sincerely,

MAX IS BACK!!!!!

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Alex, goals, max, writing

I am ashamed to admit that I had completely given up on Max. I say “had” cause I’m now working on a story based when he was younger. Before Alex, back when he and Ty were still close. It has 1362 words at the moment and I am not going to let myself slack off this time. This is going to happen, no matter how much it stinks. Wish me luck guys, I’ll need it. 🙂

Reading Challenge Update

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Bilbo, books, challenge, goals, lord of the rings, Sherlock, tolkien

I am going to put The Challenge on hold for a while. I recently bought a ton of new books and I just can’t focus on the books I chose. So what are these new books, and how can they be so amazing that I can hardly put them down? We~ell, I’ll tell you and you can judge whether or not their worth it-

1. The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien
2. Unfinished Tales by J. R. R. Tolkien
3. The Lord of The Rings The Fellowship of The Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien
4. About ten to fifteen Hardy Boys books
5. Twenty to thirty Nancy Drew books

And I saved the best for last!

I GOT THE GREATEST ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES!!! IN HARD-BACK!!!!!

I spent 32 dollars on four books, and it was sooooooooo worth it! All 4 novels and 44 out of 56 short stories. And the cover is EPIC! The other three books are the two at the top of the list above, and a separate paper-back version of The Hound of The Baskervilles.

I got them from Barnes and Noble, here are the prices. In case any of y’all would like to get them, (not sure if the prices are different at the different stores)-

The Sherlock Holmes book was $7.98

The Silmarillion was $8.99

Unfinished Tales was $7.99

The Hound of Baskervilles was around five or six, I don’t have it with me at the moment.

As for The Fellowship of The Ring, the Hardy Boys, and Nancy Drew, I got them at thrift stores we visit quite often.

Another thing, I am doing NaNoWriMo this month, and while I was working on my project, called The Beast (not permanent), I thought up three new plot bunnies. WISH ME LUCK WITH THEM!!! .)

My Reading Challenge: Jane Eyre Update

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books, challenge, goals, jane eyre, reading

This is a weekly update on the Reading Challenge I started on the 25 of June.

I am still on Jane Eyre, and I love it! It took a little bit for me to get used to the writing style, but now it’s making sense. I’m on Chapter 11, page 93 of 433. Thats a lot of progress for three days. (More like two and a half, I had to work yesterday.) I will continue to keep y’all posted!

Laters!

Best Day Ever! (Not EVER, But Still)

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followers, goals

I have another big announcement, ready?

I have 202 followers total!!!!

Yep, I’m pretty popular. Here is how things stand-

WordPress followers- 192

Email- 4

Twitter- 6

Overall views- 2,312

Visitors- 891

Posts- 71 (72 once I publish this)

Now, I have something very important to tell all my followers=

THANK YOU!!!!!!

It means so much that you decided to follow me on this journey of mine. I know I’m probably kinda annoying, but I’m a good kind of annoying. Right? Can I ask y’all something? Which one of my posts is your favorite? Tell me in the comments below.

Lets celebrate with The Avett Brothers

Thanks peoples! .)

WOW ALREADY!!!

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100, followers, goals, loki, thanks

100 Followers!!!!

Thats right, I’ve reached 100 followers. I want to say thanks to all of you.

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!

That being said, I know I haven’t been posting about the dorky stuff in life. But I’m hoping to fix that soon…….

Happy Blogging!

Made it!!!!!!

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followers, goals

I made it! Finally.

Views: 607

Likes: 182

Visitors: 193

New goal is 1000 views. Thanks for taking the time to look at my blog.

Wish me luck!!!!!

Almost There!!

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goals, Views, Visitors

I have set a new goal for 600 views before December 1st. I’m almost there, with a staggering amount of 394 views already.

Other current stats:

Visitors-125

Likes-101

Thanks for all the help getting here! Will update when I reach 450 views. See ya later!!

Update: views 458.

My Goals

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followers, goals

All right. So I think it’s time to share my goals with all of y’all.

1. Get 50+ followers before December 31.
2. Have 100+ views before October 30.
3. Get 150 visitors before January 14.
4. Get 200 likes before February 12.                                                                                           Thank you, if you decide to help me reach these goals!